Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

TL;DR: Not for everyone, or, more specifically, for those wanting something easygoing. The best way I can describe this game is that it has A LOT of things going all at once, but the execution of MANY of them is not good. Also if you are an achievement hunter be prepared to spend like 40h+ ( rough estimate) in the postgame. If you are someone who played lots of old JRPGS you probably won't feel as strongly as me, given you'd be used to having little to no directions and being confused on what to do/where to go most of the time. There's a lot of secrets no one tells you about: item shops needing luck/resets via savescumming, obviously a ton of recruitable characters that you can (and probably will) miss unless you follow a guide or waste 3 hours after every major story event backtracking to every city/map, minigame progressions requiring specific NPCs/party members etc. This would not be a problem if not for the fact that you basically unlock fast travel halfway through the game, when you'll probably already have missed tons of stuff. The UI feels old and unresponsive and the menus really feel more like something from the 90s the way they're set up; combat is, ironically enough, really boring in the first half and then it picks up, but to unlock skills you have to equip runes and there is no way of knowing exactly every skill a rune gives, or what the skills do, unless you equip it first and check the character screen/battle test it later. Even after fixes, there's a lot of bugs especially during cutscenes, dang, even the final boss one was bugged (and I see it wasn't only for me) and the END CREDITS/EPILOGUE SCENES I had to skip and check on Youtube later because they froze and wouldn't go on. A lot of the game feels like it's designed to make you waste extra time for something that could've been really simple to fix, from the menus to the exploration to the battle system. This is especially true for minigames: aside from a couple, every minigame requires little effort/minimal input but A TON of time, from fishing to the egg race, and those that require more attention overstay their welcome, but sometimes are almost mandatory, like the overly complicated cooking minigame NEEDED to unlock a character, or the beyblade ripoff requiring you to do a lot of backtracking and farming under specific conditions before even being able to progress. This is sad especially because the game is visually stunning at times, with this sort of 2.5HD that really pops. Only thing I didn't really like is that while all characters and NPCs have this wonderful pixel art, normal enemies are full 2D in the style of... let's say, early 2010s korean gacha games, you know, the ones with only a couple moving parts like marionettes. The bosses are fully 3D, but they work better this way. The story is good, the little bits of lore you get from extra recruitments and interactions between members are always welcome, the resolution leaves you satisfied. Sadly I can't see myself recommending this because of the above reasons, but I sincerely hope, if there's gonna be a next game for this series, that it will fix a lot of the problems of this entry: it's not even a matter of time in my opinion, but of focus on the right things, and I say this because there's a lot of effort and time put on some minor things like ONE single special cutscene with ONE single character, that is FULLY VOICED for every single character (they're 120) and each and every one of them has different lines, like come on, surely you could've done something else with all the time used to do this single 3 minutes scene. All in all, it's not a bad game per se, just feels like it could've been a lot more if it was focused on improving the most basic things like combat, UI, and general help to the player, instead of wasting lots of energy on secondary activities, that are always welcome but should not be the main priority. If you're still curious, and not an 'old-school' JRPG veteran like I said in the beginning, my best advice is to play using a guide from start to finish (specifying from start because I honestly think 99% of players have checked a guide at least once at some point during the game, for any of the myriad reasons explained)

とにかく操作性、が悪い。 コマンド一覧が表示され決定ボタンを押すも無反応時間があり連打したくなる。 特に戦闘では戦闘モーションを毎回見せられながら、コマンドを選ぶ際に同様の状況。 移動速度の遅さもだが、こういった不満点が出てこないのは普段ゲームをしない人 がこれ作ったのかなという疑問だけ

7 hours in, and i can say, the game itself is kinda good, the dungeon is fricking long, 7 hours in, and i only clear the 2nd Mission Dungeon *included Grinding and upgrading Armor; Playing on Hard Like the battle system so far with the gimmick added in Boss Battle The only effing let down, the localization is effing bad, even the censorship is bad; using translation mod is a must The translator should be ashamed with this, do they have no pride to release this kind of translation? you getting paid for this rub a lub dub dub? Sake become watering hole? chud? "You sure it`s a he?" on a freaking STONE GOLEM Kinda hoping because this is the last game by the late Yoshitaka Murayama of Suikoden, but the rumor about the translation is true, whoever translate and localize this game should quit being a localizator Fans translation is better than this PoSht, at least fans translation is free, i feel developer got scammed by this localization because they pay for people to translate and localize this, and the end product is a such a let down I do reccomend the game for the game itself. but use translation mod

Pretty much agree with what everyone else here has already said. If you have an itch to play a JRPG Suikoden clone; this feels that niche very well. Very unpolished and lots of annoying game design choices but worth it overall just barely. The mini games are very grindy and take forever. The story doesn't really go anywhere and the stakes are rather low throughout. Mages are pretty much useless until late game, then they are super OP with rune setup and gear abusing SP. I enjoyed my time with the game but it's something I will never replay. 6/10 - recommend but only on sale.

