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On Tuesday, March 4, Konami Digital Entertainment streamed "Gensou Suikoden Live," an official web program providing the latest information on the Suikoden RPG series, which began releasing in 1995, and announced various future developments, including a TV anime and stage play adaptations. The TV anime series, titled Suikoden: The Anime , is based on Suikoden II , the second installment of the game series released for the PlayStation video game console in 1998. Yuzo Sato ( Muteking The Dancing Hero ) serves as the director at Konami animation. Broadcast date, voice cast members and other details will be announced in the future. The first stage play inspired by the game series, titled "Genso Suikoden - Mon no Monshou Sensou-hen" ("Suikoden: The Crest of the Gate War Arc"), is based on the series' first installment, Suikoden , released for the PlayStation in 1995. Norihito Nakayashiki serves as director on his own script. The plays is set to preform in Theater...

The shadow of Xu Zhonglin's influential novel “The Investiture of the Gods” looms long over Chinese popular culture. As one of the most well-regarded vernacular epics since the 16th century, its heady blend of history and mythology has been a creatively enticing gauntlet for many filmmakers. Before now, the last big-budget stab at the material was 2016's 3D flop “League of Gods”, led by an all-star cast including Jet Li, Tony Leung Ka-Fai and Louis Koo, and still somehow won Worst Picture at that year's Golden Broom Awards. The crown now lies heavy on the head of filmmaker Wuershan, a director experienced in the fantasy genre (his “Painted Skin 2: The Resurrection” was at one time China's highest grossing movie domestically) but still holding the great responsibility of condensing 100 chapters of beloved high-concept magic and action into a movie…or three. Does the first chapter, “Kingdom of Storms”, capture...

Carrie unlocks the fast travel system in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, making returning to already-discovered towns and dungeons much easier. Some of the main quests require backtracking, and you may also want to shop at old locations.

Carrie is also a capable fighter who specializes in Light and Dark magic. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes uses a combat system similar to Suikoden games. This makes it important to have at least one or two powerful casters in the backlines.

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Carrie is found in the town of Hishahn, a city explored fairly early in the campaigns storyline. Many Xbox users may just be starting Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes...

Jrpg fans are a starving lot, stuck in an era of replaying their golden oldies and praying the latest indie game on Steam at least partially sticks the landing. Even recommending the classics can be difficult. Many of the best games have never received a revival port, or, worse, the revival is still up in the air. That’s the fate of the Suikoden franchise, whose first two games received a Japan-only PSP port in 2006 and which was originally meant to be released on modern consoles last year.

It’s another indignity for a series whose Western introduction in 1996 was festooned with an infamously bad replacement cover because Konami thought Westerners didn’t like manga. Or something.

Yet the turn-based franchise, which consistently featured a cast of over 100 characters to collect and a lively if simple settlement-building system, remains beloved to those hardcore RPG devotees that can find it. Continually...

Combat is fun once systems develop, but lacks quality of life features. Game runs poorly on Switch with lag, and aesthetics are sometimes mundane. Despite a great narrative and character design, micromanaging issues hinder gameplay.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, developed by Rabbit & Bear Studios and published by 505 Games, is a game that knows exactly what it wants to do. A love letter to the Suikoden series with the promise of more modern technology to produce it (even while deliberately sticking to the same familiar aesthetics and systems) sounds good on paper - in execution, however, it's a lot more of a mixed bag, with some downright maddening or baffling decisions that hamper an otherwise decent game.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is developed by a team of people who are pretty familiar with the genre - director Yoshitaka Murayama is the creator of Suikoden, after all. The Kickstarter campaign...

Manor Lords releases as an Xbox Game Pass day one release, with one huge caveat. Slavic Magic is the developer of the game and a one-person studio. There are a few reasons that players could be slightly hesitant to go all in on Manor Lords upon its initial release.

