ASTRAL CHAIN

The Ark: A massive, prosperous, multicultural city. But disaster strikes when mysterious dimensional gates appear, bringing dangerous alien creatures to the Ark to attack the people and corrupt the land. The Ark police form a special task force, known as Neuron, to face the alien threat head-on.

Humanity’s last chance against invasion is a special living weapon called the Legion. As a rookie Neuron officer, you and your Legion will work together to solve cases and save humankind.

ASTRAL CHAIN gives you full control over two characters at once for thrilling Synergetic Action, courtesy of PlatinumGames. Switch between several Legion types and skills to save the world your way.

ASTRAL CHAIN features character designs by the acclaimed mangaka Masakazu Katsura (ZETMAN, Video Girl Ai), and marks the directorial debut of PlatinumGames’ Takahisa Taura (designer of NieR:Automata). Hideki Kamiya, director of Bayonetta and writer/supervisor of Bayonetta 2, provides supervision.

Platform: Nintendo Switch ™ | Genre: Action | Release Date: August 30, 2019 | Price: $59.99(USD) | ESRB Rating: Teen | Publisher: Nintendo | Developer: PlatinumGames Inc.

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Main Character Design ©Masakazu Katsura/SHUEISHA

 

Work together with the Legion – the ultimate living weapon!

Humanity’s last hope against the extradimensional invasion is the Legion – a living weapon, tethered to a human controller. You and your Legion will work together to fight off alien monsters – and crack police cases, while you’re at it. Synergetic Action is all in a day’s work at Neuron!
Team up with your Legion for coordinated attacks on one enemy…

… or take on multiple foes at once!

 

Twin Heroes

You are one of a pair of twins, freshly drafted into Neuron and given a Legion of your own. Choose a male or female character – the other will appear as your twin sibling and closest squadmate.

Character Designs by acclaimed artist Masakazu Katsura

Masakazu Katsura, creator of manga including ZETMAN and Video Girl Ai, designed the main characters and their powerful Legions.

Meet Neuron – Your new squadmates

Visuals

The Ark is a sprawling cyberpunk metropolis where anime and reality meet.

ASTRAL CHAIN is set in a near-future metropolis called the Ark. When this prosperous city finds itself under attack by creatures from beyond our dimension, it’s up to the special police task force Neuron to save the day – before the end of the world as we know it.

HISTORY

09.10.2019

Story Trailer

08.30.2019

ASTRAL CHAIN COLLECTOR’S EDITION

08.21.2019

Nintendo Presents @GamesCom

Hands-on game play with director, Tahahisa Taura.

08.17.2019

Nintendo Minute

Episode of Nintendo Minute for ASTRAL CHAIN game play.

07.26.2019

Action trailer

06.12.2019

Gameplay Pt. 2 - Nintendo Treehouse: Live | E3 2019

06.11.2019

ASTRAL CHAIN devblog

Director Takahisa Taura welcomes you to the ASTRAL CHAIN devblog!

06.11.2019

Gameplay Pt. 1 - Nintendo Treehouse: Live | E3 2019

06.11.2019

Nintendo Switch Trailer - Nintendo E3 2019

02.13.2019

Teaser Trailer

A teaser trailer for ASTRAL CHAIN was shown as part of the February 13, 2019 Nintendo Direct, announcing Takahisa Taura's directoral debut for Nintendo Switch.