Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

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。

I am a backer for this game and i was expecting much from the Suikoden series. Turns out, i cannot recommend this game at all. Pros first - because there are very limited few pros one could think of but like hundred cons. Good music, very nostalgic in a good way, especially in those duel scene. (I am talking about the music only, the duel system is very lame.) Battle animation - moves are good, even with so many characters they still make the animation kinda cool for each character. Also some chain attack from two characters is a highlight (but only from animation perspective, the chain attack is not worth spending two character's action in a turn at all). Overall the game pace is slow. I am not talking about how the story progresses, but rather like something's wrong with the game engine and game design. Slow walking speed - they even make one of the support character's function as boosting movement speed when you walk around the map. Also takes you an accessory slot to further boost the walking speed. Does walking speed mean for anything like dodging traps in the map? No such thing. It simply serves for no purpose to have such low walking speed. Also there is always 1-1.5s loading time whenever you try to make interaction with NPC, investigation on clickable stuff in the map, opening a menu, etc. Many lame conversation lines. Combat design is mediocre, as many said your mages or archers could easily be one-hit by random creeps (NOT a boss fight). MP & MP-skills design is a disaster. You would only do skills which uses SP where SP is granted to you per turn for free. Casting a MP-skill costs you one-third of your mana and the damage is low AF. Front row + back row combat design - it doesn't make the combat into anything technical. Most of the time random creeps can hit your back row while the your team does not easily have ways to access back row of enemy's team. Enemy don't usually attack your tank which you normally placed in the front row, and there is no mechanism to make your tank to be enemy's primary target. Again given the MP issue, plus random creeps can always take half of a character's HP by one hit, you rely heavily on healing items. But then the game sets a inventory capacity for items you can carry. 30 In the beginning, shared by armors not equipped, runes not equipped, and all consumables. It is a meaningless system as it is not really trying to ask you make good selection of items to enter a dungeon, but rather just simply copy pasting their own old JRPG mind, which adds no value to player at all. Elemental attacks are meaningless, since most of the time SP-skill (usually with no elements i have seen so far) are the most powerful attacks. So the whole game is like looping base attack + wait for SP > SP skill > base attack / healing. When it comes to boss fight you may add a block or dodge for some alerted attack. Dumb and boring combat. There is no strategy at all. You just want to maximize your team's damage from the team formation as enemies ignores tanks and do random attacks, healing skills is useless with the large MP consumption, and elemental attack does not outplay SP skills. NO STRATEGY, simply all about STATS & DPS. RPG part - leveling up gives fixed stat upgrade by system, with no alteration could be made. Armors simply boost stats with no other elements. There is no "build" for the game, only thing you may customize your characters would be from the 3-6 rune slots. But please bear in mind some of the rune slots are not alterable. And most of the useful runes are again boosting stats only. So after all, it does not make a "build" viable, you would only focus on putting high stat-boost runes for characters with high base stat. UI - there are tons of issues. They are still using like PS1 style UI and menu systems. Like for modern games when you open the menu options, it shall allow you to select "characters status" / "items" / "Armors" / "Map" / etc and enter into the detailed tab after selection. This game is like default menu first page being "detailed character status", and you may press LT / RT to go to next detailed page, e.g. press LT once then you would be directed to "items" detailed page. So in case you want to go to "Armor" option you need to LT twice and wait for 1.5-2s loading each time a tab is being loaded. Not to mention many other annoying stuff like whenever you do fast travel (which is only available like after 5-6 hours of progress), you always got to have some character repeating the same two lines before and after each fast travel. And again each time it takes 1.5s - 2s for each line to be finished. Changing character's armor is another disaster - you can only manage the armors from characters who is under current team formation. Those armors being put on characters not in the current team is not manageable at all. So if you wish to get the armor / accessory from the non-team member, you need to go all the way back to INN to change the team formation (yes you may only swap team members in INN even the game is with over 100 allies), lay off one of your current team member, then put the non-team member into your team, just for unequipping a piece of armor from him/her. Then you need to lay off this character again and put the desired character back to the team and install that wanted armor piece. Make no sense at all and only annoys players. Cant speak of all the cons here - but please do expect all the PS1-gen-JRPG issues are still perfectly copied to this game. Probably it is acceptable if this game was out 25 years ago but it is a nah for now. My standard - BDFF, Octopath Traveler are what a mordern JRPG shall look like.

