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Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicles will get a sequel to ‘carry on the legacy’ of late creatorYoshitaka Murayama passed away in February ahead of this month’s release for Hundred Heroes
Yoshitaka Murayama passed away in February ahead of this month’s release for Hundred Heroes
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/505 Games
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/505 Games
Eiyuden Chronicles, theRPGseries that’seffectively a sequel-slash-spiritual successorto nineties and early noughties JRPG classicSuikoden, will continue with a sequel despite the death of its creator earlier this year.
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Yoshitaka Murayama created Suikoden in the mid-1990s over at Konami before departing after 2002’s PlayStation 2-only Suikoden III. He later went on to found developers Rabbit & Bear Studios, working alongside fellow Suikoden veterans - including character designer and artist Junko Kawano - to create Eiyuden Chronicles, crowdfunded via one of the biggest video game Kickstarters to date,raising over £3.4m, in 2020.
Murayama passed away as the result of complications related to an ongoing illness in early February, having released action-RPG prologueEiyuden Chronicle: Risingin 2022 but sadly not living to see the release of this year’s full-blooded RPG instalmentEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.
“We want to maintain his legacy and vision with this game and know that he would have wanted the rich world he has created withEiyuden Chronicleto live on,” Rabbit & Bearwrote at the time.
“It is very sad that Murayama is not with us anymore, but we have discussed many things with him,” the studio’s team wrote in a recentReddit AMAin response to whether the series could go on.
That could also include potential spin-offs, which the team said they had “a lot of ideas” for, but would only come once “Hundred Heroes has sold many copies”.
“I would be delighted if we could grow the series enough to be able to expand the scope of the series,” said art director and producer Junichi Murakami. “If many people support this game, I would like to try many challenges.”
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While Eiyuden Chronicles clearly harkens back to Murayama’s work on Suikoden, the game’s developers reflected that he “was very reluctant to have his past work or the word “nostalgic” used for this project. He always wanted to create something new.”
If you’re yet to discover Murayama’s work, old or new, now’s as good a time as any. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes releases on April 23rd, and there areHD remasters of the first two Suikoden gamesalso on the way.
