Poll: Astral Chain Is Out Today, Are You Getting It?

Nah, not into super fast paced, combo heavy DMC style action games. Too hard for me, I can only get into something simple like the musou games.

Game looks great but with so many great games coming out and a huge backlog, I can wait.

I would if my local GAME had any copies. Still waiting for the delivery :/

I have already preloaded it. Just waiting to get home from work.

Yes coz it is awesome. Shame about Mutey McNotalk though (AKA your character). Everyone's like 'yap yap yap yap yap' and you just stand there frowning.

Collector's edition just arrived at work. But I'm stuck here late today doing stock take

I live in Japan and for some reason Platinum Games never hold their value on the used market here, so I'll just wait for it to be cheap via those means.

Already got it

i want to so bad, but with Dragon Quest XI, Link's Awakening, and Luigi's Mansion right around the corner? i just cannot add another one.

Nah, not a fan of Platinum’s games/action games like this. I hope everybody who digs that stuff loves this one, though!

About to play it right after this post.

Already got it! To bad the US didn't get the collecter's edition.

Will wait until other people play it. To me it seems like there are too many buttons for my simple mind to keep in check.

I'm tracking my Amazon delivery driver now...!

Earlier in the week I'd decided not to, at least not now, due to time commitments more than anything. I then gave in yesterday and pre-loaded

Glad I did - its actually a very slick and engaging. I'm only four hours in but so far its really grabbed me - more so than any game in the last 6 months or so... and I'm not a big fan of these sorts of Japanese combat adventure games.

Problem is those time commitments are still pressing

I love action games and the combo-heavy action Platinum Games brings to the table with each game is what I consider top class.

I just don't like what Astral Chain is going for. For me personally, the only selling point is the action - I'm not interested in the character designs, the world, the Legions... It's unfortunate but thats the way it is. I do hope the rest of you will thoroughly enjoy it though!

Living in Germany now and still figuring out the best way to get physical games in English. I'm waiting for this to arrive from shop4de.com, keeping my fingers crossed!

Still in doubt. That’s because of Links Awakening and Luigi’s Mansion 3 and my backlog. I’m just not sure about the game, because I don’t like Bayonetta. I think I’m going to let this one pass.

I'll keep it on my tentative interest list, but this is the kind of gameplay I need to try out for myself before I buy. Since we get demos for several months old games sometimes, maybe I'll get the chance someday.

If I was about 15 years younger then absolutely; but I doubt I'd be able to cope with the pace now!

It does look fantastic, so I'm looking forward to seeing the reviews.

@rrice64 Same list for me except add Spyro Trilogy and Witcher 3. 😖

I already finished it. It's not really a fast pace hack and slash like Bayonetta. I called it strategic action game: you need to think and use the proper Pokemon to solve puzzles and fight enemies.

Visually it looks good, as good as Bayonetta 2, it's just too bad they can't get it to run at 60 fps (probably the only Platinumgames running @30fps). There's also a lot of aliasing which is not apparent in Bayo2.

Turned up this morning from The Game Collection. Just Witcher 3 for me retail wise this year now.

Viewtiful Joe was they only game of theirs so far that I was able to fully appreciate. And even then, I'd rather not have to play it again. Even starting the sequel turned me off.

Generally not a fan of Platinum's execution on their design methodologies. But that's not saying they're aren't allowed to surprise me, and I might play this some day, even if I don't rush out there right now.

From what I've seen the game looks thoroughly okay. The plot doesn't draw me in and the "investigation" parts really turned me off during E3. I'll just wait for Bayonetta 3 for my action game in the wrapper I enjoy.

After playing it for 15 minutes, I can say that it's one of those games that I'm really gonna enjoy! The real problem is that I'm also going through my second playthrough in Fire Emblem these days..... so goodbye sleep, I knew you well

I woke up, took a shower and went to open the door for the delivery man to get my CE. My board is number 7010

I've pre-ordered it but the supplier is experiencing delays. Next week it arrives. Just as well, gives me time to round off Fire Emblem Three Houses for now 😀

@DockEllisD About 20 hrs.

