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This game is rated ESRB: Everyone for Animated Violence and Mild Language.
Suikoden is a Japanese role-playing game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and released in 1995, available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, and PC. The core gameplay revolves around turn-based party combat, supporting up to six active characters at once. Characters can be equipped with magic runes, which grant limited access to offensive and healing spells. Beyond standard party battles, the game incorporates two additional combat formats: large-scale army engagements in which the player commands entire units of fighters, archers, and magicians, and one-on-one duels between individual combatants. This variety in battle systems distinguishes the game from more conventional entries in the genre and gives it a strategic dimension that extends beyond the typical RPG encounter structure.
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 the Scarlet Moon Empire, presently controlling the land of Toran. Through a series of events the hero becomes involved in a rebellion against the Empire, led by an organization known as the Liberation Army. Will the hero find a new home there, will he be able to tear himself away from everything that has been sacred to him, including his own father?
