Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is designed to bring players a modern take on a classic JRPG experience. Get ready to lead 100+ playable characters through a war-torn world only you can save.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a rpg, jrpg and 2.5d game
developed by Rabbit & Bear Studios
and published by 505 Games.
Released on April 23rd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Russian.
It has received 3,467 reviews of which 2,723 were positive and 744 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K (4 * 3400) / AMD FX-4350 (4 * 4200)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GPU: GeForce GTX 660 (2048 MB) / Radeon R7 260X (2048 MB)
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Minimum - Target resolution and FPS (1080@30)
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"O fantastic captain… I sent you to solve one of my problems, and instead you’ve multiplied them.” Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (2024) represents a Japanese role-playing game (JRPG), developed by the company Rabbit and Bear Studios and published by the company 505 Games. Pros & cons: ++ Meet the members of my dream team, straight from the mental asylum. Mighty Mellore, a delusional sorceress in a sailor moon costume with late-stage OCD for justice one liners. Youngling Yusuke, the misunderstood gangster with his hands glued to his pants and the tendency to kick his enemies into a bloody pulp. Fierce Franscesca, a stereotypical tsundere character with a split personality. And yes, I can fix her! Crazy Carrie, the petite blond who is one teleportation away from summoning a demonic creature from the immaterium or falling victim to the infamous turning-the-inside-out incident. Muscle mage Maureus, a beefcake with a severe concussion trauma believing muscle points (MP) are the most crucial metric for determining how much magical power a caster can draw from. Punisher Prunella, the last survivor of a dwarven commando unit likes to clean her massive bazooka, that I call Fatman, at the campfire while telling stories about past war crimes. + You will be buried under an avalanche of 71 playable characters, who you can assemble into a team of six to fight a power-hungry empire that threatens to annex your worthless fishing village. But you will abandon your main quest soon enough, because of the countless distractions in form of customizing your castle, cooking, fishing, playing cards, spinning tops, and starting a breeding program for pseudo-chocobos. And for the ambitious among us, enter a neverending dungeon with overpowered mobs to reach your final form. Then steamroll the rest of the campaign. o The supposed challenge of the cooking mini-game confuses me. I simply served the unwashed masses fried eggs, omelets and apple cider soda every time, and effortlessly rose to the status of culinary godhood. - Some scripted sequences have a massive delay before they continue, e.g. the first duel on the bridge, or the song with the shi’arc. It required the patience of a saint to sit through those lags. -- Dear developers, where is my option to double or even triple the speed during combat sections? Just look at The Last Remnant (2009) for such a quality-of-life feature. Heresy, I hear you scream as you try to suppress your tears and clutch your little game codex. But, to quote my arch-enemy and grand illusionist Todd Howard: it just works. Summary: To roam the realm of Allraan with the farmer-turned-warlord-protagonist Nowa and my bizarre team of MIN/MAX characters, provoking encounters and hoarding ridiculous amounts of money and resources for the end game weaponry of mutually agreed mass destruction, constitutes my only purpose in this game. Recommended for JRPG freaks eager to refill their nostalgia meter. Achievements: Estimated time for 100% completion: +150 hours Singleplayer achievements: 56 Multiplayer achievements: none
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after 70+ hours of play all i can say that this is the true successor to the original suikoden that we remember (specifically S1 & S2) good things : classic JRPG suikoden style for the fans easy to grasp for new players 1v1 break fight cutscenes SO DAMN COOL!! fans of collecting achievements would like this game good main story (still can't top S2 though) great characters & personality good villains (but can anybody top Luca? i dont think so) fully voice over dialogs building castle with collected resources lots of mini games to play (card game and egg race is my fav) teleport from everywhere to anywhere is the goat some "bad" things to note : mini games are too simple (ex; fishing) some total cringe lines and story on char quests (ex; beyblade & cook off) wish the rune system is better balanced throughout all characters - some char are pure trash cook off challenge is dumbed down (no extra customized ingredients like in S2) war battlefield could've been much better (pacing too slow) BGM need to be improve although its not perfect, give the studio enough chance and we might get to see a better sequel to this series