Xbox Game Pass is getting yet another exciting day-one addition on April 26, but despite how incredible this game looks like it could be, there's also some cause for caution. Getting to play new games as soon as they release without a purchase is one of the biggest draws of Xbox Game Pass, which opens up a large library of games for a subscription fee. The service is available on both Xbox systems and PC, and it often makes it possible to play games on either platform.

The April 2024 slate for Xbox Game Pass has its fair share of highlights, some of...

In February, it was announced that Yoshitaka Murayama—creator of the Suikoden series and upcoming spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes —had passed away. While that may have left some questioning the possibility of a sequel to the new game, the team at Rabbit & Bear Studios confirmed that they will be moving forward with one. This was revealed during a Reddit Ama featuring Junko Kawano (character designer and studio head), Osamu Komuta (director and system designer) and Junichi Murakami (art director and producer). When fans brought up the question of a sequel, the team stated that, despite the unfortunate passing of Murayama, they hope to carry on his legacy. Related: Yoshitaka Murayama, Creator of Suikoden RPG Series, Has Passed Away This was their reply, which was shared in English and Japanese: Absolutely! We are moving forward with a sequel. It is very sad that Murayama is not with us anymore,...

Eiyuden Chronicles, Another Crab's Treasure, and Manor Lords are the stars of Xbox Game Pass this April. Eiyuden Chronicles brings a massive Jrpg experience, Another Crab's Treasure is a unique souls-like, and Manor Lords offers medieval strategy fun. Xbox Game Pass subscribers can look forward to exciting Day-One releases making April a month full of gaming joy.

Microsoft has unveiled the next selection of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in April and while all six new entries will no doubt please subscribers, three in particular are already shaping up to be massively popular. To make up for the fact that several popular titles like 7 Days To Die, Besiege, and EA Sports NHL 22 are leaving the service at month's end, players need not stress as the replacements that will be joining the platform in the near future are cause for celebration. What's even better is that there of them are Day-One releases.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes takes notes from classic RPGs as the spiritual successor to the Suikoden series. Despite delays, Eiyuden Chronicle is a bigger game than expected, with new content promised from Kickstarter stretch goals. The game will release on April 23, 2024, on multiple platforms, with a digital deluxe edition, pre-order bonuses, and unique rewards for prequel players.

After a long wait, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is finally coming soon. A turn-based RPG by legendary director Yoshitaka Murayama, Eiyuden Chronicle has been in development since 2020 - although it's arguably been decades in the making. With gorgeous 2.5D graphics, a lush score, and a cast of characters as diverse as its title implies, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes looks to be a total throwback to the golden age of turn-based RPGs, a rarity in the modern era.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes was funded via Kickstarter, where it greatly exceeded all its funding targets.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, a Suikoden spiritual successor, will be playable on Game Pass from launch on April 23 The RPG focuses on recruiting over 100 characters, focusing on three main protagonists, with turn-based combat and strategic war segments. Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, a prologue with action-focused gameplay, is already available on Game Pass, setting the stage for Hundred Heroes.

Further expanding its impressive catalog of games, Xbox Game Pass will be adding one of 2024's most anticipated RPGs to its lineup in April. With new games being added to the service each month, Game Pass boasts a consistently expanding library, sometimes even including major titles immediately upon their release, and while some games only stay for a limited time, the catalog generally gains more than it loses.

Releasing on April 23, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes will be playable at launch on Xbox Game Pass (via NME), allowing subscribers to circumvent the game's $49.99 price...

The wait is nearly over for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes , which brings its Suikoden -inspired adventure to consoles and PC on April 23, 2024. While we still have a little over a month to go, publisher 505 Games went ahead and shared a pre-launch trailer to set the stage. Clocking in at nearly five minutes, the latest preview introduces the main characters and the story at hand. It then goes on to introduce even more characters; look, it's called Hundred Heroes , okay? Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Pre-launch Trailer Related: Yoshitaka Murayama, Creator of Suikoden RPG Series, Has Passed Away 505 Games sums up the story: The Galdean Empire has edged out other nations and discovered a technology that amplifies the rune-lenses’ magic. Now, the Empire is scouring the continent for an artifact that will expand their power even further. It is on one such expedition that Seign Kesling, a young and gifted imperial officer,...