It's a hard recommendation. The game is well made, full of love, with unique animations, interesting story and a cast filled with lovable and fun characters. But at the same time it also full of issues related to every single of these great aspects. There are 100s of heroes to be recruited in this game, with over 70 of them being usable in combat. Each of these heroes are unique, have their own niches, strengths and weaknesses, therefore, the combat system have to be as tepid and shallow as a puddle as a result. Boss fights have unique gimmicks that makes them unique, but the tradeoff is the common encounters become a slow grind. The implementation of auto battles without a speed up button is a big problem. The cast of 100 heroes are also huge. Each of them have their own story and reason they join the alliance. But that is it. There is no pay off. Once they join, unless they are important to the main plot, that is the limit to their story, save from hotsprings that allows heroes to interact with each other. In order to remedy this, sidequests which unlocks as story progress involving combinations of heroes, granting unique rewards would have been greatly beneficial to the length and interest in this game. As it stands, a lot of fun petered out by the end of the game. And then there are the minigames and all the different systems that are implemented throughout the game, ohhhh man. There are so much vestigial systems that are just useless and not fun to play like duel and wars. Minigames are fun, but the requirement to complete them drags on to the point where they all overstayed their welcome. 17 cooking battles? 120 card games? Racing breeding minigame with limited number of race for the creature you race with? Really? There is a lot of love and a lot to love in this game. But there's also a lot of problems with it. So keep that in mind. It's still a fun enough game that deserves a recommendation.

Eiyuden Chronicles: I recruited 100+ heroes, forgot some of their names. Hilarious theater scripts. Shi'arc race on gamepad? Glitchy—I had to switch to keyboard to win. Both Beigoma and the card game drag on like chores, and the secret mini-boss only looks scary if your team isn’t set up. No option to skip cutscenes. Yet somehow, the soul of Suikoden is still there—and that’s why I spent 200+ hours of my adult life with this. No regerts [sic], 100% completed, -1 backlog.

コンセプトはとてもいいけどまとまりきらなかったなという作品。 100人プレイアブルキャラがいるというのが売りなのに100人いるせいで、キャラの差別化を図るために大味なキャラしかおらず深みがない。結局使うキャラは固定になってしまうため愛着がわかない。100人いるためにストーリーに時間を割けず主人公たちの（特にノア）理由や思想みたいなものが感じられず薄っぺらい。ボリュームを追加するためのミニゲームが単調な作業ゲーばかりで実績が苦痛。何度もくじけてトロフィーコンプしてからレビュー書こうと思ってたけど心が折れたのでここで供養。

幻想水滸伝シリーズは未プレイです。 登場人物が多い「だけ」で、それぞれを使い分けるメリットが薄いです。 6人のレギュラーが固定される展開になるのは必然だと思います。 ほとんどのキャラクターは参加時に小イベントがありますが、それ以降はほぼ空気です。 キャラクターを深堀して愛着が湧くような工夫をもっとしてほしかったです。 ストーリーやシステム・各種調整面にも色々と思うことはありますが、キャラの魅力訴求が致命的です。 キャラクターデザインのばらつきや一部キャラの設定が、ゲームの世界観を崩しているとも感じます。 とにかくキャラクターの表面的な設定はあっても、それに思い入れを持つきっかけに欠けています。 魅力のあるキャラクターが沢山いるなかで、どれを選ぶかを悩む楽しみを追及するべきだったと思います。 ゲームの展開も少々退屈に感じ、中盤でリタイアしました。 新しく買う方々にはセール待ちをおすすめします、フルプライスは割に合いません。 ￥2,000切って妥当だと思います。

英雄を全員集めてのクリアレビュー レビュー欄に寄せられているマイナス意見は、実際にプレイしてみて「まさにその通りだな」と感じる部分が多かったです。 発売から1年以上が経過した今、期待を込めて遊んでみましたが、正直なところ大きな改善は見られませんでした。 戦闘バランス、UI設計、ミニゲームの仕様、そして物語の没入感やストーリーの薄さなど、指摘されていた要素は筆者にも強く響きました。 特に一部の不便な仕様は、おそらく100人以上の仲間全員に見せ場を作るための設計なのだと理解していますが、それでも「快適さ」が重視される今の時代には、やや古さを感じさせるものでした。 プレイヤーのストレスを減らす方向性とは、明らかに逆行している部分も多くあります。 ――それでも。 現代において、これだけの規模で作られた正統派の国産JRPGをまっさらな新作として遊べたことは、本当にありがたく、懐かしさと共に最後まで楽しむことができました。 中でも心から楽しめたのは、ビジュアルと音楽。 美しく描かれた地形や街並みの景観、多種多様なキャラクターのデザインは圧巻でした。100人を超える仲間キャラに“個性の被り”を感じさせない作り込みは見事で、ドット絵も立ち絵も、それぞれが唯一無二。 そのキャラたちを生み出した絵師やデザインチームには、思わず拍手を送りたくなります。 音楽はご存知「なるけみちこ」氏が手がけており、ヘッドホンでのプレイ推奨！と言いたくなるほどの耳福。 ワイルドアームズシリーズのサウンドトラックを今でも大切に聴いている筆者としては、それだけでも十分すぎる価値がありました。 調整不足、過剰な期待ゆえの厳しい評価も多く見られますが、私にとって本作は間違いなく佳作でした。