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One of my favorite JRPGs is Suikoden 2. This review is me comparing it to that. This is a game that feels like it was made during that era of JRPGs. It ticks all the boxes. Tedious random encounters, not being able to save anywhere, archaic minimal hint based objectives. I played through multiple 60+ hour jrpgs (FF7R2, Unicorn Overlord) this year and this is by far my favorite out of all of them. Compared to Suikoden 2 though, the game Eiyuden is heavily based on. This game just can't hold a candle to the PS1 classic. The story feels like they played it safe, It's more heroic than S2's Dark Grim Crisis-filled story, While there's nothing wrong with something more lighthearted. I really wanted something that made me feel the same way as Luca Blight did in S2. This doesn't make the story bad though, just more predictable and cliche. The character recruitments are one of the strongest points of Eiyuden. Suikoden 2 also has all the mundane very forgettable recruitments but I think that's just part of the charm. There's always a character for someone in this game. The combat is awesome. A lot of people say the enemies are very spongy but if you experiment with some characters some of them turn out to be insanely good, to the point where some of them can 3-4 turn bosses by themselves. So ofcourse people are gonna struggle if they keep using the character that shines later and hits for 85 per attack instead of the character that comes out of the box doing 300 per turn. So I made sure to experiment with character combinations and that made the game much more deep for me, despite it being really simple. Overall, If Suikoden 2 is a 10/10 for me. This game is an 8. I highly recommend it. There's nothing like this right now and with S2 Remaster in the horizon. There's no better time to enjoy this love letter to the franchise. RIP Yoshitaka Muruyama, And thanks R&B, 505 games for this fun and amazing game.
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Worth the $50 for 66 hours so far. If you like classic JRPG's and enjoy a classic kinda figure it out yourself character collecting game with some grind, this is the right game for you. If you want something deeper and more personal with a detailed lore/history and in-depth tutorials, its probably not the game for you. Is it a perfect game? No. Is it enjoyable? Heck yes. Does it remind me of the Suikoden series? Heck yeah!!!! Is a carbon copy? No. Did the devs make mistakes? You bet. Do I regret my purchase/support? No. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has its pros and cons like every other game. Below, I will review some pros and cons and some comparisons with the Suikoden series. Story/Characters: Pros -Very similar Suikoden vibes. -I like the diverse cast of characters in terms of how they look and different races/tribes of people. Thats always been something the Suikoden game excelled at so it was reminiscent of it. And yes there is a LGBT+ character in this game and its not that deep. -The story makes subtle references to other places that you do not see at the end of the game. Such as a University known for education and its observatory. Even some characters are from this university or has been there in this game. This was similar to Suikoden I and II where they referenced other places and then introduced them later in the series. -There are lots of heroes to collect and I believe there's about 120 characters. -There are lots of minigames to play. My favorite is probably the card game. There is a beyblade-esque game too. -Has a killer/catchy theme song that is mostly in Japanese but then goes "hundred heroes" which was awesome. -They definitely acknowledged the backers that helped make this game and I thought it was cute seeing people on reddit say they found themselves in-game. Cons: -The story could have been written and told better. Everything was there for a reason. They did not focus on building the characters relationships with one another. Lets just say even the game itself had some scenes where you see a black screen and it just says 6 months later...a few weeks later...etc. -They tried to copy the bond/rivalry of Suikoden II between Riou and Jowy but failed with Nowa and Seign. This made their duel anticlimatic because they knew each other for a day before war split them which as a reader/gamer, you did not feel the emotions they were suppose to feel. -Localization could have improved but I understood what was going on just fine. The dialogue from certain characters was questionable. I found a lot of very annoying characters, mostly hyperactive/loud/obnoxious female characters but I think that's a JRPG trying to make them cute thing which I personally don't like. -They skip over a lot of important lore or things that could have expanded the world. I'm not sure if this is due to them wanting to expand it later, but they missed a big opportunity here and this is probably why a lot of negative reviews says it feels rushed. They focused on the storyline and that was it. -There are parts in the game where they just tell you to literally go find characters to recruit which doesn't flow well and seems forced. -They released the game with a bug that caused you to be unable to recruit a character but they fixed it within the week of its release. Battle/Turn-based Gameplay Pros: They improved on the rune system in