#suikoden i art

[scyanako]

Can't wait for the Suikoden remasters! Then I get to see these two again 😊

[psychedeliclulu]

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Old drawing of Luca Blight to celebrate the release date of Suikoden I&II HD Remaster (March 6, 2025) 👏🏻

I drew with 'Mein Herz brennt' by Rammstein constantly in my head.

(His heart burned so fiercely that only ash remained)

[108stars]

he is so small........

[nero-draco]

[bleatroot]

me & a friend have been playing suikoden for (my) first time since sometime last year. beautiful and silly and beautiful.

[clawsou]

Gadgets for Suikovember 2023.

[zentendo]

Konami Unleashes a Double Dose of Nostalgia: Felix & Rocket Knight Return!

Get ready to swing your magic bag and strap on your rocket pack, because two beloved Konami classics are making a glorious comeback! Felix the Cat and Rocket Knight Adventures are gearing up for a modern revival, bringing back charming pixelated platforming for a whole new generation (and rekindling some serious nostalgia for the rest of us). Both collections will land on Nintendo Switch,…

[ramenheim]

WIP reverse-only sneaky-peak:

[daily-rayless]

20 years on

It's about twenty years since I first played Suikoden III in early 2003. So I have to talk about Geddoe.

July 2003 – I think this might be the first time I tried to draw him.

If you knew me from 2003 to 2005, you've already heard me talk about Geddoe, and sorry about that. While he wasn't my favorite when I first played S3, he's since become my favorite character out of any game. Here’s why.

June 2004. I tend to draw Queen more than Geddoe, but he's still the favorite.

I don't know that he's the best written character, but sometimes a character just lands in your brain right and stays there.

October 2004. Another thing about Geddoe is that very often, especially back then, I never felt like I got him right.

I think there's a number of factors for why. He's not a typical JRPG protagonist. He's in his thirties. He's seen the world, and he's tired.

April 2005. This was the first time I felt like I actually got him.

He believes in justice, sure, but as circumstances go, he often turns a blind eye to the dark realities he knows he can't change just by objecting. He has the loyalty of his teammates, but he's not exactly charismatic.

June 2005

He can be pushed into making big dramatic speeches, but most often he leads from behind, waiting until other people have blustered and argued and had their say, then quietly doing the thing he was going to do anyway. Sometimes he waits too long and things go wrong, and he copes with minimal complaint.

November 2006

He seems unchanging, unflappable, but we see him defeated. Then we see him pick himself up.

May 2008

As tired and detached as he is, he's still an idealist. He's worn down by his duty, but he doesn't give it up because he can't accept the alternative. Who else would he ask to step in?

October 2009. That's Emilia from Yggdra Union because it was part of a meme.

He won't plead with you to try to save you. He'll tell you you're wrong, and he won't feel guilty for knocking down what you placed your faith in.

July 2011

I just really like how he ignores so many of these young, wide-eyed seventeen-year-olds who believe they can fix the world with a speech and stopping one bad guy tropes.

2012?

He's mature, thoughtful, grim, but not cynical.

February 2013

There's a passion there, sharp words and a well-timed punch (you know the scene), even if it takes a lot to bring it boiling up to the surface.

June 2014. Accompanied by Elza (Suikoden II) and Asch (Tales of the Abyss) for another meme.

And while he's not warm, you can tell he really loves his mercenary team – and at times is surprised by how much they love him back. Because they're not a demonstrative group. The whole Twelfth Unit has a special place in my heart.

November 2019

But the GeddoeQueen dynamic, whether you read it as platonic or romantic, is one of my favorites because it's so quiet, so strong – there's such a sense of them complementing each others' needs without making any sort of big deal about it.

May 2020

Geddoe doesn't want to make his problems yours, but he finds himself grateful when he has to depend on you. He won't smile and promise you it'll be all right, far less promise it to himself. But he won't give up either. He'll lead your army, but he'd much rather be hidden away in a back room, quietly drinking with people who know they don't have to make small talk. He's seen it all, and he's telling you nothing.

