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This is a walkthrough guide from Kouan to Pannu Yakuta Castle for Suikoden 1 HD Remaster. Check out what you need to do in each area to progress the story, as well as a list of recruitable characters along the way!
| ◀ Previous Guide | Next Guide ▶ |
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| Lenankamp to Toran Lake Castle | Fortress of Garan to Soniere Prison |
List of Contents
| * |  Before going into Kouan, it's recommended to head further west first so that you can go to Garan and recruit Kai. He's a powerful fighter that has a strong Unite Attack with the Hero, so make sure to add him to the party before progressing. ▶︎ How to Recruit Kai and Stats |
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| 1 |  When you're ready, head into Kouan and make your way to Lepant’s Mansion in the upper west side of town. However, you’ll be stopped by Giovanni who won’t allow you to enter. ▶︎ Kouan Guide |
| 2 |  To find a way into the mansion, visit the inn and talk to Krin, who can help you infiltrate Lepant’s Mansion. |
| 3 |  After talking to him, go outside and talk to him again to begin the infiltration mission. |
| 4 |  Once inside, explore thoroughly and collect any treasures you come across. Along the way, you’ll also encounter two characters to recruit, Roc and Juppo As a note, you may not receive a notification that Juppo gets recruited, but he does join you once the events at Kouan have concluded. ▶︎ Lepant's Mansion Map Guide |
| 5 |  Partway through the mansion, you'll encounter a room full of robot guards. Be careful not to walk into them or their line of sight and just walk behind them to safely cross the room. |
| 6 |  Towards the end of the mansion, you'll encounter a big room with a roulette wheel that you can step on. Getting on the wheel will cause it to spin, and depending on where it lands, you'll either gain or lose EXP, get a treasure chest, start a fight, get a Dragon Incense, or unlock the path forward. |
| * | Besides aiming to land at the top to access the room containing the Kirinji, you'll want to keep spinning the wheel until you get the Dragon Incense. This is an extremely useful item since it can heal the entire party and has infinite uses, but it can only be used in battle. ▶︎ How to Get Dragon Incense and How to Use |
| 7 |  Once you've reached the last room and obtained the Kirinji, go back the way you came and exit Lepant’s Mansion. |
| 8 |  After leaving the mansion, a cutscene will play. You then need to head to Commander Kraze’s Office located on the north side of Kouan. Once you're inside, talk to Lepant to have him join your party and assist him in the fight. ▶︎ How to Recruit Lepant and Stats |
| 9 |  Once the battle's over, explore the office for some treasures and, when you're ready, head to the rightmost room on the second floor to rescue Eileen. |
| 10 |  Defeating the soldiers and rescuing Eileen will cause another cutscene to start, and once that's over, you can recruit Pahn back to your team. ▶︎ How to Recruit Pahn and Stats |
| 11 | Return to your headquarters, where you’ll find that Giovanni, Krin, Varkas, and Sydonia have also joined the Liberation Army. |
| 12 |  Following a celebratory banquet, you’ll be ambushed by an Assassin, triggering another battle. You can only reduce the Assassin’s HP, as he cannot be defeated outright. ▶︎ Assassin Boss Guide |
| 13 |  After the battle, you’ll awaken in your bed. From there, head down to the docks to meet and recruit Kirkis, who'll also give you your next task of helping out the Elves. ▶︎ How to Recruit Kirkis and Stats |
| * | Before continuing your journey, take time to organize your party and carefully choose who will accompany you. Since Gremio and Kirkis are mandatory for this part of the story, you can bring 3 more party members of your choice. It's recommended to at least bring Viktor with you, since he will become a mandatory party member later on in the story. ▶︎ Recommended Party Setup |
| * | Also, make sure to visit a rune shop and equip Wind and Lightning Runes on your party for a future boss fight. At the very least, have Kirkis equip a Wind Rune since he will be used in two boss fights where they'll be weak to Wind. ▶︎ How to Equip and Level Up Runes |
| 1 | With your party prepared, begin your journey to the Great Forest Village. From your main base, travel by boat to Kaku, then head south to Kouan, then finally continue southeast until you reach a large forest village. Don't forget to visit the other towns and shops as well so that you can properly equip your new party members. |
