It was another brief Suikoden V session last night, as I headed off for the Twilight Forest, and there I finally got the last stupid DoReMi elf for Cornelio, the orchestra leader. They don’t count as Stars of Destiny, so getting them is completely optional, but getting them all allows you to go to Cornelio and ask for any part of the game’s soundtrack to be played.

I then bought a whole bunch of new equipment for my primary party members (myself, Miakis, Belcoot, Zerase, Viki, and Kyle right now) and headed off for The Big Hole again. There’s a character I can recruit there, a powerful mage, but…I’m not going to. There’s one Star of Destiny that’s shared between two people, so if I get her, I can’t get someone else later on, and I think I’ll wait and get that other person instead. That other person isn’t even usable in combat, but I’ve got plenty of mages already and it should be more satisfying from a story perspective.

Instead I was primarily heading there to do a bit of grinding, as it’s supposed to be a good leveling spot. I think I was already too high level though, and wasn’t getting much benefit out of it, so I didn’t stay too long and I’ll just head straight to the ruins next time.