It’s now been 3 years since PlatinumVideo games launched the hack and slash Astral Chain completely on the Nintendo Switch. When the sport initially arrived on the scene in August 2019, we praised it for its wonderful visuals, presentation, assorted gameplay, and rewarding fight.

If you have not already performed it, we’d extremely advocate checking it out. It appears Platinum hasn’t forgotten about it, both. In a message on Twitter yesterday, director Takahisa Taura congratulated the sport on its third-year milestone, thanked followers for his or her ongoing help and introduced a particular collector’s version giveaway:

Of course, as a lot as followers recognize Platinum taking day trip of its busy schedule to acknowledge this anniversary, it as soon as once more led to a dialog about the way forward for the IP – with many hoping to see a sequel of kinds.

In a gross sales replace yesterday, it was revealed how Astral Chain has offered round 1.28 million models since its launch, this consists of about +70,000 models since December 2020. Platinum has additionally beforehand talked about how the sport has offered “above expectations”.

PlatinumVideo games hasn’t talked about something about the way forward for Astral Chain on the Switch, however the subsequent sport it is bringing to Nintendo’s hybrid system is NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition. Takahisa Taura additionally occurred to be a designer on this venture.

Would you wish to see one other Astral Chain sport? Looking ahead to NieR? Comment under.