I whipped up a reader review for this month's contest, but obviously no spoilers, so I'll put them in this thread instead.
First thing probably is why Luc? It seems like they just put him in there as an "Oh shit!" revelvation, but it ended up making no sense, since he was given no motivation for his actions. Even a line like "After a left Leknaat...fought in two wars...I came to realize...blah blah blah" would've been better than nothing. Even worse, he falls into typical RPG villain streotype (destroy power controlling humans). Bleh.
Was Jimba supposed to be Chris' father? I picked Hugo as the successor so maybe I didn't get the full story, but that connection was also totally unnecessary and poorly played out.
Also kinda lame was the ending. It seemed from the character profiles at the end that there was still conflict afterwards between Grasslands, Zexen, and Harmonia. I guess they learned nothing from their journey together and went back to fighting afterwards. Also dissappointing. Or maybe Konami's trying to show the pointlessness of war. Nah.
You'll understand Luc's actions a lot more if you have 104 stars of destiny (only two should be dead, Jimba and sacrificed chick) before completing the game. After all the credits, you'll get to see the events of the game from Luc and the gang's perspective.
I've never played Suikoden II, but at some point it's revealed that Leknaat stole him, as a child, away from Hikusaak, the leader of Holy Harmonia. Luc was, in actuality, a clone of Hikusaak -- one of many. Hikusaak had these clones developed from himself, since very few people are "chosen" to weild true runes, and Hikusaak was one of these few. Sasarai was another such clone, although he wasn't aware of this until Luc told him in-game.
But not all the clones were humans...some were merely balls of living organisms used to store the true runes. Those were what Sarah and Luc put the True Runes in after taking them from Hugo and the gang.
Luc, of course was disgusted that he wasn't even his own person...he was just a clone of Hikusaak, he was disgusted that other versions of himself were used merely as tools to contain the True Runes. Luc hated what he was so much, he didn't care whether he existed or not or whether his soul existed or not(it seemed he wasn't even sure if a clone such as himself even had a soul).
Luc hated Sasarai even more than himself, though, since Sasarai was so ignorant of what he was, and later, despite knowing, he still acted against Luc. But, as Luc says, Sasarai is also the only person he can empathize with being a clone as well.
But his biology wasn't the only thing driving Luc to desperate measures. He was either born with the True Wind Rune, or it was implanted in him shortly after he was born (which is more likely). With the Wind Rune inside of him, he felt he was never really living, much like Geddoe felt while he carried the True Lightning Rune. Worse, Luc had to deal with the "memory" of the rune, which showed a future where dharma had defeated chaos..but humans did not survive.
Therefore, Luc's plan was three-fold.
1. Take the runes away from Holy Harmonia and Hikusaak
2. Destroy his own body and soul, which he despised
and most importantly
3. Destroy the True Wind Rune, upset the balance of the Runes, and restore the fate of humanity to it's own hands. Luc saw humans as the puppets of the Runes, and he was determined to cut the strings.
Yes, Jimba was Chris' father, Wyatt. The resolution to it was poorly played out when you're Geddoe or Hugo, at least, but you get to see the scene again from Luc's perspective, and it makes it a bit better.
But by that point in the game, the scene had lost the impact it might have had if you had known the entire story.
EDIT: Clarified that Hikusaak was a True Rune Weilder, which is why he bothered to clone himself.
So that's what the final scenario is for getting all 108 stars? Sweet...I'm go get started on it again now...I missed the Knights of Loa the first time around.
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