Only JRPG I have ever stopped playing because i got bored of it early on.

Everything about the game is just boring and tedious.

Also so poorly optimized I'd go so far as to call it anti-optimized. I don't know how this game lags on any hardware made in the last 15 years.

Overall : C+.
Not a waste of money, but unrecommandable for people who aren't fully fan of the genre.

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Minigames : C-
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Fishing : D
Boring, no variety on rewards/mechanics.
Not even worthy of being called a minigame.

Card Battle : B
Decent mechanics, lack of intergration with the rest of the game.

Trading : F
Terribly designed and misleading. I somehow know that a specific item is 2% more expensive *compared to the usual local price*, but not that it's cheap compared to other places I've visited?
You need a spreadsheet to engage with that mechanic, and at this point, just play EVE online.

Theater : A
Both interessing and sometimes hilarious.
If only the scripts weren't so annoying to obtain.

Duels : F
Scrap those and just make cutscenes. You can't make paper-stone-scissors with only 2 options. I wish I were joking...

Egg racing : B
Not my kind of fun, but well made. Needs a fast-forward.
Could use a betting system to make you see and care about other competitor eggs.

Battles : C
Good idea, but sooooooo annoying to watch without anything to do. Need a fast forward button (and not just a 2* speed, a 20* speed at least)
Also way too much scripted, there's choices which really matter.

Beigoma : B+
Decent gameplay. Manages to make me pay attention to a luck-based game.
Lack of use for early-game tops (which you won't even get because they don't drop until you start the quest mid-game anyway...), power difference between tiers is just too important.

Cooking battles : F
Again, another minigame requiring a spreadsheet. Fun if you like button mashing for 45 sec straight, I guess?

Guild missions : B-
Not engaging, but otherwise functionnal.

Racing : A
I HATE racing minigames, but can't complain about this one.

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Combat : A
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Mechanics : S
Good variety of skills, with a lot of planning possibilities.
Gimmicks and ennemies are interessing.
Support members combat effects being "sometimes, unpredictable" is quite annoying. Less powerfull but consistent effects would be more interessing.

Balance : A
Good balance of difficulty without the need to farm for hours.
Over half of the cast is utterly useless, with terrible stats at every level.
Support members non-combat effects should just be permanent castle upgrades.

Automatisation : B+
Good when there is no need to be efficient. Not parametrisable enough to work well against mid-threat mobs. Can't prevent some skills to be used.

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Interface : B+
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Graphics : A+
Not much to say. Good if you like the 8-bit style.

Animations : B-
It's good that they exist. It'd be better if they were skippable. I don't need a 6 sec "I caught a fish, let's display 2 unskippable message boxes before carrying on" ten times per fishing session.
Even menus are sluggish. You can't get to the equipement screen before the magic screen is done appearing, for example.

Menus : A-
They work, but a lot of them needs options for sorting.
There is a sorting menu for beigomas, there should be one for heroes, inventory, troops, ... wherever there's more than 6 items.

Music : A
Good ambiance, might need a "don't use combat music for regular fights" setting to enjoy it more.

Voiceover : A+
The only thing that gives characters a bit of personnality.

Inventory management : C
Limited and items stack rarely. Annoying for basically no reason, since you can't really spam items in fight.

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Story : C
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Main story : B
"Sure, why not?"
There just isn't a feeling of urgency, so it's "I'll do it later" until you need it to explore a bit more.
The main character lack of personnality makes it hard to care.

Secondary quests : D
"Let's clear a dungeon" are somewhat decent, but need a followup.
"Go fetch me an item" as boring.
"Go get me a rare random drop from a monster" are terrible.
"Go play that minigame" would be ok if the minigames were fun.
Beigoma questline is the only redeemable one.

Character writing : C-
Main ennemy motivation : powertripping
Other ennemy motivations : being evil for the sake of evil / being greedy / Being a traitor just because. None of them makes you think "hey, they have a point".
Ennemies turning allies (happens a lot) : all extremely, painfully telegraphed. You've seen them once, you know they are "good guys forced to obey", and they will defect when needed.
Main character motivation : .... None?
Allies motivations : Several of them are "you were kind once, i'll die for you", which are quite devoid of storytelling, but overall a good variety.

