Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising Reviews

Because i like JRPG Games.

Atiomic 6/10

Recommended to get on sale.

Slow start, boring story.

Based on my love for the Suikoden series and while waiting for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, I played and completed this game, finishing all the achievements it had to offer. I have mixed feelings about this game — it’s interesting with its side-scrolling style, but like many other side-scrolling games, it felt fairly ordinary. Still, that’s okay, because this game might serve as a reference or prelude to the story that will unfold in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Wishing continued success to Natsume Atari, Rabbit and Bear Studios, and publisher 505 Games for their future titles. And thank you to Yoshitaka Murayama — rest in peace!

This kind of breaks the traditional formula of a JRPG in which now you have a 2D basically that looks like a beat em up sometimes, but aside from the fact that there are a lot of sidequests that get repeated, the story is actually quite good and I enjoyed my time with it. It took a long time to finish considering what I was expecting, but this was a game that for the price I believe it's a no-brainer if you're a fan of JRPGs and also now I look forward to playing the game Hundred Heroes

The best word to describe most of this game is "fine". It's just an enjoyable little diversion of a game that I am having fun playing.

This game for me so so. But if you wanna play Eiyuden Chronicle : Hundred Heroes, this game recommend to play.

The graphics are detailed and absolutely mesmerizing — from the town to the far edges of the world. The gameplay is straightforward and fairly easy to complete, except for certain bosses in each area; for those, you might need to do a bit of grinding to level up, and for specific quest items, you'll want to "consult" some guides to learn how to obtain them. The music? It perfectly matches each environment. For example, in icy cold areas, the soundtrack becomes mellow and snow-like, while in hotter zones, the music gets more intense. Hats off to the music producer for crafting tracks that truly enhance the atmosphere. As you progress through the quests, you’ll uncover the backstories of NPCs, and at the same time, help upgrade the shops around town. You’ll also receive stamps and rewards like baqua (the in-game currency), EXP, and useful items. However, let me give you a fair warning: the game can feel repetitive — not just during the main quests, but even in the endgame; after collecting all the stamps for your Black card and defeating the final boss (after your encounter with Shiva in town), there are still quests available. Eventually, the repetitive requests might wear you down — but hey, by then, you've earned a strong reputation, right? So, if you’re not into repetitive gameplay, this might not be for you. As for the final boss — be extra careful. Even on Normal difficulty, it’s no walk in the park. It took me an hour to finally beat it and earn that hard-won achievement! 9.5/10

Well, after i finished 100% of this game it's time for a review :D First and foremost: I tend to enjoy grindy games from time to time, so i spend more time here than the average to do the 100% achievements. If you're old like me and remember games like "Ragnarok Offline" or the newer "Dust: An Elysian Tail": This is quite comparable. It's a little sidescrolling hack'n'slash RPG that evolves solely around slaying enemies and collection ressources for quests. It's centered around a single town acting as base area, where you can buy stuff, upgrade your characters weapons, armor and runes(the elemental system of the game) and accept / finish your quests. This town is quite barren when you start the game, without much to do there, but you build and expand it with the main quest and little side quests you do. With every building upgrade you unlock new upgrades for your characters or new stuff to buy, so it's quite nice to see progress while doing your stuff. The quests are, in a nice way, forgettable, as well as the story is. Nothing really special, but cute when you have the nerve to read them all. Some dialogues are, in my eyes, unnecessarily long. You get stamps for quest completion, complete stamp cards with those and get new stamp cards afterwards until you have all 160 stamps and all cards full. When you finish the game the first time, your last stamp card isn't completely finished, but the game is so nice and saves automatically after the the last boss, switches on "hard mode" and overwhelms you with a bunch of final quests to finish your card and after that even more quests to collect enough money for everything you need to finish it finally. There is a little fishing minigame, just mashing right button combinations and a little combo system that grows over time with your character upgrades. It's quite satisfying to stomp minibosses with those into the ground. But beware: As i wrote initially, i tend to enjoy grindy games and most the game is pure grinding, real simple pure grinding. Choose an area you want to farm stuff for upgrades or a quest, choose your accessories and elemental runes, that are not really needed until hard mode, fill your magic pouch with health potions and go grind all the stuff you want and need. And well that's it. Got it for around 4-5€ and had 30 hours fun with it, so it was worth my while. So yeah, i can recommend it, if you want a game you can play in short bursts without putting much brain power into it. I don't know if it's a prologue to the main game or anything you want to remember when starting that though. EDIT: Just started Hundred Heroes and you get benefits from a complete save of Rising on your System :) No idea what that changes in the game, since i've never played it before, but at least it's recognized :)