Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

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3.2/5

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3.2

48 Reviews

English & 10 more

Edited on: October 9, 2025

Posted on: October 9, 2025

mqstout

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Games: 3425 Reviews: 43

Great classic-style JRPG w/modern QoL

Playing through this game was great. I enjoyed the whole experience. Great graphics, sound, story, and gameplay. Few "pain in the ass" or frustrating moments. The game doesn't need a "guide" to get pretty much everything. (A couple of the recruitable characters had odd triggers; and see bugs below.) The core of each combat works well. There's auto if you want it (works well once you're overleveled). Crafting your characters is fun. A few of the characters (and there are over a hundred, truly) are clearly more powerful than others; it's intended. A lot of the dungeons work by attrition -- MP can exhaust quickly and consumable slots are limited. Make sure you save enough resources defeat the boss! The minigames (there are a few) are largely skippable, easily solved, or repeatable. The main one that isn't is fun itself -- mass combat battles that are a gridded turn-based sequence. These are hard to lose and mostly an expression of story, though there are mechanics to make them easier/harder. (You're going to want an auto-fire controller for the chef's challenges. And the boat racing is irksome, but, fortunately, each try is short.) The game isn't bug-filled as some other reviewers indicate, but there do, if the guides are accurate, appear to be a couple of odd trigger conditions to recruit someone if you go someplace too soon/late. I didn't encounter any bugs during my play. A few downsides: * Because of there being so many characters, most will be ignored and never used, while the few "mains" will be used a lot. * There are points where you'll be very poor and encouraged to grind for money or resources (especially if you try to keep more than one main squad at max power). * The in-battle call-outs get repetitive, especially for specific characters or battles. (Sadly this is true of every JRPG I've seen lately, including the big AAA ones.) * There are some RNG issues if you want high completion, like getting certain things to spawn in a few stores. * In some sequences, there's a lot of walking and your movement speed can feel painfully slow when the maps are bigger. Some people report the story is a rehash/mash-up of Suikoden games. I never played any so it was fresh to me. But it was really well executed. (Also, ignore the "anti-woke" ragers ranting against the localization -- there are no localization issues unless you think that everyone in an RPG should always speak in some sort of period English.)

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Posted on: April 24, 2024

SR850

Games: 6 Reviews: 1

Woke Translators Just Ruined This JRPG..

"Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes looked like an interesting spiritual successor to PS1 era JRPGs, sadly, western translators have ruined the game with a pathetic translation that not only lectures the player with identity politics but is also just woefully incompetent." [url=]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayOBsgJQEb4[/url] Ruins the game and must be fixed asap. I can't buy, play this game other than intended by developer. Beware: The Moderators on discord are woke too. They ban everyone mention this..

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Posted on: March 14, 2025

LACE ARRGAR

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Games: 1153 Reviews: 17

Magnificent JRPG

Peeps who wanna see some cool 90's RPG jank, look no further. xx

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Posted on: August 8, 2025

DenaloVehgan

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Games: 28 Reviews: 4

Eiyuden Chronicle Rating

In my honest opinion, so far a few hours in i would say the game is Very very easy, A good intro RPG for most anybody getting into the genre, while fun and engadging i would say for most Seasoned? RPG fans ( such as my self, been playing RPG's since the snes days) I would say it's safe to skip this one if you're looking for something challening, at least on it's default ''easy'' Setting, i haven't unlocked the ability to play on hard yet. (It get's a 4 because no game is perfect and everything has flaws to some extent.)

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Posted on: October 23, 2025

cahallmxj

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Games: 1323 Reviews: 18

Almost but not quite there.

Story Summary: You play as Nowa, a young man that has left his home village in order to experience the world and find his place in it. Following rumors of a “Watch” that is looking for volunteers to help with its missions he finds himself in the village of Arlen where he is promptly assigned to a joint expedition between the Kingdom of Grum and the Imperial Empire of Galdean. Their goal is pretty simple: investigate the local ruins and see if they can locate any lenses that may lie within. The mission is a success and a lens is successfully returned for study. Unknown to all that were involved though, a plot to change the course of history has been set into motion, one that will leave their world teetering on the edge of misery and endless war. Review: I liked this game. Since it’s the spiritual successor to the Suikoden series that makes sense. The same guy directed, though he passed away shortly before release, some of the people involved with the first couple of Suikoden games were involved with this one. They also stated at some point that they were making it as close to that series as they could without running afoul of rights holders. That being said, I think they stayed a little too close to that formula instead of doing their own thing with it. While I was playing I always had the feeling that they didn't quite hit what they were aiming for. All the parts are there, the background story is there, the oddball characters are there to be recruited, the castle is there to be upgraded, etc. I guess that’s the problem. I’ve played that story before, in a world that was built to fit that story. Collect the 108 heroes of destiny and defeat the out of control empire that is trying to control the world because their rune drove them nuts. This game has a different story with a different setup that was a bit jarring since I played the older games. Even the main villain doesn't hold a candle to Lucas. He is more along the lines of the villain of the DS, no i don’t feel like looking up the weird name, spin off. I got what he was saying, he was just extremely misguided about what he was doing. Taken on its own though the story is pretty good, though again with some of the beats its easy to see where they said “it’s a twist!” when compared to Suikoden, and generally flows along at a pretty good clip. I will say though that I wish they had worked a little better on the translation. There are a few clunker lines in there where they should have gone with fiver instead of twofer for their translation services. I know that was a “thing” of older JRPG’s but that was due to the time for the most part. In the 2020’s they could have done a little better job than google translate. Even with these issues the game is still worth playing if you like the setup or have never played the older suikoden games. Graphics: I thought they were good. They communicate the scale of what is going on pretty well and are detailed and colorful. Just short of cartoon but not quite anime. Another throwback to how games looked in the late 90’s / Early 2000’s. Controls: The standard rpg controls. Do what they are made too do. Gameplay / World: For what it is, it does it well. The world is detailed and the sprites look good. The combat animations are decent even if they can be a bit repetitive since there are several characters that the player can choose to have in the combat party. There isn’t any real over the top moves other than Hero combo’s. The game does include a few mini games but they aren't much to write about other than the card game which I found to be the most interesting. The large scale combat scenes are fun as long as you're paying attention and use the legion skills to turn the tide. The game does have duel scenes, which much like the older games could be very annoying if you don’t follow the tells: then sprite changes, here words, that have to be completed to advance the story. If you run into trouble or don’t feel like trying to match up what they are saying to what you should be doing I suggest looking it up. Some of those scenes are long and you have to start over from the beginning if you lose. Also if you want a little more backstory to the game I do recommend playing the Rising prequel. It is a completely different type of game, more like a metroidvania, but it is fun in its own right and a few things do carry over into this game. The DLC for this game doesnt really change or add anything to the game itself but if your interested in a 3 characters that are covered then the backstory contained in them probably makes them worth getting. All in all if you like JRPGs and you like this kind of setup then this is worth playing. If you’ve never played the Suikoden series then give this game a try, its a pretty good recreation of that concept. If you have played those older games then its still worth playing just be ready for some weird Dejavu.

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