A lighthearted prequel to Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.

Note for Suikoden fans: If you’re more interested in a Suikoden-like game, that would be Hundred Heroes. Rising, on the other hand, is not too much like it, except visually. It sets up some characters’ backstories, mainly CJ, Garoo, and Isha, who all appear in Hundred Heroes. However, if you’re not interested in a lighthearted, quest-a-thon, action JRPG, you can skip the prequel and still understand Hundred Heroes perfectly well.

CJ arrives at New Nevaeh as part of a Rite of Passage for her family of scavengers, as she seeks a treasure even greater than what her father found before her in the town’s quarry. Unfortunately, the town is in bad shape, and her conscience just won’t allow her to say “no” to the people’s plights.

Information
• The Eiyuden Chronicle games are intended to be a spiritual successor to the Suikoden series.
• Despite the point of above, the battle system of Rising is nothing like the Suikoden series. (There’s a clip of the game’s battle system on the store page. There are probably plenty of videos on YouTube of Suikoden’s. Explaining in text the difference between the two would be lengthy.)
• There is no difficulty setting (except for post-game when “Hard Mode” becomes available for re-fighting bosses). However, from my perspective, the game is beginner-friendly. While the boss battles are a bit challenging, as long as the player knows when to dodge and when to strike, they should be able to get through them.
• A very quest-heavy game. Countless sidequests, along with the main quests. Sidequests are almost exclusively fetch quests (“go get this item for me” quests).
• There is a fishing mini-game. The player must hit a sequence of buttons without making a mistake. The timer is fairly generous, so most people should be able to do this without issue.
• Don’t know if there’s a more official name for this type of puzzle, but I’d call them “complete the line” puzzles. The player has to rotate tiles to complete a line for magic to flow from one point to another. I’m pretty bad at puzzles, but I found these to be quite easy, so people who like puzzles will probably think they’re not at all challenging enough.
• The game worked perfectly with my PS5 (DualSense) controller. I didn’t need to use mouse/keyboard whatsoever.

Praises
• Available in ten different languages with two variations of a language. Spain Spanish and Latin America Spanish? Well, isn’t that fancy.
• Good music. Definitely JRPG-style sound effects.
• Decent humor. The relationship between CJ and her reluctant spelunking partner Garoo is quite amusing; she wants to help everyone and he just wants to help himself.
• Lovely anime art. Character designs have been inspired by Suikoden.
• I really like the backgrounds to areas; some are pretty. There are even objects in the foreground to give it a more 3D feeling.
• There are three sidequests involving procuring a cat.

Complaints
• Most sidequests are uninteresting, which makes doing a lot of them tedious and boring. My main motivation for doing them all was the Steam achievements and baqua (money).
• I wish there was a way to more easily avoid enemies, because a lot of the sidequests have the player revisiting areas with super weak enemies and they’re really just not worth the time.
• Platforming is frustrating at times. Getting the characters to jump just right seems flawed.
• Not a single dark-skinned character in the whole game. I know they’re trying to make it like Suikoden, but that’s one of the things they shouldn’t be striving for.
• Several achievements for Hard Mode, which makes 100%-ing the game less accessible to JRPG beginners. I definitely didn’t feel like fighting all the bosses again either.

The story didn’t actually get all that interesting until toward the end, when more serious story plots and subplots are revealed. Overall, I feel mostly neutral about this game. It is just supposed to be an intro for the main game: Hundred Heroes, so I’m not taking it too seriously. I didn’t hate it, so it’s getting a positive review.

A lighthearted prequel to [url=https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1658280/Eiyuden_Chronicle_Hundred_Heroes/]Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes[/url]. [b]Note for Suikoden fans[/b]: If you’re more interested in a Suikoden-like game, that would be Hundred Heroes. Rising, on the other hand, is not too much like it, except visually. It sets up some characters’ backstories, mainly CJ, Garoo, and Isha, who all appear in Hundred Heroes. However, if you’re not interested in a lighthearted, quest-a-thon, action JRPG, you [i]can[/i] skip the prequel and still understand Hundred Heroes perfectly well. CJ arrives at New Nevaeh as part of a Rite of Passage for her family of scavengers, as she seeks a treasure even greater than what her father found before her in the town’s quarry. Unfortunately, the town is in bad shape, and her conscience just won’t allow her to say “no” to the people’s plights. [u]Information[/u] • The Eiyuden Chronicle games are intended to be a spiritual successor to the Suikoden series. • Despite the point of above, the battle system of Rising is nothing like the Suikoden series. (There’s a clip of the game’s battle system on the store page. There are probably plenty of videos on YouTube of Suikoden’s. Explaining in text the difference between the two would be lengthy.) • There is no difficulty setting (except for post-game when “Hard Mode” becomes available for re-fighting bosses). However, from my perspective, the game is beginner-friendly. While the boss battles are a bit challenging, as long as the player knows when to dodge and when to strike, they should be able to get through them. • A very quest-heavy game. Countless sidequests, along with the main quests. Sidequests are almost exclusively fetch quests (“go get this item for me” quests). • There is a fishing mini-game. The player must hit a sequence of buttons without making a mistake. The timer is fairly generous, so most people should be able to do this without issue. • Don’t know if there’s a more official name for this type of puzzle, but I’d call them “complete the line” puzzles. The player has to rotate tiles to complete a line for magic to flow from one point to another. I’m pretty bad at puzzles, but I found these to be quite easy, so people who like puzzles will probably think they’re not at all challenging enough. • The game worked perfectly with my PS5 (DualSense) controller. I didn’t need to use mouse/keyboard whatsoever. [u]Praises[/u] • Available in ten different languages with two variations of a language. Spain Spanish [i]and[/i] Latin America Spanish? Well, isn’t that fancy. • Good music. Definitely JRPG-style sound effects. • Decent humor. The relationship between CJ and her reluctant spelunking partner Garoo is quite amusing; she wants to help everyone and he just wants to help himself. • Lovely anime art. Character designs have been inspired by Suikoden. • I really like the backgrounds to areas; some are pretty. There are even objects in the foreground to give it a more 3D feeling. • There are three sidequests involving procuring a cat. [u]Complaints[/u] • Most sidequests are uninteresting, which makes doing a lot of them tedious and boring. My main motivation for doing them all was the Steam achievements and baqua (money). • I wish there was a way to more easily avoid enemies, because a lot of the sidequests have the player revisiting areas with super weak enemies and they’re really just not worth the time. • Platforming is frustrating at times. Getting the characters to jump just right seems flawed. • Not a single dark-skinned character in the whole game. I know they’re trying to make it like Suikoden, but that’s one of the things they shouldn’t be striving for. • Several achievements for Hard Mode, which makes 100%-ing the game less accessible to JRPG beginners. I definitely didn’t feel like fighting all the bosses again either. The story didn’t actually get all that interesting until toward the end, when more serious story plots and subplots are revealed. Overall, I feel mostly neutral about this game. It is just supposed to be an intro for the main game: Hundred Heroes, so I’m not taking it too seriously. I didn’t hate it, so it’s getting a positive review.