my opinion. Adding rune slots beyond the 3 from Suikoden's head/left/right arm was such a great improvement. This provided an opportunity to make some characters fit what you want them to do while still giving characters some uniqueness with exclusive runes and restrictions. -Most characters will have at least one level 3 magic rune and a few stat enhancement or skill runes. Some even have an anything you want rune slot. One special character even has all of their runes at level 4 as anything you want. -Removing rune charges for MP was also the best thing they could have done and having MP restore items and rune shards. This allowed you to kinda tinker characters stats and in this case you can adjust their MP should you want. -The auto battle system works well for lazy people if you know how to set it up properly and pay attention to your characters speed/sp/mana management. -Characters will learn and open up new rune slots as they level up. Some exclusive runes are learned this way instead of being found which Suikoden didn't offer and locked behind rune charges. Cons: -The instructions on battles can be confusing but once you know the basic, its actually quite fun. -A lot of people will struggle with how SP is generated and the game does a poor job of explaining it. Basically SP is randomly generated based on the luck stat. Not all character will use SP or have the ability to do so. If you have high luck, you have more chance of gaining 1 or multiple SP after each round. -Stats of some characters can be very random and unappealing such as a mage that has higher strength than a warrior or a mage with less MP than a warrior. The consistency seems a bit random and I'm not sure who worked on these numbers. Personally, it didn't get in the way of the overall enjoyment. -They removed the dojo's/skill enhancer/grades which I really loved in Suikoden III/V. This means that many characters can hit multiple attack counts, but it doesn't seem to make any difference in terms of hit counts/overall damage. In fact, multiple hit counts are pointless and does not offer any incentive. -The hero combos cost too many SP from each character and the damage is not worth the turn or SP cost. -There are no range physical skills that are good which makes rangers inferior. Its a mage/warrior kind of game. There's like 3 useful tanks, but tanking and covering is all rng and luck based. Dueling Pros: The cutscenes during the duels throughout the games are pretty cool and fun to watch. Cons: The combat itself is not enjoyable because it forces you to select certain options to continue with the animation so you can't just attack them to the end or use your special whenever. In previous Suikoden games you could do whatever you want and it made a big difference. Warfare/Strategic Battles Pros: You see (what I believe to be) random backers and their names being killed in battle lol. Besides that there aren't really any pros. Cons: I found the war battles so boring and useless. You can't really edit your team. You select and move them and have little to no control otherwise besides some 1 use skill that can't be improved upon. Your characters stats doesn't matter so you can't just obliterate everything and can still die from something stupid. I'm not sure how this is calculated but this is the worse part of the game. I wish they stuck to Suikoden III and how you can still influence the map yet still choose what you want to do. So yes, I wrote a lot, but I also enjoyed the game for what it is. Did it exceed my expectations? No. Was I happy with my purchase? Yes. Because I supported a game and it delivered a game that brought joy and memories. Can it improve? Absolutely. I hope people give it the chance to because there is so much to this game and I hope the dev's will listen and improve on these things.
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I have been reading a lot of comments about players outright hating the English translation of the game and because of that, i decided to play in my native language (Spanish) and its a completely different story. Getting that out of the way, this game is amazing, it looks beautiful, sounds really good, there are a few songs that are repeated a lot, specially in towns but that's ok. The combat is fun, specially boss fights, which all have different ways to be approached to be beaten. Theres a lot of characters so of course not all of them are gonna be balanced but i feel that that's ok, i wouldn't expect an army in real life to have people of the same skill in their troops. Its also worth remembering that this game was made by the creator of Suikoden and that game had unbalanced character and we loved them. Overall, this a Suikoden game through and through and if you love Suikoden, you are gonna love this game just as much as i do, however if you can read in another language i definitely suggest playing this game in the language of your preference. The Spanish version so far has being respectful of the story and characters, status changes, attacks and such. 8/10 awesome Suikoden successor
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295
Developer
Rabbit & Bear Studios
Publisher
505 Games
Release
23 Apr 2024
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