Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

Never did I think that supporting this title through Kickstarter was a bad Idea. Well, I was wrong. This game is rife with performance issues: no or few enemy encounters with a refresh over 60, mouse cursor always on screen, soft locks preventing character acquisition, bad shadow and LOD implementation, etc., etc., etc. The most obvious and glaring thing with this title is the absolutely horrendous localization effort. Characters' personalities are altered from the original presentation, modern politically motivated slurs are injected when there were none, and dialog has been altered where there was no need to do as such. Even the names of the characters are improperly translated due to politics or inclination of politics. The lead character is Noah...Noah...not Nowa. The list just goes on and on. Let's not even get started with all the typos, poor grammar and punctuation, etc. This game had the potential to be the next big RPG. It has failed due to the atrocious localization and poor performance of Unity Engine, or lack of skill using it. So, either get another title, wait for this one to be fixed, or simply forget about it. I would refund, but just because it's a crap title doesn't afford me that right. It performs well enough to keep, but I am sorry I gave 505 my $80 Don't support this nonsense.

As an old fan of the original PSX titles, I was and am very excited to see Murayama making a successor The localisation is competent, and the drama over it was overblown. However, it is one of the worst aspects of the game- particularly because it feels like a lot of unnecessary liberties were taken by someone outside the studio, and which are in stark contrast to the intended tone of the world and characters. The rest of the game was a good nostalgic experience, but unfortunately it feels like this is the extent of the game. Despite its runtime, the story feels like it manages to fit far fewer beats than its predecessors (like i'm somehow experiencing 30 hours of game despite 60 hours of gameplay), and a lot of the key plot development and twists feel a bit flat. The brilliant military strategist pulling aces does not feel convincing, and neither does the rivalry/friendship between the two male protagonists. Much of the rest of the plot feels heavily cribbed from S1 & 2, with many tropes and scvenarios just being copied. I can understand that this is going to be inevitable to an extent, with a scenario being premised on so many minor characters; and being from the same writer- and who is trading on his own work from several decades ago. it feels like the project is a victim of crowdfunding dynamics- promising many stretch goals which become weak features in the game that feel like under other circumstances should be cut. namely mini-games. And they are bad. I spend hours autistically grinding all the janky suikoden II minigames to completion, for fun no less, but despite being half baked (forgivable), these are absolute SLOGS. Several end-game characters are locked behind completing them. I'm generally a completionist, but an ageing one; and it wasn't worth suffering through them to get the true ending, sadly. I wouldn't let this discourage you from playing, and i'd rather play this than a modern final fantasy title. i commend the studio on a solid game

I thought I'd seen my fill of this when Working Designs finally died. I don't need your little inside jokes and nods and winks. I's not cute. It's not clever. It definitely isn't funny. Keep your sense of humor in your other pants.

I loved the exploration, the base-building and recruiting the characters and the story is servicable. What annoyed me quite often were unnecessarily tedious mechanics to manage inventory and equipment and skills. But all in all I put a ton of hours in and enjoyed them, even without much nostalgia for Suikoden, so definitely recommended for genre fans.

Mon avis sera peut être biaisé, étant fan de Suikoden 1 et 2. Mais ça fait longtemps qu'on avait pas eu un jeu dans le même style. Est il perfectible ? Oui. Est it buggué ? Un peu. La traduction aurait pu être meilleure ? Surement. Mais je pense que pour une production avec un budget limité, c'est déjà très bien. Si on aime les RPG japonais avec des vieilles mécaniques de jeu, alors, on va adorer ce jeu. Je vais pas défendre ce qui n'est pas défendable, certaines parties, comme l'interface ou le Beigoma, m'ont clairement rebuté. Mais j'ai vite oublié ces inconforts devant un histoire prenante, une bande son superbe, et plus important encore, je me suis amusé. La mécanique de chercher les 120 personnages cachés dans le jeu marche encore 20 ans plus tard. LA construction du chateau, les activtés annexes, tout ce qui a fait le sel de la saga Suikoden est dedans. Il aurait pu être mieux. Comme être bien pire. Je ne pensais pas rejouer à ce genre de jeu en 2024, alors, je ne vais pas bouder mon plaisir. Et pour ma part, je ne regrette pas de l'avoir financé.