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I really feel for any writer that has to preview an RPG; it is an abnormally tough style to promote gamers on in a brief timeframe, so it is a testomony to Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes that its opening hour has already managed to get its hooks in me, leaving me much more excited for the sport’s launch on April 23, 2024. 

Throughout our one hour session, we performed what is basically the prologue to the occasions that deliver the principle story into movement; a joint mission between the League of Nations and the Empire results in Nowa and his crew discovering an artifact that threatens to shake the foundations of the world. The empire, with the ability to amplify the magical energy of rune-lenses, an individual’s distinctive capacity to name forth magic, threatens to make use of mentioned artifact to reignite the sparks of warfare. However for our session – we merely noticed the joint operations of troopers who did not but have any purpose to take up arms towards one another.

Talking of taking on arms, it is too early to make any sweeping statements about Eiyuden’s battle system. You possibly can management a bunch of as much as 6 characters, and along with customary assaults you’ll be able to make the most of MP or SP (a useful resource gained as soon as per flip) to make the most of expertise with additional utility. Sure mixtures of characters, assuming their relationships are ok, may even each spend SP to make use of particular Hero Combo assaults that hit particularly exhausting. It is easy sufficient at the beginning of the sport, in fact, however it appears to be like promising for what gamers can count on afterward as your ranges and variety of recruited heroes enhance.

It feels compulsory to say that Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes is a good looking recreation. It is not fairly gunning for a similar artstyle as Sq. Enix’s HD-2D suite of titles, however in motion Rabbit and Bear Studios’ tackle the idea works extremely effectively, with an general aesthetic fairly much like Star Ocean: The Second Story R’s artstyle, with a lot bigger character sprites. Map design feels very strong, too, and the transient tour we had with the world map gave a fantastic first impression for what gamers may be capable to count on as soon as the sport opens up, and allows you to actually discover.

This prolonged to the preview’s principal dungeon’s format, too. For a primary dungeon, it felt suitably lengthy – and even supplied quite a lot of mild puzzles that did not actively get in the way in which of the pacing of exploring it. If we will count on dungeon design to increase upon – or, hell, even copy – the identical ideas proven right here, I would count on the sport’s choices to be a number of the higher ones in latest reminiscence. If nothing else, mixed with the overworld exploration and the sprawling map, I’ve hope that Eiyuden’s world will find yourself feeling like a world that was really price exploring.

Outdoors of visuals, the soundtrack already seems like a robust contender for our 2024 RPG of the Yr nominations, and the sport in fact will not even be out for one more 4 1/2 months. The monitor that performed within the forest main as much as the principle dungeon of the session particularly impressed, and the battle themes did, too. Voice performing was strong, too, although we solely had the chance to hearken to the sport’s Japanese audio; localization continues to be a piece in progress, and certainly whereas we may see that the sport is stuffed with loads of occasion banter, these had been errored out because the translations for them haven’t but been completed.

All in all; it is nonetheless too quickly to say with full certainty in regards to the state of the sport, however it’s exhausting to not get excited in regards to the full recreation’s promise after seeing how effectively the sport already feels. 2024 is a yr the place virtually each RPG fan should choose and select which video games they will make time to play, however Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes makes a robust argument for why it needs to be in your shortlist of video games to play when it launches subsequent yr.