Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes reaches a new milestone, hitting $3 million USD. Additionally, the game becomes the 9th most funded video-game Kickstarter of all time and most funded game project in Japan. Fans are dying for a new Suikoden game and since Konami isn’t giving, Yoshitaka Murayama (Suikoden & Suikoden 2) and his team are doing it instead.
Yoshitaka Murayama, the creative director behind Eiyuden Chronicle had the following to say about the milestone:
Eiyuden Chronicle is now the single most backed project by Japanese people ever. For this project, I want to take the fans’ passion and put it in the game—that’s how I feel. I’ve seen people on social media saying this is the first Kickstarter they have ever backed and it makes me so happy to see that passion and support. Anyone in the entertainment business probably feels the same way—they want to make as many people happy as possible. Usually it’s a feeling you get on release day when you sell your game, but with Eiyuden Chronicle, we are able to feel that even at this current phase. And you get to feel it directly from the fans’ voices which, again, is a great feeling. Thanks for all the enthusiasm and support. It really does keep me going. So please join us on this two year journey of developing this game.
That’s not all. Rabbit & Bear Studios (the company Murayama has founded) has stated they’ll add a 9th additional character to the game. Making the total number of characters to 109. Regards to the addition character, Murayama had the following to say:
The 108th character was born through Stretch Goals. I’m sure some people are fond of this number, as am I. But that number was for Suikoden. While we have respect for the number 108, we choose to leave it here and go further. For this commemorable 109th character, we’d like to create a new character with everyone through a voting system. We genuinely hope everyone will continue this journey with us together.
Fans will get to determine the 109th character in the Eiyuden Chronicle Discord channel starting August 21st at Noon EST (9AM PST) and run for 24 hours. The new character’s concept art will be spread throughout the official Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and fan-lead Reddit page this week. Those hungry for more, Rabbit & Bear Studios announced new teaser video coming at the end of this week. You can grab our Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes wallpapers here on Cat with Monocle.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Kickstarter campaign closes on Thursday, August 27, 2020.