My head's spinning

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After a hundred-and-fourty-two hours ...

I finished Suikoden V.

And while I'm going to talk about everything in a non-spoilery fashion in the usual review at some point, I feel as though I kind of need to talk about the ending in spoilery, gory detail first.

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I keep wondering if I missed something, some big clue about why Gizel did what he did, because why Sialeeds betrayed you isn't made totally obvious unless you hunt around, but ... I'm kind of at a loss. It hardly makes sense for him to have been his father's pawn, because he was the one scheming at the beginning so he had to have had /some/ motive, but damned if I know what it was. Getting together with Sialeeds again? Dubious.

Sometimes, I just had to sit and boggle at how /stupidly/ the Godwin side had things playing out. I mean, Childerich? As a Queen's Knight? Did /anyone/ think putting him in charge of /anything/ would be a step in the right direction? I suppose Zahak and Alenia are a bit more excusable, without Ferid there to make them be decent human beings ... but damn, they went to some crazy lengths in the name of their duty. I'm still kind of miffed that Alenia apparently did it all because Gizel Godwin was hot.

I did more or less enjoy the ending itself, though. Enough that I at least temporarily forgot about how stupid it was that I was fighting Lord Godwin in the form of a giant floating sun-thing.

I already have a desktop PC, so the laptop will be for strictly laptoppy purposes, but these are good things to know.

Also, people who are Suikoden fans are /always/ welcome.