I actually received my copy yesterday - a day before official release

I'm waiting on Amazon to deliver my copy, sometime before 8pm but I likely won't start it until late tonight. I plan on having a good 3 or 4 hour session though, can't wait.

Sitting in work at the moment with my Switch in my bag. Gonna give it a few minutes of play at lunch and then get stuck into it later.

Nah. Links awakening soon

Waiting for my friend to come back from the US with my copy😁✌️

The game has an auto mode, you can select it and the game will play itself. I didn't tried it, what's the point of getting a game and let it play itself? I rather watch someone do a play-through on Youtube.

Anyone know what the day one download is? just tried to start it up and its downloading something

I wasn't getting it, but having read some great things today it's now being delivered tomorrow

READ!! Game Collection are doing a 5% discount on everything,including pre orders, until Sunday. Just ordered The Witcher 3 complete edition. Couple of quid off can't hurt 😁

Wasn't really on my radar. But I will definitely give it some thought considering all of the early positive feedback. A demo would go a long way in giving me a better impression on what to expect

I will pick it up when I can but it will have to wait.
I ended up pre ordering the Gears 5 One X console and I just bought Control.

Spyro, Darksiders 2, Dragon Quest XI, and Link's Awakening are my pick ups for Switch in September.

I probably would have picked it up had I found a pre-order discount somewhere, but since I couldn't I'll wait. I'm playing Diablo 3 now, keeping up w/ the latest releases isn't exactly my strong point.

And yes, thanks to the people who told me about it being $49.94 at Walmart, but that seems to be the normal price for Switch games there, so I was uninspired.

This and Fire Emblem were my most anticipated games this year. So definitely yes.

I wasn't going to get it, but so many people were raving about it I started to change my mind, then it got pretty solid reviews and I thought why not?

Then I walked into the store today and saw the had a collector's edition on the shelf still, and I thought "I don't need that. I wasn't even going to buy it!"

And long story short, it's sitting on my shelf now. Gonna play it later.

Not right away. I still have Wolfenstein and Bayonetta 2 to play.

@Expa0 You should try Nier Automata if you havent already. It's a beautiful mix of RPG and Action, it might be a good gateway for you.

Work is going to draaaag cause all I'm gonna be thinking about is playing this when I'm done lol

Daemon X Machina is coming the week after next. So, it’s on my wait list unfortunately.

I am so stoked for this game! It feels like it was just announced yesterday.

I'm on my way to collect it now. Very exciting!

I have to wait on this one unfortunately. But I will have it sometime this year, for sure.

It’s definitely on my radar, but I’d like to finish a couple other games first.

@Chunkboi79
I played through it, not a big fan. Soundtrack was pretty cool though.

Should have it in the mailbox once I get home from work.

I preordered the limited edition but it didn't arrive today. Which is fine since I still have few chapters left in Three Houses.

Absolutely getting it, if it had come out a little further apart than Three Houses I would have pre-ordered as AC is right up my street. As I'm still very invested in FE:3H I don't need to grab it just yet.

Already bought it, but since NoA is horribly lame when it comes to LEs, I have to wait for it to ship from Europe. :/

Im very interested and this is coming from a guy who has never had a inkling of interest in Bayonetta or devil may cry. This one has a very interesting premise and I like the breakup of gameplay. I don’t really like the fast paced smashing buttons style but little things you can do with your legion chained up like tying up an enemy and trapping them for a beat down is really cool. Very reminiscent of my times on rogue squadron dropping an at-at. There is a lot out to play and a lot coming soon tho. Still haven’t started fire emblem and dragon quest xi is in my sights. I’m waiting to see what the people think of it first, so anyone that has the game I’m looking to see what you guys think. The numbers usually don’t lie and so far I’m hearing nothing but good things.

Yep! Love this style of game!