BUGs every where, translation just a joke, NOT recommanded. 各种技能/传送/剧情/战斗 BUG 没有修正，什么在根据地跑两步直接就卡死再启动不能了喵； 让它放完整个片尾的我是白痴，最后它的演出人员表都TM能有BUG喵…… 翻译简直就是个笑话，你要是听日语看文本（中文/英文）直接就头痛死喵，根本就不在一个线上喵……还非要整点和剧情八竿子打不着的政确的东西（♥♥♥♥）进去喵的！ 综上，不推荐买这游戏喵。

Calling in the original Suikoden writer and character artist to make a spiritual successor should've been a guaranteed home run. Fourteen hours in, it becomes clear that pedigree alone doesn't resurrect magic — it just makes the failure more disappointing. This is what happens when talent can't overcome a bloated, incoherent story that mistakes scope for substance. The 100+ characters are the game's original selling point and its fatal flaw. Having that many potential allies sounds like Suikoden's greatest strength replicated, except most of them are nobody — forgettable NPCs with one-line motivations grafted into your army because the game needed to hit a quota. The writing struggles to juggle this cast; story beats land with all the impact of a wet napkin. Character arcs feel truncated, development is surface-level, and the narrative never builds genuine momentum. It's technically a war story, but watching it unfold is like reading a checklist of plot points crossed off without dramatic weight behind them. The original Suikoden writer is still in there somewhere, but something broke in translation — whether it's scope creep, localization mishaps, or just the difficulty of managing an unwieldy narrative, the story simply isn't compelling. The charm, the character-driven moments, the emotional resonance that made Suikoden memorable — none of it's here. Just mechanical plotting. The irony stings hardest for Suikoden fans: this game had the architect of two classics on staff and still couldn't deliver what made those games work. Nostalgia for Suikoden doesn't transfer. Getting the old crew back doesn't guarantee the old magic. Skip it. The pedigree makes the miss worse, not better.

