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Vol. I · No. 1447 · 1995
Suikoden
“Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions…”
Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure
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Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are also a few army battles, where the player must control whole units of fighters, archers, magicians, etc., and one-on-one fights (duels).
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Loosely based on the classic medieval Chinese novel Water Margins, the game is a fantasy RPG set in an imaginary universe, its main theme being political struggle. The hero of the game is the young son of Theo McDohl, a general who serves t…
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Modes
Single player
Themes
Fantasy