Oppenheimer wrote:Okay, you want a side plot that's unresolved?
Watari is on the run. He has a mysterious background and a mysterious group, etc. We haven't discovered the end to his story . . . but no one talks about him and he got a few story sequences. However, Pesmerga is talked about incessently.
I seriously think the draw to Pessy is the black armour. He looks "cool" so people obsess about him. There's no more deep reason than that.
I'm just sick and tired of hearing about how interesting a guy is who gets a grand total of two lines over the course of two games, and hasn't been heard from for 3 games.
We should be encouraging Konami when they make well developed characters, with plot and feeling and depth. To give them so much praise for a palate swap of a character that didn't do anything interesting until Suikoden III? Is just asking them to be lazy. Anyway, I digress.
In all fairness, it's no more befitting of a mod to bash opinions than it is for any average Joe to do the same.
I'm really good at dismissing appearance for strength and stats. Pesmerga was an incredibly strong character, like I've already stated, and I tend to get attached to those. I haven't brought up others for a few reasons. The discussion seems to have been centered around Pesmerga and a handful of support characters. Plus, Pesmerga has been around since the beginning, and what piqued our interest the most is that Yuber appeared without Pesmerga for the first time in Suikoden 3, now we haven't heard anything of either of them since.
Since you want to know other characters, let's venture into some.
Someone mentioned Millie. She's nice, with a strange pet, but you know, seeing all of the monsters you fight in random battles, Bonaparte doesn't strike me as something very strange.
I'll say Emily from Suikoden 3. An insanely strong character that can multihit like crazy...and she's only a kid. Anything seem strange about that? Nothing flashy about her except her stats.
How about Duke and his crew from Suikoden 3. Great group, but all we know about them is that they competed with Geddoe's group.
Crowley and Mazus have come up, and rightly so. They fought in a battle that devastated a large amount of land before they were even born. They can obviously time travel, which is big. They warrant attention.
Howling Voice Guild. We've encountered three gunners, Clive, Elza, and Cathari, excluding Nash, because he's sort of a different story. We could stand to see more about how the HVG works.
Americans would appreciate more Sierra Mikain. She's only appeared in one game over here, and the fact that she was so powerful and played a large part in the game really warrants a comeback.
Bob from Suikoden 2 was a mysterious and unique character. So far, he's the only werewolf in the Suikoden world. Where did he come from? How did he become what he is? The only other character close to him is Ernst from Suikoden V.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, but opinions are opinions. It just seems like people are more interested in finding out about Pesmerga first, then everything else falls afterwards.
There's nothing wrong with that.