Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising

It's been a delight to play. I wouldn't call it challenging, ground breaking, breath-taking, or innovative. It's a pretty normal story, with pretty typical graphics, a fine combat system, and it's a bit grindy, in that you'll go back to the same areas over and over again for resources, and all the fetch questing, but despite that it's not especially tedious and doesn't really outstay its welcome. It's good. It's not GREAT, but it's good. If you like this sort of game, I think you'll find it a worthy addition to your collection, and the price lines up with the typical "1 hour per dollar" guideline most people have, so it's likely worthwhile even at full price. I will admit, it's made me more curious about the Hundred Heroes, so I'll probably follow it up with the main game, once it releases. You won't sing its praises or demand your friends play it, but you won't regret buying it either. Definitely worth considering.

Background looks nice but this is just another plain average 2D side scrolling action RPG.. with plenty of errand running quests and lots of material gathering to do. Unless you love this kind of things from game, this will get bored very quick.

Not a bad game but it leaves you desiring for more once you reach the end. The good: - Art is beautiful. Exploring dungeons and the town is a sight for sore eyes. - Available in multiple languages. - Characters are interesting. I loved Garoo's sort of partner and father-daughter dynamics with CJ and Isha. - Story is fairly decent without spoiling it. - Controls are decent using a controller, and the default control scheme works perfectly. - Fast travel. You'll still need to run around in the town a lot but the fast travel saves you a crap ton of time. The bad: - Side quests are VERY repetitive errands. You can skip them, but the Link Attack system upgrade is locked to your quest stamp progress, and if you want to get 100% achievements you have to do all the non-repeatable ones anyway. - It takes some time to get to the core of the story... - ...and the story ends way too quickly after you reach the core of the story, feeling like an incomplete game. - The fact that this game and its sort-of sequel are completely different genres adds to that feeling of wanting more too. I love Suikoden but I also want a direct Metroidvania sequel to this game with CJ, Isha and Garoo as the main characters. - You're stuck with very basic movesets early in the game, with new ones getting added when you upgrade your weapons and armours. I initially thought "this feels like a crappy Metroidvania" until I saw the upgrades. Combined with how it takes time to get to the core of the story this game can feel boringly slow for the first few hours. - Voiceless. - The 3 playable characters (it's more like 3-in-1) are fixed. Kind of wasted potential since there are a few characters that feel like they should be playable too. The neutral: - Difficulty is on the low side for a Metroidvania game, every boss was a pushover. I prefer a harder game, but this makes it player-friendly. It's a fun game but I wouldn't pay the full price for it. Wait for sales.

Great Graphics Fun Gameplay Worth time and money

Game looks great and is quite fun.