Niahak's Place

I finished up Suikoden 3 late last night.  I was thinking that this time around it wouldn’t be as good but something about that game always seems to make it come together at the end.  The extra chapters you get for recruiting all 108 stars make the story that much deeper, and I’m planning to play through them all the way (not like it’ll take that long).

Skipping Suikoden 4.  I tried replaying it several months ago and was only disappointed.  I may try Suikoden Tactics eventually, but for now I’m planning on Suikoden V, then… I don’t know.  I had an idea but lost it.  Ah well, I’ll remember eventually.

I also received Puzzle Quest DS in the mail today.  From my playing so far, it’s essentially the PC version, but they cut down on space and animation quality.  It’s not as luxurious as the PC version, and doesn’t sound quite as nice, but it’s the same gameplay.  I’ll probably be addicted to it for a while.  It’ll be nice to have a DS game that I can play for hours on end.  Phoenix Wright is great, but I don’t see much replay value, same with Trauma Center (cripplingly hard).  Mario Kart DS cramps my hands to play for more than an hour, Rocket Slime becomes repetitive, and Brain Training is… well… Brain Training.  Puzzle Quest should give me that long-term enjoyment I usually only get out of a console.

Also, James has been restored at SoSZ.  Apparently the entire thing was unplanned on his part; one of the other admins banned him on the Ides of March as a joke, then they started the Roman Republic parody.  It was quite enjoyable.