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[cuddlefish]

So I'm almost finished playing Summon Night 4, but I have to beat the last boss and it's TOO HARD WAHHHH. And I'm frustrated, so here we have complaints various and sundry.

-The main character is 15 and he or she runs an inn? And he or she seems to think it's perfectly reasonable that Lisher and Lucian barge in to be fed every morning, while the Bronx father is an asshole. Hahaha. No. Also, there's nothing wrong with calling people you're not related to oniichan and oneechan if you really like them, but if you're young enough to be calling them that, you're young enough to get them to support you. ._. Maybe not Glad, he probably doesn't have a house of his own, but what about Mint?

-Disappointingly enough, when the main character does start acting 15, it's the most annoying thing in the world.

-At least I agreed with most of what they said in Summon Night 3. At least the heartfelt speeches weren't so crushingly tiresome and unoriginal. Sometimes I feel like I'm on the side with the people who say all the most awful things. Several conversations made me feel helpless frustration that Gian was not telling his side of the story as well as he could, and the stupid main character was WINNING THE ARGUMENTS.

-They don't even explain why revenge is bad, the main character just knows automatically? A whole extra chapter for Sector and I don't even feel that much for him? That should tell you something. This might be the biggest fault in the storyline.

-I DON'T NEED TO HEAR FROM GECK AND RENDLER ANYMORE, FOR GOD'S SAKE GO AWAY SO I CAN KILL THE LAST BOSS.

-Admittedly villains shouldn't be killing people, but they also shouldn't have to fling themselves at people who openly hate them just because they are likely to be the targets of prejudice. It is not the victim's fault if he or she was abused for a decade or so and don't feel very nice about it.

-Last boss takes forever to die and there are tons and tons of spell animations that you can't skip there. It's so decent of them to let us all skip the normal summon animations---how could they fall down on this, of all things?!

-Japanese reviews overall complain of a "kiddy" feel to this game. Yes, I'd agree with that.


Good things:

Every single character is a shining golden god. Except for Granbald. I know I love bunnies, but putting bunny ears on something that annoying has only sullied the bunny ears. Stupid stupid stupid. This is how I feel about Summon Night characters: I want to watch them and love them all, unknown. I want to melt away into the world and be the bright leaves, ground, air, water, food, clothing. I want to be be Lindbaum, hug every single one of these characters with my very existence. Except for Granbald.

Also, Koyasu Takehito can be heard singing horribly in this game. LAFFS GALORE.

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Comments

[narugami.livejournal.com]

Yay Robin posted so I can spam at you about SN~~~!!

I definitely agree with you on the lovableness of Summon Night characters! I can never get through one without falling in love with all of them and wishing they had more character development. Example: Worel in SNexthesis, I wanted to punch him at first for his passive-aggressive behaviour and by the end I was just so fond of him. Awwww.

....BTW I played Exthesis this week, and good grief it was such a self-help manual (though I loved it to pieces and F-P should definitely make ARPGs, I can get through to the character development without breaking my head over the battles so much). I mostly agreed with what they were saying, though, and the end left out some hope for the villains too, which was good. I felt sorrier for the final boss this time than I usually do. ^^; Isn't there a saying that writers should give the best lines to the villains?

Maybe the main character in 4 is like Ripre in SN1? She can't be much older than 16 and runs an orphanage and cooks and cleans and takes care of 4 kids and several adults (that grows into a completely ridiculous crowd by the end). I don't think they have much in the way of social services in Lindbaum (SN4 may be kiddy, but some of the characters in the other games, especially the wandering summons, have pretty awful lives) Actually SN1 is kind of worse in that regard that 2&3 because Saijent is a pretty terrible city...

How's the difficulty in SN4? I heard it was really hard, and I'm a crap SRPG player to start with XD;

OH and how are Ruvaid and Ioth, by the way? Are they awesome and gay? And Alba? GOD Alba was so cute in SN1, and now he's all grown up and a knight :) It's going to be so interesting for you to play SN1&2 after this XD

...What can I say, I'm really curious about the cameos in SN4~~~ Give me news of my old friends, please! *shot*

PS: Yes, robot with bunny ears? I don't get the point either...