Creator of the Suikoden series, Yoshitaka Murayama, has passed away

Now that i have time to make a real post, man i used to be so obsessed with suikoden. That was my childhood, boi. I got every star in 1-5, would watch the intros over and over, would come to gamefaqs and discuss suikoden v when it dropped and obsess over the missable characters and lore

Suikoden really made me appreciate a story thats grounded in reality and human endeavor. Instead of having a convoluted world and plot like a lot of other jrpgs, it was just a political war drama with a billion characters all struggling to make their country a better place. Later on in life I got obsessed with game of thrones, and i made a dnd campaign where the players had to recruit a bunch of npcs to win a war, and i think i owe all that to suikoden.

So yeah, thank you yoshitaka muriyama for creating something genuinely new in a genre that can often feel pretty samey, and just for inspiring me for life. Ive been listening to the suikoden osts all morning, and ill be there day 1 for eiyuden (as if that was ever an option lol)