Suikoden

108 recruitable characters and army battles built RPG scale around collecting people.

Released 1995 Developer Konami Platform PlayStation Genre JRPG Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Suikoden inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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