Okay, so Gensou Suikoden: Card Stories is basically what happens when someone takes the Suikoden world and mashes it up with a surprisingly deep card battler. You start off with this scrappy little deck—mostly militia and low-tier heroes—but before long, you're recruiting characters from the main games as cards, figuring out how their abilities chain together.

The battles aren’t just about brute force, either. Positioning matters, some cards counter others, and if you’re not paying attention to elemental affinities, you’ll get wrecked by some random NPC with a fire deck. (Learned that the hard way.) The story’s lighter than the main Suikoden games, but there’s still that familiar mix of politics and weird magic lurking in the background.

Honestly, the best part is stumbling across a rare card you recognize from the series and suddenly realizing how busted it is in your current setup. It’s got that classic GBA charm—pixel art, chiptune battle themes, the whole deal. If you ever wanted to see Georg Prime as a playable card, here’s your chance.