Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes - Part 35: Beigoma (Reid & Dr. Corque)

This is the other side quest/minigame that kills any desire I have to ever play this game again. In order to get two of the characters, we have to endure this and whenever the game has a bad minigame, they force you to play it repeatedly to get a character. They don't do this crap for the egg races, but they do it for the cooking and beigoma crap.

So the problem with this other than it taking forever and having no markings anywhere to signify who can be played (you must play the random NPC), you must get your tops as rare item drops from different monsters. The accessories to boost item drop rates come around the final third of the game, and you must do the first part of this to recruit Corque to get his passive effect where he can boost their drop rate. I would have preferred to have bosses have guaranteed drops that you get by playing the story like FF8 does with some of its cards, but this is a huge step back from what would have been the standard over 20 years ago when Suikoden was relevant.

Now the next problem that comes up is that the RNG does not stop with the drop rates. These stupid things have a chance to apply status effects to themselves and the opponent every time they collide. By having a bad roll, you could find yourself under enemy effect without being able to influence them, and other times victory is extremely easy because the RNG goes your way. The solution to this would have been consistently applying lesser effects that just add up as the match goes on, but like so many other things, they just opt to have everything left to chance.

I know some people prefer the normal/bad ending of the game, but it is a combination of laziness and stupidity to gate the best ending behind this. I tried putting this off as best I could, fighting here and there so I didn't have to walk out to the middle of nowhere, but as we draw close to the end, I have to sit down and finish this.