Why did this game make reviewcels seethe?

>The Independent

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Lol imagine actually being bad at games in 2019

>journos being retarded yet again
More news at 11

At first I was worried that this review was right-
The first two files of Astral Chain were painfully boring.

>britbong literal joke leftwing newspaper

most bong papers still think vidya are for children

Because paid shitters are still shitters

Cops

>had to switch it to casual mode
Technically, you start on casual mode and have to switch out, don't you?

Are you implying that game journalists can't even read properly? Game clearly states you won't be ranked in casual.

i think after the first chapter it defaults to casual, but it tells you it's on casual and you can change it right away and it gives details on each different mode

It's Japanese.

>The Independent
>left wing
fucking retard

It's specifically Yea Forums

metro.co.uk/2019/08/26/astral-chain-review-platinumgames-unleashed-10632107/

They liked it at least

But video-games are for children?

But theres loads of action, how could it be painfully boring?

The Independent is a lefty trash rag on the same tier as teh Grauniad

Switch exclusive. It would be getting 10s across the board if it was on PS4 with no differences.

Someone post the game where the reviewer complained the game abruptly ended and got BTFO because it meant he played on easy.

Did any of you actually read the review?

Literally doesn't mention casual mode or difficulty once.

Says the game is a linear world with linear repetitive combo system, lacks control over the Legion, the plot is generic and has been told 1000 times before.

Pluses: Good art-style, Cute Anime girls.

Sounds like a standard Yea Forums review.

Yeah because he knew if he said he was just frustrated because he’s bad everyone would be on his ass. So he wises up and spins the tale to blame arbitrary and ambiguous things.
>Says the game is a linear world with linear repetitive combo system, lacks control over the Legion, the plot is generic and has been told 1000 times before.
Can be said about pretty much every 10/10 GOTY ever. HZD, Destiny, you name it.

>Says the game is a linear world with linear repetitive combo system,
Says like buzz words a lot of games are linear.

>linear is bad
Found the open world baby

not to meniton that
>repetitive combo system
>lacks control over the legion
is all indicative of unchained mode where it literally states that it "takes care of combat, letting you focus on the story". dickshit jewrnalist is a fucking bitch.

Why do you care? It sounds like valid criticism to me.

It’s far left wing.

Action games thrive off well implemented linear encounters.

Because who the fuck plays a Platinum game and expects open world shit?

>lacks control over the Legion
What?

honest question, does anyone under 30 actually play generic "action" games in 2019? i could see doing it back in the PS2 era, but yikes what a dated and mind-numbing genre

>It sounds like valid criticism to me.
How so.

reviewer wanted to fully control the legion as if it was a player despite only having a limited amount of buttons on the controller. fucking retarded and has completely missed the point of how the legion works.
,

A game can be linear without being a corridor simulator.

See: Nier, Vanquished, W101

Combat without a style based combo system encourages button mashing, linear corridors get tiring fast, generic plot provides no substance.

I'd say 1 star is overkill but they still seem like valid points.

I hear ya bro, very yikes indeed! I'm shaking

>3d hack and slash
>anime music
>b-movie plot
Just by seeing the trailer i'm inclined to agree, looks like one of those shovelware titles for the ps2 that people consider "hidden gems" now

Also known as moderate outside of your incel safe spaces

Seething DMCfags butthurt that Astral Chain is getting better reviews and sales.

>linear repetitive combo system
You mean the system you get on Casual mode that unchains your Legion?

Linear isn't bad, it's just part of the game
A real complaint would be that the levels lack variety
Mario games are linear but for it to be bad, levels would have to be far too similar

>not a single post cant even begin to refute the criticisms in the review
Being a nincel is a mental illness

What happened to reviewing games based on how much fun you had?

>nier not linear

>action game by platinum
>3fps
gee I wonder why it's shit

You don't need a style based combat for that
You need enemies that counter cheesing

>UK
typical

>They couldn't beat the game and had to switch it to casual mode.
that would be embarrassing because the game is a joke even on pt standard. not shitting on it, I just finished file 7 and it's a 7, 8 at best, out of 10 game so far.
>set up move
>activate the cuhrazy finisher/combo with a single button press
>buy new skills to watch different moves you activate with a single button press
>find auto-sync ability so you don't even need to press that button anymore

it's still fun to be stylish without effort

There is nothing to refute. Fag played on easy and complained it's too easy.

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user said nier is linear but not corridor sim

Too bad the Legions are all rather generic and there's no best bomb boy in the game.

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By your ranking at the end of each combat is based and the variety of moves you do.

It is though. Aerie is a hallway, the mansion is a hallway, the mines are hallways, the final tower is a vertical hallway, the sand temple is hallways.
The only thing that isn't properly linear is Facade, the main town and the north plain

The new thing among incels is to blatantly spam 0/10 reviews so you can claim censorship when they get erased.

>linear repetitive combo system
There's a ridiculous amount of combos, the fuck? I'm still finding shit out like slash stance having its own unique perfect dodge combo.

