Nostalgia Review for Suikoden 2

I revisit one of my most beloved Playstation games.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• 20091126005250

[eriquerique]

I've looked at 4 videos on YouTube of people who are calling themselves Suikoden fans yet none of them can even pronounce Suikoden correctly. Including this one.

[kawaiigirls5]

@eriquerique Well, luckily, you don't have to be able to pronounce the name to enjoy the game.

[eriquerique]

@kawaiigirls5 I doubt anyone who don't even realize that there's a letter "i" in "Suikoden" can fully enjoy the game. If one can't see something as in-your-face obvious as that letter "i" in the title of the game no less, one can potentially be considered partially illiterate and therefore cannot fully play an RPG game as the makers intended without assistance from someone who can actually read.

[kawaiigirls5]

@eriquerique Dude, you are entirely too angry about this subject. I'm sorry I was too busy playing one of the best PS1 RPGs to bother learning how to pronounce a word that doesn't even show up in the game. I also don't need your blessings to do any of this, so if you must be unnecessarily entitled, please do it somewhere else.

[kawaiigirls5]

@eriquerique Also, it's "I doubt anyone who DOESN'T realize", not DON'T. Just thought I'd point that out.

[eriquerique]

@kawaiigirls5 You're lecturing me about the complicated rules of English grammar? You who failed to notice that there's a letter "i" between "u" and "k" in "Suikoden". Hm. That's interesting. Probably you have a PhD in grammatical studies but flunked reading, huh. Or maybe you Americans pronounce words like "anguish" as "An-GOO-sh" or "acquire" as "ack-OO-re". A native English speaker criticizing an Indonesian guy's English grammar because grammar is sooo much simpler than reading. Ooh, score.

[kawaiigirls5]

@eriquerique Good job avoiding my previous statement about the word not even showing up in the game just to take the exact same shot about the "i" in Suikoden.

[Ingamevirus]

i play this game at least ones a year. :3

[bruce0917]

damn... i miss this game... i never got mazus though... -_-

[JSNkral]

@eriquerique I seriously hope you are merely trolling, otherwise you are truly a pathetic and worthless person. Really? He can't enjoy the game because he didn't pronounce something correctly? On that logic you might as well say a foreigner to the English language can not enjoy talking just because they mispronounce certain words.

[ProblematicIdea]

@eriquerique

Furthermore, name me a single person who has perfect grammar, spelling, and syntax. Only a person who can meet such standards, as you would put it, can fully enjoy this game.

Notice how you also fail to meet these standards, as pointed out by Kawaiigirls. Does that also mean you can't fully appreciate this game in all it's creative glory? Certainly not.

[ProblematicIdea]

@eriquerique

Your arguments are full of logical fallacies.

Let's tear apart your argument, and see how your reasoning ultimately fails in the face of logic.

Partially illiterate because of a mispronunciation.

P1: A person must be fully literate to enjoy Suikoden 2.

P2: Person A is not fully literate.

Conclusion: Person A can not enjoy Suikoden 2.

Reason Fail: A single account of a mispronunciation of a word is not evidence that Person A can not read and enjoy the game.

[ProblematicIdea]

Suikoden 2 is the best JRPG game I've ever played, and the second best game I've ever played.

[P0PTArrtSxD]

@eriquerique lol

[asaka616]

Suikoden is not even an English word, so who gives a fuck if a native English speaker cannot pronounce it? Certainly not me and I speak both English and Japanese.

And if people are going to be fucking know-it-alls about the game and criticize fellow fans, they'd know to call it Gensosuikoden which is its real name. Luckily people who aren't fucktards wouldn't give a shit if they did or didn't. And those that do? They can go fuck themselves.

[eriquerique]

@Tochir0 Nope. Didn't even scrape on the subject of Japanese pronunciation. I was talking about ENGLISH pronunciation. Even I'm not THAT much of a pronunciation Nazi to expect a non-Japanese to pronounce a Japanese word correctly.

[Tochir0]

@eriquerique I've been studying Japanese for 8 years and don't give a flying fuck if someone can pronounce the name of a game properly and neither should you. Japanese folks flub English words on a daily basis. Life goes on, get over it.