so. many. feelings.
It's official.
Suikoden V has made me cry more than any videogame since Final Fantasy VII.
Goddamnit.
...how many years has it been since I wrote videogame fic, anyway? At least three. Good lord. Well, I can state with confidence that that's going to change. I'm still undecided about how much of it I want to share, or share publicly, but I have a real fire under my ass again, and I've missed that.
(It's kind of funny. Usually I'm the one who drags Mith into fandoms, not vice versa. But I'm glad it took me this long to play SV, in some ways, because I wouldn't have had the perspective I do on it now had I not played it with her, and had we not been where we are now creatively. Also, hey, I guess it's my turn to be late to the party.)
I won't say this game is flawless -- I discussed some of the things I wasn't so fond of in the last post I made about it -- but it is really fucking well-done, and a lot of the characters have already taken up residence in my head, and I keep finding new people and places and moments and themes to ping on. Even if I am currently lost in the fucking Deep Twilight Forest. Which is still not as bad as the Snowfly Forest, but it can go fuck itself nonetheless.
Seriously though, it feels good to pick up a controller again, at least for this game. I'm still leery of getting a next-gen system because I can get into crazy grind mode when I play videogames, but I can certainly check out the rest of the Suikoden series.
.
Suikoden V has made me cry more than any videogame since Final Fantasy VII.
Goddamnit.
...how many years has it been since I wrote videogame fic, anyway? At least three. Good lord. Well, I can state with confidence that that's going to change. I'm still undecided about how much of it I want to share, or share publicly, but I have a real fire under my ass again, and I've missed that.
(It's kind of funny. Usually I'm the one who drags Mith into fandoms, not vice versa. But I'm glad it took me this long to play SV, in some ways, because I wouldn't have had the perspective I do on it now had I not played it with her, and had we not been where we are now creatively. Also, hey, I guess it's my turn to be late to the party.)
I won't say this game is flawless -- I discussed some of the things I wasn't so fond of in the last post I made about it -- but it is really fucking well-done, and a lot of the characters have already taken up residence in my head, and I keep finding new people and places and moments and themes to ping on. Even if I am currently lost in the fucking Deep Twilight Forest. Which is still not as bad as the Snowfly Forest, but it can go fuck itself nonetheless.
Seriously though, it feels good to pick up a controller again, at least for this game. I'm still leery of getting a next-gen system because I can get into crazy grind mode when I play videogames, but I can certainly check out the rest of the Suikoden series.
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