Astral Chain consists of varied genres, but is mostly an action game, which has great ideas and interesting, relaxed humour, that doesn´t spoil its serious plot. [Issue#298]
Astral Chain is set in a somewhat boring and repetitive demon world you have to return to a bit too often, but that’s the only tiny downside to this daring and triumphant new Platinum adventure. It has everything that makes action adventures fun and adds exceptional detective phases that offer a welcome diversion from the wild action.
Astral Chain was such an amazing expierence for since start to finish.
The combat is the most creative and original of any action game ever made. Some parts of the game the gameplay changes with investigation sections and other side quest, and they were one of the main reasons of why this game is a 10. In this game you are a police officer, and a lot of the misions and side quest reflect that by helping others citizens because that's felt more like a duty or a responsability than just a dumb waste of time like other games, I legitimately wanted to do every side quest because it felt so nice just to help and save others, also they are well desing amd don't feel like a long boring chore.
The story its pretty good while it has problems, it has a great world building, a clear objective and a great cast of likeable character, it even has some very sentimental and well made important moments in the story whichis impressive by Platinum Games standars.
So for all of this, Astral Chain is a 10 out of 10 game in my opinion
Astral Chain is PlatinumGames newest adrenaline shot, that's clearly inspired by a lot of previous titles from the studio. It takes the best of out of all those games and delivers a kick-ass adventure that's a must play for the fans.
Astral Chain is one of PlatinumGames' finest acts this generation, cementing itself as yet another stellar exclusive for Nintendo Switch. It doesn't reach the heights of excellence achieved by Yoko Taro's NieR: Automata, but can more than hold its own thanks to an excellent setting, experimental combat and so, so much style it hurts.
It's tough not to consider Astral Chain something of a small disappointment, especially when you know Platinum Games' talent for beat 'em ups. We not only highly commend the fight mechanics in this latest title from Takahashi Taura, but also its universe — original and supported by a high-class artistic direction. However, the overall game is pulled down somewhat by a structure of missions that doesn't match the studio's desire to mix the beat 'em up and investigative genres, and further by large approximations and other technical problems — all of which have a significant impact on the enjoyment of the game.
what a gorgeous and amazing game!! a MUST PLAY for any switch owner! the amount of content and the aesthetic is really exceptional especially for nintendo switch's hardware. 10/10
Astral Chain comes with a cool and innovative combat, that let you mix the controls from 2 characters at the same time providing a good action, this is the most positive point of the game, the characters felt poorly designed and the story could be better. But still, it’s worth the try.
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Most overrated game on Metacritic, probably.
- Story gets only told via text documents and still many things won't get explained.
- Silent protagonist ist super pointless in this scenario.
- Camera movement is borderline broken.
- Fight-System is okay and sometimes fun.
- Graphics are very good for a Switch game.
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