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I played Suikoden II when it was new in my friend's basement when we were 12 years old. Ever since then, I've been a massive fan of Murayama's work and was KICKING MYSELF that I missed the kickstarter. Pre-ordered it on GOG as soon as I could, and been playing Eiyuden Rising to get myself hype for Hundred Heroes. It looks SO good, and the art in particular is GORGEOUS, maybe the best 2.5D style I've seen yet and the 2.5D style is probably the most beautiful style modern gaming is doing these days.

After finishing Suikoden 1 and 2 just before this game's Kickstarter begin I've been anticipating it for a long time and I'll definitely buy it Thank you Yoshitaka Murayama for bringing this game to us

I'm really hyped for this. The Suikoden series is one of my favorite series ever. I already have this preordered and I'm expecting this to be my GOTY!

This does look like a beautiful game even with the camera blur effect. Having environmental options in games like this feel crucial and with not being bogged down my random encounters I feel that really does help promote exploration which may be better in the long run

As a Suikoden series fan, this really hits hard nostalgia. I've been saving for a long time and fortunately, can afford the game. I only hope, that this wont be the only Eiyuden. I hope, it can have many more and give us throwbacks like possibly having Nowa or Seign in the party for Eiyuden 2 or something. This game really brought a smile to my face, it's like a time machine, goin' back to the good old days, and like a hug, from days past.

Such a huge YES! Your video makes a lot of great points (and very important ones) why games we experienced can be timeless. When the original Suikoden games came out they took their time to build up, and with Eiyuden they continue all the party building and experimentation. So glad this game is getting its chance to shine. And thank you for mentioning Suikodens creator and his influence on this game.

I like how it doesn't have a silent protagonist, so it's a bit like Suikoden 3 in that regard. Having a silent protagonist is fine, but a fully fleshed out main character like those in the Tales series tend to draw me in to the story a lot better.

I'm here for sharks perpetually staring at the ceiling. Can't wait to get my hands on this!

I didn't even know this existed until a streamer mentioned it last night, so seeing this review today is most welcome. And I'm glad to hear the finished product is good! Definitely will be getting this

I was already gonna buy this. This Review just made me more excited. Also your coverage of this game put it on my radar AND got me hype for it. Thank you for covering the old school jrpg niche on youtube. Your videos are great!

Best review of this game I’ve seen so far. Good job bro !

Great content my friend. I can't wait to get my hands on this

Yes, I’ve been looking forward to this game for a long time. I have the PS4 prequel game and the main game was a PS five only and switch.

I bought the Deluxe version and have it pre-loaded and ready to play when I’m off work

Its so good. Backed the kickstarter as soon as I heard about it way back when. I just can't get enough. Highly recommended.

ive been waiting on this game for a few years, it seems. i am SUPER EXCITED to get my hands on this!!!

Whoa... never knew what this series was before. Heard of it, but never got into it. Thanks to your video and helpful info, im definitely going to play this

For me, the favorite track hands down has to be "Flags of Brave." When it started playing part way into the Bridge Duel, it took that scene to a whole other level. It's like the "Reminiscence" of Eiyuuden Chronicles; it doesn't get played a lot, but hits hard when it does.

I plan to get and play this at some point. Sadly I never played the Suikoden series much (except for a bit of Suikoden I), so I have no nostalgia to hype me up for this. My mind is set on another game releasing this week, but i look forward to playing this eventually. It's sad the creator passed before seeing it released.

just finished replaying Eiyuden Chronicle Rising just before this game comes out and i am SO HYPED! I pre-ordered this last month and i cannot wait to play it! I loved playing the Suikoden games especially 3. It's so sad the creator passed away before he got a chance to see the release of the game but i hope he was happy with the end result.

Agree with your takes! Suikoden II continues to be my favorite game of all time. Eiyuden Chronicle did not unseat it but I loved it. It hits all my nostalgia in the same way. I enjoyed seeing them bring back chracter types, mechanics or tropes from Suikoden but do it a bit different. Its like a new dish from your favorite chef!

Let's go !! I am downloading right now ! ❤

Absolutely going to play this -- without question

hadn't seen this one yet, but i'll definitely be picking it up. looks fantastic

From what I've played of the beta I'm so excited to play the rest of it! I'll be playing it later tonight.

Thank you for the review! I'm still waiting for copy so I I'm pretty excited as to what you've shown so far. I love Suikoden and I definitely love old-school type games. As to whether I love Octopath vs Eiyuden, I will definitely love Eiyuden more because of how large the world is and how the story is akin to what I still feel about Suikoden which is cut above the rest in terms of narrative. Got teary eyed truthfully how beautiful this game looked T_T

So addicted, its so good especially end game/post game. Im just in love with this game

My wife and her friend have finally got our copies from kickstarter campaign last week and they are making their way through it as I type this comment. Definitely going to be in her top 3 favorites of all time category.

This looks awesome

That intro music, chefs kiss.

