
Demon Slayer’s arena battler adaptation has topped three million units sold worldwide, which is a pretty big result for the manga-cum-anime sensation. The release had cut through one million sales by late 2021, so it’s tripled that number in the months since. In our review of the game, we described it as “barebones but beautiful” – although quite a lot of DLC has released since to pad out the package.
“Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles is carried by its fantastic presentation, which expertly captures the look and feel of the anime,” we wrote. “Bombastic boss fights and some stunning cutscenes are enough to sell the otherwise short-lived story mode, but outside of that, this is a rather barebones package. Battles can be flashy and fun, but the combat system doesn't have the necessary depth to hook anyone who isn't a Demon Slayer super fan.”
If you’re yet to try out the title, SEGA’s eager for you to know that it’s on sale on the PS Store right now. The game’s core release will cost you $29.99/£24.99, while its Digital Deluxe upgrade is available for $34.99/£27.49. A lot of the DLC is also on sale, although you’ll need to purchase each piece individually, as there’s currently no sale on the Character Pass.
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CC2 are just perfect at this can we please just get a BLEACH Storm style game from them already?
@Keyblade-Dan Has the Bleach Anime resumed yet? Thousand Year War Arc should be great!
EDIT: No it's July.
@themightyant Yeah we've still got a few months to wait yet😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@Keyblade-Dan Assuming you watched it when it released we've already waited 11 years as of 2 days ago (can you believe it) so a few more months should be OK.
Now I just need Winds of Winter, Doors of Stone, Ninjai and Half Life 3.... then I can die happy
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@Keyblade-Dan I'd rather get a proper fighting game from someone like ArcSys than another arena fighter that's copy pasted for the millionth time.
@Nepp67 Good for you I'd rather have a Storm game
I would love to see a Legend of Dragoon remake or part 2. And a ICO remake on the level of the Demon Souls remake.
With the success of this game, I am pretty sure they will do a second one after the anime has concluded the last arc. BUT I can't help but hope CC2 does a Bleach game. Been waiting nearly 2 decades for a good game of Bleach...
@nikolai131 I know right I mean Soul Ignition was ok but a low budget Musou game that skipped 70% of the story didn't exactly scratch that itch y'know 😅. To me CC2 just captured the perfect formula for anime games and no matter what they work on they always perfectly nail the look and feel of whatever source material they're working with. With BLEACH being my 2nd favourite anime/manga of all time right behind Naruto I'm kinda desperate for BLEACH to get the CC2 treatment as you said we're long overdue a truly great BLEACH game ^__^
@Nepp67 Nah. While I do enjoy 2D/2.5D fighters. They don't do high-octane animes justice, and is only fun to play if you're heavily into the competitive scene... Which most anime fans aren't.
@Nepp67 I to prefer that.
Even so, there are disadvantage of an Arcsys Bleach fighter.
1. Since it's an Arcys game, you have like a max of 15 to 20 characters at launch ,which isn't big enough for Bleach imo.
There will be alot of fan favorite characters left out of the game, even when all the dlcs are done.
This very worrisome for Bleach, because of its large cast of characters.
2. Modern day Arcsys are on a mission to simplify their fighting games, which includes giving characters fewer special moves as possible( 3-4 special moves), thus alot of the characters moves from the anime/manga won't be able to transfer to the fighting game faithfully.
The only way to lessing the problem of this, is to make the Bleach fighter a Tag fighter like dragonball fighter Z.
3. The single player content won't be good.
I have zero faith in Arcsys to create a story mode, with faithfully written storyline for Bleach, which also has a balance of gameplay.
I also have no faith in them going the extra mile to include other fun single player modes beyond, Arcade and a time trial.
CC2 fixes many of this issues by making games with alot of the characters avaliable, and incorporating them with a movelist that is very faithfully to the source material, without caring about balance or bloat.
They also create a more fun and interactive single player mode than Arcsys does.
The obvious disadvantage of a CC2 game, is that the visuals won't look as good as Arcsys, and that it will most likely play as an arena fighter, which although fun to play with friends, isn't well balanced or competitively viable.
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