Rabbit & Bear Studios, the developers behind Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes , shared some sad news in the announcement that Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama has passed away. According to the post on the official website, Murayama passed due to "complications with an ongoing illness." Murayama's Suikoden originally launched for PlayStation back in 1995, ultimately spawning multiple sequels and spinoffs. He brought these inspirations back into the spotlight, delighting fans with the announcement of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes in 2020. The RPG went on to become one of the most successful video game Kickstarter projects of all time. While it doesn't hit consoles and PC until this April, Murayama completed his work on the project prior to his passing. The message from Rabbit & Bear Studios adds that they aim to "maintain his legacy and vision with this game and know that he would have wanted the rich world he has created with Eiyuden Chronicle to live on.

Though it's seemingly a cute and child-friendly series, the Made in Abyss anime is full of gut-wrenching, harrowing storytelling. This has allowed the franchise to go on for over a decade. Soon, the anime and movie versions of the franchise became very popular. Both of these adaptations are still going, as is the manga source material. There's no better time to get into the series in any of its forms. The second season of the Made in Abyss anime, titled The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, dropped in July 2022.

Made in Abyss had already captivated audiences with its beautiful art and deep world building, among other things. As a result, those who missed the bandwagon the first time around might need to do some catching-up. There are some important pieces of media to watch in order for anime viewers to watch in order to fully enjoy Made in Abyss.

2023 should feature a variety of promising indie game releases, with Team Cherry's Hollow Knight: Silksong a major headliner. However, there's good representation all around for 2023, from JRPGs that refresh to action platformers and everything in between. Supergiant Games' Hades 2 should be making its initial appearance, offering cathartic and quick-paced rogue-like gameplay, as well as nostalgic throwbacks like Sea of Stars that look to refresh the beloved Jrpg style of the '90s.

Related: 10 Games With The Best Post-Campaign Content

Hollow Knight: Silksong (Q1/Q2 2023)

Arguably the most highly-anticipated indie game of 2023 is Team Cherry's Hollow Knight: Silksong. The widespread acclaim of the original Hollow Knight earned tremendous goodwill as a modern-day homage to Metroidvanias. The creative and atmospheric setting fit well with the subgenre's gameplay tropes.

The original was the perfect blend of Metroidvania-style exploration, incentivizing players to traverse the hauntingly beautiful locales. With a new protagonist, Silksong...

With acclaimed RPG titles such as Final Fantasy and Suikoden, the PlayStation remains one of the all-time great consoles for fans of the genre. Along with the Super Nintendo, the PlayStation carried prestigious RPG producers like Square Enix and Capcom, who are still at the heart of the roleplaying genre today.

Related: 10 Best Fantasy RPGs, Ranked

With its all-star lineup of RPG titles, it could be difficult to determine which were the best in the PlayStation library. But with thousands of gamers on Ranker voting for their favorites, the picture is made clearer via their crowd-sourced opinions.

A Shaw Brothers production, this movie is about Wu Sung, a famous character from the classic novel ‘Outlaws of the Marsh’ or ‘The Water Margin’. Often described as a muscular and respectable man, Wu Sung also likes his wine; however, he’s greatly renowned for killing a tiger with his bare hands.

At the start of “The Delightful Forest”, Wu Song is out to avenge his brother, upon learning that he was killed by his adulteress sister-in-law Pan Jin Lian and her lover Ximen Qing. Since he has already killed Pan, it’s time to settle the score with Ximen Qing. Being a righteous man who owns up to whatever he does, Wu Song is sent to prison after killing Ximen. Interestingly, with the help of an officer Shih En, he is treated exceedingly well there and even escapes the traditional punishment. In return, Wu Song agrees...

