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gogmagogOw, my neck hurts.
(Y'know, I really like the opening song. It's very different from that of the earlier Suikodens - it's much more Spanish and French-influenced than the Middle Eastern-influenced I, II and III - but still quite good and catchy. And the opening movie is really nice, though it irks me that I can see Ted but can't get him for hours and hours yet. Give me my Soul Eater, dammit!)
As you may remember, we left Hot Pants and his crew of merry men on a deserted island. While there, they befriend a mermaid and defeat a giant crab, and finally manage to repair their boat. But after running into another Random Sea Monster who, of all things, steals their oars, they find themselves drifting aimlessly (again). They're picked up by a ship from the Kingdom of Obel, captained by the Princess Flare. She and her boy-bitch, Desmond, bring Hot Pants and crew back to Obel to meet her father the king. Said king, of course, wears a vest, an animal-tooth necklace and overly-tight jean cutoffs...he and Hot Pants should get along fine, if you know what I mean. >D
Anyway, he tells Hot Pants that the Rune of EBIL was once kept in the ruins near Obel, until about fifteen years ago. He encourages them to stop by the ruins and find out more. But first, he gives Hot Pants a headquarters (yay!) so that he can begin recruitinga HAWT MAN HAREM and maybe some women too the 108 Stars of Destiny. Hot Pants, of course, promptly goes out and recruits a narcoleptic berserker cowboy to join his party. (Go figure.)
After a little leveling-up and potch-earning, Hot Pants and crew are ready to tackle the ruins. There they meet a young boy named Rakgi (eerily reminiscent of Aki Shimizu's Qwan) who offers to be their guide. After battling my way through a maze dungeon which seemed to take forever and a day to get through, Hot Pants finally reaches the inner sanctum and meets Rakgi's mother Rikie. It turns out that Rikie's husband was an earlier bearer of the Rune of EBIL and, given the way its bearers crumble into ash when they pass on the rune, is most likely dust in the wind. Rikie and Rakgi join the party (because the thing I need most in the world is yet more useless characters!) and back at HQ Hot Pants gets a new assignment from the king: to find the inventor Oleg. He lives on Nay Island, which is the origin of the creepy little cat people in Suikoden IV. (Of course the only one that I've recruited, Chiepoo, is extremely annoying and I use him as little as possible.) Before leaving for Nay, though, he has to save the mermaid's family from evil merchants and then dodge a retarded pirate, Dario, who thinks he's the one attacking the mermaid. However, the pirate captain Kika shows up, with an Ambiguously Gay Pirate Duo at her back (which I suppose is a nice change from the Ambiguously Gay Knight Duos in the earlier Suikodens) and slaps some sense into Dario, leaving Hot Pants free to sail on to Nay.
While all this has been happening, of course, the enemy country to Gaien has been plotting furiously. It turns out that Ramada and his gang (the folks Hot Pants and Snowe were escorting on their first mission that was such a miserable failure) are working for the bad guys. Of course, the bad guys want the Rune of Punishment. And, also of course, who should show up to sell his country and his old friend down the river but good ol' Snowe? Anyway, they've developed a powerful beam weapon, which they test on one of their own islands - Iluya. A few survivors get washed up on the shore of Nay, to the surprise of the inhabitants, and Hot Pants heads back to HQ in order to report on the new weapon.
Tomorrow I'm hoping to play some more Suikoden IV as well as watching some of my new anime (Marmalade Boy, GetBackers and possibly Samurai Champloo and Gilgamesh as well).
...Dammit, my anime backlog is really building up. Thank God this upcoming week is Spring Break. :D
(Y'know, I really like the opening song. It's very different from that of the earlier Suikodens - it's much more Spanish and French-influenced than the Middle Eastern-influenced I, II and III - but still quite good and catchy. And the opening movie is really nice, though it irks me that I can see Ted but can't get him for hours and hours yet. Give me my Soul Eater, dammit!)
As you may remember, we left Hot Pants and his crew of merry men on a deserted island. While there, they befriend a mermaid and defeat a giant crab, and finally manage to repair their boat. But after running into another Random Sea Monster who, of all things, steals their oars, they find themselves drifting aimlessly (again). They're picked up by a ship from the Kingdom of Obel, captained by the Princess Flare. She and her boy-bitch, Desmond, bring Hot Pants and crew back to Obel to meet her father the king. Said king, of course, wears a vest, an animal-tooth necklace and overly-tight jean cutoffs...he and Hot Pants should get along fine, if you know what I mean. >D
Anyway, he tells Hot Pants that the Rune of EBIL was once kept in the ruins near Obel, until about fifteen years ago. He encourages them to stop by the ruins and find out more. But first, he gives Hot Pants a headquarters (yay!) so that he can begin recruiting
After a little leveling-up and potch-earning, Hot Pants and crew are ready to tackle the ruins. There they meet a young boy named Rakgi (eerily reminiscent of Aki Shimizu's Qwan) who offers to be their guide. After battling my way through a maze dungeon which seemed to take forever and a day to get through, Hot Pants finally reaches the inner sanctum and meets Rakgi's mother Rikie. It turns out that Rikie's husband was an earlier bearer of the Rune of EBIL and, given the way its bearers crumble into ash when they pass on the rune, is most likely dust in the wind. Rikie and Rakgi join the party (because the thing I need most in the world is yet more useless characters!) and back at HQ Hot Pants gets a new assignment from the king: to find the inventor Oleg. He lives on Nay Island, which is the origin of the creepy little cat people in Suikoden IV. (Of course the only one that I've recruited, Chiepoo, is extremely annoying and I use him as little as possible.) Before leaving for Nay, though, he has to save the mermaid's family from evil merchants and then dodge a retarded pirate, Dario, who thinks he's the one attacking the mermaid. However, the pirate captain Kika shows up, with an Ambiguously Gay Pirate Duo at her back (which I suppose is a nice change from the Ambiguously Gay Knight Duos in the earlier Suikodens) and slaps some sense into Dario, leaving Hot Pants free to sail on to Nay.
While all this has been happening, of course, the enemy country to Gaien has been plotting furiously. It turns out that Ramada and his gang (the folks Hot Pants and Snowe were escorting on their first mission that was such a miserable failure) are working for the bad guys. Of course, the bad guys want the Rune of Punishment. And, also of course, who should show up to sell his country and his old friend down the river but good ol' Snowe? Anyway, they've developed a powerful beam weapon, which they test on one of their own islands - Iluya. A few survivors get washed up on the shore of Nay, to the surprise of the inhabitants, and Hot Pants heads back to HQ in order to report on the new weapon.
Tomorrow I'm hoping to play some more Suikoden IV as well as watching some of my new anime (Marmalade Boy, GetBackers and possibly Samurai Champloo and Gilgamesh as well).
...Dammit, my anime backlog is really building up. Thank God this upcoming week is Spring Break. :D
