Comments | vegettoex: It's March. I guess I'll post something.

vegettoex

It's March. I guess I'll post something.

Mar 03, 2011 11:10

Hiiiiiiiii, everybody! This'll just be another one of those, "Oh hey, here are some things I've been doing!" posts. Exciting, no?

VIDEO GAMES:

- Two chapters left in Enslaved. Yes, I play games very slowly. I have lots of other stuff to do :(. The game gets more and more wonky as it goes on, but the characters are too great to not keep playing. ( Read more... )

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dwchang March 3 2011, 16:48:49 UTC

Wait so Kai is ending after the Cell Games or prior? If after the Cell Games, isn't that when Toriyama *wanted* to end the show? It made the most sense logically with Gohan succeeding his dad, but be interesting to see it in reality.

vegettoex March 3 2011, 17:05:02 UTC

Ending after Cell Game, and presumably they'll also have that episode where Trunks goes back to his future and destroys 17/18/Cell (there's time for it in the confines of the remaining episodes and what they need to cover).

No, that's not where Toriyama intended to end it. Common misconception. Our buddy Jake wrote an enormous thing you can read through if you ever have the time that explains it all :).

dwchang March 3 2011, 18:19:30 UTC

I'll take a look later. I should have been more specific in that, I was asking since I knew you'd know the answer to it :P.

With that said, why are they ending Kai there rather than going through the whole thing? With my misconception I pretty much thought Toriyama was trying to be "true" to his original vision, but I guess not.

vegettoex March 3 2011, 18:27:52 UTC

No reason given for ending it -- in fact, beyond an interview we just posted this morning with Trunks' voice actor, there actually hasn't been Toei coming out and saying, "Hey, it's over, guys!" or anything like that.

Declining sales (franchise net sales for Toei half of what it was three years ago; Namco-Bandai's forecasts are gazillions of yen less than it used to be), expensive production, etc. all seem to be contributing. Merch doesn't sell = nothing supporting the toss-away product (TV episodes).

I'll probably write up a giant article at some point soon showcasing sales figures and such all in one place (rather than littered across various news updates over the last several years) that puts everything in perspective. Just gotta find the time...

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dwchang March 3 2011, 16:56:03 UTC

Also I really quickly read your Suikoden review and I know it goes without saying, but play II. I can even lend you my $200 copy :P if you want. A lot of the things you liked are further improved. Specifically, the "your rag tag group of friends." I don't remember if Suikoden I does it, but I distinctly remember beating II and at the end, it goes through *all 108* characters and tells you what happens to each of them. You're right that a lot of them are irrelevant, but it was nice ( ... )

vegettoex March 3 2011, 17:08:10 UTC

Yeah, at the end of the first game it cycled through the 108 stars of destiny with a sentence or two about what each went on to do.

I specifically said that I didn't get all 108, though :P. So no bonus for me if I continue. I could always just pick up from the save before the final boss and go out to recruit them all.

Gremio was awesome :(.

dwchang March 3 2011, 18:21:11 UTC

OK I didn't see that regarding the 108. Well for #3 I *strongly* recommend it since the epilogue only unlocks with that requirement.

I guess this is a spoiler (for 1), but if you get all 108 in Suikoden 1, A) Gremio lives and B) you can recruit your main character and Gremio in Suikoden 2.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed it and also glad you're going on to Xenogears. I do warn you that the reason people like me like the game so much isn't the game play itself (which is meh), but the story. The story is amazing enough that you forgive some of the bad gameplay.

scintilla72 March 4 2011, 00:42:50 UTC

Good to hear that Eden of the East was good -- I took a chance and bought the whole box set a while back but haven't gotten to start it yet (too many unfinished series taking priority, like Soul Eater and Eureka Seven). I haven't heard a bad thing about it yet.

brakusjs March 4 2011, 07:17:46 UTC

Eden of the East is an awesome, short series. I'm glad you and Mike discovered the awesomeness of it. :) And I wasn't as pissed off as other people seem to have been regarding the events of the last (2) episode(s); I thought it made perfect sense. It will make a bit more sense once you check out "King of Eden" later this year.