Every August 2019 Video Game - Ranked By Anticipation

4. Astral Chain

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Platinum Games

Release Date: August 30th

Platforms: Switch

Platinum Games are the no-contest masters of the modern third-person combat game, with an impressive backlog from Bayonetta to Nieh: Automata that feature their trademark air-tight fight mechanics, bizarre plots and exhilarating set-pieces.

Now they continue their ongoing partnership with Nintendo with a new Switch-exclusive. The plot is suitably bug-nuts as the gamer takes control of future cop in the last remaining human city.

Yet what makes this one intriguing is that in addition to tight combat is the addition of the Legion function. This allows the player to link combos and move sets with multiple opponents they have ‘ befriended’.

The promos have been slightly head-scratching but one can believe Platinum, as usual, will bring the goods.

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