Suikoden Tierkreis, Part 13

[lady_nighteyes]

Hiya, guys. This is Lady Nighteyes bringing you "Let's Play Suikoden Tierkreis!" Last time Sieg and Marica were rescued by a mystery person, and I stopped mid-scene to create an artificial cliffhanger. Shall we see who it was?

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[lady_nighteyes]

The anime-ness doesn't really bother me- the corny voice-acting does, but I'd rather have that overlaid on an animated scene than on the cruddy little 3-D models. And yes, it's a pretty consistent pattern that they break out the anime whenever something needs to be more impressive than little Lego people and flashes of light can handle.

Re: cliche-reversal: one of the things that makes me like this game in spite of its many flaws is that this isn't an isolated thing. It has quite the diverse cast, including a lot of people from several different ethnic groups, and treats a short-haired, practically-dressed soldier like Chrodechild as just as feminine as, say, Erin. It also has probably about as many fanservicey guys as girls, and has more ladies who aren't conventionally attractive than I've seen in most games (though the base prettiness level is still high; this is a JRPG, after all :::PPP).

It took its sweet time getting here, but yeah, bigger-picture is sort of the Suikoden standard. It's hard to fight an evil empire without getting involved in international politics a bit, y'see. ;;;)))