Speaking to Nintendo Everything, Yoshitaka Murayama, director of the first three Suikoden games, said he’d happily take the opportunity to go back to the classic IP, but only after his current project Eiyuden Chronicle is shipped and taken care of first. “Suikoden was a game I was very fortunate to work on. I will always love that series but it’s not really something that I own or control whereas Eiyuden can 100% be my thing,” He explained. “That being said, I would of course be more than happy to work on another Suikoden game if the chance presented itself in the future. However, for now, I want to pour my focus into Eiyuden Chronicle as the next chapter in my life.”
The first Suikoden is widely regarded as one of the greatest JRPGs of all-time, coming out in the mid-nineties on the PlayStation amid a surge in the genre. Murayama led development on it and the first two sequels, before parting ways with Konami in the early noughties. Last year, he and a team featuring talent from across the Suikoden series revealed spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, and their new studio, Rabbit & Bear. The anime game proceeded to become one of the most successful videogame Kickstarter campaigns of all time.