Suikoden is my favorite franchise of any fiction ever. It shaped my entire childhood and how I perceive video games and fantasy genre.

I've been waiting for anything close to Suikoden for 20 years plus at this point. In my measly 2.8 hours of gametime I can feel that the world, the characters, the mini base building, and the art direction is faithful to what makes Suikoden franchise good. Though I have few criticism towards some of the design decision of this game

1. The animation is pretty bad. I hope the main Eiyuden game will have better handcrafted animation with some small spline for polish. Not full spline animation like now
2. The dialogue can be improved. It's not bad by any means but it just feels rigid and mechanical.
3. Then again, I would like to have a random NPC speaking about stuffs maybe on the background.

Other than those stuffs, I greatly enjoyed this game. It makes me more interested to the main game and I can't wait to get my hands on it. I hope we will have more fluffs in the full game like food illustration, the animation when eating food, etc etc.

Suikoden is my favorite franchise of any fiction ever. It shaped my entire childhood and how I perceive video games and fantasy genre. I've been waiting for anything close to Suikoden for 20 years plus at this point. In my measly 2.8 hours of gametime I can feel that the world, the characters, the mini base building, and the art direction is faithful to what makes Suikoden franchise good. Though I have few criticism towards some of the design decision of this game 1. The animation is pretty bad. I hope the main Eiyuden game will have better handcrafted animation with some small spline for polish. Not full spline animation like now 2. The dialogue can be improved. It's not bad by any means but it just feels rigid and mechanical. 3. Then again, I would like to have a random NPC speaking about stuffs maybe on the background. Other than those stuffs, I greatly enjoyed this game. It makes me more interested to the main game and I can't wait to get my hands on it. I hope we will have more fluffs in the full game like food illustration, the animation when eating food, etc etc.