Eredia: The Diary of Heroes Reviews

This is a great RPG game for those that enjoy classic RPGs. In this game not at all enemies drop gold and it makes a lot of sense. Why would wolves or other non-human enemies be carrying gold? This makes the beginning a little bit challenging, but you are able to grind for gold after a while. Though you shouldnt need to do it much. The side quest rewards can give you good items and gold. They also have very helpful recommended levels and are great way to get stronger before taking care of the main story. Many of the bosses will force you to think and use some strategy, so dont expect to just brute force your way through the game - you will need to use buffs / debuffs to your advantage. And maybe the right equipment wont hurt either. I love the villains and many of the story characters. The Main Character is a little bit obnoxious, but I guess we can't all be perfect. Highly recommend buying this and I am looking forward to a sequel.

This game is and fun RPG to play. Just make sure that when you accept a quest to really pay attention to where they tell you to go because if not you may have to wander around until you find what you are looking for.

This is good game with interesting characters, funny dialogs, non-trivial quests. Unfortunately random encounters ruined it for me. To get from plot point A to plot point B, you have to fight through dozens of same boring encounters. Random encounters punish you for exploration and inflate game time.

Very entertaining, and required a lot of independent thought. Some of the quests were hard to accomplish. Although there was a guide, the instructions were so simple as to be of no help. Sometimes the instructions left you stuck for hours or days. I really disliked that the clock was difficult to read because all ones were the letter r. There were some youtube videos that showed game play, but not for the most difficult ones. Especially the one about buying the toy sword. I went to the appointed place and the event took place, however, I was never given the option to purchase the sword. I could buy other items, but no sword. Instructions just intimated that all you had to do was go to the event at the appointed time, and you'd be able to finish this quest. Another is the one that tells you an invitation is required to start a quest, but not where you got it from.

Short: A great RPG, with a fun cast of characters and lots of detail. I definitly recommend it to anybody looking for a decently sized RPG with more of a focus on exploration and characters. Long: This part may include Spoilers - Gameplay: A typical RPG using a party-system simialar to Dragon Quest or FF, even tho it's combat system goes less into depth then either of these. Your parties skill sets and personalities are predetermined and can not be changed (Except for one character, whoose skill set can be decided on between warrior or paladin). This streamlines it for people who are less focused on number crunching, but if you want to carefully craft your own build, this may be a mute point. Other then combat, there is also a large amount of exploration to be done, as the game has a well sized map, that has a variety of hidden quests, items and bosses. You will have to deal with random encountrs during your travels and exploration though. There are also a variety of puzzles in this game, that can sometimes be very easy or very annoying, if you are not into puzzeling. If you have trouble with where to go next, there is a guide written by a user here on steam. Characters and Dialogue: I personally found most characters to be well written and entertaining, even though I did not like the main character for some time, he grew on me after I spend some time on the game. The other party members have memorable personalities and the whole group has some very good banter. The villain(s) mostly well written and most of the supporting cast are at least interesting, even though you may not like every character. Technical problems: The game mostly runs smoothly, even though whenever I opened my questlog and opened a certain quest, my frames would be dropping. Other then that, I did find a few bugs, where you could walk through some walls and I did have a problem with the autosafe function once, costing me about two hours of gameplay. The game also crashed a few times during my playthrough. A story playthrough took me about 40h, without postgame and without doing all quests before finishing the mains story. I ended up beeing overleveled a bit because I did a lot of quest at some point because the game told me, I may not be able to do them after the next story event. If you want to circumvent this, either play on a higher difficulty or try to avoid unneccesary fights. The game is getting a sequel, so I thought it would be a good idea to finally write this down. Goodbye

Unexpectedly quite good! My last RPGmaker JRPGs were mostly from the 2000,2003, and XP eras so I didn't hold much expectations. But I had as much fun with this as I would AAA jrpgs released the past few years that costs 50x more!

This game is awesome. There's tons of quests to do and the world is pretty open. The combat system is turn based but it's really well done with a trait and combo system that adds a lot of depth. I also loved how you can upgrade your gear with runestones. The story is decent and really makes you care about the characters. Looking forward to the sequel

This is a great game. Excellent plot and character development. Great puzzles. Long and involving right to the end. Cannot wait till Eredia 2 arrives.

Pros: - Tons to do. Quests are useful, fun to complete, varied. Main story is pretty compelling. - Choices (some) matter resulting in decreased karma or failed quests - Balancing was good. The first 1/3rd of the game on Veteran I found brutal but there is an eventual hump that you get over and I found the difficulty balanced out well. Of note, I didn't realize I could run away from battles until literally 40 hours in so maybe that played a part in this opinion. My bad. - Battles were fun, skills useful, party members varied. Most importantly, no party member was a throw away in battles. I've used them all at different periods. - Battle system was simple but fun - Really enjoyed the story, some surprises, surprisingly deep, decent establishment of lore. I could see multiple spinoff games from the story created in this game alone. Cons: - I have never hated any character in any TV show, movie, or game as much as I hated this main character. I almost stopped playing multiple times within the first half of the game. It was a combination of his frequent homophobic, misogynistic, narcissistic, juvenile comments combined with the most absurd responses to this character. This guy should have been slapped silly instead of the "tee hee you're so cute" responses he seems to usually get from NPCs. Unfortunately, I'm super late game and he's only had 2 or 3 redeeming moments in this entire game. - First 1/3 to 1/2 of the game money is BRUTALLY tight, even for JRPGs. After 1/2 way part, money became no object. - It could really benefit from some modern advances (most notably a world map, ability to sort inventory, etc.), some more polish on some elements of the game (esp the crafting system which was nearly useless). - End game it just seems like dev looked at it and said, "Man, I just gotta get this game out there" as it doesn't feel nearly as polished or complete, just rushed. I understand that there's a sequel to this one day in the works but the end game just feels a bit disconnected. TL;DR - Surprising JRPG that's been a ton of fun to play, especially if you can overlook the horrible main character. I'd say worth every penny full price (currently 7.99). It'll keep you entertained for a good 30-50 hours, even if the end game seemed very rushed. It's one of those that would have been a near instant classic (again, aside from the main character and the lack of endgame polish) had this been released during the glory days of the PS and SNES. 10/10 would buy this game again, 15/10 if the main character stuck with the classic Cloud text of "..."

Highly Recommend : 8/10 (Interesting Story, Detail and Huge Game World I love RPG Maker Games, but lately most of the RPG Maker games that I have played are just slightly above mediocre. However, I would highly recommend this game and even though it is a bit pricey. I paid full price of $8, but it is definitely worth it. This game have nice graphics, and a very interesting story line. It almost feel like a huge open world game, with a lot of detective-style puzzle solving. The hero also engaged in livefly banter. Despite being quite egoistical, the heroes and his group are quite endearing. A good game is nothing without great game mechanics and lots of grindings. This game have both. I also like the way money are tightly control, so that you will not have enough money to always buy the things you want. Non human monsters do not drop gold/money, which make it all the more compelling to do all the little secondary quests. The quests are all well thought out and require quite a bit of problem solving too. There are also various hidden variables like Karma, Friendship, etc that are not visible to you, but will indirectly affect you in this game. This helps to keep me on my toes, and read each conversation carefully and pick the best decision. However, since you may not see the consequences of your decision immediately, and you cannot inspect the hidden variables, this add tension and suspence to the game. I love it, and actually keep multiple save games. Anyway, I am going back to my game. Check out this game if you are an old school RPG gamer like me.