FINAL THOUGHTS AFTER CREDITS | Eiyuden Chronicles 

I'm honestly disappointed, but that may be cuz I had high expectations. It's a solid 6, wouldn't dare giving it a better score. I would give it a lower score, but we're honestly not getting any decent turn based jrpg's, quite sad. -Gameplay: Pretty decent, hero combo's had little to no use with a few exceptions and the roster felt unbalanced, but everything else felt good. -Story: Cookie-cutter generic story. It's wasn't bad, but neither good. You can beat the game skipping every dialogue and you wouldn't miss much. -Performance: Absolutely atrocious, there's really no excuse for it being so bad. And the bugs... oh God. I really wish the best to the team and I hope we may ever get a sequel, but next time I hope they come up with somethig better on the story department and they don't release a game with a hugh mungus amounts of bugs and atrocious performance issues.

The game is mid+ and I say that because it feels like untapped potential or dumb stuff that brings it down. Such as the combat. Hero Combos are pointless like you said but the animations are great. The rune system was wastes potential. The start of the game had me interested for boss fights then it was “oh, it’s just the first boss fight that was pushing me. How sad.” Story could have been so much better if they put more care into the antagonists. They were pretty boring and generic. Like you said the game doesn’t go hard enough. There is some corruption and shitty personalities for the antagonists but it felt like the game was afraid of making them too bad. Big thing for me is some of the minigames were excessive. Cooking battle and beyblade minigame were ridiculously long and way too tedious.

One of the best games I have played this year so far, with Persona 3 Reload just ahead of it! I love all the old school RPG nuance, from the random encounters, to backtracking to get all of the heroes, to saving only at save points, and much more! I can’t wait for the sequel!!

My issue with the combat is that most hero combos are underwhelming, cost a lot of sp and they don't deal a lot of damage and it's better to use other actions with the characters instead. Markus and milana are some of the worst imo costing 5 sp to be a low chanse and dealing trash damage compare to use 2 sp with both at the same turn. Some are good like seing and nowa costing 1 SP and doing AoE damage or falward and francesca with a Free AoE heal and buff. Maybe with the sequel i would do an repeat action from last turn and buff the heroes combos.

Story, while good, was pretty lackluster. The worldbuilding is okay, but exploration and the world itself is pretty dull as Purplatypus mentioned. The world lacks a "lived-in" feel. Cities and towns were great, though. Most characters were pretty bland, but their designs were fantastic, especially the shi’arcs -- I LOVE the shi'arc design. Pretty difficult to make over 100 characters in a single game distinct or interesting, to be fair. My favorite character design-wise was Reid, but his stats were p*ss-poor for most of the game. Music is good. Not much to say there on my part. Combat is fun, but feels dated. The boss fights added some strategy. It really shines in the post-game stuff such as with Boss Rush. The city-building, as is the case with Suikoden, is phenomenal. Magic seems useless for most bosses UNTIL you get Momo, the strongest mage. Even then, the runes are VERY specific -- Water is healing, Wind is offensive/support, Earth is defensive/support, Fire is purely offensive. The war phases of the game are definitely lackluster & bare-bones. It definitely needs improvements. It would also be nice to be able to skip the battle sequence in war battles, but that might just be me. Mini-games were…hit or miss for me. HATED the Beigoma mini-game. The cooking mini-game was a guessing game; it was BERY bare bones compared to Suikoden II. I actually enjoyed the card game. The menus are fine, but could have used some streamlining. Items, equipment, runes, etc. all need their own tabs. In short, the game needed more polish. If we’re comparing it to Suikoden, it’s a worthy successor but pales in comparison to most of the Suikoden games. Overall, it’s a 7/10. Maybe that's generous, but the grade feels right to me. It sounds negative, but I found the game genuinely fun & enjoyable. I loved this game. It’s in my top 3 games this year. I hope to see improvements in future installments. This series has so much potential.

It was extremely enjoyable and I’m quite happy with my experience. That being said, by the end, I had definitely dropped my personal rating from 9/10 to about 7.5 … maybe 8. It just lacked a little bit of substance. Combat was enjoyable but way too simplified. Some characters are so cool but simply underperform. Thankfully, most of my favorite characters were useful. Magic was severely handicapped though and that was a bummer. There were too many extras that just weren’t fun and required way too much time to get the reward to wanted from them. Card game was fun though. I really loved the artwork and the world but really needed some oomph that was sorely lacking in the systems. Happy I bought it. Happy I played it.

Finally, a game that can make me wake up past midnight. I love everything about it.

Of the two spiritual successors I've played this year, Unicorn Overlord was for sure the better game, more addictive game, and the one I want the sequel to more. But I still really enjoyed Eiyuden. Looking forward to the DLC, but I'll probably do the same as I did with Midnight Suns where I'll just wait for all the dlc to come out and play them all one after the other instead of reinstalling the game each time for each individual dlc.