December 2022

I wouldn't be surprised if, twenty years from now, he's still my favorite.

February 2023

[scribblewing]

So way back I made a chibi Sararai had planned on making a Luc to match.

I got as far as finishing the lineart, then left it to sit in my folders for 3 years. It’s done now.

[atmo-draws]

[scyanako]

Tir McDohl ✨

[maiji]

Side effect of getting nostalgic about Star Ocean 2 and going through my old fanfics, I also went through my old Suikoden V fanworks.

I posted the entire fancomic "perhaps." here if you'd like to read it!

I also finished a fic draft I started in 2012 about Shoon that was never posted anywhere! This is a missing scene story based on what happens if you choose to lose the Sacred Games' Ceremonial Match!

It's been a very productive week, haha.

omg you guys. I was reorganizing art storage last night (Now Recharging pages were getting outta control) and dug up extra printed pages of my mini Suikoden V doujinshi, perhaps., from like 10 years ago. I reread it and got so sad over the story lmaoooo. In Suikoden I, one of the recruitable characters is a blind martial artist named Morgan who comes from the Queendom of Falena. In Suikoden V, which takes place before Suiko I, you’re in that queendom when you meet a young gladiator slave named Shoon and he mentions that he had a friend who was a good at fighting and they blinded him and shipped him off to another country and you’re like HEY I KNOW WHO THAT IS!!! Anyways this was a short story about them.

I’m going to reprint covers and finish these little books. The original (which you can see in my hand) used a cool translucent paper for a layered effect on the cover and was handstitched with sea green thread, but I don’t have those materials anymore. So I’ll print an image of the overlaid cover and use turquoise staples. 😂 #comics #doujinshi #suikoden https://www.instagram.com/p/BuOnY7qhh1Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bvyggk73hqqe

[satoshi-mochida]

Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars adds PS5 and Xbox Series versions, launches March 6, 2025 - Gematsu

Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam on March 6, 2025, Konami announced. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions are newly announced.

Digital pre-orders are available now for all platforms except Switch, which will begin pre-orders on September 6. Physical edition pre-orders will begin on August 28.

The following downloadable content is included with pre-orders for the digital edition:

57,300 potch – In-game currency

Fortune Orb – Doubles the experience gained by the character that bears it.

Prosperity Orb – Doubles the “potch” gained when winning a battle with the character that bears it.

Here is an overview of the collection, via Konami:

About

A hero’s destiny is written in the Stars. The legendary Konami JRPGs Suikoden I and Suikoden II have now been remastered in high-definition!

The Story of Suikoden I

A once renowned hero turns into a violent tyrant, and an empire falls into decline. A Liberation Army is rising up in an act of rebellion against an oppressive rule. One by one the 108 stars of Destiny gather to shape the course of history.

The Story of Suikoden II

Our story’s hero and his friend Jowy are members of the Unicorn Youth Brigade, which participated in a drawn-out border dispute between the Highland Kingdom and the City-States of Jowstown. A few months earlier, a truth agreement was signed between the two forces, both of which were happy to see an end to the fighting. However, hidden under the momentary peace the fires of a new war continued to smolder…

Key Features

-Graphical Improvements

Pixel sprites and environment art enhanced with new screen effects including lighting, clouds, and shadow animations Flickering flames, smoldering smoke, the movement of leaves and insects, all add up to a lively in-game atmosphere!

The effects and direction have been redesigned, bringing memorable scenes back to life in more beautiful ways!

-New Character Drawings

All character portraits have been updated in HD. Junko Kawano, who designed the characters for the original version of Suikoden released in 1995, has newly re-drawn all the character portraits for Suikoden I HD Remaster: Gate Rune War.

-Sound Improvements

Field Sound – A large number of environmental sounds not found in the original version, such as the sound of running water in the river, wind, insects, and running footsteps, have been added. You can enjoy an immersive experience like never before!

Battle Sound – All sound effects are now in HD. In addition to the impact of the 3D effects, the realistic sound greatly enhances the dynamism of the battles!