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| 2 |  Upon arriving at the Great Forest Village, speak to Maas at the blacksmiths and Sansuke at the bathhouse to recruit them. ▶︎ Great Forest Village Guide |
| 3 | Make any final preparations and, when you're ready, head into the forest. Don't forget that you can also grind EXP here first so that your new party members can level up. ▶︎ EXP Farming Guide: How to Level Up Fast |
| 1 | Follow the path through the forest, exploring as you go to find any treasure chests along the way. ▶︎ Great Forest Map Guide |
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| 4 |  In the middle of the forest, you'll have a short cutscene where you meet Viki. Make sure to recruit her since she's one of the most important characters to get thanks to her ability to teleport you to previously visited locations. ▶︎ How to Teleport |
| 5 | Once you've exited the forest, you'll enter the Kobold Village and start a short cutscene. You can't do anything here yet so leave the village and head south towards the Village of the Elves. ▶︎ Kobold Village Guide |
| 1 | When you enter the Village of the Elves, a quick cutscene will play. Once that's done, explore the town and shops for anything you may need. ▶︎ Village of the Elves Guide |
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| 2 |  Go to the northernmost house and speak with the Elder Elf. After talking with them, you will be thrown into jail along with the rest of your party. |
| 3 |  While in prison, speak to Valeria and Stallion. Once that's done, approach the gate on the right to trigger a cutscene where Sylvina lets you out. |
| 4 |  As you leave the Village of the Elves, Valeria will join your party. She is a strong and capable character, so it’s highly recommended to train her as a regular member of your team. ▶︎ How to Recruit Valeria and Stats |
| * | Do note that you cannot revisit the Village of the Elves once you reach a certain point in the story, so make sure to get whatever you need now. Thankfully, nothing in the shops is missable since their inventory will become available at your headquarters later on. |
| 5 | When you're ready, head northeast from the village and go towards the Dwarf Trail. |
| 1 | Follow the path along the Dwarf Trail and open any treasure chests that you find. You can find a Killer Rune in one of the chests, which is highly recommended to equip on Viktor or another high strength party member. ▶︎ Dwarf Trail Map Guide |
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| 2 |  As you travel through the mountain road, you’ll encounter Kuromimi again. Afterwards, keep following the northern path until you exit the trail. |
| 3 | Once you're back in the overworld, head northeast to reach the Village of the Dwarves. |
| 1 |  Once you're in the Village of the Dwarves, explore the town as usual for new upgrades. The most important ones to get are weapon upgrades at the blacksmith since you can now increase them up to level 9. ▶︎ Village of the Dwarves Guide |
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| * |  While you're at the smithy, talk to Meese as well so that you can recruit him to your army. ▶︎ How to Recruit Meese and Stats |
| 2 |  After purchasing whatever you need, head to the northeastern house to talk to the Dwarven Chief. Once the cutscene's done, you'll be tasked with infiltrating the Dwarves' Vault. |
| 3 | When you're ready, leave the village and head north to enter the vault. Make sure you've stocked up on supplies since it's a relatively long dungeon with some tough fights. |
| 1 |  Talk to the dwarf guarding the stairs and make your way down. You'll pass through a bunch of empty rooms so just keep going down until you reach the first major area of the dungeon. As always, make sure to keep an eye out for any treasures while exploring the vault. ▶︎ Dwarves' Vault Map Guide |
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| 2 |  The first obstacle you'll encounter is a room with three levers and balls blocking your way. Flip the switches following the order of middle, left, and right to open a path to the Sunbeam Orb and the exit at the other end of the room. |
| 3 | From there, just keep going down until you reach a small maze. Grab the treasures in this room and exit through the northeast once you're done. |
| 4 |  Again, keep going down until you enter a room with floating platforms. Go down twice from the middle platform to get the Lightning Rune Piece first, then head back and go down twice from the rightmost platform to exit the room. |
| 5 |  Keep following the path down until you reach a puzzle room with a slab that has "beep" "boop" "boop" "beep" "beep" "beep" "boop" "boop" engraved on it. This is a reference to the sound that switches make, so press them in the order of left, right, right, left, left, left, right, right to solve the puzzle. |
