

With a team of veteran JRPG developers who are passionate about the genre behind it, along with the composer of Golden Sun’s soundtrack in the mix, the resultant game is sure to be an incredible ode the classic era Rabbit & Bear Studio love so much. Their hope is that Nintendo will release a more powerful console before Eiyuden comes out so that they can ensure a “similar quality and gameplay experience across all platforms.”Įiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes looks incredibly well designed. They also make mention of a release for “Nintendo’s next generation” console.
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Rabbit & Bear Studio are aiming to release the Eiyuden in October 2022, for PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Playstation 4, and Playstation 5. The developers really like cats (and who can blame them?) Eventually, as your fortress grows, you can create a guild, where you can assign your team members to tasks to earn rewards. There is a fortress to rebuild, with various structures to unlock such as a theatre, farms, and a cafeteria. We can only hope for quality as well as quantity when it comes to character design.Įiyuden is packed with features. Since the game is a more traditional RPG, we can assume it's not a Gacha-style game, like Genshin Impact. How the game will go about introducing this many characters, the Kickstarter page doesn’t say.

You control up to 6 team members, using their unique abilities to take down packs of monsters and tackle large-scale boss fights.Įiyuden’s developers are boasting a roster of over 100 characters for the game, which would put it in the top end of RPG roster size.

The battle system is, as you would expect, centred around classic turn-based mechanics found in many JRPGs. Scenes feel vast with 2.5-dimensional depth added to backgrounds and combat encounters are slick and cinematic. Areas are made vivid with modern lighting techniques and crisp animation. The art-style of this game certainly has the 16-bit flair of a 90s Square Enix title, but it also brings its own personality into the mix to create something unique and beautiful. There is even a specific mention of how the success of Octopath Traveler showed the studio that “JRPG fans still crave a classic style JRPG with modern additions.” An entire section of their Kickstarter page is dedicated to gushing over the era of games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy. Rabbit & Bear is mostly made up of developers from the Suikoden series, a tactical role-playing franchise, that started with Suikoden Tactics on the PlayStation 2 in 2005.Įiyuden, at its core, is a love letter to the classic JRPG. It was the most funded video game on Kickstarter in 2020, with an immense ¥481,621,841 (approximately $4.6 million USD) raised. Here are five of the most promising games being funded by Kickstarter campaigns: Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesĮiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a classic JRPG brought to us by Rabbit & Bear Studio. Having said that, there are a lot of projects being developed via crowdfunding sites, and it can often be difficult to tell which ones are actually worth looking into. Divinity Original Sin was crowdfunded via Kickstarter, as were Shenmue III and Wasteland 2, all of which received critical acclaim and were praised by the fans who funded them. Kickstarter has been a huge boon to small developers and a great way for consumers to help fund the games that they are truly interested in playing.
