Sorry about that dmx... I was a bit fuzzy-headed and mis-counted the days, and so did 2/2 by mistake. I realized it was the wrong day only after I had finished it, and went ahead and posted it in the hopes that you hadn't started to work on it. I'm so sorry! To make up for it, I'll do tomorrow's entry as well, OK? (I'm still nibbling away at the older ones I missed too, so there may be a lot of retro postings in a week or so...)

As for O-parts as Holy Grail, I was just trying to give some sort of sense of a rare artifact without having to make any footnotes or anything . Sometimes (sometimes?) I can be kinda lazy...

Aaand - as for the faucet thing - it seems he was having trouble getting the faucet to convert from a bath to a shower. He was trying to turn the handle, but finally realized that he was supposed to pull it instead. I've had the same problem with unfamilar bathtub faucets, I'm embarrassed to admit!

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Not as lazy as me. I've been using some pretty bad grammar, and I'm too lazy to proofread.

2/4 King Blog wrote:

In one of the trailers, all six members attacked a single enemy at once. I thought it was a unite attack, but it might be one of these formation techniques.

The one with all members charging the Sun King looking enemy is probably one of those 'formation techniques' too.

Most likely, depending on which characters are in your present party and which formation you choose, the unites will be different. Some of them may work with any formation, however.

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I have been thinking about the crown for a long time now and after reading the translation I got more worried about possible influence the crown might have on this game. The crown floats so it might be the True Sun Rune power but wait it is a treasure passed down from generation so the True Sun Rune might be out of question here. Could it be that the crown has its own power?

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I thought the Crown WAS the Sun Rune.

I don't like calling Suikoden wildlife "it." It feels like I'm disrespecting them. So I asked on King Blog whether Flail is male or female. Hopefully, he answers in a comments to comments.

EDIT: Boy, my comment's still not up. King Blog is soooooooo slow. I think he'll never see it at this point.
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It's nice to translate an entry that's completely about gameplay and contains little nonsense rambling for once.

I found it interesting that they call the war system "Real-Time Simulation" in the blog. I believe in English, we call games like Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires "Real-Time Strategy."
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Is anyone familiar with the female breast? How does one determine whether a woman is a mother or not from the breasts?

This would mean that there will be a new game plus feature, right? That's what I'm gathering, at least.

I tried to post four times but non of them got posted. I even tried to send them an email but with no avail.


You are right I remember that it was mentioned before. Just like the Japanese releases of III and IV. I do not think the US release of III has a reply option.

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Hppefully you can keep your armor or weapon upgrades in the new game +. That was the one thing missing from Suikoden IV.

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-Leknaat, Suikoden IV

Amen to that! When I did the previous entry about the battle formations, it really was a relief. Straightforward *and* relevant! Joy!

It is the GM here
Konami is truely concerned about this release of the series.


The game is looking better and better with each piece of information released. Could it be that if your army is severely injured you might not be able to move it in 2 or 3 weeks. Otherwise, Lucretia might advice you to free another city the next morning.

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King isn't refering to the breasts of the Queen or her sister despite the fact that he says he is talking about their breasts.

He's refering to the way they are dressed. The Queen, although having a character design almost certainly designed for fanservice, is dressed modestly. When King says, "The Queen has the breasts of a mother," King means that her clothes are entirely covering her breasts. Sialeeds has a great deal of cleavage in her character design. Hence the Queen having breasts like a mother and her sister having breasts like a single women. It's more or less based on the idea that someone would dress more modestly after they are married than before they are married.

The phrase itself is oddly written so I am assuming this particular variant might be something of a minor Japanese euphemism.


The improved war simulation seems like it is an mix of the rock, paper, scissors wars of Suikoden and the character based Suikoden III wars. I am looking forward to how it plays out. Although I wonder how much a battle could hurt the Prince's war efforts.

There has been a lot said about the multiple paths you can take within Suikoden V but usually having different paths for the character to take doesn't materialize the way we are told. It would be great if Suikoden V wasn't as linear as the usual RPG.

It all sounds so complex, but I like it. I can't wait to hear more about the war battles and the "several paths" you can take in the game. I wonder, though, if it's just paths like in Suikoden II, where you can choose one character or the other, or like when you choose to run away with Nanami or not. I hope it's something like that, because I always choose the thing I didn't choose in the first game when I play it a second time around. It adds more action to the game, rather than just going through the preset storyline.

Also, hopefully there's more side quests. I don't think I've heard anything about those yet.

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"And as for the the end of the World, you need not worry. No one should worry about such a thing right now..."
-Leknaat, Suikoden IV

According to King there are some side quests in Suikoden V.

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"The real issue is not TALENT as an independent element, but talent in relationship to WILL, DESIRE, AND PERSISTENCE. Talent without these things VANISHES and even modest talent with those characteristics GROWS..." -Milton Glaser