Suikoden Tierkreis

Suikoden Tierkreis
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
Director(s)Osamu Komuta
Artist(s)Masaki Hirooka
Writer(s)Kazuyoshi Tsugawa
Composer(s)Yoshino Aoki
Norikazu Miura
Masaharu Iwata
Kaori Komuro
Hiroaki Tomuno
SeriesSuikoden
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • JP: December 18, 2008
  • EU: March 13, 2009
  • NA: March 17, 2009
Genre(s)Role-playing video game
Mode(s)Single-player

Suikoden Tierkreis (Gensō Suikoden Tierkreis (幻想水滸伝ティアクライス, with "Tierkreis" being German for "Zodiac") is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo DS developed and published by Konami as part of the Suikoden series. It was released in December 2008 in Japan, and released in English in Europe and North America in March 2009. The game's development was led by project head Osamu Komuta, who had previously been a planner for Suikoden Tactics, with a music staff composed of Norikaku Miura, Yoshino Aoki, Masaharu Iwata, and Kaori Komuro. The game features the opening and ending theme songs "Tears in the Sky" and "Tierkreis" respectively, each performed by Japanese pop idol Satomi Takasugi.

Created as a spin-off of the main series of games, Suikoden Tierkreis was made to explore one of the myriad of worlds that exist in the Suikoden metaverse. Following the game's main theme of "the infinite possibility of future", players must assume the role of a young protagonist who gathers the combined forces of 108 heroes to attempt to defeat a powerful entity known as The One King, leader of The Order of the One True Way, who seeks to control the world by spreading his doctrine that all fate is predetermined and all people have no control of their lives.