Konami Devs Would Like to 'Keep Making More Suikoden Games in the Future' - TGS 2022
Suikoden fans never thought they would see the day their beloved RPG returned to modern consoles, but a new day may be dawning for Konami’s previously lost series.
Earlier today, Konami confirmed that Suikoden I & II HD Remaster is coming to Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Spearheaded by long-time Konami developers like Yasuo Daikai and Takahiro Sakiyama, the latter of whom directed Suikoden 5, it features some significant enhancements, including auto-save functionality, a fast-forward command, and widescreen support.
Speaking with IGN at TGS 2022, the pair took some time to answer some pressing questions about the new update, beginning with whether it would receive a new script. The original game’s localization was famously flawed, filled with translation errors, questionable word choices, and garbled sentences. It also lacked the nuance of the original writing, which Daikai says is owed to the original’s limited text box.
“Initially, for the original games, the size of the dialogue box was quite small and there wasn’t a lot that we could fit in there. Japanese is a language that can say a lot in a very short amount of space, but for English and other languages, you need a lot of space to say the same thing usually. So in this game we have expanded the size of those dialogue boxes, and that has let us retool and work on the localization to get us more in tune with the Japanese script," Daikai explains.
It’s unclear how extensively the localizations for the two games will be overhauled, but either way it should enhance their already excellent tale of intrigue and tragedy.
Elsewhere, the pair talked about the decision not to bring the remaster to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, saying that they prized the larger install bases
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