Suikoden

Suikoden, the Konami RPG drawing on the Chinese classic Water Margin, tasks players with gathering 108 characters to fuel a rebellion against the corrupt Scarlet Moon Empire. This continental European Original covers France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands under serial SLES-00527, released on 14 April 1997. It is a single-disc Full Jewel PAL release in English, with no hologram on the case. Research notes confirm that the rear inlay uses multi-language text without English, and the manual is also multi-language, distinguishing this pressing from the UK-only edition whose rear inlay carries only English text. This detail is the key physical identifier between the two SLES-00527 variants sharing the same barcode. An important reference point for collectors working through Suikoden’s PAL variant differences.