-Game System Improvements

Many new features have been added, such as dialogue log, auto-battle, double-speed battles, etc.

Watch a new trailer below.

Release Date Trailer

English

Japanese

[cookiekurimu]

Happy Suikovember!!!

This year, I challenge myself to redraw the official illustrations of Suikoden characters for the first two weeks! Here are the entries of the first week. Is there any of your favorite character? :3

art by cookie

[thegildedbee]

Hero: May 29 Prompt from @calaisreno

This latest chapter and the previous ones are here at ao3. (I had hoped to finish with everyone else on the 31st of May, but alas, it looks like it will be May 32nd or 33rd for me . . . ) ...............................................................................................

In Vienna, his search and destroy mission retained its danger; it was as exhausting, and as nerve-wracking as any other part of his journeys to date. It was, however, undoubtedly a much more elegant and luxurious phase. His cover was as an art dealer, an international concierge of sorts, assisting in obtaining the exact object to be placed in exactly the right hands. That this was rarely an above-board legal transaction was, of course, the point. One might say that his current activities fell under the umbrella of the art of money laundering.

Although there had been recent flurries on the part of policing agencies to upend the illicit trafficking of art and antiquities, the Moriarty organization, like many other criminal enterprises, had been delighted to add participation in the circulation of fake and stolen artworks to their already robust departments of fraudulent real estate deals, as vehicles for making illegal monetary gains appear to be legitimate. Auction houses and the like were under no obligation to report large cash transactions to governing authorities -- unlike banks, life insurance companies, casinos, currency exchangers, and precious metal dealers. They could even keep the names of buyers and sellers anonymous. It was like stealing candy from a baby.

His activities had him bouncing from the unsavory world of back-street feloniusness, to the elite world of the over-monied and the over-gullible. Personally, he himself believed that, in a properly-run world, it would be perfectly acceptable if being a billionaire was illegal, but no one had asked him, as such, to draw up plans toward that end. At the very least, he could kill two birds with one stone, by draining the coffers of the obscenely-wealthy as expertly as possible, while also bleeding dry the Order of Moriartyites.

There was a completely legal print gallery next door to the famous Opera House, and he had come to enjoy dropping by on occasion when he wanted to simply enjoy art for recreational reasons, rather than pecuniary ones. The gallery possessed one of the largest collections of original Japanese woodblock prints in Europe, and he had become particularly captivated by their collection of pieces by the nineteenth-century master of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. There were many mesmerizing items from two of his series -- 100 Aspects of the Moon and New Forms of 36 Ghosts -- but the images that he especially craved to return to and study, were from his 50 renditions of Handsome and Brave Heroes of the Suikoden, fantastical images of spirits, monsters, and magical creatures, drawn from legendary histories and myths.

On his last day in Vienna, he indulged himself by buying a copy of "Toraomaru Riding a Tiger," an image that encapsulated the feeling that was his constant companion, of living out a life reflecting the aphorism, "He who rides the tiger, dare never dismount." It was a reckless thing to do -- he had no fixed location, no place to store anything important, and whatever he "owned" was only on loan to him as a temporary matter, as it might have to be jettisoned or abandoned at a moment's notice. Nevertheless, he stubbornly refused to submit to practicality in this one instance.

A month later, after many different instances of meditating upon his Yoshitoshi print, the reason the universe had wanted him to own it became clear. While running down new leads on the west coast of the States, he had passed a tattoo shop one day in San Francisco, and impulsively stopped in to see if he could make arrangements soon, in the time before he would have to leave, to have one of the artists interpret the Toraomaru on his left arm. Two days later, he had the art piece vibrantly reproduced, and healing, on his body (and, not so incidentally, allowing the marks from his drug injection days to disappear). His intimate acquisition was a defiant, sentimental, and minutely optimistic act of voicing the unvoiced center of his existence, even if visually, rather than aurally.

And, as someone dear to him from his past might have said: quite apropos for a drama queen.

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