https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/may/11/eiyuden-chronicle-hundred-heroes-review-yoshitaka-murayama-kickstarter

Rabbit and Bear Studios; 505 Games; PC, PlayStation, Switch, XboxHead into battle with your own turbo-charged squadron in this crowd-funded Pokémonesque sequel to the the Japanese designer’s classic Suikoden series

While the joyously flexible role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 dominated this year’s Bafta game awards, winning the award for best game, there remains a strong nostalgic appetite for plainer, more traditional RPGs. Conceived by Yoshitaka Murayama, a writer-director who made his name during the original PlayStation years, Eiyuden Chronicle raised £3.6m on Kickstarter in 2020 to become the third highest-funded video game ever on the crowdfunding site. It’s a sequel to Murayama’s classic Suikoden series in all but name: a rip-roaring adventure featuring a group of mostly young people tangled in the friction and chaos of two warring neighbouring states.