Platinum Games reveals futuristic crime-fighting action adventure Astral Chain

Nintendo has unveiled Astral Chain, a new Platinum-Games-developed futuristic action romp that's heading exclusively to Switch on August 30th this year.

Astral Chain is being directed by Takahisa Taura, senior game designer on Nier: Automata, with Platinum's Hideo Kamiya acting in a supervisory role. It centres around a police special forces unit, and their "humanoid special weapon" known as Legion, who work to protect a strikingly designed "multi-cultural futuristic city".

You can get brief taste of Astral Chain, which blends exploration and action-heavy combat, as well as Masakazu Katsura's characters designs, in the reveal trailer below.

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