Suikoden Tierkreis, Part 23
Good afternoon, ladies, gentlemen, and assorted others. This is Lady Nighteyes with another installment of "Let's Play Suikoden Tierkreis!" When last we left off, we'd just completed another mission and fended off another attack from the forces of evil and were about to get to the other random tasks Moana found for us. Moana's good at that.
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I think an actually intelligent protagonist would not have needed the additional hints to figure it out. Admittedly, I don't think she's really trying to hide it. As for Yovel... I will say that he is not Icas. Icas is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, and would undoubtedly give himself away very quickly by hitting on someone.
It's just... so hilariously undignified, it's great. Especially since the swooping "ZOMG BOSS FIGHT" camera-pan makes it seem like it's supposed to be intimidating.
That comparison had occurred to me. Though I think it gets a lot more interesting based on some of Rizwan's later behavior. [SPOILER REDACTED]She's not as one-dimensionally exploitive and cruel as she appears right now- there's a subtle implication that she let Sieg escape when they finally do rescue Manaril. Since I'm sure Danash would not be amused if she had tried to get Manaril out any other way and she says while looking sad that Manaril would probably die if she had to keep reading from the Chronicle much longer, that might've been one of the only ways she could have saved her daughter's life. Not to mention that late in the game, [SPOILERCEPTION]she dies protecting Shams and the city of Salsabil. As for the thematic stuff, I don't really think so. The Order's take on this would have been, "She is destined to do this. Attempting to interfere with her fate to assist in our glorious cause is heresy, and you are doomed to fail." Shams never questions their ability to manage it or says that it's a good thing that this is going on, just that the consequences of charging in right now to break her out will be worse than if they don't. If they rejected an argument like that just because it was predicated on long-term consequences, it would turn the Team Free Will side of the debate into as much of a strawman as everyone in Cynas was.
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