Publisher NIS America has launched a new story trailer for its upcoming action-RPG CRYMACHINA, and we're frankly in love with how this game is shaping out. It looks gorgeous.
Granted, the footage in the trailer is likely from either a PS5 or PC build of the game, but still, we can't imagine it will be altered too much for the Switch.
We'll find out for sure later in the year, though, as CRYMACHINA will be launching on the Switch on October 24th, 2023 in the US and October 27th, 2023 in Europe. Those lucky spuds in Japan, meanwhile, will be getting their hands on the game on July 27th, 2023.
As for the game itself, here's what NIS America has in its official story premise:
Mechanical girls fight to become Real Humans.
CRYMACHINA is set in the future, long after mankind's extinction, within a vast, outer-space structure known as Eden.
Here, self-evolving, artificial life forms called Dei ex Machina operate with a single goal:
Human Restoration.
However, when Propator, the First Deus ex Machina and overseer of Eden, is lost...its disappearance opens a rift between the remaining Dei ex Machina.
Become a Real Human to survive.
Intriguing, huh? Hopefully, the gameplay itself will match up to the stunning visuals and interesting premise with this one.
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Will you pick up CryMachina when it launches on the Switch later this year? Let us know with a comment.
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Woah Pigtails are a bold move for a protagonist. Can this Anime Girl live up to the great pigtailed anime girls? We've got Legendary characters such as Madoka Magica, and Nokia from Cybersleuth on our side.
October is becoming the Christmas of games.
Looks fantastic. Definitely getting a physical copy this October!
My interest has beed piqued.
@TheSaneInsanity it's not just pigtails, but also BUNS. They are literally challenging Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon and Meilin from Cardcaptor Sakura
@TheSaneInsanity Can't forget the most legendary of them all.. Michiru Matsushima from the Grisaia series.
https://grisaia.fandom.com/wiki/Michiru_Matsushima
October is gonna be amazing for RPG fans! CryMachina, Disgaea 7 and Sword Art Last Recollection all releasing within the same month.
Looks promising but I advise caution with this. Crystar was probably the most button mashing game I've ever seen.
Does look nice... in the trailer. Let's see how it shapes up in action.
Though I do wish there was more divergence from the JRPG trend for everyone to dress like metallic drag queens with uber-pointy armour and elongated weaponry.
Rooting that this is the one that puts FuRyu on a new level of success.
I need to see more gameplay. I can’t tell if it’s gonna be Dynasty style whack the button and wing it
This article is better than pushsquare's where they just start talking about a major competitor's game... But this still neglects to mention that it's part of the crystar universe.
I'm really torn on this because the plot looks good. And then... I heard about Crystar. NIS is very hit or miss for me.
Eh...
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm tired of anime aesthetic games lol. The only thing from NIS that interests me anymore is Ys, and even that peaked with Lacrimosa of Dana for me.
I enjoy an occasional RPG but all these anime themed games are kinda blending together in my mind. Also excessive button mashing doesn't really do it for me. Timing based is okay but I prefer (at least semi) turn-based.
Looking forward to it. Think I'll get it on PS5 though. My Switch collection is just ridiculous right now.
Cry machina, and loose the weebs of war.
Crystar wasn't perfect, but it was one the most memorable JRPG's I've played, I even created my username after one of it's characters before I changed it recently. So safe to say I'm very much looking forward to this!
@Nintendencies Oh, it was actually good? I was waiting for it to go 80% off, because I just can't trust JRPGs. When they're good, they're my favorite genre, but there are a lot that are only decent.
@ArcticEcho Depends on what you want from a game, the OST for example is absolutely top class, story is kind of weird but ok, graphics are nothing special.
The problems are that you need to replay a major part of the game 3 times, the maps are completely barren of anything other than enemies, most of the combat is extremely easy and generally resolved by using only a single button, and from some point, everything has billion hp and takes forever to kill on anything other than Easy difficulty
That being said some JRPGs make massive progress between 1st and 2nd installments, like Blue Reflection or Caligula Effect, I'd wait for the reviews for this one.
I would love to think that it will work great on the switch and it just may but, even tho I love the game ys 9 was atrocious on the switch, it’s the worst running game I have and that’s cruddy because it’s amazing when it’s not slowing down.
