KickStarter Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes - From Suikoden creators

[Mauman]

Also, on a related note, the intro for Suikoden 3 is my favorite jrpg intro.

 

[scytheavatar]

I'm 100% sure I'm no longer the person I was back when I first played Suikoden I & II.

That being said, nostalgia ain't clouding my mind. With all due respect for people who worked on this, unforunately this game completely lacks any bit of charm that the originals had. There's nothing remotely remarkable about it.

Sure, the art style & music are serviceable, but the combat is unremarkable and tedious even by JRPG standards. All non-boss enemies are feeling like generic trash mobs.

Characters are completely unmemorable, story and dialogue are incredibly bland. Even the joy of building and upgrading your castle isn't there for me.

It's not a "bad" game per se, it's just a bland but somehow semi-competent JRPG that lacks a lot of QoL features. I could have forgiven the latter if the game had any redeeming quality whatsoever.

I was waiting for this game, but after 6 hours of playing it, I'm not gonna finish it. There's no reason for me to push through it.

The reality is that the Suikoden series is a lot like Final Fantasy, it relies on slick presentation and good writing to hide the fact that fundamentally the gameplay is trash. And the devs never were able to figure out how to make a robust and deep gameplay throughout all these games. Old school JRPG writing might have been amazing to you 25 years ago but you probably have grown out of it.

 

[Jinn]

The reality is that the Suikoden series is a lot like Final Fantasy, it relies on slick presentation and good writing to hide the fact that fundamentally the gameplay is trash.

A sweepingly broad statement that is ultimately true of every Suikoden except 3, but definitely not true about all the Final Fantasies.

The hard mode and additional toggleables in this should have been a remedy to the gameplay problem. I wonder how many people who aren't satisfied used them? To be clear, I have no opinion on Eiyuden Chonicle, as I haven't played it yet.