- 이 게임의 가장 큰 문제점은 환상수호전2라는 벽이 너무 거대하다는 거다. 본인은 환상수호전 1(1회차),2(3회차),3(2회차) 플레이 유저임. 이게 환상수호전의 정신적 후속작라는 배경만 없었다면 나름 유저들의 준수한 평가를 받았을 것도 같지만... 문제는 킥스타터 지원한 사람들은 전부 환상수호전2를 기대하고 지원했고 실제 그쪽의 영향도 많이 받은 것이 느껴진다. 그래픽도 좋아졌고 사운드도 좋아졌다. 문제는 스토리가 환수2의 절반도 따라가지 못한다. 이 게임의 주요소비층은 다 척추도 제대로 못펴는 늙은이들이 많을텐데 너무 저연령적인 스토리다. 환수2에 근접할 충분한 포텐셜이 있었음에도 불구하고 스토리 작가가 다 망쳐놨다. - 그나마 장점은 발전한 그래픽, 사운드, 그리고 3에서 호평을 받았던 연극 시스템(이건 정말 잘 만들었다. 올캐릭 성우 더빙이라니) 그래도 2보다 재미없다고 해도 사실 환상수호전 1보단 재미있었다. 환상수호전 1.5버젼 정도로 생각하고 플레이하면 대만족할 수준인 듯 그래서 추천은 준다. - 라이징은 안해도 상관없지만 하고 오면 조금 더 재미를 느낄 수는 있다. 도전과제 - 노가다도 많고 찾아야 될 것도 많고 쉽지 않다. 결정적으로 1,2초 차이로 못깨는 샤크쉽레이싱은 나같은 똥손이 깨기는 역부족이었다. 더 열심히 하면 깰 것도 같지만 혈압올라서 포기. 스토리의 문제점(백영웅전 및 환상수호전 시리즈 스포가 있으므로 원하지 않는 분들은 뒤로가기 눌러주세요) 1. 악역의 카리스마가 2의 루카프라이드를 못따라가는 건 루카가 역대급 포스를 지닌 악당이니 그렇다 치더라도 1의 황제폐하도 못따라간다. 1의 황제는 "짐은 애시당초 너의 매혹마법 따윈 걸리지도 않았다"는 충격적인 반전의 카리스마라도 보여주기나 했지, 예는 기껏 잡은 백작영애도 아무 제재없이 놔주서 결국 자멸의 길을 걷게 되고 뭔 배포라도 보여주고 싶었나 본데 그럴거면 나중에 점령한 영지의 백작은 왜 안놔줘서 감옥에서 죽게 만드는지 일관성도 없고 2. 동료들의 개성이 없는건 1도 그랬으니 그랬다 칠수도 있지만 2기준에서 주인공은 리더가 되서 고뇌하는 모습도 보여주고 (실제로 히로인? 과 도피 선택지도 있음- 도피하면 잘못된 행동의 업보로 동료 1명 끔살), 후반부에 히로인 끔살은 그당시에 왕좌의 게임에서 북부의 왕이 죽는 것보다 더 충격적이었음. 여기도 동료 다 못모으면 히로인 끔살이라는 장면이 있지만....선택과 필수는 다르지....거기다 요즘은 다 공략보고 할텐데... 3. 전쟁의 참혹함이 안느껴짐. 영웅전설 섬의 궤적도 그런점에서 별로였는데... 왜 전쟁이 났는데 마을에 사람들이 안죽는거지??? 요즘 스토리작가들 너무 스윗한거 같음. 4. 온천이벤트 너무 재미없음. 유일하게 그나마 볼만했던게 안경트리오 3인방 들어가는거 그것도 볼만했다는 거지.... 개그 정말 그런식으로 밖에 못적는건가... 이딴식의 이벤트신을 어떻게 위에선 통과시킨건가? 3에서 온천 이벤트를 예로 들면 똑같이 생긴 파충류 3명이 인간의 얼굴은 도저히 구분안된다면서 전혀 얼굴 일러 다른 3명을 비교하는데 십년이 지나도 기억날만큼 재밌는 만담이었음.. 5. 주인공 라이벌이라고 생각했던 세이나 흑인 여자도 전혀 존재감이 없음. 2의 라이벌 죠우이는 루카의 동생과 정략결혼으로 동생은 독수공방 시키고 매형의 뒷통수를 치는 피의 인간 말종 복수극을 보여주는데... 6. 이건 아쉬운 부분인데 전략부분이 부활한건 좋은데 승리의 방정식이 적의 내분임, 초한지식 승리 방법이긴 하지만 2의 삼국지 식으로 화공기습 같은 게 겜하는 입장에서는 더 재밌었을텐데 하는 아쉬움... 7. 엔딩의 여운이 없음. 사실 이건 내가 베드엔딩을 못봐서 그럴수도 있지만 진엔딩이 그냥 여동생과 손잡고 집에 들어가는게 끝???? 2에서는 신생제국의 황제가 되는 베드엔딩?도 있고 진엔딩으로 가기 위해 (선택 가능) 대관식 불참하면 슈우 같은 동료들이 황제가 안나타니까 당황해하는 게 대단히 여운이 있었는데.... 결론 -->환상수호전 1보다는 재밌었지만 2에 가까워질 가능성을 보여주었음에도 스윗한 스토리로 말아먹은게 너무 아쉽다.

