{"id":15618,"date":"2019-02-13T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=15618"},"modified":"2019-02-13T22:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:17:16","slug":"astralchain-from-platinum-games-coming-to-nintendoswitch-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2019\/02\/astralchain-from-platinum-games-coming-to-nintendoswitch-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Astral Chain from Platinum Games coming to Nintendo Switch in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s what PlatinumGames has been working on. A surprise announcement from the latest Nintendo Direct has revealed a new game from PlatinumGames.<\/p>\n<p>ASTRAL CHAIN is a new action game from PlatinumGames, directed by Takahisa Taura, known for his work as the game designer on <em>NieR:Automata<\/em>, and supervised by Hideki Kamiya, creator of the <em>Bayonetta<\/em> series. As part of a police special forces unit in a multicultural futuristic city, players work together with a special living weapon, the Legion, in a synergetic action system of battle and exploration.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t much more details than that at this point with this reveal trailer, but more information are sure to come closer to the release. <em>ASTRAL CHAIN<\/em> launches exclusively for Nintendo Switch on August 30th.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brmmV3g4qqo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s what PlatinumGames has been working on. A surprise announcement from the latest Nintendo Direct has revealed a new game from PlatinumGames. ASTRAL CHAIN is a new action game from PlatinumGames, directed by Takahisa Taura, known for his work as the game designer on NieR:Automata, and supervised by Hideki Kamiya, creator of the Bayonetta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1178,1530],"tags":[2338,1386,1430],"class_list":["post-15618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nintendo-switch","tag-astral-chain","tag-nintendo","tag-platinumgames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/astral_chain_wide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-43U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16253,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2019\/08\/august-29th-nintendo-download-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":15618,"position":0},"title":"August 29th Nintendo Download","date":"August 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"ASTRAL CHAIN\u00a0\u2013 In this new action game from PlatinumGames, the creators of the\u00a0Bayonetta\u00a0series, control the protagonist and a special weapon called a Legion simultaneously to chain stylish combos. 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