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I recently started playing this one, and so far the game is good. All the characters showing up randomly look pretty cool.

I'd suggest the recruitment guides on suikosource, which are great and spoiler free. Otherwise gamefaqs.

The detective is pretty useful if you're patient enough.

That's what I always found weird was that Sindar is always spelled differently. Maybe that reflects where they were in the world.

I just found out the power of Juan... he is unbelievably awesome.

JUAN SUCKS.

NICOLAS FOREVER.

No, the thing for me about Juan is that gawful"boss battle" against that fricking boar thing at Mt. Hei... To... or some s**t like that. So of course, because I'm awesome at strategy, I put Juan in the front of his little buddy-group (dumb idea, Konami). You know, so he has a higher chance of taking a hit and waking up, and then actually do something useful.

Well of course I also have Thomas and Cecile form their own little buddy group, and I put Cecile in front, because she can actually take a hit. So of course I start the battle and I'm all like: "Yeah, I'm gonna beat the s**t out of this thing!" Because, you know, I leveled Piccolo up to level 9 or something, which is probably the highest level he'll ever reach. And so I put my little commands in and stuff, you know, the usual for boss battles: use some runes, use a co-op attack, attack... and all that jazz. So of course the boar goes first, and runs straight up to Cecile and smacks her in the boobs.

So I take it like a man and say: "It's cool..." Cecile's barely at half-health after one point, which is good, because if she were Thomas, she'd be dead. So I put in the same commands, and hope the boar targets Juan again so he can start doing some actual damage.

Of course on the next turn. The Boar targets Cecile. Again. SO i'm sitting here like: "WTF, target Juan, you dumb animal, so I can kill you!" Of course Juan is still sitting there like the useless little ******** he is, and I'm making Cecile inhale her little lunch box patties, or whatever the ******** she carries with her, and the boar is still smacking Cecile, and I'm not killing this boss!

So of course I get really frustrated. But since I'm awesome, I eventually kill the damn animal. Juan never woke up not once. I mean, damn, you'd think a wild animal would have enough sense to go for the easy target... At least Cecile can DODGE... unlike Juan. Even though I won the battle and moved on to the next boring plot-line, I was still a little upset. Like, Juan doesn't have to be berserk to be good... If he were awake all the time, he'd be great. But he's not. So I said... screw you, Juan. Screw you.

And then I could always go on my long tirade about: "let the little ******** defend for himself" rant, but if I did that, that would make Juan innocent. But still, if I learned some girl with my name disappeared on some mountain, I sure as hell wouldn't go chasing after her.

...That was quite the rant there...