Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, The Successor To Suikoden, Confirmed For Switch

It sounds like they were waiting for a possible Switch successor before commiting which is fine and makes good business sense. But in the last article they were talking about technical due diligence with the Switch and whatnot so their reasoning doesn't really line up well. It's like they're just making excuses to not do it though I'm still happy they're finally bringing to Switch. This is the only reason I didn't back it initially.

Now I also have a good reason to get the spin-off game as well.

Nice! Considering on getting Rising as its quite affordable and the gameplay/concept looks very unique. Ever since I saw the prequel's listing I assumed this was already confirmed for the Switch. Gonna be a great addition to the library as I see this one becoming an instant classic.

Looks like a Non-pixelated Octopath, sorry but my old age doesn't do well with these games anymore.

My hype for this is considerable. Although I can't say the same for the rest of the series, Suikoden I & II are a pair of my all-time favorite jpgs.

@Zyph The nature of the next Switch hardware could explain this, Nintendo may do something like Apple and call a more powerful Switch "Nintendo Switch (2nd generation)" for example so saying this game is coming to Switch is technically true even if exclusive to the new model.

Finally! Sounds like they were waiting on the dev kit to arrive in the mail lol.

(Although with the prequel being panned I am a little apprehensive…)

But today, in a Kickstarter update for the game, the developer has announced that the game will indeed be coming to the current generation! This is on top of the already confirmed console releases, and maybe whatever comes after the Switch!

In other words the NeXt system is already has Developments Kits out and they have one. This confirms the Switch NexTGen is in production. Why else would they make such a update. This just confirms the leaks from Nvidia the replacement is coming already.

The concern now is if the game will be optimized well for the Switch.

Let's hope this one is good...

Yes that is great news, I'm glad they are still bringing it to the successor too even though they don't know what that system would be like.

@Grumblevolcano A good point. Though still hard to imagine Nintendo silently killing off proper backwards compatibility for every Apple-like Switch generation like with smartphones these days. People will riot 😂

Very much looking forward to this one. NL may have given the companion game a 5/10, but I'm having a blast with it.

I consider Suikoden II to be an easy Top10 GOAT so this is very good news.

I loved Suikoden V on the PS2. So long as it runs well, I'll be picking up.

Tried many times times to get into the first two and ended up bored rather quickly. Not sure why as I love RPGs game with huge huge pools of party members to pick from as opposed to being forced to use 10 or so basic looking ones (cough Triangle Strategy cough).

I presume the spin-off game sold best on the Switch? lol

Niiiice! This is the one I will get!

I keep hearing how Suikoden II is one of the best RPGs of all time and I don't have a good way to play that, so I'm keeping an eye on this. Also, I hear there are cats.

@SwitchForce ...did you read it? They confirmed it for Switch, not for it's successor.

"After a few years of speculation — and confirmation of a technical investigation"
Sick rhymes Alana lol

@VoodooTrumpet Suikoden V is soooo good! During the PS3/360/Wii era, I was so unimpressed with the JRPGs of the time, that I had basically fallen out of love with the genre. Suikoden V pretty much single handedly reignited my love for JRPGs.

Shouldn't have been a debate whether or not it's coming to the switch, what's so demanding that the switch cannot handle about this very game?

Should have announced it earlier and then I would have bought rising on switch instead of playstation. Rising is a better fit for the switch and with the end game achievements playstation has no advantage to me.

Now we're talking. A bit of a weird situation here, I refuse to believe it had anything to do with the Switch hardware... Even if Nintendo was releasing new hardware next year or whatever, why not make it cross-gen??

No matter, consider me interested in this game now.

@Grumblevolcano seems unlikely given the Wii U debacle and millions not understanding that it was in fact a new console.

They've talked about this recently: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/05/nintendo-says-it-wants-to-avoid-a-repeat-of-wii-u-with-switchs-successor

@SteamEngenius
Yeah sometimes a game just doesnt click, while for me personally i loved the games (and would love to see konami bring them to switch as one of their collections) they can be a slow burn at times, its similar with the Trails games.

@wollywoo
yeah as it is while it is on psn the psone classics liine was unfortunately dropped when ps4 came around so you need a ps3, psp or vita (though with psp iirc you need a ps3 to transfer it since the store isnt active on it) again it would be nice if they got released on modern systems (not holding out for it but at the very least konami has been doing a pretty good job when it comes to compilations)

@Zyph
im hoping that the theoretical next switch is backwards compatible, though i could imagine seeing some cross-gen releases for a while similar to what had been happening with playstation and xbox (though i imagine the chip shortage making it hard for people to buy the newer hardware could be a factor)

I am beyond happy about this!!! I didn’t back the KS because it wasn’t confirmed for Switch and that is my preferred console for JRPGs. This totally made my night.

Just downloaded the demo.

@Mgalens If subsequent Switch generations are powerful enough to emulate prior generation games, I think that's the proper route for them business-wise like with PS and Xbox. Unless the newer hardware still supports the old APIs and architecture, it'll probably be to expensive still to maintain rather than develop an entirely new SoC.

Feels right at home for the switch

@SwitchForce
Not sure how you have read that from what was said. There seems to be a keyword you missed... 'maybe'.

505 Games confirmed this in a press release last week.

I'm definitely gonna check this out once it's released