Demon Slayer The Hinokami Chronicles is a 3D combating sport developed by CyberConnect2 and its DLC character packs brings us two playable characters with Tengen Uzui and Nezuko Kamado Advanced Demon Form, right here’s our first impressions on them.

Before we get on with the primary impressions, right here’s a bit of preview of what the sport is about in case that is your first time listening to it:

Demon Slayer The Hinokami Chronicles

Adapted from the occasions of the primary season of the anime sequence, together with the Mugen Train Movie, the sport’s single participant story mode follows Tanjiro Kamado as he joins the Demon Slayer Corps and faces off towards numerous demons with a view to flip his sister Nezuko, who has turn out to be a demon, again right into a human.

The story options some exploration components, and is informed by numerous cutscenes and boss battles with demons seen within the anime sequence. The Hinokami Chronicles additionally includes a versus mode, the place gamers kind groups of two fighters from the roster and battle CPU opponents or different folks. The sport helps each native and on-line multiplayer.

Playable Characters

The character cross for Demon Slayer The Hinokami Chronicles presents a listing of further characters from the Entertainment district arc from the anime, and these characters are:

• Tengen Uzui Character Pack
• Nezuko Kamado (Advanced Demon Form) Character Pack
• Tanjiro Kamado (Entertainment District) Character Pack
• Zenitsu Agatsuma (Entertainment District) Character Pack
• Inosuke Hashibira (Entertainment District) Character Pack
• Daki Character Pack
• Gyutaro Character Pack

While all these characters can solely be performed within the VS mode, there are presently solely two playable character in the meanwhile whereas the remainder of the characters shall be absolutely out there in December this 12 months. The Sound Pillar Tengen Uzui and the woke up Nezuko Komada Advanced Demon Form are the playable characters and the sport does a reasonably good job with the character fashions the place they give the impression of being identical to they’re within the anime, right down to their motion and even expertise.

Tengen Uzui

The god of festivals is again and is trendy as ever. Tengen Uzui focuses on quick paced assaults together with his nunchuck-like Nichirin Cleavers. During my time of attempting out Tengen, I personally really feel like his talent set is fairly straight ahead the place his combos are straightforward to drag off and his motion is fairly quick which makes him a really newbie pleasant character to check out.

Tengen has a listing of particular strikes together with his Fourth Form: Resounding Slashes and Fifth Form: String Performance which might be seen from the anime. But there are additionally two expertise which are unique within the sport that are Rising Kick and his Ultimate Art – Fifth Form String Performance, Bursting Bloom.

Rising Kick: Tengen Uzui takes a ahead front-step adopted by a high-rising side-kick launching their opponent into the air.

Fifth Form: String Performance Bursting Bloom: Tengen Uzui engages at their opponent unleashing a flurry of rotating slashes and chops with their swords. The ultimate hit launches the opponent excessive within the air, making the consumer toss a plethora of explosive beads whereas throwing their chained swords in a boomerang-like type slicing all of the beads to detonate them.

Being the flamboyant shinobi he’s, it’s solely pure to have all his expertise to look flashy as potential and the sport manages to ship. The animation for all his expertise are attractive and full of type and accompanied with the fireworks and the full of life Entertainment District map, the self-proclaimed God of flashiness does stay as much as his identify.

Nezuko Kamado (Advanced Demon Form)

Awakened to new powers, Nezuko Kamado’s assault are slower and it’s more durable to land combos in comparison with Tengen’s however to make up for her slowness, her assaults pack some severe punches. Since she’s a demon, you’re unable to herald teammates with you and naturally, she doesn’t have any respiratory kinds. Instead, she has a listing of particular strikes in her arsenal which contains from Frenzied Kicks, Exploding Blood Strike and her final artwork: Exploding Blood Strike, Rupture.

Frenzied Kicks: Nezuko Kamado releases two upward kicks adopted up by a horizontal rotating kick proper after.

Exploding Blood Strike: Nezuko Kamado lunges forwards and performs a knife hand thrust that leaves a path of pink flames.

Exploding Blood, Rupture: Nezuko Kamado performs a drop kick at her opponent and drags them alongside the bottom, adopted up with a sequence of scratches from left to proper and vice versa that slowly engulfs the bottom on hearth earlier than ending it off with a harmful axe-kick, uprooting and igniting the bottom into crimson-pink flames.

As per traditional, the abilities and animation for Nezuko Kamado within the sport is gorgeous and I’m fairly positive followers shall be excited to see their favorite imouto be within the highlight ever since her presence was just about non-existent when she was in her coma throughout Tanjiro’s coaching arc.

New Map

The new map which can characteristic in Demon Slayer The Hinokami Chronicles can be the Entertainment District the place the second season of the anime takes place in. The map is definitely the aftermath of the battle towards the Daki and Gyutaro siblings the place you’re capable of see a number of the buildings being lower down and broken.

Verdict

If you’re a giant fan of the Second season of Demon Slayer you then’re going to like the Hinokami Chronicles DLC pack. The character animations and battle scenes are performed very well and I personally would really like it in the event that they have been so as to add a Season 2 Storyline as an alternative of simply including in new characters and a map.

For extra info on the sport and its DLC, do take a look at the Demon Slayer Hinokami Chronicle’s official web site right here.