Suzaku Ibun: The Harbor, Pt. 3 (Or, "Brains, Brawn, and Bros")

Ni-hao, and who's ready for some battle sequences?! Chiriko goes Full Badass, Misaki puts Nakago in his place, and two very different outcomes await our heroes. It's the Suzaku/Seiryuu throwdown you've been waiting for! Let's get ready to rumble.

Suzaku Ibun: The Harbor, Pt. 2 (Or, "Uncle!")

Hey friends,

I was really hoping to get the entire Rumble at the Docks done in one post, but there are three major "timelines" here and, between work and life and other blog posts, I just didn't have time to get it all cleaned up in a week. So for today, I'm just going to show you what happens if you give the Shinzaho to Misaki. Hopefully next week I'll be able to post both major versions of the actual fight, and we'll be all ready to officially end Part Two and move into the last (and much shorter) Part Three. Huzzah for forward momentum!

Suzaku Ibun: The Harbor, Pt. 1 (Or, "Sparrin' at the Dock of the Bay")

Ni-hao and I'm back from my trip with some more Ibun for y'all! It's a fairly small slice since I'm also working on proofreading a new Chihayafuru chapter for RolyBear (get excited!), but it's also accompanied by some walkthrough notes, so that should pad the post a bit, too. And so:

Walkthrough Notes!

First, once you find the second Shinzaho (whether it's the Byakko or Genbu one), the game automatically sends you away from the Hokkan/Sairou world maps on on to the next arc. So before you enter either Mount Black or the Daijiin, make sure you've visited all the other places you wanted to visit.

Second, the game will send you to a different point in the game depending on how your Shinzaho-gathering adventures went:

• If you have both Shinzaho, you go to Part 3: Suzaku Summoning Arc.
• If you have neither Shinzaho (i.e., Ashitara and Misaki stole them both from you), then you go to Part 3: Seiryuu Summoning Arc.
• If you have one Shinzaho but not the other, then you go to the last bit of Part 2, which I'm calling The Harbor Arc. This is the Arc I'll be translating for the next couple weeks.

Third (and somewhat obnoxiously), I'm not sure if the Harbor Arc is Part, 2 Chapter 3 or Part 2, Chapter 4. It popped up differently in my two run-throughs, so...  *sweat* Not sure what that's all about. I've decided to call it "Chapter 4," since it makes the most sense to me to divide Part 2 up into four pieces (Shipwreck, Hokkan, Sairou, and Harbor).

And, fourth and finally, there are a lot of variations to this arc depending on who's still alive at this point (Amiboshi, Nuriko, Chiriko, Tomo). I'll do my best to cover as many versions as possible, but there are a lot of combinations that may or may not result in dialogue differences, so if you notice a line when you're playing that is NOT in my script, please let me know.

And now that we've gotten all that out of the way, let's get into it!