At the risk of pissing off every rabid Suikoden fan out there....

[aruru]

Okay, so I lied. I DID take a small break from WA3 greatness to check out Suiko3 a little and rant about it. I just can't seem to resist the allure of having a new game to start. It's like some animals and the Fighter and their attraction to shiny objects.

I will now quote my quickie (and amazingly spoilerless! w00t again is me!) preliminary review of Suikoden 3 I gave in jurhael's LJ:

As for Suiko3.... eh, I've only done the first chapters for Hugo and Chris and am in the middle of Geddoe's chapter 1 and thus am probably not the best judge yet, but thus far, I haven't been that enthused to continue. The game's just overall been kinda... well, bland thus far. Even the music (other than the opening movie theme, that is) hasn't been up to par with the previous games thus far - I sincerely hope that what I've heard thus far isn't what the general quality of the soundtrack's going to be like, or.... :(

I admittedly have liked playing through Geddoe's chapter a bit, though, as the character relationships between his comrades are rather amusing to watch. Hugo's chapter was rather cute at first, and it's sad at the end, but the drama of the end scenario was kinda spoiled for me by playing Chris' chapter 1 before it. So I suggest playing Hugo's first scenario before you play Chris'. As for Chris' scenario, it was... eh. Not bad, but there's not that much to say about it. Chris does seem to be a fairly strong woman thus far though, and that's good.

Anyway, at the risk of getting my head bit off by all the other rabid Suikoden fans, overall I've yet to be won over by this installment of the series. While it IS interesting to watch how the different character scenarios connect/overlap to tell a bigger story, and Geddoe's scenario has had a lot of personality to it, there's just been something... lacking to me thus far, something that's keeping me from saying "Yeah, this feels like a Suikoden game." :(

Of course, you could just say I'm full of horseshit and accuse me of still being unhappy because the Bear and the Blue Lightning aren't in it. ;) I'll just wait until you've played it for yourself to see if you concur on any of this.


I forgot to mention in that thing that I'm still hoping for an explanation about Viki to be one of the saving graces for this game, though. <--Viki fan, OBVIOUSLY

I will now sit here and patiently wait for Blue Moon fanboy types fellow fans of the series to flame my ass for not immediately worshipping TEH PREFECTION TAT SI TEH SUKIYODEN. Nyar.

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[aruru.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot to make suggestions for games... well, if you don't have them already (and somehow, I get the feeling you probably already do have them... you play so many more games than I, and all ^_^;): Kingdom Hearts (the camera's evil, but otherwise the gameplay is pretty solid, and it's cute as hell to boot) and Arc the Lad Collection (YOU MUST ALL WORSHIP THE SEXY BADASS THAT IS TOSH.).

I have one OL pal (chaoscheebs) that really liked Okage: Shadow King or whatever it's called, too. And I'm sure my other friends can give further suggestions. I'll force ask them to post here if they have the time.

As for GTA games, I've never played them either, but I know lyria and irksnapple had loads of fun with GTA3, so I dunno, eheh. ^.^;

[chaoscheebs.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's "Okage: Shadow King". Battle system's not so good, but the story and weird characters more than makes up for it. It's great! ^^

'Course, if you're looking for something non-RPG, there's always Capcom vs. SNK 2. Ph34r the mighty powers of the team of Chun-Li, Sakura, and Mai. (I focus more on speed than power; can you tell?)