6-7/10 - many mechanics could use more work (like duels and squad battles that feels not even half-baked, more like barely baked at all; beigoma sucks hard it is such a waste of time, the only good one is card games but it gets too easy to fast); - no formations; - 1 real tank character for the whole game; - rune system seems underdeveloped cause many characters are just bad because of the runes they have and there is nothing you can do about it. specially it is strange when chars have unique skills that just suck; - low amount of equipment slots; - low enemy variety; - combat systems - too many skills are bad in terms of how expensive they are to use (sp or mp) so you mostly use autoattack so this can use some work too; - and a big point about the plot, without spoilers, big idea of the main villian has a lot of sence actually but unfortunatelly our protagonists never answered anything conceptual except for "you are bad, you are evil, you lie, we must defeat you" Overall midish, i hated the game at the start, then after about 20 hours i started having some real fun bit it became tedious at the end again. Definetely have potential to be much better

Anyone here tried the season pass? Curious to know if it's Worth it

I think your overview is spot on. I enjiyed my time with the game but it felt held back by a lot of little things and a couple of big ones. I think the biggest one is combat balance. I dont like to judge the combat balance off of the hard mode with all options on but even in normal is just felt poorly balanced

Octopath traveler ruined all other games for me. I discovered octopath traveler 2 a few months ago. Hooked instantly Played through it twice back to back. Played octopath 1. Also good. Since then I've played through both multiple times. Started playing various others including triangle theory, live a live and sea of stars.. Etc Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes has been the only one that I can kinda get into. Although I find myself extremely bored half of the time. Like the random encounter battles. I set to auto and browse my fantasy sports team. The war battles is far worse. Like sitting through a battle that you have very little control over and truth is i don't even understand it. I've only recruited about 50 characters so far and it is tedious. With about 50 more to go?. And having to level snd arm each of them with weapons accessories armors and runes. Sigh But like I said it's still the only one that I've been able to play so i guess it isn't that bad. 😂

I, for one, always enjoy your post game thoughts. Too many people give thoughts only on the start of the game and many games tend to fall off after that, so having someone giving an overall thoughts is always a plus in my book. Specially when it’s RU-vidr I already enjoy. Looking forward to whatever game comes next.

Completely agree with everything. Lots of potential to be a historic game.. it's still a good game but it feels half finished most of the time.

It was a good first Suikoden successor game from them. I am looking forward to a sequel

there has been indies that ive played that tried exploiting my nostalgia for old school jrpgs and failed miserably like chained echoes and sea of stars both overrated pieces of trash in my eyes and then there is those that exploited them really well and eiyuden chronicles is one of those its a game i love and can see myself coming back too for years to come lol my only real negatives about it is how useless runes and magic are and outside the story which was just serviceable everything else i found fantastic

Super surprised about the take on the music. I really like it. When comparing to the games mentioned though. They're definitely on another level

What’s the next game on the docket brother?

All of this is basically why I can't convince my friend who also loved Suikoden 2 to play Eiyuden. Every time I try, I can't fully justify why the need to play this. :/ i did enjoy the game myself too but yeah it's not on the 'great' ranking of games

Fair review, for me the game did managed to get the feels of early Suikoden games nicely, hopefully the first and many more of the series to come. In regard to what you mentioned about combat, I'm not sure if you have played it but for me the Trails series, specifically Cold steel 1 - 4 and Trails into reverie has a very interesting combat system where you can tweak the builds for the characters, it was a pretty fun experience for me. Plus, the next game in the series, "Trails Through Daybreak" is releasing in July! Great story, great combat.

im just glad that a Suikoden style jrpg is back the sequel needs more polish and more depth in the customization but id rather see this than another jrpg that feels like a glorified mobile game

Oof the more I hear about Eiyden Chronicles the more I'm on the fence to buy it or not. For a game to be remade in a more classic HD 2D style it has to be great for me to go buy it. Sea of Stars, Unicorn Overlord, Octopath Traveler, etc were incredible games for a variety of reasons. Too many mixed thoughts, reviews, opinions for this game to make me really want to buy it until it goes deeply on sale.

I love the game, but my only big issue with the game is. I never used the support spot for anything other than quality of life stuff. Small things that bugged me. There were no duals you had to win to recruit any characters, and the army battles were boring.

If you press square (PS5) while highlighting a rune you can see what it does

Don't know if you looked into it or car but the character that is locked behind cards you only have to play cards twice once to unlock the store and once to get the one character who challenges you after you own enough cards

This is actually a great review. All great points that I can second.

Yup, very mid. But enjoyable.

The blur effect physically hurts me its like the character needs glasses. But i agree with everything you said though im only 40 hours in

Very fair review

To much stuff in this game that had no business being in this game. It was like it was just thrown in it for the sake of it. Even worse they put Achievements on it

I enjoyed the game but I don't think it's on par with any of the Suikoden games,(except Tierkreis, that one was trash,) the rune system feels a lot less impactful, the magic too, the SP skills weren't that powerful either The story felt too generic, good vs evil, when it used to be a little bit more nuanced and politic on Suikoden, I loved the characters, but they need more interaction with each other, for example I remember reading that Reyna admired Markus on her divination background, so I used her all the quest line with Markus and she never interacted with him, such a disappointment I liked the minigames just wish they weren't so time consuming to get the trophies related to them, there is so much that can be improved and I hope we get a sequel that reflects more grow and the localization wasn't too good hope they get better, but also kudos to Nel's voice actor on English that was a highlight of the game for me

This is to late everyone as played already should have been done

And you can block me all you want but if you don't like something don't buy it flat out