| 6 | Once the doors open, go through and explore the rooms to the side first for treasure chests before continuing forward. |
| 7 | Past the crossroad rooms, you'll be in a new room with three staircases. Don't bother entering the ones to the side, since they lead to empty rooms, and just grab the treasure in the southwest and exit through the stairs in the bottom middle. |
| 8 |  Before continuing, heal up first since you're about to face the boss of this dungeon. When you're ready, continue down the path to face Gigantes, who's weak to Wind and Lightning attacks. ▶︎ Gigantes Boss Guide |
| 9 |  After defeating the boss, go through the doorway to access the final chests of the dungeon. Make sure to grab the one in the middle room since it contains the Flowing Water Cane needed to progress the story. |
| 10 | When you're ready, leave the dungeon, either on foot or with an Escape Talisman, and head back to the Village of the Dwarves to talk to the Chief. |
| 11 | Once that's done, make your way back to the Village of the Elves. A few cutscenes will occur while you're on the Dwarf Trail and when you enter the village. Once those are done, make your way back to the Kobold Village. |
| 12 |  Entering Kobold Village will cause another cutscene to start where Valeria will temporarily leave the party and Kuromimi will join in her place. Afterwards, you'll be engaged in a battle against some soldiers. ▶︎ How to Recruit Kuromimi and Stats |
| 13 | After the fight's over, one more cutscene will play and you'll be sent into your first army battle at Pannu Yakuta Castle. |
| 1 |  The Battle at Pannu Yakuta will be your first army battle and can be difficult if you don't know what you're doing. It's recommended to use your Thieves first to learn the enemy's next action, allowing you to counter their attack. If you're low on troops or close to winning, you can also use your Merchant to steal some enemy units, as well as your Strategist to maximize the damage of your next Charge attack. ▶︎ Army Battle Guide |
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| 2 | After winning the battle, the Dwarven Chief will come to your aid and you'll automatically be assigned the party of Hero, Gremio, Viktor, Kirkis, Valeria, and Kuromimi. |
| 3 |  Before storming the castle, you can leave first and take a detour to fix your party's inventory and equipment. While you're at it, visit the Village of the Elves as well so that you can recruit Templeton and unlock the World Map. ▶︎ How to Recruit Templeton |
| 4 |  When you're ready, head inside the castle and explore it for any treasure chests. There's also a rest point in the room to the right on the first floor, so make sure to come back here every now and then to heal up. ▶︎ Pannu Yakuta Castle Map Guide |
| 5 |  After gathering all the treasures, head to the 3rd floor to face the castle's boss, a Dragon. It'll be weak to Wind so make sure Kirkis has level 2 spell slots available before going into the fight. ▶︎ Dragon Boss Guide |
| 6 |  Once you've beaten the boss, heal up the Hero and head to the top floor to face Kwanda Rosman in your first duel. Pay attention to his dialogue cues so that you know what type of move he will use against you. ▶︎ Kwanda Rosman Duel Guide |
| 7 |  After winning the duel, an important set of dialogue choices will come up. When prompted, select "Something's wrong here." and "I want you to join us." to recruit Kwanda Rosman. If you mash through the dialogue or select the wrong options, he will die and you will no longer be able to recruit all 108 characters in the game. ▶︎ How to Recruit Kwanda Rosman and Stats |
| 8 | When the events at Pannu Yakuta Castle are over, you'll be teleported back to your headquarters, ready for the next part of your journey. ▶︎ Fortress of Garan to Soniere Prison |
| Character | Playable? | How to Recruit |
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 Kai
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✔️ | After acquiring the Headquarters, speak to him at the Fortress of Garan. |
 Maas
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✔️ | After acquiring the Toran Castle Headquarters, speak to him at the Great Forest Village blacksmith. |
 Sansuke
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✔️ | After securing Toran Castle, speak to him in the Great Forest Village. |
 Roc
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❌ | Speak to him in one of the rooms after breaking in Lepant's Mansion at Kouan. |
 Juppo
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✔️ | You can find him in Lepant's Mansion at Kouan will appear in the Headquarters after recruiting Lepant. |
 Eileen
