I heard of Suikoden only because 2 was so high in price back in the day so i started to try to keep an eye for it
then I got my hands on a copy of 1 and i Genuinely liked it but it was like early to mid 2000s at this point, so I definitely missed the boat, I wasn't there when it all got released
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