Lym And Her Games

Soooo, Suikoden IV. I’ve played the game before and finished replaying it yesterday, and this time, I took several pages worth of random notes to let them lose on the doubtlessly Very Interested Internet. While I have to agree that Suiko4 is not exactly the strongest entry in the series, it’s still a good game and, if you ask me, a much better game than some people give it credit for. I have my issues with it (mainly the execution of some plot points), but there’s a lot of info to be found (though it’s unfortunately easy to miss), and you know I’m a little bit detail obsessed.
A fair word of warning: I like Snowe. And I like the game in general. Discussion is fine, but if you’re just here to bash either, you might want to leave. That said, here’s part one of my Suiko4 game ramblings: Random observations, eye-rolling over some less-than-stellar elements and plenty of reason for Why I Like This Game (And Snowe).

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Only two locations this time, but there’s a lot going on there and I can’t seem to shut up about it. This time, there’ll also be spoilers for further events, namely the identity of the two readheads. (There are a couple of things I wanted to mention that wouldn’t make sense otherwise, so… You’ve been warned.)

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So, what game should I use for my first real post? Let’s go with Tales of the Abyss. I have played a couple of Tales games – Phantasia, Legendia, Eternia and Symphonia – but I have yet to finish one of them. I’ve played Abyss before but stopped at a certain point (second visit to Engeve) and I’m currently making my way through the game again, taking notes of everything I find peculiar, funny or otherwise noteworthy. I’ll keep spoilers for later parts to an absolute minimum, so you just have to worry about spoilers for the titles of each section.

(This entry should also give you a pretty good idea of what my “babblings” look like. Sometimes they will be more detailed than this, sometimes they will be shorter when I don’t have a lot to say.)

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Post Overview

• Metal Gear Solid (I) – Psycho Mantis & Sniper Wolf
• Metal Gear Solid 2 (II, follows “first impressions”) – meeting Fortune and Vamp
• Metal Gear Solid 2 (III) – from fighting Fortune to meeting the president
• Metal Gear Solid 2 (IV) – From Emma to the end, includes final thoughts
• Metal Gear Solid 3 (I) – Virtuous Mission & the very beginning of Operation Snake Eater
• Metal Gear Solid 3 (II) – First meeting with Eva to the mountain top
• Metal Gear Solid 3 (III) – Mountain top to the torture scene
• Metal Gear Solid 3 (IV) – Escape from Groznyj Grad to the end, includes final thoughts
• Metal Gear Solid 4 (I) – Act 1: Of eggs, planes and exposition. And maybe kittens.
• Metal Gear Solid 4 (II) – Act 1.5: aka Things I Forgot To Mention Last Time
• Infinite Undiscovery – Touching each other; the campfire scene
• Suikoden IV (I) Razril – Deserted Island
• Suikoden IV (II) Obel – Getting your headquarters
• Tales of the Abyss (I) Baticul 1 – Chesedonia 1
• Tales of the Abyss (II) Baticul 2 – Abandoned Factory

• Chrono Trigger (DS)
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Etrian Odyssey
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Suikoden Tierkreis

• Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior)
• Final Fantasy II
• Metal Gear Solid
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulation
• Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure
• My (Finished) Games Of 2008

• Fake Master Runs (at the Backloggery)

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Hello World!

If you’re here now, you probably either followed my link on backloggery.com or I’ve pointed you here; if that isn’t the case, I’ll spend the next two minutes staring at the screen in surprise at being found. No matter why you’re here, let me say “Welcome to my little gaming blog!”

There will most likely be three different kinds of entries: The usual babbling, the most common one, where I’ll just talk about the games I’m currently playing, most likely using completely illegible notes I took while playing. Reviews, written after I’ve finished a game (though I’m not terribly likely to review every finished game; as you will see, I’m lazy) and general gaming thoughts, consisting of… well, whatever comes to mind. I could tell that anecdote about me, the Games Convention at Leipzig and Hideo Kojima’s autograph again… or maybe not.