Bought it this morning played for about 10 minutes on my lunch break. Very impressed with it so far and one of the best openings I can remember and absolutely gorgeous to boot. I can't wait to play more

Have Link's Awakening and Mega Drive mini on pre-order for September so Astral Chain will have to wait but I really want to get it, just my wallet will be taking a rather big beating in September already.

Personally, this doesn't interest me. Besides, with luigis mansion, dragon quest and Digimon story cyber sleuth around the corner, my time will be eaten up. School and work are also time eaters as well...

I will purchase it in the future, but atm I'm pretty burnt out on Japanese anime-esque games, having just played Persona 5, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Three Houses consecutively. Might pick up Spyro this month and look out for Astral Chain in the future.

I hated—HATED—Bayonetta 1 and 2. Every aspect of them. It sounds like this has enough in common with those that I won't enjoy it, and the things that do look different aren't appealing to me. It just wasn't meant for me. That said, I do hope that everyone who has been hyped for the game really enjoys their time with it!

Nope. I'm not interested in this game. It's style and world don't interest me. I'm waiting for other titles tho.

I will take it Monday, as soon as I get payed.

I’m getting it, just have to decide if I should use my only game voucher to get it, pay with my eShop credit and gold coins, or hope that Target will have a download code (highly doubt it) since this week they have 20% off “all game download codes”.

I like the type of games that you have to do two things at once with stuff going on, like a pat your head and rub your tummy type way.

"out for delivery" according to Amazon. So "working from home" today 😉😂

I'm about 3 hours in. Loving the setting, story, gameplay, designs, everything. Could be my GOTY.

No, I will wait until it gets cheaper. I kinda want it, but not for full price. Besides, I got Control yesterday and Gears 5 is up next week.

I'll get it, but I picked up Super Mario Party this month for a holiday family treat, so it'll be one for between now and Christmas.

Just picked this up at Wal-Mart. Cant wait for work to be over with 😫

I'm on the fence still. It's not a genre I typically enjoy, but I do really like the developer and I think they've done a good job on this game. I think I'll have to wait until either I have more time, or the game goes on sale - whichever comes first!

@N64-ROX
I also live in Germany, but hate it when games are synchronised in German. Or movies. I haven't visited cinemas here because of that. Anyway, if I want a physical copy of the game in english, I order from Amazon uk. Never failed me. I ordered Dying light for ps4 for example, because I simply couldn't find a copy in Germany. Even digitally it wasn't available in the psn store. For example, Wolfenstein for switch is in German (nintendo eshop), plus all the important characters are changed. Awful. Talk about censorship. And when I go to the store to even consider buying a physical copy of a game(switch or ps4) I just don't dare to buy it, because I bought some years back Oblivion for my pc and, when I got back home, installed it... oh god! Horrible translation to German. Characters speaking German. No option to set it to English. From that day on I don't watch American/British/whotever language movie on tv. Because almost all of it is in German.

Just played it for 2 hours when I go home from work. Really enjoying it so far! Off to pub now but looking forward to picking it up again tomorrow.

just arrived

Anyway, regarding topic. Not going to buy it probably. I don't like flashy action games(epilepcy inducing) . Played bayonetta 1 & 2, finished 1 but couldn't bring myself to finish 2. Too... glossy and flashy. Half of encounters didn't know where I was on the screen.

Unfortunately I don't have the money right now, but it's at the top of my list!

No it looks great visually but prob going to skip this as I didn’t like Bayonetta.

I did buy Darksiders last night though which I’d never heard of but looks amazing

@aVagabond
hey thanks, I hear you. By the way, I think most major cities have cinemas which play the original English versions of movies. There isn't one in Wuppertal but I've been to one in Düsseldorf. I guess it comes down to how important it is to go out to the cinema at all.

@Expa0 Yeah the soundtrack was incredible. However, it's all good. I assume you're more of an rpg kind of gamer. Referring to Primrose's first boss fight as your icon

@SterlingEyes I heard this is wayyy different than bayonetta. I heard somewhere that it almost feels like the batman games. Bayonetta was actually my least favorite of Platinum's titles.