Xbox’s E3 2021 showcase gave fans a new look at Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes as well as revealing a companion game coming next year. The bad news, Jrpg fans, is that you have to wait until 2023 to play Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, the upcoming game from the creator behind the beloved Suikoden games. The […]

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The story of Pan Jin Lian (nicknamed the Golden Lotus) and her lover, Ximen Qing is again given another spin by Li Han Hsiang, a director who’s renowned for making erotic romance movies. Throwing into the mix in “Tiger Killer”, we have Wu Song, a legendary character from the epic Chinese literature ‘The Water Margin’ or ‘Outlaws of the Marsh’.

“Tiger Killer” is very much the story of Wu Song and his brother Elder Wu. In the beginning of the movie, we learn that baby Wu Song is raised up by his brother because they parents are dead. Elder Wu sells buns on the streets, takes a lot of abuses from kids because he is a dwarf with crocked teeth. As Wu Song grows up, he always gets into trouble standing up for his brother to the point that he has to leave town and seek shelter in a nearby temple.

The Monk is an upcoming 3D Martial Arts movie, which will feature a great cast such as Aaron Kwok, jaycee Chan, Wang Baoqiang, Fan Wei, Wang Xueqi and many more. It also been likened to the old Shaw Brothers classic The Water Margin, so expect a great film.

The Monk tells the story about a very skilled monk who is forced to leave his monastery and fight for himself in the outside world. Aaron Kwok recently filmed a fight scene where he takes on 10 guys in the snow, that scene alone is enough to make me want to watch the whole movie. It is based on the novel by Xu Haofeng’s, titled A Monk Comes Down the Mountain.

Aarom Kwok has made some great movies in the past, such as The Barefoot Kid, Saviour Of The Soul, 2000 Ad, Cold War and the recently release blockbuster The Monkey King.

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All Men Are Brothers

Directed by Chang Cheh

Written by Chang Cheh and Kuang Ni

Hong Kong, 1975

In 1972, The Water Margin exploded onto the Hong Kong cinema scene, courtesy of acclaimed director Chang Cheh, an eclectic cast and impressive production values that clearly upped the ante in comparison to most Shaw films which came before it in terms of scope. The movie was blessed with a sense of grandeur that took one’s breath away. Despite all the conceited efforts invested into producing a true epic, the film’s plot suffered terribly from a serious lack of momentum and stakes. 3 years later, the same director and screenwriters returned, as did much of Water’s cast, to conclude the tale of the Liang Shan outlaw gang in All Men Are Brothers, as they fight for the side of good in a tale of espionage and unabashedly gruesome combat.

All Men Are Brothers...

The Water Margin

Directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma

Screenplay by Chang Cheh and Ni Kuang

Hong Kong, 1972

However many qualities may be admired about the martial arts classics from the late 60s and early 70s, their scale is not one that frequently produces feelings of awe from within the viewer. In the majority of such cases, while the films are wildly entertaining for their crazy storylines, memorable figures and detailed combat sequences, few of them have a truly epic feel about them. Chang Cheh attempted to rectify that situation in 1972 with his historical motion picture, The Water Margin.

Before the story commences, the viewer is treated to a scrolling text explaining that The Water Margin is, in truth, an important historical text in China. Written in the 14th century, it recounts the tales of various Chinese outlaws turned heroes and their battles against corruption and other evil entities in the 12th century.

Cartoon Network will begin rolling out 52 episodes of "Hero: 108" next month, the first part of a strategy designed to turn the property into a franchise that includes an Internet game and a line of toys.

Cartoon partnered with Moonscoop Entertainment to co-produce the animated show that targets young teens, and Gamania Digital Entertainment, which will launch a massively multiplayer online game in the summer. The fourth partner is Playmates Toys.

Gamania, which handles Asian rights to such popular games as "Lineage" and "MapleStory," makes its first foray into the U.S. with "Hero: 108," loosely inspired by a 14th century Chinese novel called "The Water Margin Stories."

That novel has a small band of ordinary citizens, eventually growing to 108 of them, rising against a corrupt government. The TV show and online game has stripped the politics from the story.

"We figured fighting against the government wouldn't resonate with kids," Gamania product director Kevin Crawford said.