Aww, that's kinda sad... @Sascha, see that's what I like about Suikoden II. Sure the protagonist is around 14 and so are his adoptive sister and best friend, but you can recruit so many other characters and a lot of them are quite old. Take Victor (A different Victor, Liz XD) He looks fairly old and pretty gruff but that doesn't mean you don't want to bring him along! (After all, he's awesome)