I can’t wait to pick it up!

this game is everything ive been wanting, its so good

I love the game too, if I were to give it a score, id say 8/10 for me. I love how they utilized every single characters. Characters who ran theater, and art workshop to design your HQ. Then you have guild deputies good at collecting resources in a mission. I love the guild missions, it really helps with resource collection and you see the characters do it too when you visit the location where they are doing the mission. It helps with the immersion, and feel that the characters are actually doing something out there for the cause. I like that they also added a support slot for non-combatants, so we can bring characters like the shopkeepers and chef for buffs. So they can be included too during MSQ, and they say something as well. They utilized most of the characters and make them relevant. The combatants are nicely done as well because most characters have unique skills and runes and plays different. I just wish they did more. Like for example, they should utilized the enemy weaknesses more and made it easy for us the ditinguish which enemy is weak to what. Like for instant characters who do piercing attacks could have been a better party member in a dungeon with many enemies weak to piercing damages. Elemental weaknesses of enemies are also hard to distinguish as there is no assess. These could have been done better.

SO glad i backed this game, and looking forward to its success

Im getting this day just because of my love for the Suikoden series...this is great to hear that the game is great and honoring the past JRPGs and Murayama's work

Ok, you convinced me! i was waiting for a price drop

i cant wait i need this game NOW RIGHT NOW

Getting this as soon as I finish Dragon's Dogma 2. Looks like it'll scratch an itch that I need scratchin'

Can’t wait to play this. Between Unicorn Overlord and this there’s gonna be a lot of hours of my life dedicated to these

Suikoden 2 is my favorite game of all time - I'll pick this up asap.

I'm pretty sure the option to turn off the depth of field blur is only available for the pc version. Hopefully consoles will get it added. What I would really love is a slider for it, because I don't want to turn it off entirely. I just want to adjust the severity of it.

Can't wait to play this game! Trying to finish a few other games like Final Fantasy Rebirth, octopath travelers 2 and unicorn overlord which all will take me some time to beat.

It's out and you've beaten it? Gah!! Was hoping to be done with the project before it came out. Must resissst... through these tears 😭

Big question. I cant readm smal text very wel, old man eyes failing me. IS the game 100% voice acted, or mostly small text reading? DFoes it have LARGE text option in accessibility?

Ive been gettin an itch for an old jrpg style game. Never tried suikoden either, so im excited to try this.

I’ve been very excited for this, and even more so after this review. It’s so pretty. The big character sprites are just like suikoden which had very tall thin sprites. I hope the switch version is good because my computers hard drive just corrupted a few days ago and restarts every 2secs 😢

I was late to the Suikoden party being I hadn’t played the series til the 2010’s.. And it’s the reason why I found a lot of my current favs due to recommendation.. So it’s gonna be heartwarming when I get my cart as well as that Remaster when it drops

Oh it's out? nice!!

Two more days but I need it NOW!!!

I'm very interested and I hope it'll pay to the wait!

What combat is better, octo 2 or this? Thanks!

Its Like what i expected from this game, i have a copy and today i start playing it

Im playing on PC the loading time is not as instant as i expected Overall the gameplay is pretty much ps2 era jrpg not much quality of life here but those who played suikoden 1 and 2 will probably dont mind it The only issue for me is just the loading im pretty fine with they go classic jrpg feel i played rpg since the NES days But at least i hope they improved the loading on PC

Definitely gonna be playing this. I'm also hoping and praying that Suikoden 1/2 remaster actually releases. They have been radio silent on them since last August when they delayed them. I'm a bit concerned.

just started playing it and so far the visuals look great and I did preorder on the switch but it got shoved back to next month. So I just got it on gamepass and playing on my computer

This game is the perfect example of HD 2D rpg for next gen instead of jumping to 3D wagon The style is perfect, i can imagine game like wild arms, valkyrie profile, star ocean in this style rather than moving to 3D

I gotta wait til May for the physical Switch release but glad to see it'll be well worth the wait!

Yes, i'm getting it, yes I'm a long time Suikoden fan and I wish and hope they make a physical copy of the artbook.

This is the only game I've spent 8 hours per day playing lately. I love it.

I’m definitely going to give it a try

I Can't wait to get my hands on this game 😭😭😭🔥

Suikoden 1 2 3 were my childhood ❤

I just got my castle and am recruiting characters now. I'm happy with it. Although it feels like something is missing and I don't know what that is🤔

I backed the game on Kickstarter and got my copy Thursday. I’ve been playing for over 20 hours now and really enjoying it. I need to stop with the story for now and do some more recruiting.

The low encounter rate is a bug on PC. When you set the refresh rate to 60hz it doesn’t actually cap to that and will match your monitors settings. For example if your monitor is 144hz it will jump to that even though you have it set to 60 and that makes the encounter rate way lower than it is supposed to be.

Suikoden series best known for their World, Lore & History. Each series connected to each other. i hope Eiyuden Chronicles have the same World Building, which is interest me in diving into their lore.

Goddamnit why do i have to work today😂

I need to hurry up and clear some backlog so I can get this!

This game looks amazing so I am still pretty excited. It doesn't appear to be perfect, but what is.

