Disclaimer: I Kickstarted this game's older sibling.
I had a good time with Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising. It is fairly short and easy to play through, and I liked it as an intro to this world before the main game comes out. It is definitely overloaded with meaningless side-quests, but I skipped almost all of them so it didn't hurt it too much for me.
I like the look of this game quite a bit. The character designs are unique and cool and the backgrounds are bright, colorful, and beautiful. The animation isn't very compelling, however. They use that rigged 2d style that makes everything look like a puppet.
The writing in the main story is cute and endearing, for the most part. The game does a great job of bringing the three main characters together and believably developing their relationships. Their friendships are simple and easily formed, but they feel genuine and touching by the end, which is impressive.
Combat is simple, but effective and opens into a pretty fun and expressive system by the end. It plays a bit like real-time Valkyrie Profile -- each character mapped to a face button that you can cycle through for combos and special moves. There is a bit of jank and it can be confusing at times, but the game is short enough (if you mainline it) and easy enough that the combat is able to shine without getting too tedious or frustrating.
Related to tedium, this game's biggest problem is it's side quests. There are an extreme number of them and none of them are interesting in the least (go talk to a person, go get an item, etc...). Deleting 95% of them and just having the main story would have been the right choice. You can ignore them all without any real penalty, but it is a bummer that they are here detracting from the experience.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is a cute, fun game with solid character design and development and a somewhat interesting combat model. I absolutely enjoyed it as an intro to this world and it stands on its own as a quick diversion. Worth checking out, but just ignore everything but the main quest!
I had a good time with Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising. It is fairly short and easy to play through, and I liked it as an intro to this world before the main game comes out. It is definitely overloaded with meaningless side-quests, but I skipped almost all of them so it didn't hurt it too much for me.
I like the look of this game quite a bit. The character designs are unique and cool and the backgrounds are bright, colorful, and beautiful. The animation isn't very compelling, however. They use that rigged 2d style that makes everything look like a puppet.
The writing in the main story is cute and endearing, for the most part. The game does a great job of bringing the three main characters together and believably developing their relationships. Their friendships are simple and easily formed, but they feel genuine and touching by the end, which is impressive.
Combat is simple, but effective and opens into a pretty fun and expressive system by the end. It plays a bit like real-time Valkyrie Profile -- each character mapped to a face button that you can cycle through for combos and special moves. There is a bit of jank and it can be confusing at times, but the game is short enough (if you mainline it) and easy enough that the combat is able to shine without getting too tedious or frustrating.
Related to tedium, this game's biggest problem is it's side quests. There are an extreme number of them and none of them are interesting in the least (go talk to a person, go get an item, etc...). Deleting 95% of them and just having the main story would have been the right choice. You can ignore them all without any real penalty, but it is a bummer that they are here detracting from the experience.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is a cute, fun game with solid character design and development and a somewhat interesting combat model. I absolutely enjoyed it as an intro to this world and it stands on its own as a quick diversion. Worth checking out, but just ignore everything but the main quest!