My grandfather brought this back from a visit to Thailand in a small plastic wallet among 50 or so other dubiously sourced games. When I was still positively zygotic and hadn't developed my tastes, suikoden captured my imagination like no other game. Haters will say 2 is better, and they're right, but trust me when I say they're wrong. As a kid I found the Flik/Odessa annoying, but I think that stuff has aged quite well, not just in 1 but further into 2. Lightning in a bottle.