Comments | startredder: My head's spinning

startredder

My head's spinning

Aug 25, 2006 13:27

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.

( Suikoden V best Best Ending and other spoilers )

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Comments 4

joyeuxnoel August 25 2006, 20:45:54 UTC

I would have suggested Alienware but they got eaten by Dell. Plus they're gaming centric but... pretty!

/spam

startredder August 26 2006, 05:42:23 UTC

Aw man. I would have liked a laptop with Alien in the name!

sub_divided August 26 2006, 05:19:14 UTC

Suikoden V! I enjoyed the final dungeon -- it's decently designed -- but story-wise...yeah. I didn't like the ending for a lot of reasons, only one of these was that my younger brother predicted Elder Godwin for the final boss and I hate it when he's right. ("Gizel is cool, it won't be him," he said. "Suikoden isn't like that!" I said. HA.)

It's out of character for Gizel, for one. Since when was he his father's pawn? I never got that impression. The game ends and you never really know why he did it, since that obviously wasn't the reason ( ... )

startredder August 26 2006, 05:53:06 UTC

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 ( ... )