Hero Seekers is a JRPG developed by Vanguard and printed by KEMCO. This title incorporates a linear gameplay path, an honest story with fascinating character backgrounds, and turn-based technique fight. It appears to be like nice on the skin, however does it actually stand out in comparison with different video games within the style? Nicely, the reply is sure and no.
I believe the strongest a part of Hero Seekers is the story. Over time, many Heroes have stepped as much as defeat the Demon King. All succeed, however the Demon King will get resurrected every time and erases the earlier Heroes from everybody’s reminiscence, trapping stated Heroes in a loop of their worst nightmare.
The sport begins with a trio of Heroes—Lunette, Ramsar, and Ruwan—defeating the Demon King, just for them to get separated. Lunette awakes in a wierd city the place people are being enslaved by demons. Solely she remembers her social gathering defeating the enemy, with Ramsar and Ruwan nowhere to be discovered. Thus, her quest begins to carry again misplaced historical past by liberating misplaced Heroes from their nightmares.
Total, I discovered the narrative coated themes of hope, loss, and the significance of historical past in a novel approach that was partaking with its characters. Nevertheless, the gameplay wasn’t robust sufficient to assist again up the story. There have been too many characters with tales that ended up getting thrown away. There are twenty-four Heroes to search out and add to your social gathering, however you may solely have 5 social gathering members at a time. 4 struggle in your social gathering and one is in reserve, incomes expertise from the social gathering’s battles, however finally not contributing and simply being there for backup.
I assume the builders created many characters to assist with replayability so you may combine and match social gathering members. When you’ve accomplished Hero Seekers as soon as, there’s no actual want to return and play it once more anytime quickly because the story is as straight as an arrow and the fight will get stale after some time.
I additionally didn’t wish to swap out the principle characters. Lunette is the playable character, and though you may swap her out, it felt unsuitable to. She meets Nyla and Zalesh alongside the best way, and they’re additionally necessary, and in each dialog and cutscene. It felt bizarre to swap them out, too, once they’re nonetheless being addressed by NPCs. Each different Hero was merely there as an additional. All of them had their very own backstory, which was nice, however when you unlock them, that’s it. They don’t have any dialogue or interplay with anybody else for the remainder of the sport. I used Lilione as my fourth social gathering member and Maximillion as my fifth on reserve. Apart from aiding in battles, there was no motive to have greater than the three primary social gathering members.
The gameplay of Hero Seekers is rinse and repeat. You go from one city to a different, discuss to an NPC or two, they usually’ll inform you the place to go subsequent. So, again to the overworld you go, heading to a dungeon. The dungeons are roughly all the identical. There are not any puzzles or obstacles within the dungeons. It’s merely a matter of discovering the place the steps are to maneuver to the subsequent degree. Basically, every dungeon is a big maze with lengthy corridors, some useless ends with or with out chests, and ultimately you bump into the steps.
And after I say massive, I imply it. Each space in Hero Seekers—the dungeons, the overworld map, the cities—is large with loads of empty area. I can’t start to explain how a lot area is wasted in each space. The cities particularly are needlessly massive with tons of buildings with no doorways. The one buildings you may go into are the city’s citadel or the store. There’s a city or two the place you may go into an NPC’s dwelling, however there’s no motive to. Irrespective of the place I used to be, I principally wandered round till the sport stopped me to inform me I used to be both going within the unsuitable course or I triggered a cutscene.
There are not any maps on this sport, so I couldn’t have a look at the overworld to get a way of course to make it to the subsequent space. As an alternative, I wandered till one thing appeared on display screen. Or, once more, the sport stopped me for going too far within the unsuitable course.
Total, the gameplay in between fight was going by the motions for the sake of shifting the story alongside. There are not any aspect quests or mini video games, nothing.
The fight in Hero Seekers was enjoyable for a short while. On the overworld and in dungeons, you’ll get into random battles with wild enemies starting from jellyfish and goblins to dragons and the undead. Each character can use bodily assaults with melee weapons or use SP for magic assaults.
On the left aspect of the display screen, you’ll see the flip order itemizing your social gathering and the enemies, primarily based on everybody’s velocity. I’m unsure if my social gathering was overpowered or not, however in just about each battle my complete social gathering was sooner and would principally one-shot the enemy group earlier than they might even assault. I did grind somewhat bit to start with to get cash so I may purchase upgraded weapons and armor, so I’m unsure if I by chance boosted my group an excessive amount of. Thus, the battles had been monotonous for me.
There may be an auto function for battles, although. For those who’re grinding or just simply don’t really feel like moving into wild battles when touring to the subsequent space, you should utilize the auto function. The social gathering will both go “all-out” utilizing their robust assaults, or you may set the auto function to “therapeutic” or “no particular” that means they’ll solely use bodily assaults.
The boss battles could possibly be tough. Once more, my social gathering was normally sooner than the boss so I had an excellent benefit. Additionally, there wasn’t a lot selection within the bosses. Lots of them had been primary enemies from the story, so I battled them a few instances. Lots of the enemies, together with a few of the bosses, appeared weak to wind assaults. Nyla and Zalesh each have wind magic assaults, in order that they carried loads of battles on their shoulders.
So, the story in Hero Seekers was nice, nevertheless it may have been higher if the gameplay supported it and had somewhat extra selection and fewer of a linear really feel to it. Sure, I do know RPGs are usually linear, however this sport didn’t permit me to do something until I used to be shifting ahead with the plot and gave me nothing else to discover within the cities or dungeons.
The music, graphics, and backgrounds on this sport had been superb, although. The backdrops to the battles had been beautiful, and the music gave me Ultimate Fantasy and Castlevania vibes with sufficient variation in tunes for the wild battles, boss battles, cutscenes, and basic wandering.
Total, Hero Seekers is a stable JRPG. The story is powerful, although the gameplay doesn’t fairly match its power and feels bland after some time. With sufficient characters to strive, replayability is current, however the linear approach of enjoying doesn’t go away a lot want for me to begin over. I obtained by the principle story inside ten to eleven hours, so I did spend an excellent period of time with this sport. Regardless of a few of its flaws, it’s value trying out should you get pleasure from RPGs.