God awful game. Just so much step back in jrpg. When I first saw that there are 'over 100 hundred' characters whatever. I knew you won't be able to play with them all. So what role would those characters be? Town npc and opening town functionalities. So stupid. I have to collect functionalities. I hate that. The skill system is beyond bad. Absolutely useless. Why do 90% of the skills exist when my auto attack is better!!!???

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---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☑ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☐ 10

Great game, OG JRPG. Need DLC ASAP.

Being "Suikoscrewed" (ie: going through the motions to recruit characters) again is great. Even if there are characters that have annoying-to-get requirements at times, I'll be on board. If there is one point of negativity I wish to raise here, it's that characters only earn experience when they are in your active battle party. I would love character-based collect-a-thon games like Suikoden and Eiyuden to take a page from the original Valkyrie Profile, and grant access to a pool of experience that can be distributed when, and on who, you want. To put it another way, if they had "Party Skill Points" in Suikoden 5, "Party Experience Points" shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

I'm actually happy that they ditched the magic level system in favor of a more streamlined MP system? MP has always been scare a resource in these games, though, so one is likely going to rely more on normal attacks, sometimes using the weapon Runes when you have the SP to use them. Normal physical attacks in this game aren't as potentially broken as they were in Suikoden 3 or Suikoden 5, though, I will fully admit to using CodeBreaker codes in/for those games. The use of Stat Stones on my characters certainly had it's own factor in how much damage I could cause per hit, and maybe had a factor in how many hits I could get in per attack action.

Unites are still a blast, but, the fact that they cost SP makes them not as consistent to execute as they were in the Suikoden games. Saying that, there were Unites and Runes in those games that stunned characters so you couldn't pull off whenever effect the Unite/Rune did every single turn. So, that ultimately kinda gets a pass from me. What doesn't get a pass is Unite visibility. Maybe I'm missing something, but, can I not know that a Unite exists until I put the respective characters into the party, and get into combat, and select "Hero Combo"!? Sometimes, it's obvious, such as Nowa/Lian (the game literally gives this one to you), or Kogen/Yuthus/Zabi. Francseca/Falward might have been a guess. I might not have guessed Garr/Sabine on my own.

Still, all the complaints aside, I would absolutely, 108% (120%?) recommend Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Of course, my recommendation might be biased exactly because I am a Suikoden veteran, which is certainly the target audience this game caters to!

SERU BGT FAKKKK, KANGEN SUIKODEN HUUHUUHHU

As someone who loves the original Suikoden series i have to say this is a great successor to them and i cant recommend this game enough. You dont have to know the original Suikoden to appreciate this game but it will enhance the experience. Really gives you a sense of that old style top down JRPG but with an awesome new twist on look and feel. Has alot of similar gameplay mechanics that you would see from the old Suikoden games, some of it great, some could have done without but overall a great game even at full price(i got it when on sale). This really pumped me up for the Suikoden 1 & 2 remasters coming out. If you are just playing thru could probably do in about 30 hours casual, if trying to 100% anywhere from 60-100 hours.

--- The Good --- Absolutely amazing artwork, from the landscapes, monsters, bosses, attack/magic animations, and characters. The character design and voice acting was great as well, you can tell they went to alot of work making these unique characters. Great enemy battle mechanics and i liked the new system they use in place of runes. Also loved how they brought back the home base being upgraded over time but this time not automatically but thru effort of finding characters and materials. The cooking challenge back and it was my favorite mini-game(sad too many of the recipes came very late in the game). I really appreciate how the very last character(wont spoil who) you can actually get is the most OP hero in the game once you get them set up correctly.

--- The OK --- The story is pretty good but kinda starts out slow, gets good, slows back down, and then ramps up toward the end. Some of the included mini games are a little redundant but fun. Overall difficulty is way too easy, no way to really lose at anything in the main story unless you just click random buttons all the time. To 100% the game achievements you have to do alot of grindy repetitive things which adds to the total hours played, not very enjoyable but at least it gives you goals to strive for. Some of the late game upgrades that come with your HQ are awesome but are just way to late into the story and you cant really enjoy them. I know this is hard to balance but seems they pushed this out too far into the game.

--- The Bad --- The army battles just plain suck, seem more scripted than anything and don't really add much value to the game. The Beigoma mini game are just miserable and i will be happy to never see it again, I really wish it wasn't required to get some characters. The 1v1 battles with your main hero against some enemy are just useless cut scenes, no where near as engaging compared to Suikoden 1 or Suikoden 2.