![]() The first five hours will introduce you to the game’s loop of accepting a variety of quests from townsfolk, heading out into one of two dungeon-like locations, and fighting your way through the creatures and monsters that inhabit them while collecting resources to bring back to fulfil those quests. ![]() Luckily, CJ is always willing to help people out. Her journey brings her to a mining town full of adventurers, which has unfortunately fallen into disrepair. She’s great in a fight, and looking to find some seriously big treasure. The most significant point of difference is that Eiyuden Chronicle Rising is a 2D, real-time action RPG, whereas Hundred Heroes will have a traditional turn-based combat system and epic narrative.įrameborder="0" allow="accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> Eiyuden Chronicle Rising – The First Five HoursĮiyuden Chronicle Rising introduces you to CJ, an androgynous teenage girl with a ton of energy and enthusiasm. It’s set in the same universe as the upcoming Hundred Heroes, but it’s a more focused game (the developer suggests around 25-30 hours in total) that revolves around building up a town and gathering the resources to do so. The very last stretch goal was a completely separate companion game, which became Eiyuden Chronicle Rising. It was fully funded in a couple of hours, and smashed through all of its stretch goals to raise a total of ¥481,621,841 (about AU $5.3 million). ![]() In 2020, some of the key developers behind the series launched a Kickstarter campaign for a spiritual successor: Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. It’s also extremely repetitive, since you’re always going back to the same few areas, although the game tries to mix this up by adding the ability to trap monsters and go fishing.Īs an action game, Rising is far too simplistic to hold your complete attention, especially as it squanders some of its best moments, such as some relatively inventive boss battles, by everything being just too easy.Japanese RPG series Suikoden was a cult favourite on the original PlayStation and had an avid fan base, despite being a hard game to obtain in Western regions, and ultimately living in the shadow of heavyweights like Final Fantasy. In general, though, the game remains very simple and very easy. You also unlock new abilities as you progress, which opens up the exploration (as you learn to double jump and air dash, for example) and the combat a little more. One specialises in light attacks, one in heavy attacks, and the other in magic, so they’re just breaking down a normal role-playing character into three separate parts, but the conceit works well enough and when you eventually unlock link attacks it’s fun to have them all acting together as one – as you queue up attacks from each character by using their specific controller button. Combat isn’t any more complicated than jabbing the attack button but there is some light platforming and the option to switch between the other characters and make use of their unique abilities. At the beginning of the game the town is hit by an earthquake and so many of the initial requests involve visiting nearby, monster-infested areas and collecting the raw materials needed to rebuild.Įverything in Rising is played on a strict 2D plane, both when you’re in town and when you’re out fighting monsters. These ruins have brought treasure hunters from near and far, including lead character CJ, who is soon drawn into the mystery of where all the monsters have suddenly come from and the supposed urban legends surrounding the dig site.įor much of the game though she and her two quickly accumulated friends have much more prosaic concerns, as they run around town doing errands for villagers in order to earn the right to visit the ruins and do some actual treasure hunt. ![]() There’s a lot more anthropomorphic animals than usual, mixed in with all the humans, but otherwise you’re playing a plucky nobody who ends up saving… not the world but a town built next to the remains of an ancient civilisation. The world of Eiyuden Chronicle is not one that veers too far from tradition when it comes to Japanese role-players. ![]()
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