Don't Revive Your Friends

  In a time filled with First Person Shooters, Season Passes and never ending loot, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising halts that with a peaceful and happy filled soundtrack mixed with easy to handle controls and supremely elegant visuals. Sure, you often find yourself repeating levels over and over but they're not that long. Fetch quests galore? Yep. Again, not an issue. Fighting my way through evil bats, plants that shoot seeds at me and the occasional giant tree that comes to life only to attempt to rip out my soul, I've never been happier to hop back and forth between Town and Dungeon (level? area? fighting space!). Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is the precursor to 505 Games and Rabbit & Bear Studios' upcoming  Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes which is essentially a spiritual successor to the Suikoden Series. It's basically the original creators who started such a huge Kickstarter to get the game launched into the atmosphere. In Rising, though, you take over as CJ. A young,...

One of my most anticipated games of all time, Eiyuden Chronicle, is getting a spin-off (sort of) game.  In the same way Final Fantasy A King's Tale complimented Final Fantasy XV, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, looks to do the same for Eiyuden Chronicle. You get to learn backstory to multiple characters for the upcoming main game. You get town building mechanics as well as fast paced action RPG combat. The art style stays true to games of the past (Suikoden, since it's made by its creators after all) and looks absolutely stunning. Today, 28 minutes of gameplay GOODNESS was dropped on IGN's YouTube channel and I couldn't be more excited. There's a bunch of developer insights as well to explain a lot of what's happening throughout the gam and production! Check it out in all it's glory here: