Sci-Fi RPG CRYMACHINA Lands Action-Packed Demo On Switch eShop Today

Astral chain 2, is that you?

Please have this be good. I have had it preordered for months.

This looks enough like Phantasy Star Offline 1&2 on Gamecube for me to be very interested. Although if you can't create a custom character I suspect I'll rapidly lose interest.
PSO was a tedious grind in many ways but I sunk a ridiculous number of hours into it and I'd love to find something that scratches that itch.

Nice! I found Crystar too repetitive, so I’m happy to try before I potentially buy this one.

So, they decided to make a Nier: Anime?
I'm not not interested. Might just give the demo a try.

@Woderwick Did some research and it looks like there’s SOME customization, but you won’t be able to have a fully customizable character like in DBXV2 or Splatoon.

@Moffo

Thanks for the head's up, chap. I suspected that was the case. I can see the armament customisation looks pretty cool, and the character designs strongly remind me of PSO, but I'd love to be able to have a similar level of customisation options as that had. It looks like all 3 playable characters are girls, and I have precisely zero problems with that, but I'd like to be able to change outfit/hairstyle/body size/colour scheme to suit my own preferences.

And aside from my own preferences, I think it suits the setup for the game more. Let me pick a background story for the human consciousness reborn into the robot body (that gives you some minor perk or some different customisation options) and let me go at it.

When I played PSO (and this is a massive digression so feel free to stop reading right now) my favourite character was a robot ranger (RaCaSt?). I picked a chunky looking set of features that reminded me of the big Autobot that could turn into a base, painted him in bright primary colours and then made him as small as possible. That was Sniper, and the backstory I came up with for him (because yes, I'm that sad of an individual) was that he was kid's toy with an AI brain whose old owner had died on Ragol so he'd grabbed a gun and gone off to war.

I think what I'm saying is that for this type of game, I really think it would be improved by letting you write your own character history and make them look how you want. But they've given us a demo so at least I can give it a go and see if it's what I'm looking for. I appreciate that if nothing else.

Looks gorgeous, really curious about this one, just seeing it for the first time. I got the demo downloading and will have a look when I'm done with the last time trials in MK8 200cc (man are those painful btw).

I also definitely noticed Nier automata and Astral Chain influences, but even more the Homunculi and Singularity from Bayonetta 3.
All in all really interested, and there's even a physical preorder with a small artbook. Releasing 1 week after SMB Wonder, and 1 week before Smooth Moves 2. Potentially one new game each week leading to my b-day this year ... what else
Hope the demo gives!!

There's no customisation, really, only the selectable characters. There are dlc costumes to change how they look, but the other bits don't really affect how the character appears nor do they really make any difference to how they play.

There's also a very strong emphasis on the story, with levels being short and mainly just a way to fight the boss type enemies in between the anime stuff.

Still fun though

I'm hopping on Steam to see if they have a demo as well over there

Looks incredeliciously sexawesome!! Definitely checking out that demo!! If all that combat wasn't button-mashing, I'm in!!

...Am I doing something wrong, or does the demo end when you get to the Imitation Garden?

Just played through it on Switch - Super excited for this game but I'll probably pick it up on PS5 instead. The game actually runs really good (60fps) but there are some definite issues with the graphics. There is some really weird dithering or something going on with the characters when they are in motion and it really messes with my eyes. When you get up close on characters and nothing is in motion it looks pretty great but when everything starts moving it looks so bizarre.

Looks interesting. It's available on Steam but there's no demo there so I'll see how it looks and feels on Switch.

@Woderwick Why is having a custom character the dealbreaker? Focus on this genre of games is almost always story and development of the cast.

Most character creators only produce generic looking results as well, would much rather have them design a more specific model to play as.

@ItsATM
In this instance it goes back to what I mentioned earlier, that the look of the game reminds me somewhat of PSO and in that case I'd rather be able to customise my character. It's not a deal breaker in all cases and I'm usually happy to play as a pre built character, particular for a character-driven game. This looks like it's more about the situation and setup of the world than the individual characters though, so building your own would be pretty cool.
Different strokes for different folks though.

@Lightsiyd Once you get to the garden you have to move to the "communication" tab, select "tea party" and watch the 2 or 3 events tagged as "required", then a new mission will open

@hippoeater I immediately noticed the weird graphics stuff. At first I thought maybe the blurring was intentional, but then noticed a slight lag in the character loading in the level up screen. I think I’m following suit and maybe buying it on Steam, and then maybe getting it on Switch later.

@Vaporeon_meme Thanks.