Platinum Games Announces Astral Chain for Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2019 / 3,153 Views
Nintendo and Platinum Games have announced a new action game, Astral Chain, for the Nintendo Switch. It will launch on August 30.
View the announcement trailer below:
Here is an overview of the game:
Astral Chain, a brand new action game from Platinum Games, is coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch system!
As part of a police special task force, it’s up to you to fight against mysterious, alien-like creatures who have invaded the world.
In the Ark, a multi-cultural city in the near future, disaster strikes when gates to another dimension suddenly appear! Dangerous creatures begin to emerge, attacking the people and polluting the land, and normal police forces are unable to compete with them. To stand up against these threats, a brand new, special police unit known as Neuron is formed.
Choose between two playable characters – one male, one female – on your adventure. The character you don’t choose also appears as your younger twin, and a fellow member of Neuron.
In order to resist the creatures, humanity developed a special weapon: the Legion. The Legion acts as your partner, and helps with your investigations. However, it’s in battle where the Legion shows its real ability…
Work together with the Legion and use all sorts of combat styles to fight your enemies. You could both attack the same enemy simultaneously, target different opponents, or send your Legion on the offensive while you support it with items. Use this synergetic action system to battle and explore together!
Making his directorial debut and known for his work as the game designer on NieR: Automata, Takahisa Taura is responsible for the concept and planning of Astral Chain. Hideki Kamiya, creator of the Bayonetta series, is in charge of supervision. The character design is by manga artist Masakazu Katsura, creator of Zetman and Video Girl Ai.
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Out of all the games shown, this game caught my interest the most. Art style, characters, world look really nice imo. Don't mind about Bayonetta 3 not being shown, I want Platinum to take as long as possible with that game. In the meantime, this looks like a game i'd buy. Looking forward to hearing more about it.
Looking forward to it, but I do wish I could play it not just on my Switch, but also my PC.
Its a nice change from Nintendo since being a nintendo fans its usually only sequels we have to look forward to from them but I am already sold
And here it is, my new most anticipated game of 2019
Definitely a game that got a lot of peoples attention. I'm looking forward to seeing more about this title.