I got the guy at Walmart to go find it at midnight, right when Friday began, and sell it to me for their sale price. I felt like such a classic game nerd playing a game within the hour it was released! I haven't played much yet, but I can already tell that the gameplay, music, production values, and menues are stellar. I even love the title screen with it's simple and slight music that is kinda futuristic, slightly disturbing, and yet pleasing. I like space music/new age music, so that might explain that.
I tried the game in handheld mode and don't really like it, as I expected since the game only runs at 30fps. But in docked gameplay it pretty much looks perfect with dejudder and motion smoothening making it appear to be a 60fps game. Thank goddess the frame pacing is apparently nice and regular/even. Can't wait to dig deeper into this game. Also kinda wish I had a collector's edition with a soundtrack CD...

The only reason I'm not getting it yet is because I don't get paid until next week. My monthly budget is exhausted, but my birthday is next week so I'm treating myself then.

I have to say I am in the camp with the guy that got lambasted a couple of days ago, it just seems over hyped. Also think the same about Deamon Machina too.

Got it preordered and waiting to arrive.

Eventually. I'll try my friend's copy tomorrow and decide then if I'm waiting a few months to get it or not.

@Bunkerneath

Just had 30 mins gameplay. It's good, finding the buttons and instructions quite overwhelming on screen. Loving it though. Just need more practice. I have bayonetta too. Which I'm gonna dive into after this game.

Edit: I was playing handheld also. I'll try on tv later tonight.

Preordered and most definitely will be at my local Gamestop to pick it up after work tonight.
Family events will probably keep me from actually playing it right away, but excited nonetheless! Bayonetta on the Wii U never really hooked me, but Wonderful 101 certainly did, and I get the feeling Astral will, too. I hope it lives up to the hype!!

I will eventually I think but I'm busy with Grandia and then HAVE to dive into FF8 day 1 on Tuesday. Then Links Awakening and Luigi after that... I'll be full for a while...

Nier was my game of the year when it released. not convinced this will be that good, writing and music were outstanding, but looking forward to this

I'm not sure I believe this story is true. I'm not so sure this game is out today. I haven't checked tho.

got it will be playing Astral Chain after my dinner

If i wasn't still playing Octopath Traveller and Zelda Breath Of The Wild since launch and if I hadn't of just bought The Mana Collection and also hadn't just preorderd Zelda Links Awakening then yes..I would of bought this Day One..along with Fire Emblem Three Houses..

I’ll be getting the physical edition. If my wallet doesn’t explode this September.

No not for me Hope it sells well though.

I would have buy it, if Spyro wasn't coming 4 days after this game 😅 Though, I would obtain at the end of September if everything goes well.

Playing it already.. game is fantastic and the graphics in handheld is superb😘😘😘😘

Looks like a great game! Unfortunately with such a packed holiday season it will likely be something I pick up during the spring or summer of next year.

Amazon set my preorder to me Weds! I've been playing it

Pre-Ordered; Unfortunately won't have it until tomorrow.

The future policemen setting put me off. If this had wearable suits and mechas it would be a day one, though. Maybe at a 30-50% sale.

Been playing since my download unlocked last night. Loving every bit!

I just started Astral Chain today....WOW...the opening "file"/chapter is AMAZING...one of the BEST openings I have played in a good while. Played through all of file 2 also. WOW! The cutscenes are pretty intense...kinda remind me a bit of the early Xenoblade Chronicles 2 cutscenes when Pyra brings Rex back to life and the big fight scene that follows...it gives you that kind of feel.. This game will be played a lot from me...and I still need to start FEThree houses, but I will wait on that one just a bit. Anyways, Astral Chain is amazing all around. I enjoyed Bayonetta 1 & 2, and the combo/dodging/hitting mechanics involved. The added second "party" that you control adds a whole new depth to me. It will take a bit of mastering but I am excited to master the two so they sync in battle.

My copy is being dispatched today. But I’m away on holiday. At least I won’t feel as heartbroken when my holiday ends!

Had it preordered the minute the option popped up lol