"Suikoden (Japanese: \u5E7B\u60F3\u6C34\u6EF8\u4F1D, Hepburn: Gens\u014D Suikoden) is a role-playing video game series originally created by Yoshitaka Murayama. The game series is loosely based on the classical Chinese novel, Shui Hu Zhuan by Shi Naian. Shui Hu Zhuan is rendered as \u6C34\u6EF8\u4F1D in Japanese, and read phonetically as Suikoden."@en .