Astral Chain is a pretty great time, I'm digging it more than I did Devil May Cry 5. Like DMC5 has the characters and crazy attitude, but I've never been huge into its gameplay and it's honestly abit of a boring game between the cutscenes and bosses. Astral Chain fills that gaps by having semi-open stages that let you wander around, finding secrets, side objectives, stuff like that, with just more for you to do in general. The gameplay is really great too. Bringing up DMC5 again, I was worried that it might turn out like V's gameplay, which is awful, feeling like you had no real control over your partner, but the combat feels very natural as a lot of it is automated and using your Legion is more about timing and positioning. Not everything is perfect though as certain abilities like the Slash attack, which is reminiscent of Metal Gear Rising's slashing, is hard to do properly while in combat and it doesn't help that the gyro scope for it sucks. There is a slow down option, but even then, I don't find it quite as intuitive as Rising's use of it.
Good game though, I've been really needing a solid game like this on the Switch as the system has just been a wasteland for me in terms of must have games this year.
