Moonlight Rhapsodia

[gogmagog]

Let's Positive Linking!
- A scan from a Michael Jackson shota doujinshi. Because even if he's been acquitted, nothing will stop the doujinshika! (Not worksafe.)
- Paris Hilton to "retire," presumably from her full career of slasher flicks and bimbo-out-of-water comedy series, in 2 years. I love how she talks about how "she doesn't enjoy going out anymore, it's such a pain." Uh, yeah, then you DON'T DO IT, you vapid twit.
- Adult Christianity, for your daily dose of sacre-licious goodness. (Possibly not worksafe, due to discussion of Christian BDSM and the like, and definitely not for the easily offended.) This is probably most well-known for the OC/Jesus "O come holy spurt" gay pr0n story (definitely not worksafe).
- I <3th Darth. Because we all know Darth Vader has iTunes installed inside his helmet so that he can listen to ABBA.

Also, the Suikosource forums have started discussing Rhapsodia: Suikoden Tactics. From my viewing of this, I've come to three conclusions:

1) Yuber fanboys are muy annoying.
2) A lot of people hate Suikoden IV, not for the inane ship movement system and less-than-stellar music, but because OMG THE CHARACTERS WERE LESS DEVELOPED THAN IN OTHER SUIKODENS!!1! ...Um, have these people played the original Suikoden? I mean, I love it, but characterization? Not its strong suit. Also, they hate it because OMG WHERES YUBER?, and are prepared to hate Rhapsodia for the same reason. (Did I mention Yuber fanboys are annoying?)
3) A lot of people also hate Snowe. Which is kind of understandable in a way, given that he is kind of an ass, but in the end I don't get it. Because really, even though he's such a whiny CYA failure, I don't understand why people hate him and love Jowy, given that his actions totally made more sense than Jowy's batshit insane actions during Suikoden II. x_x

Comments

[surlykitty.livejournal.com]

The only reason I liked Suikoden II was the cooking contest. That is all~ :D

[shinkun.livejournal.com]

I wish people would just admit they don't like Suikoden 3 (it gets yelled at a lot, too!) and 4 because they aren't sprite based. Most of the complaints for both of those games can be applied to Suikoden 1 and 2, as well.

See, sprite based characters with little development = OMGGREAT; polygon based characters with little development = OMGSUCKAGELAZINESS.

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

you think Dancing Queen is bad now, listen to when Wing sings it.;)

[firestorm717.livejournal.com]

Hi, I came across your journal after browsing around for Suikoden IV related entries and just thought that I'd comment. Michael Jackson shota...what will the Japanese think of next ;;; although from this man's experience teaching there, quite a lot. Michael Jackson juice could possibly be one of the most disturbing phrases ever.

I was just about to comment about the underdevelopment of characters in all the Suikoden series (although III IMO had the most), but I think a part of it for IV is that a lot of loose ends aren't quite tied up. There's small hints, but they all dead end when pursued. For example, Sigurd and Keen's relationship, Elenor's history with Cray, and so forth. Probably a setup for the Rhapsodia sequel.

Suikoden II is by far my favorite, if only for the cooking game. So many ways of awesome. I wish they'd brought that back in IV.

I thought Jowy was a more tragic figure, but I felt the most sympathy for Snowe's his bitterness and failure, which I found easier to relate to. And come on, you have to feel a little sorry for a guy with that kind of father. Hm...which reminds me, what does happen to his father after you chase him off?