Nintendo Direct brings us a present, and one within the type of thrilling information about historical past’s most squirrel stuffed RPGs. Can you actually declare 108 characters when 5 of them are flying squirrels with completely different color capes? By no means thoughts all that. Suikoden 1 & 2 HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars has a brand new launch date: March 6, 2025.
I’ll get into particulars in a minute, however because it got here up in Slack chat earlier, I’d first prefer to share with you the variations between the 1995 JRPG’s EU PS1 one cowl artwork:
And that of the US launch:
Really, astonishing stuff.
The remaster was initially set to launch final yr after being introduced by Konami on the 2022 Tokyo Recreation Present, however by no means materialised. At the moment, we lastly obtained a brand new date locked down by way of Nintendo Direct. Right here’s the newest trailer:
The sport’s Steam page highlights the next particulars:
・All background illustrations have been upgraded to HD
・Up to date results breathe new life into the pixel artwork animation
・New environmental sounds results to immerse your self on this fantasy world
・Battle SFX are additionally now HD and add a brand new stage of realism
・Newly added auto-save
・Battle Quick Ahead
・Dialog Log
There’s a bit extra element on a number of of this stuff within the Ninty trailer. Battles can now be bumped to 2x or 4x velocity, and there is additionally single-button autobattle choice – though I swear this was within the menu within the authentic anyway. One other element the Steam web page doesn’t point out: getting these each in a single package deal hopefully means the video games carrying your save over might be properly painless. It wasn’t too impactful, however there are a number of secrets and techniques you’ll be able to unlock within the second sport when you’ve totally accomplished the primary.
As Brendy will inform you from the time I attempted to cram a Suikoden bit in his greatest JRPGs checklist regardless of them not being out on PC but, these video games are extremely particular to me. The whole lot I’ve seen up to now appears constructive. I don’t truly know what an ‘emu-lator’ is, however this looks as if a far simpler solution to play them on trendy {hardware} than enlisting the assistance of an emu.
In the event you want one thing to maintain you going till subsequent March, there’s all the time non secular successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. “A turn-based JRPG that accommodates these conversant in Suikoden or those that do not know what a Suikoden is,” wrote Edders in his overview. “Embrace the old-school quirks and there is a fantastic journey available right here.”
Eiyuden director and Suikoden co-creator Yoshitaka Murayama sadly handed away earlier this yr, although I do discover it heartening that he obtained to see simply how a lot Suikoden meant to individuals when Eiyuden smashed its Kickstarter objectives.