And these motherfuckers are complaining? Get some skill and try again

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>try out the 2p mode in hopes of it letting you control the legion manually
>it just awkwardly splits up the controls between the two joycons
>and you get a dodge button for the legion, I guess

>lacks control over the Legion

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>it just awkwardly splits up the controls between the two joycons
Fuck I hated this was hoping I could control the Legion and my brother controlled the mc why even give the player controlling the legion control of the camera when they can just snap to the players location.

Camera control is absolutely necessary, so they had to put it somewhere, and they just don't have enough buttons. If they could split it between 4 joycons/2 pro controllers, then it would be feasible.

>Seething DMCfags butthurt that Astral Chain is getting better reviews and sales.
you really think astral chain will outsell DMC 5? a multiplat?

Review celibates?
Doesn't that mean they don't review?

>Action game
>30 FPS

Hope it comes to a real platform soon

>That one article complaining there's no ranking system like DMC
>Fucktards called themselves out since casual mode is the only mode without a ranking system
Every time.

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Americans don’t know about the independent yet, don’t change that otherwise we will have /pol/tards seething for years

why nintoddIers get so defensive about articles that dont praise their games from ground to sky high? though im not surprised that Yea Forums is filled with these thumb sucking kids.

it's not even about nintendo, it's a journalism in vidya gone wrong.

Doesn’t the legion have permanent auto-attack always engaged on every difficulty? That’s how it works. You have sync attacks and specials and stuff but if you put your legion on the field it will attack whatever is close to it, automatically.

Even DMC5 didn’t do that shit, V wasn’t very fun to play but every one of his familiar’s actions was triggered by a specific button press.

I hated the game in the first mission or two as well. But then the game let me put it on Pt Standard instead of Unchained and it became really fun. I'm gonna go on a hunch and assume the journalist didn't want that challenge so they never found this one out.

Side note why is Unchained the easiest difficulty? That sounds like the kinda name you'd reserve for the hardest. A dumb little thing but it bugs me.

Bullshit, they had plenty of button space. The game dedicates an entire fucking button to “call back the legion”, that control scheme could have been way more optimized. The switch has no fewer buttons than any standard XInput controller, don’t sit here and tell me they only had enough space for one single melee attack button instead of two when every fucking action game since DMC3/NG1 has had two attack buttons available using the same exact number of inputs Astral Chain has.

The legion auto-attacks so you don’t have to think about your own attacks and its simultaneously, not because it was the only way to fit enough inputs. It was a decision based on presumed player skill, not hardware.

no, only if you send it at the enemy. It also attacks when it gets attacked. But doesn't do jack shit if it's just out and about, especially if it's being controlled.

terms can always be vague.
But id assume instead of thinking of the enemies/challenge being "unchained" think of it as "the player is unchained/not bound".

just perspective switching.

>worst action game on Nintendo Switch
Impossible. Switch has several musou games.

DMC only uses one attack button unless you’re also counting guns.

For the newer games, you also get the style button, if user is counting that.

That’s not an attack button though, or at least it’s as much of an attack button as a Legion button in AC.

forreal?

I imagine when you see lower reviews, the "publication" didn't get a review copy or not all the same bonuses they'd get from other companies that they give 10/10s to

>imagine trusting any journal to give an opinion on a game that is not blatantly pandering to a specific political specrtum
think niggas

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It's a sad fucking world we live in.

i'd thought it be the silky smooth 10fps it often gets when just a bit more then avg amount of enemies and stuff is happening

I thought it was grading you, like in Call of Duty or whatever where you get recommended a difficulty based on how well you did.

And yeah it defaulted to casual for me too. I put it on normal because I'm a shitter but that also seemed to be the highest one right?

>Vanquish
>ed

>Meanwhile in action games on PS4

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>the independent
keep crying comunist faggots

But it's okay when Sony does it. It can even go sub 20, its just more cinematic and transcendant that way.

>Chaos Legion
my man.
Hatred and Thanatos were my fucking jam

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> "Other action games like Devil May Cry almost suffer from this fate, except they save themselves with the addition of a style gauge which judges and rewards you based on each combat encounter.
This simple function encourages you to add some creativity in battle and would’ve done wonders here. Of course all the combat animations look silky smooth, but with no such system in Astral Chain giving you that incentive, combat is boring button mashing while your Legion does most, if not all the heavy lifting."

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Bullshit AC is better than Bayo2

P* games have always been shallow garbage.

By the way, yes, the reviewer did play on Unchained.

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Is it worth emulating?

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Is that the review where the reviewer said there was no ranking system?

Yes

Holy shit, what an absolute wanker

This reminds me of that review were the guy complained about a game having no ending and got exposed that he didn’t play on normal.

Anyone got that screencap?

I mean, AC is pretty much a spiritual successor to CL. They even bothered to call them the exact same thing.

>the independent
shit at reporting actual news, shit at game reviews. I'd read a metro game review over em

>worst action game on Switch
Compared to Bayo 2 which is also on Switch, it is

But I thought Yea Forums said GoW wasnt an action game?