Eiyuden Chronicle Rakes In Over $4.5 Million
Last month the team behind Suikoden, the beloved series of strategy RPGs on the Playstation, launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund a spiritual successor named Eiyuden Chronicle. It’s been a while since Suikoden 2 and you might wonder if there’s still demand for a sequel, even an unofficial one. Boy, is there ever… Eiyuden Chronicle just wrapped up its campaign with a total of over 4.5 million dollars…making it the third most successful video game campaign in the history of Kickstarter, trailing only Shenmue 3 (#1) and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (#2). Eiyuden Chronicle will be a 2.5D JRPG with hand-drawn characters in 3-D environments, using a turn-based battle system with six controllable characters out of a possible 100 (the Suikoden series was known for its massive amount of recruitable characters). When a player takes a turn, the camera dramatically shifts angles for an impressive effect, like so: The Suikoden bunch – including writer Yoshitaka Murayama, former staff members from Castlevania, Wild Arms and the Tales series, have formed