Board 8 > Astral Chain is really good, you guys.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'd actually go so far as to say it's the best game for introducing someone to the character action genre, even if it doesn't quite hold up to its brethren at the highest levels of play. (That said, it may actually surpass them on a first run for some folks, just because of how crazy inventive the fighting style is and how many toys you get to play with.)

There's lots of investigation and police stuff in a super cool cyberpunk setting to break up the action, and the combat itself is some of the freshest we've seen in ages, if not quite as polished as the tried and true approaches undertaken by games like Bayonetta and DMC. Don't sleep on it!
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