![]() Hodor and his best friend Jowy Atreides each end up acquiring one half of the Rune of the Beginning, both destined to become leaders. Suikoden II‘s protagonist, who I named Hodor, goes from being a member of a youth brigade in the Highland Kingdom to being the leader of its opposition. Sure, there’s still a good amount of silliness to balance out the grim, but all in all, this is a serious adventure in the same vein as current mega-RPGs like Dragon Age: Inquisition and Diablo III, with conflicting opinions and difficult choices all around. This is a game about darkness and dark things, like betrayal, wavering confidence, murder, sacrifice, and rape. Hot off the heels of replaying Suikoden, I found my revisit to Suikoden II even more enjoyable, as well as at least seventy-five percent less goofy. The last time was definitely back in the 1990s. That said, after a logged forty-nine hours and change and with my main party of characters all just under level 60, I can safely say that I have played Suikoden II. ![]() Yeah, the one with the floating garden school and Junction/Draw system. ![]() Either is a fantastic price for Konami’s sparkly, well-kept gem, one that many might not have gotten to play due to its rareness, as well as it being out-shadowed during its release by Final Fantasy VIII. I’ve read two different reported prices so far: $10.00 and $6.99. Instead of dropping over $100, you can now download the epic JRPG for a sliver of that. Take that, outrageously high eBay prices. I scored “Alita: Battle Angel” a warring 5 out of 10.Here’s something rather amusing: I was playing Suikoden II as it was announced over the weekend at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event that it was finally, at long last, coming to North America via the PlayStation Network. But its effort at creating lasting characters sinks as the screen fades to black “Alita: Battle Angel” is flashy and bright with battle after battle taking place on the big screen. The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity and violence. Again it adds some excitement but why is it there? I never got the point of why Alita had to compete in this destruction derby. Then right in the middle of everything somebody had a flashback to the old James Caan movie “Rollerball” and decided to take a sequence from it and stick it into the movie. Still their roles are so negligible they probably didn’t have to turn up on set for more than a few days maximum. Just to make sure the audience did get some high grade star power acting the makers of the film relied on Waltz along with Jennifer Connelly and Mahershala Ali. Salazar’s acting and Johnson’s was bland meets bland. I never really felt anything for the character and her supposed love story with Hugo did not have the sparks necessary to bring the audience into their relationship. She is a super warrior and she displays this from time to time, but as a character she was not anything special. The film is basically Alita’s story, and for me it was just not very exciting. He also recognizes the amazing strength and stamina Alita possesses. He is a good guy but he encourages Alita to break some of the rules Dr. It is here she meets Hugo (Keean Johnson). This is life in the future where it is not constantly dark and rainy (a la “Blade Runner” and a million other dystopian movies). On the streets surrounding the doctors office are many shops and inhabitants. Alita has eyes like the kids in those Keane paintings and no knowledge of her prior life, but in moments of stress she does get some flashbacks. When it awakes it is a young girl cyborg who the good doctor names Alita (Rosa Salazar). He takes it home to his laboratory and attaches a body to it. The movie starts with a doctor (Christoph Waltz) finding a cyborg head and shoulders in a junk heap. But put it all together, shake it up, andall that falls out is an average action movie. It doesn’t get much higher calibre than that. ![]() To add class to the project it is written by James Cameron and directed by Robert Rodriguez. This feature has a young woman as the heroine and a world of amazing special effects for her to inhabit. That is why here in the winter of our discontent they haver foisted “Alita: Battle Angel” upon us. Hollywood seems to think they have to release a hero fantasy film at least once a month. ![]()
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