I was thinking of Chrono Cross since I just finished playing Chrono Trigger for like the 20th time.  I played Chrono Cross when I was 12, and again when I was 19 or something like that.  Of course I used the wiki then, to understand it because the story is convoluted and I'm stupid.  And now I'm reading about it again and it makes more sense, and I'm going to replay it.  But that got me thinking of Xenogears, which is also a JRPG that I have, but never finished... and I heard that story is convoluting as well.  The best JRPG stories are all convoluted...

But I thought about it again... and read about it.. and both stories are ultimately about love, like romantic love.  Love across parallel worlds, because of spoilers Serge blah blah Kidd, and love across the eternal recurrence, which is Fei and blah blah that one girl.  So boooo!  I think these love stories surpass Murakami's though, 1Q84 sucked ass, and Murakami was trying to make a complicated super love story thing.  I think Xenogears and Chrono Cross's concept of complicated love is... more complex so it's vastly superior.  Meh, whatever.  Booooo, love!  Schopenhaur says love is just nature's trick into making us reproduce.  And I agree with him.  

I guess I'll finish Suikoden... and then Suikoden II.  I didn't spoil myself, but I think it's not about love. At least I hope it's not.   But then again, that part in Suikoden I just passed... this cool lady who was my age just died, and her boyfriend still doesn't know about it.  At least it's in the middle of the game, and not the end ultimate conclusion sort of thing that Chrono Cross and Xenogears does with their concept of true love.