Astral Chain (Switch)
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EZA have generally gotten Nintendo games late ever since Damiani gave Breath of the wild a 4 and a half stars :P. It's great to see Astral Chain getting good reviews. Now we can get Bayonetta 3 news.
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Had to cancel my order, got a 120mph issue barreling towards my state, so that takes a higher priority
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@dmcmaster Oddly same reason I just made sure mine was preordered and preloaded digitally, so I can hunker down with it while the power is potentially out, but I understand. Stay safe dude.
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Played about 3 hours so far. Probably the best first 3 hours in a game iv had in a long time
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Potential spoilers through Case 3 below:
I wish the beginning of the game had a bit more buildup before you become "the one", but I understand they want to unlock your full combat potential as soon as possible. With where the story is right now, I have no idea when I'm going to be throwing away trash in the Lappy costume like the end of the first trailer. Also, holy shit Case 3 just kept going and going and going. I guess since they're called Cases they don't want to end them until you return from the field, but they should've found a better way to pace it or at least trimmed the beginning of it out into it's own thing. Anyone else really bad at counter slashes? The thread I'm supposed to cut always gets like obscured by the rest of the enemy and even when I succeed at it, feels like a fluke. So far I've been getting grades all of the place, and there's times I thought I had a great fight and get a C and times I thought I was awful and get S+, so guess I'm still figuring out what the game wants from me. Also, this game has stellar secrets. I've been meticulous and still reach a Case end and see I missed a ton of items.
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@mbun use focus to slow down time for the slashes. Takes some practice
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Apparently the person who reviewed the game for The Independent didn't actually play the game
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@bigdude1 The slow down doesn't even help me, just makes my Legion run out faster.
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@dmcmaster im not surprised. Iv also heard complaints that the game is easy. I think they played it on casual
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@bigdude1 Playing on Platinum Standard, which isn't even the highest difficulty, and I get kicked around and almost die lots. I came back from the third mission with pretty much all of my medicine gone.
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@mbun im having a similar experience. I think any reviews saying it’s easy chose easy.
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@bigdude1
The review mentioned that no combat segments were graded, which only happens on easy
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@dmcmaster yeah, unfortunately no one gives a shit about the independent already so they will get away with their clickbait
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@dmcmaster Difficulties are basically: game plays itself, easy (the default which doesn't grade you), Platinum Standard, and after you beat a case you unlock Platinum... Ultimate? Something like that. Platinum Standard and up you get graded.
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Man, chapters are way longer than I expected
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@bigdude1 Afraid it'll make replaying them for S+ ranks a pain.
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@mbun well I think you will be playing a lot haha. Good thing scoring a s plus is easier than bayo or w101
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Just started. Love all the weirdos hanging out in the base.