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✔️ | Rescue her from Kraze when he takes her hostage at Kouan. |
 Giovanni
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❌ | He joins together with Lepant after rescuing Eileen from Kraze at Kouan. |
 Krin
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✔️ | Joins together with Lepant after helping him in Kouan. |
 Lepant
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✔️ | Help Lepant rescue Eileen when she's being held hostage by Kraze at Kouan. |
 Pahn
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✔️ | Pahn automatically joins you after rescuing Eileen. He later needs to survive a duel, so make sure he has the best armor and weapons, and that he is at least Level 30 to ensure his survival. Else, he dies. |
 Sydonia
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✔️ | After recruiting Lepant, return to the Headquarters and you will find Sydonia. He will automatically join along with Varkas. |
 Varkas
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✔️ | After recruiting Lepant, return to the Headquarters and you will find Varkas. He will automatically join along with Sydonia. |
 Kirkis
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✔️ | After defeating Windy's assassin at the headquarters, you can find down by the docks when you try to leave HQ. |
 Viki
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❌ | On the way to the Village of the Elves, she will appear in the Great Forest. Speak to her and agree to take her in. |
 Meese
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✔️ | After recruiting Maas, speak to Meese at the Village of the Dwarves blacksmith. |
 Valeria
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✔️ | After escaping from the prison, she will join you in the Village of the Elves. |
 Templeton
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❌ | In the Burnt Village of the Elves, speak to him and he will join you. |
 Kuromimi
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✔️ | Kuromimi joins the team after fighting together against the Imperial Army in Kobold Village. |
 Sanchez
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❌ | In the assault of Pannu Yakuta Castle, he will automatically join before your battle with Kwanda Rosman. |
 Humphrey
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✔️ | In the assault of Pannu Yakuta Castle, he will automatically join before your battle with Kwanda Rosman. |
 Kwanda Rosman
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✔️ | After besting Kwanda in single combat, you can choose to recruit him instead of executing him. |
 Stallion
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✔️ | Joins automatically after defeating Kwanda Rosman. |
 Sylvina
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✔️ | Joins automatically after defeating Kwanda Rosman. |
List of All Characters and Recruit Conditions
| Bosses from Kouan to Pannu Yakuta Castle |
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 Recommended Level: None |
| Tips to Survive the Assassin |
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・Immune to attacks and spells from Runes ・Cannot be defeated and will run away eventually ・Use Auto-Battle to speed through the fight |
Assassin Boss Guide and How to Beat
 Recommended Level: 24 |
| Tips to Defeat Gigantes |
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・Equip a Wind Rune and Lightning Rune ・Have everyone carry healing items ・Use Dragon Incense to heal your party |
Gigantes Boss Guide and How to Beat
 Recommended Level: 26 |
| Tips to Defeat the Dragon |
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・Equip a Wind Rune and Valeria's Falcon Rune ・Have everyone carry healing items ・Use Dragon Incense to heal your party |
Dragon Boss Guide and How to Beat
 Recommended Level: 27 |
| Tips to Defeat Kwanda Rosman |
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・One-on-one duel against the Hero ・Read dialogue to learn their next move ・Heal before starting the duel |
Kwanda Rosman Duel Guide and How to Beat
100% Complete Walkthrough Guide
| Suikoden 1 HD Remaster Walkthroughs | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gregminster to Mt. Seifu |
| 2 | Lenankamp to Toran Lake Castle |
| 3 | Kouan to Pannu Yakuta Castle |
| 4 | Fortress of Garan to Soniere Prison |
| 5 | Scarleticia Castle to Pirate's Fortress |
| 6 | Fortress of Lorimar to Neclord's Castle |
| 7 | Dragon's Den to Dragon Knights' Fortress |
| 8 | Northern Checkpoint to Gregminster Palace |
Walkthrough Part 3: Kouan to Pannu Yakuta Castle
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Meg is also recruitable here. Recruitable with Juppo in party.