Man, I'm trying to enjoy this game but it's treating me like I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ at every turn. Dungeons so far suck..they're just walking simulators with long hallways with absolutely nothing in them except maybe a treasure chest with mid look or running into a random fight. puzzles are boring and bland...push this cart here so it's not blocking mentioned long hallway. Push the carts into the pressure plate there...now put a rock in the cart and push it full speed into this boulder so you can destroy the boulder somehow... but let's not be able to clearly climb this small bit of debris that's blocking our way here... definitely can't jump over these 3-foot-tall obstacles. nope. The menus suck as well. They don't navigate smoothly and there's a lot of tab-switching beteen then where you have to press rb/lb or whatever other keys they're assigned to for you to 'rotate' between them, which takes time. You can't smoothly just navigate through them, no, you have to give the stupid animation a whole ass second before you can move to the next tab over. Menus in battle also suffer this slow ass issue where you can't just move through it quickly because you already know what you want to do... also the auto battle thing, which the game seems to want to promote you to do, sucks. As others mentioned, the dialogue sucks, it points out stupidly obvious things and tries to handhold you sometimes. I ♥♥♥♥ you not even games like Golden Sun 1 did this ♥♥♥♥ 100% better, yes, the FIRST golden sun, on a gameboy advance. Better puzzles, cooler fights, more responsive menus, better dungeon layouts, actual plot from the very beginning where you set out on a journey to save the world from an alchemy/psynergy based doom and even dilemas between who is right and who is wrong. this pile of crap here isn't even worth half of its base price. This is a joke. Sadly I can't really refund this because I got it from Humble monthly, but man I really wish I could take this to a gamestop and trade it in for something else.

Needs a x2 , x3 speed key. Would shave off 70% of the time spent playing the game, making it far more enjoyable.

The character dialogue is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad.....please don't hire woke gen z idiots to do your writing. Apparently they had to remove the political slop, but its still so bad. I started skipping entire scenes because things that could be said in 2 or 3 lines started taking 10 minutes to get through. I can forgive a messy story, but the entire thing doesn't make any sense. The big bad guy just exists because they needed an evil bad guy. Speaking of which, the one actual guy who would have worked was an evil lich, Markus. Just some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lich with undead minions shows up and now I'm all of a sudden helping him.... I should be putting him AND his arch nemesis into the grave like Viktor and that vampire ♥♥♥♥....THEN take his undead army as an option to add to my own. No, they could have spun that into a great side quest/story and instead its just "I'm the good undead guy! I'm just misunderstood! The bad undead guy took my castle! We're friends now! We put 100 hereos in the title and need to pad it!" That is just the tip of the ice berg. The early game characters you start with are blatant rip offs or people you want to strangle. That being said, the characters matter little, due to the rune system there is no real difference. Only a handful of them, maybe 15, make an actual difference to your party. A bunch of them have main character syndrome, especially the 3rd wheel Marissa. Seign and Nowa are alright and make sense, but this ♥♥♥♥ just gets hamfisted into the story. The combat is just slow.....and I honest to god can't understand how that happened, even Suikoden 1 had multiple characters acting at once. This? No. Its actually worse. The "war" system is pretty bad, there is little customization - you select from presets and a lot of it is locked. I'm at the last segment of the game, the last fight I had wouldn't let me select captains, groups, etc. Exploring was ok...until you hit these invisible walls...literally. They wanted to reuse some areas for hunting and resources. That is fine, understandable and makes sense to a point.....but their way of gating that is to just put a soldier there to tell you that you can't go any further until they finish scouting....there's a big bad monsters around. I wish I was kidding. They went from reasonable things like clearing an avalanche to just "Nah bruh, you can't go that way." I would have rather gotten my ass kicked and learned the further you go in the stronger the monster sets are. = You can tell where the passion started, the DEI slop got introduced, then patched over, then became a mess that looks like it was designed by committee. If Mediocre was a game, this would be it. $60 is an absolute joke to ask for, I honestly feel robbed at $20.