If you dont like it, dont play it. And if you were a little bit more informed you would probaly know that those 108 stars of destiny are very important for this game. Not only the runes are the main story or whatever. As everyone knows, whitout them you cant complete the story and there are several examples, like suikoden 2 (my favorite) where nanami and jowy dies if you dont collect all stars, and in S5 where you got more then 5 different endings, depending how much stars you got.
I dont blame you or something, but i think whitout 108 stars the story itself would be empty, and Konami is the only one wich uses something like that. By the way, the story of 108 stars is a Japanes story. Well, they call it the "108 thiefes", and the story tells about rebelions fighting for freedom and peace using powers







