Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes – That day, if anyone asked about a game with a “huge” cast of characters among the PlayStation titles, surely everyone would “pop up” and think about it. Suikoden.

Indeed, until now, it has been very difficult to find a game that can build such a large number of characters. Suikoden where each character has a role in the story line and gameplay.

Some others that can be mentioned are: Chrono Cross, Fire Emblem: Three Housesnice Granblue Fantasy: RelinkHowever, this game series still possesses an irresistible appeal even though it is almost… 30 years old!

Vietgame.Asia had the opportunity to experience it early Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and the feeling of “reliving” childhood days with JRPG.

However, is the nostalgia factor enough to make the game affirm its position in a year 2024 full of extremely “explosive” games?

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RISE UP, REBELLION ARMY!

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Set on the continent of Allraan, a place with a wide variety of countries and civilizations, but on the brink of war and conflict between the Galdean Empire and the League of Nations.

You follow Nowa, a young man from a remote village who wants to explore the world, he joins the Watch mercenary squad and is immediately caught up in the political tension between these two forces, all revolves around Duke Dux Alric and his craving for the Rune Lens (an ancient power).

After the events that occurred, Nowa was entrusted with building a rebel army to fight Dux Alric and prevent him from seizing this power for himself.

At the crossroads of fate, he meets the young Imperial commander Seign and the forest guardian Marisa. And it was this boredom that opened a new chapter in the history of the Allraan region.

Actually, the context and developments of the game are not really new, because this is one of the relatively familiar “formulas” of recent JRPG games.

However, the way the content is presented is very clever and easy to understand. Each character and each event is introduced in a spread and clear way so that everyone can catch up.

Possessing a large number of characters does not reduce the quality of the characters, because the game has fully exploited most of the characters, making each individual truly have depth and you can completely “feel” their ideals.

You may hate the actions of some characters, but sometimes you will feel touched by the stories about friendship. The game has brought many levels of emotions throughout this journey.

Besides the content, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes also brings a colorful continent of Allraan with many rich cultures. Players will enjoy the beauty of majestic citadels, bustling cities with Asian architecture, to forests and ancient relics…

During your exploration, you will occasionally encounter conversations between group members commenting on the area, thereby learning more about the history of each place and creating more connections between each other. figure.

Combined with the extremely eye-catching “audio-visual” part, the game makes the writer immerse and explore this vast continent throughout the game, helping to move between areas, which is a highlight. The “torture” of traditional JRPG games also becomes less boring.

Owning a large number of characters does not really reduce the quality of the characters, because the game has fully exploited most of the characters, making you able to feel their purpose and actions. their movements

“ESSENCE” OF SUIKODEN

Perhaps, the biggest highlight of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes That is to perfectly recreate the “money-making” points of the game Suikodenespecially in the gameplay and combat mechanics.

As mentioned in the introduction, battles will revolve around turn-based combat with teams of up to six people.

You can attack, use items or skills to be able to fight the invaders. This is a relatively basic formula in turn-based role-playing games, so it really won’t take too much time. to get acquainted with them, especially for those who have “experienced” them Suikoden.

Besides the 6 characters used in combat, players are also allowed to bring 1 support character and 3 reserve characters.

Support characters will not be able to jump to the front of the battle line, but they will bring many different values ​​throughout your journey: increasing production output in the castle, increasing loot earned, increasing the storage space of the bag map, allowing formation changes at safe points…

When performing missions, you will encounter some characters that must be included in the squad, but you don’t really like using them, or they are too weak because they are not well equipped.

Don’t worry about this! This is where the positions come into play, because you can completely stuff these characters in here and keep whichever “face” you really want.

Boss battles can be considered one of the top “bright” points of the game, because they are done very carefully and creatively, each boss, big or small, has its own fighting mechanism. and really makes you have to carefully calculate your every move. Just one small mistake can cost you very dearly.

Dueling and battle format, which is the “specialty” of Suikodenalso back in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. However, it feels like the hand-to-hand combat is pre-programmed, because the choices made don’t really make too much of a difference, making the fight not really emotional and only serving to support the story line. .

The battle game also does not have too many tactical elements, each fight is relatively simple without too many challenges for the player.

Before starting, you are allowed to choose a certain number of characters to participate. The player will then control the army on a grid map to attack the enemy. If in a chess square your number of soldiers is greater than the enemy’s, you will almost certainly win and force them to retreat.

For those who expect a breakthrough in gameplay, perhaps Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes This will not be satisfied.

The headquarters construction and management system is also a highlight that the game brings back, with a few improvements.

As the leader of the rebel army, you are responsible for recruiting more talents and strengthening the army to prepare for the war with the Galdean Empire.

To upgrade your barracks, you will need to select and upgrade the appropriate building in the Drafting Studio panel. Each choice will require a certain amount of resources and sometimes even requires you to recruit a specific character.

With a huge number of characters in the game, this will create more motivation for you to hunt every corner of each map to add more characters to your “collection” without making the game become boring. too complicated.

Overall, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Truly offers an original gameplay compared to its “predecessor”, with some slight tweaks to suit the game. This is completely consistent with the company’s original mission, which is to bring a “classic” experience to JRPG fans.

For those looking forward to a breakthrough in gameplay, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes This will not be satisfied

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RESIDENTS OF THE OLD GENERATION

By yourself Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is the “descendant” of Suikodenso the fact that the company “duplicates” a game series that is nearly 30 years old will also bring quite a lot of inconvenience when experiencing at the present time.

One of the things that almost every player is “scratching their heads” about when playing old JRPG titles is… the random encounter mechanism! In fact, the frequency of spawns is relatively dense even when you have to fight much lower level monsters, making walking very uncomfortable, and you can’t tweak this frequency at all.

Even though the game allows you to choose whether to run away or automatically fight, running away is not always successful, and if you fight automatically, sometimes the machine will use skills indiscriminately and consumes character resources, especially at the beginning when your characters are not really “powerful” enough to quickly finish off the enemy.

If Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Just a remastered product, this can be imitated, however, this is a completely new game and uses modern technology to build, it is difficult to understand why the company still retains it. This old mechanism doesn’t have any way for players to tweak it accordingly.

Monsters already use 3D models in combat, so is it really that difficult to display enemies and have them move around outside the map?

Not only that, to be able to recruit characters into the ranks, you will have to move back and forth between areas a lot. The inability to quickly teleport also creates many inconveniences in the experience, especially for new players.

What if you need to move in combat zones? The difficulty of traveling and the random encounter mechanism will quickly make you “lose your hat”!

Besides, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has countless minor inadequacies that if just tweaked a little, the experience during the game will become much smoother, such as: navigating the interface is a bit confusing and always has problems. a certain delay; Animation speed is quite slow, especially during auto-attack; Although the puzzles are not difficult, some of them are very time consuming and could have been condensed better…

After all, these minus points are small, but when accumulated, they will create a not very “beautiful” experience for players, especially for those who are first acquainted with JRPGs.

…the fact that the company “duplicates” a game series that is nearly 30 years old will also bring quite a lot of inconvenience when experiencing at the present time.