Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles

The anime series Demon Slayer, an adaptation of the manga of the same name, whose second season began in recent days, is currently a great “success” in Japan and is becoming a worldwide success in terms of viewership after it was shown in its Western version, The story of the game tells us the adventure of the young man Tanjiro Kamado, whose family is murdered. At the hands of demons that roam the world in their various forms and use humans as food, Tanjiro’s family falls victim to a massacre, with the exception of his only sister, who remains alive but turns into a demon in her turn, but unlike the other demons, has no desire to devour humans, and her human feelings remain at her level for some, and from here an adventure begins. Tanjiro is with his sister to try to return her to her human form and join a special demon-fighting organization called the Demon Slayer, having major conflicts with this main organization’s idea of ​​destroying demons in their attempt, while Tanjiro wanders around with his demon sister Nezuko.

Game Story and Missions

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 like in the original story. The single player or story mode in the game enables you to complete missions in the different chapters of events, from the training phase to the chapter of the train story that we saw in the special cinematic film. According to the title, you will play with a series of different characters, completing missions and defeating demons until you face off against each leader in a specific area depending on the events of the story. Now we need to delve a little deeper to talk about the gameplay system and what this game offers to us fans of the anime and also those who don’t follow it but want a distinctive fighting action game with many of its elements.

Gameplay and Combat System

The development team at CyberConnect2 is behind this game. Does the name sound familiar? Yes, it is the same development team that previously introduced us to the “Naruto Storm” game series, and this game imitates that series very much, with a lot of points in it, the story mode where you have to complete the missions like this, as they are Experience the events in the original story by going through the stages, interacting with the secondary and main characters, solving some puzzles and also facing small demons until you reach the end of the story chapter and face the bosses and more powerful ones face demons. Story mode is the only way to activate all characters in this game, and you have to complete it to get all characters into the battle phase. You control your character normally in the third perspective, interacting with the environment around you and confronting enemies in a normal manner. Live, there are a lot of dialogues and cinematic scenes here that are familiar to those who have seen the anime, and in fact, for those who have not seen the anime, this game offers a complete presentation of all the content contained in it. The story mode offers a rather average one Experience with lots of walking through empty rooms and wasting time as well as long dialogues. Between characters that are entertaining in the anime but in a game it’s not the same.

Graphics and Audio

The game offers very nice graphics. This team is very outstanding on a technical level when it comes to transferring the experience of the anime series to the game in terms of details, animation and even cinematic scenes. We have already seen when presenting Naruto games better graphics than the anime series itself, but here things are a little different, since we are talking about the Demon Slayer series. It has a high production quality. During the battles you will see many wonderful details, especially during the execution of super strikes, as well as the story presentation scenes. The game may have a small flaw in that the characters walk in it slowly and sometimes annoyingly during the adventure. When it comes to audio, the game also features a number of great tunes from the anime, with Western and Japanese voiceovers for the characters. There are some dramatic scenes in the game that are presented here in a special way, and overall the game does not disappoint on a technical level, apart from some repetitive and empty passages in many adventure mode chapters.

Conclusion

The main story mode lasts approximately ten hours. There is a battle mode and group games online and offline. What makes the game very lacking is the very limited number of characters available to play as. There are only 12 characters to choose from, which is a very limited number compared to the number of characters we have seen in the anime, but the development team has promised us additional content and 6 more characters coming to the game. During Adventure Mode there are some treasures to collect that will allow you to get more costumes for the characters. Overall, this game offers good content for anime fans. Is it a suitable game for those who have not watched anime? Well, basically it’s a fun game, but like any anime game, it’s mainly aimed at those who watched this series first and want to replay it with a video game experience.

Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles is a gaming experience modeled after a very good anime. The combat system in the game is very entertaining and offers many exciting scenes with these crazy special attacks and the creativity of the development team in presenting them. Story mode serves the purpose and is an experience that you have to go through to get all the characters, but players spend most of their time in battle mode, be it between friends or on the network. Overall, a very good experience for fans of this title, and as the game gets more characters in the future and perhaps a second part appears at the end of the second season of the anime, things will get better in the future.

Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles was reviewed using a copy provided by the publisher.