Classic RPGs get revamped graphics and — crucially — a new translation After teasing the return of a beloved game series, Konami actually delivered the goods at this year’s Tokyo Game Show: in 2023, it will release remasters of the classic role-playing games Suikoden and Suikoden 2.
The Suikoden series saw five mainline games and a number of spinoffs between 1995 and 2012, but nothing has been heard of it in 10 years.
That project raised over $3 million on Kickstarter, which might have prompted Konami to reconsider the popularity of Suikoden and greenlight this re-release.
More significantly for Suikoden fans, it appears the games’ translation into English has been redone; the localization of these games is famously, if sometimes amusingly, terrible.