What did you play this on? It seems like the switch port is in a really rough state. I wanted to own a physical copy, but it seems like steam may be my best bet.

I got it a day already. Have played for 18 hours since. It's really good.

They must have updated the frequency in battles, because they are more frequent now than a couple per dungeon

Also, the encounter rate is currently tied to the frame rate. Just learned it this morning. Dropping the frame rate down will increase encounters.

Dang it... it comes out next week but my budget is already allocated to Stellar Blade .... well might get it next month. Looks promising.

I wish I could rename the main characters but yeah, you're really selling this for me and I might giving it a good look. As for whether or not it'll live up to Suikoden 2? ...Oof. That's a tall order my friend. That said, it does look promising.

One thing that really prevented me from enjoying the game completly at the start was comparing it too much with Suikoden titles. But after a while I got immersed and really started enjoying it. I ended up having 60h within a week of play (really concerning when you think about it seriously). There are definetly some QoL improvements they could add but overall it is an amazing game that really deserves a spot on the hall of fame of JRPGs. Thank you very much Murayama-san!

Eiyuden is prounced with a long A sound. Not like "I". "ei" being pronounced like "I" is a Germanic pronunciation. In Japanese e is pronounced like "eh" and i is prounounced like "ih". Combining them gives an "ay" like the end of "today". It rhymes with "hey you den" Eiyuu means "Hero" in Japanese.

The creator died? Akira Toriyama and the creator of Suikoden both died this year? This year has been rough.

Encounter rate is tied to frame rate btw if you lower your frame rate outside of the game you’ll get more encounters (30fps every ~20 seconds, 60 fps ~40 seconds)

how much of the game is voiceacted? i am dyslexic and the amount of text i have to read vs listen to make a big difference

Yea so I got my backer download codes for switch and PS5 and I can tell you that neither version has the graphic settings option, so you can't turn off that blurring effect. I can also report the switch version has much worse load times. ps5 loads in in 2-3 seconds and switch version seems to take 10 seconds or more every load screen. Then again I do have the OG 1st wave switch so that might be a factor. I do feel that my switch version feels a bit choppy.

Been looking forward to this for years, I even helped fund it. It's a shame it's all been soured by a bad English localisation team

I can't wait to play this game. My only issue is that Switch users were screwed from early access via Digital Deluxe and weren't able to preorder.

What a great game I am loving it!

Ya know what i didn't even need to watch more than 2 minutes, gonna go buy this on Switch

I played for 13 hours straight, I haven't done that since bg3

My most anticipated game of all time as Suikoden is my favorite series of all time. I think I'm about a quarter of the way through, at the dungeon after the treefolk village and so far I am really enjoying the experience. Will it knock off Suikoden 2 as my favorite ever? Probably not. The characters aren't QUITE connecting on the same level that S2s did, but it's still all very, very good. I think EC is akin to Suikoden 1, actually. A great, great base for them to build upon on the already-announced sequel.

Can I change de english dub for the JP dub?

Oh man, between this and Sandland, I'm gonna be a very busy boy.

Absolutely can't wait! The Xbox has been so devoid of jrpgs!!😊

I enjoyed Suikoden 1 and 2 and really liked Octopath Traveller 2 so going to give this one a go after I have finished FFVII again (nearly there) and played Dragon Quest V.

I’m seeing a lot of people angry about the translation. I’ve started it on game pass and am at the 6 months later part. There’s one comrade who is definitely annoying to me already and I can’t wait to bench her

this game gives me heavy Breath of Fire IV energy

psn store said release today but now it says release 23 ?

Kinda interesting Nintendo World Report gave it a 5/10 and was very critical about it.

I pre-ordered it though I won't be able to pick up my copy until a week after release. I don't know if this is true but I think I read or heard that the plot for Suikoden II was actually what they wanted to do first but they made Suikoden I either to get some practice before making their planned game, because Konami wanted something faster then they felt they could make II right, or both. If That's true it makes sense the spiritual successor would lean more towards II. As for the army battle system the movement looks closer to II's though much smaller battlefields but the actual combat looks between units much closer to that in III. I view this as a good thing because in II there was a high chance of attacks not damaging at all, making many army battles last much longer then they needed to IMO if the player's luck was bad, while in III they usually inflicted at least some damage. One odd thing I noticed while browsing through the recruitable characters list on the wiki is there are several male characters wearing glasses (five minimum) but I haven't noticed any female characters wearing glasses in the artwork or screen shots. I wonder why?

is there deep lore regarding rune? Like Suikoden True Rune..

I have the prequel game they teleasss but I just gcant get into it. Granted, it’s an entirely different genre. I just hope I’m not missing much story

Exemplary review my dude. To flat out say this is better than Chained Echoes or Sea of Stars is really saying something. While all three games are labors of love, I believe Hundred Heroes trounces the others in sheer volume & scope. CE was primarily made by one guy but is kinda one & done after you finish. As for Sea of Stars, the honeymoon stage is over and most call it overrated now. But this seems like it had an ENORMOUS amount of time, resources, & moving parts put into it. Overall, whatever flaws people bring up, they can't say this was a half-hearted effort.