Suikoden IV
Overview
 
is a console role-playing game developed and published by Konami
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 for the Sony
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 PlayStation 2
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 video game console
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 and the fourth installment of the Suikoden
Suikoden
is a role-playing game series originally created by Yoshitaka Murayama. The game series is loosely based on the classical Chinese novel, Shui Hu Zhuan by Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong. Shui Hu Zhuan is rendered as 水滸伝 in Japanese, and read as Suikoden...

video game series. It was released in August 2004
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 in Japan, and early 2005
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 in North America and Europe.

Suikoden IV takes place approximately 150 years before the events of the first Suikoden
Suikoden (video game)
is a role-playing game published by Konami as the first installment of the Suikoden series. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, it was released initially in 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan. A North American release followed one year later, and a European release came the following...

game, and relates the story of a young boy living on the island of Razril and the Rune of Punishment, one of the 27 True Runes.
Quotations

"Well... the other day, I was half asleep... and I grabbed onto Chiepoo thinking he was the blanket. I never thought he'd feel so good... but now, I feel so awful thinking about it."

"Honest!!!!!!! i swear by my nine lives!!"

"What kind of idiot just yells 'Die!' and attacks without any reason? What a moron!"

"Truly great men, don't give off an aura of being great."

 
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