The anime series Demon Slayer, adapted from the manga with the same name, which began showing its second season in the past few days, is the huge “success” currently in Japan and with its transition to becoming a global success in terms of views after its presentation in its western version, the story of the game tells us the adventure of the young Tanjiro Kamado, whose family is subjected to assassination At the hands of demons who roam the world in their various forms and use humans as food for them, the Tanjiro family is subjected to a massacre, except for his only sister who survives, but turns into a demon in turn, but unlike the rest of the demons, she has no desire to devour humans and remains with her human feelings to some extent. From here begins an adventure Tanjiro with his sister to try to restore her human form and join a special organization to fight demons called the Demon Slayer and in great conflict with the idea of this main organization where she is trying to eliminate demons while Tanjiro wanders with his demon sister Nezuko.
The story of the game is completely identical to the events of the first season of the anime, you will play as Tangro and other characters in the adventure, just as in the original story, the single-player development or the story in the game will put you in front of accomplishing missions in the different chapters of events from the training stage until we reach the chapter of the train story that we watched in the special movie In the title, you will play with a number of different characters and go through missions and defeat demons until facing each leader in a certain area according to the events of the story. Now we have to dwell a little bit about the gameplay system and what this game offers us for fans of the anime as well as those who do not follow it, but they want a combat action game that is distinguished with many of its elements.
Well, the development team CyberConnect2 is behind this game, does the name sound familiar? Yes, it is the same development team that introduced us to the series “Naruto Storm” games before, and this game very much simulates that series with many points in it. Develop the story, which will require you to complete the missions as the events in the original story by progressing the stages and interacting with the side and main characters and solving some Puzzles and also facing small demons until reaching the end of the story chapter and facing the most powerful bosses and demons, the story development is the only way to activate all the characters of this game and you will have to finish it to get all the characters in the fighting mode, you control your character normally in the third perspective and interact with the environment around you and confront the enemies in a way Live, there are a lot of dialogues here and cinematic scenes familiar to those who watched the anime and the fact that who has not watched the anime, this game will provide you with a full presentation of everything in it, the story mode provides with it a very average experience with a lot of walking in empty and time-wasting spaces as well as long dialogues Among the characters that are fun in anime but inside a game it’s not the same.
We come to the most important section of the game is the combat system, to a large extent the fighting system is not much different from the series of Naruto Storm games, the battle is fought in open areas with a moving camera, you can fight a player against a player or more than that, the possibility of taking advantage of the other fighter with you to carry out his combo strikes with your strikes Or even to protect you, there is a button for normal hitting and another for special strikes that change with the use of different arrows, there are super hits with cinematic scenes and also transformations for characters for a certain period to add more powers to them, whoever has experienced the Naruto Storm series games before knows exactly what he will get Here, a lot of crazy scenes during the fights and very enthusiastic and with the different abilities and diversity of the characters from one character to another.
The game offers very beautiful graphics, this team is very distinguished on the technical level in terms of transferring the experience of the anime series to the game in terms of details, animation and even cinematic scenes. It comes with a high production quality, you will see a lot of wonderful details during the fights, especially during the execution of the supernatural strikes, also the scenes of the story presentation and the game may be misrepresented a bit because the characters run slowly and sometimes annoyingly during the adventure, also in terms of acoustics, the game offers with it a set of The wonderful melodies directly from the anime and with Western and Japanese voice acting for the characters, there are some dramatic scenes in the game, which were presented in a distinctive way here, and overall the game does not disappoint on the technical level, away from some repeated and empty corridors with many chapters of the adventure phase.
The main story phase needs about ten hours to finish, there is a fighting and multiplayer mode on the network and without it. What is very wrong with the game is the very limited number of characters available to play, only 12 characters that you can choose from, which is a very limited number compared to the number of characters we saw in the anime, but The development team promised us additional content and 6 other characters coming to the game. There are some treasures to collect during the adventure phase that will allow you to get more costumes for the characters. Overall, this game provides good content for anime lovers, is it a suitable game for those who have not watched the anime? Well, it is an entertaining game in its essence, but like any anime game, it is aimed mainly at those who watched that show first and want to play it again by trying a video game.
Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles is a game experience based on a very good anime. The game’s combat system is very entertaining and with a lot of enthusiastic scenes with those crazy special strikes and the creativity of the development team to present it, the story mode will do the job and it is an experience that you have to go through to get all the characters, but it will spend Players most of the time are in the battle mode, whether between friends or on the network, a very good overall experience for fans of this title, and with the game getting more characters in the future and perhaps with a second part at the end of the second season of the anime, things will be better moving forward.