amazon Astral Chain reviews
The action game of guillotine is probably the most popular type of game in the world, when almost all variants such as platformer, beat ’em up’, A-RPG … are deeply focused on this category.
Being aware of that, so even as “the king of the hack-and-slash game”, PlatinumGames still understood that he would have to do something really new, truly groundbreaking with Astral Chain to make a big deal in an increasingly crowded gaming market.
Set in the near future, when 90% of humanity and the Earth’s environment are wiped out by a “plague” from Red Matter – a destructive and spreading destructive material very strong.
Not only do they transform everything on Earth, but the person exposed to the Red Matter is also transformed into a zombie-like monster – senseless, aggressive, and highly infectious. The remaining powers have gathered money, manpower and technology to build THE ARK, an artificial island considered the last mecca of mankind, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean – where experts said that it will avoid the invasion of Red Matter.
However, in just a short time, this seemingly indestructible citadel also suffered a mysterious mysterious invasion. Through in-depth research, it was finally discovered that the Red Matter is essentially a material from another world called the Astral Plane.
It communicates with the Earth through cracks or holes, and creatures from here – invisible to the naked eye – can “capture” people to that space, as transmitting Red Matter to “reform” the Earth to resemble their environment (Pacific Rim, has anyone ever seen?).
These monsters are called Chimera, they have many different variants and characteristics. “Absolute monopoly”, a secret police agency of the global police department named Neuron was established, with the extremely strong support of ARI (a form of high research / experiment / treatment center).
By studying, collecting and applying Red Matter itself, a series of cutting-edge inventions were born and greatly benefited Neuron in fighting against residents from the afterlife, such as the “eyes” IRIS with the ability to see things, X-Baton with many transformations to fight far – near, of course, it is impossible not to mention Astral Chain – the mysterious chain that has just been imprisoned The Chimera, have tamed them into Legions, powerful assistants of the Neuron.
With a context that is not new at first glance, but the way PlatinumGames created it, as well as leading players to integrate into it, has made Astral Chain have a completely different value from other similar games.
And because it revolves around a specific police force, outside players fighting monsters to “save the world” must familiarize themselves with the processes, responsibilities and behaviors of real security officers.
By allocating the game plot into many different chapters with countless small segments in the middle, players not only have to fight with dust like other action games, but also interwoven with many segments with New gameplay like investigating, spying, catching criminals, searching for clues …
The experience of playing Astral Chain always changes continuously, making players have to quickly become familiar with and adapt to countless challenges.
Despite many inter-game modes, but at its core, Astral Chain is still a pure action game with basic elements such as combo moves, dodging – countering, and changing weapons / fighting styles to match different types of enemies.
Basically, with X-Baton weapons in three forms of batons, shotguns, and longswords, players will have a variation between three agile fighting styles, continuous combos – long range, weak damage – speed slow but extremely strong.
Up to 5 different types of Legions are Sword, Arrow, Arm, Beast and Ax (which will be gradually unlocked according to the story) for players to use, and they can be changed in real time right in the middle of the battle duel, creating countless situations that players can manipulate.
Astral Chain is of course not out of the above categories, when accompanied by the idea of a new game, a deep combat system, the graphics of the game are even less competitive.
Not shimmering magic to the point of “looking like real” game style of Square Enix, but Astral Chain conquered players at first sight because of its very special graphic style.
If Vanquish likeness as a muscular guy equipped with tons of metal on people, bunkers that sophisticated; NieR: Automata is like a pure white fairy maiden; Bayonetta is like an arrogant girl in a floral dress and with exaggerated motifs; Astral Chain is like a “digital” character coming out of virtual reality, half far and near.
Choosing an anime style styling, but Astral Chain has built a model with a slightly rough 3D texture.
However, that did not make the game’s beauty worse, but on the contrary, it made Astral Chain look like a “crane among chickens”, emerging in a forest of beautiful games with beautiful boys and girls on the market.
It can be said that PlatinumGames has been extremely successful in recreating an Astral Chain world that is extremely suitable for its theme and ideas.
THE ARK, an artificial island divided into several regions, is structured like a separate city and they were built to remind mankind of the golden old days.
Shopping malls, movie theaters, unfinished construction sites, stairs to the overpass or down the subway line … are all too familiar and close.
But of course, in a futuristic fantasy world, here and there, things that evoke the feeling of “not here” are still arranged in a very logical and specific manner.
However, when IRIS is activated, everything appears as a stereoscopic space with black markings and white lines, highlighting things that do not belong in this world.
Of course, overlapping and existing in parallel, is the Astral Plane, the unique space of the home of monsters Chimera.
Here everything is uncertain and disturbing, and whether the ground, obstacles or walls are constructed as virtual 3D data blocks. Looking far away, in the sight of the player is just a red blood-like sky stretched headlines without seeing a stop.
In fact, in this Astral Plane, there was nothing that created a feeling of life – so the players’ questions about the secrets of the Astral Chain only piled up more.
where can you get a Astral Chain online
Astral Chain – Nintendo Switch: Buy it now
Astral Chain (Nintendo Switch): Buy it now
Switch – ASTRAL CHAIN – Collector’s Edition – [PAL EU – NO NTSC]: Buy it now
ASTRAL CHAIN COLLECTOR’S EDITION -Switch (Japan Import): Buy it now