@Adol-Bannings In fairness, Ys IX didn't even run particularly well on PS4, so a quick and dirty port was never going to work out well on a significantly weaker platform.
With Ys X's Switch version being developed in-house by Falcom, hopefully performance isn't as much of an issue.
But with regard to this, yeah, NIS is all over the place in terms of performance.
@YonkoBuggyTheClown You're missing out if you haven't touched the Trails series yet. Very special stuff. Ys is great and serves as a great secondary NIS series, but Trails has the crown
when nier automata and xenoblade chronicles 2 have a wittle baby game. Im sold
@Ralizah Yeah, as much as I enjoyed YS IX the game was all around a technical disaster, I don't expect X to be particularly better honestly since the PS4 version of IX was also disfunctional. Hopefully their new engine actually works.
Eh, another anime game with characters that all look alike, pass.
@ArcticEcho
I personally think it was really good. I play a lot of games, so many of them get left out in my memories, but this one I remember fondly, but then I do often like quite niche titles so bare that in mind and shop around for reviews.
I think most people's problems with it was that it could be repetitive in the combat department, especially since there are multiple endings (thought that was handled really well in my book without spoiling anything) I never go for multiple routes normally, and I got the true end in this and it was worth it.
I feel you 100% on that, I can be super picky too, they are surprisingly hard to get right, I end up dropping more than I do sticking with because of that, but like you they are like my 2nd fave genre somehow.
@ItsATM You make a good point. I have the first one on Steam. Is the first trilogy on the Switch? Im particularly interested in playing the first two games that follows the main characters of the Trails in the Sky games.
like the visual but the action looked a little off
Looks pretty cool but no dub?! Eh I don't know if I can listen to moon speak the entire length.
Looks pretty cool. If it does well hopefully NIS makes enough physical copies for us. I cannot find Trails of Zero or Trails of Azure for Switch anywhere at retail. And both games are less than a year old in NA. May not be able to wait on some of these new NIS games anymore.
@jorel262 Check PlayAsia, eBay and Mercari. That's where I buy 90% of my games.
@SigmaNoire buttonmashy JRPG? I was eyeing it warily on deep discount but may give it another look
@DemonKow I feel like not in a good way, I like Warriors games, but in those you have at least some variety and it's fun how strong you are. In this game every enemy takes million hits from some point of the game, and most of the time you literally hit only a single button, without combos or using specials.
The faces weird me out, and the environments look a touch too abstract. Guess that's why Nier chose more organic environments.
But, I can see this art design catering to a certain subset of people, so it hits the mark in that regard.
@YonkoBuggyTheClown unfortunately that is the main problem with getting into the series, aside from the length... Sky 1-3 are only available on PC, and Cold Steel 1-2 are only on PC/Playstation. Zero, Azure and Cold Steel 3-4 are on all consoles though, which helps!
This looks interesting, but could also be a dud. Although, I’m tempted to just buy it in Japanese. I never played Crystar mainly because of barren maps and single button combat. But if Crymachina can give me a little style, flair, and mandatory dodging in the combat, it’ll suffice.
"Can't imagine it will be altered too much for the Switch" ?
Have you not played a multi-platform game on Switch before? 🤔
Bought it in a local Geo store recently, and it looks pretty generic, I mean all anime stereotypic characters, things how they look , speak etc., don't expect to see anything new in this part, it is Furyu after all. Gameplay is repetitious and boring if to compare with for example Nier, all this postapocallyptic robogirls becoming humans and stuff... Arenas where you fight, drew a lot of inspiration from that another worldly landscapes from astral chains though lack same amount of depth to them.
Overall this game looks like something brought from smartphones to the gaming platform without adding certain amount of depths to it. No surprise again, it is furyu after all.
@ancientlii it is frantic, Nier is waaaaaaay more fluid
Oh yeah, forgot to say! It has a photo mod in it - I mean you press both of sticks together and then can choose angle and move pseudo freely around your character and stuff
And, 3D models looks cheap, they have no expression what so ever and sometime polygons overlap and distort in very odd form
@TheSaneInsanity Gonna be the Twin-Tail, right?
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