He already loved him enough that he sidetracked and sabotaged his own plans over and over in a desperate effort to be a good "parent." He would have hit his destroy-the-world goal easily if he hadn't been so determined to (try to) make Stocke his partner in crime. Which, as mentioned, I find weirdly tragic. And yes, he's pretty much my favorite video game character ever; it's just so damn rare to see a protagonist who's intelligent and competent most of the time, but still an unambiguously good person and flawed enough to be sympathetic and aaah *melts into puddle of fangirlness*
Not except Viola, yeah. And maybe Elm, though that is pure speculation because she doesn't get a portrait. >:C But what else is new in video games, especially JRPGs. I also have an extremely silly theory regarding Raynie which I may mention in my "spoileriffic comments I wanted to make but didn't" post.
D'awww, thanks! I love it with a burning, obsessive passion (as is probably quite obvious at this point), so I'm glad I got to show it to some more people. Especially if some of 'em play it because of this; the fandom is tiny and needs all the help it can get. ;) I haven't played Nostalgia; I'll look into it. I was thinking ST 'cause I've played through it a couple of times and really like some of the characters. Plus this format would spare everyone the less-than-stellar voice acting.
Do make the things-you-wanted-to-spoil-but-didn't-out-of-respect post; that'd really round things off.
As for what's next, I suspect it's probably going to be Suikoden Tierkreis, and I'd be interested in being convinced about the game this time (I've mentioned my main beef with it before), but let me look around and see if I can remember any other DS RPGs that, rightly or wrongly, are quite obscure... Black Sigil might be interesting, Contact is weird, I never finished Infinite Space... Valkyrie Profile: Covenant Of The Plume is apparently a brutally difficult game that turns you into a monster, that sounds appealing.
I played all three routes of Strange Journey. Do your worst. (But no seriously Valkyrie Profile is as much turn-based strategy as RPG and I suck at TBS because I always forget to think about how enemies can move, so that would probably involve me dying/failing horribly. A lot.) It also doesn't have to be DS, just something I can emulate on my laptop, which basically means anything from PSX down. I could do an ill-informed continuation of the Persona 2: Innocent Sin screencap adventure that somebody just got to the naming screen on. Or a mostly-blind run of the astoundingly terrible English release of the original Persona, for that matter. If Keltena hadn't covered it already, I'd probably take it upon myself to play Last Scenario for like the fifth time for you guys, but they did, so I won't.
Not except Viola, yeah. And maybe Elm, though that is pure speculation because she doesn't get a portrait. >:C But what else is new in video games, especially JRPGs. I also have an extremely silly theory regarding Raynie which I may mention in my "spoileriffic comments I wanted to make but didn't" post.
D'awww, thanks! I love it with a burning, obsessive passion (as is probably quite obvious at this point), so I'm glad I got to show it to some more people. Especially if some of 'em play it because of this; the fandom is tiny and needs all the help it can get. ;) I haven't played Nostalgia; I'll look into it. I was thinking ST 'cause I've played through it a couple of times and really like some of the characters. Plus this format would spare everyone the less-than-stellar voice acting.
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As for what's next, I suspect it's probably going to be Suikoden Tierkreis, and I'd be interested in being convinced about the game this time (I've mentioned my main beef with it before), but let me look around and see if I can remember any other DS RPGs that, rightly or wrongly, are quite obscure... Black Sigil might be interesting, Contact is weird, I never finished Infinite Space... Valkyrie Profile: Covenant Of The Plume is apparently a brutally difficult game that turns you into a monster, that sounds appealing.
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