As soon as you started talking about graphics, I thought "He's going to mention Fire Emblem." Yep.

Didn’t think Arlo would talk about this game but I’m glad he did

“It’s sad that this game isn’t selling well.” *#1 Best Seller in the UK*

Arlo. We all saw you try to go into the women's restroom with the male character. For shame.

I love how Arlo refers to the Legion as ''your guy'' and enemies as ''a dude''. So you wrap your guy around a dude and then zip over and such.

Can we all just appreciate how Arlo always starts his videos saying something positive to the people watching? Like it just makes my day better

The thing I've been loving about this game is how well it introduces you to the combat. I hate it when games start with a tutorial dump. In Astral Chain they start with action, you don't need to know what you're doing, it's just BAM, in on the action, and one by one they start giving you the mechanics, bit by bit. And then when I got my first Legion I thought they told me all that it could do, but then they give you a different one and THEN they give abilities to them, and the learning curve is helped a billion times by giving you a training room within the game. Not a tutorial menu, not a tutorial dump, but a training room within the story, that helps a lot with the immersion. AND THEEEEEN, they even change the person teaching you in the training room so it doesn't feel like tutorial, it feels like game and you're doing nothing but learning the attacks, and it feels fun and enjoyable!

No Arlo, I will not sleep on this game; I've never slept on any game, they do not make good pillows.

My chains of love are attached to Arlo. One of the best Nintendo youtubers out there!

Arlo: “you got your little sword...” X-Baton: “Am I a joke to you?”

Best things about this game: -Pet the Beast Legion -Throw Soda cans into the Garbage

Astral Chain: Stardust Crusaders. ...Someone had to do it.

Confession time: this game is my first time playing a Platinum Games title.

00:05 the floor reminds me of those moon rocks in Mario Odyssey which you can break once you beat the game. Anyone else feel the same or is it just me?

Nintendo: This game isn't selling well. Sakurai: Well, have to see about that.

I'm intrigued by this game, because I want to unleash my *「STANDO POWAH」*

"in the first several hours, it does not stop giving you tutorials." As a Tales fan, I feel like I'd be totally at home with that.

"No spoilers" immediately spoils the marie/lappy twist. Smh cmon man thats a huge plot point

Arlo! How DARE you spoil Lappy's true identity!

I’m not surprised at all. This game was made by the same people who made Bayonetta

Love this game. Stopped playing fire emblem to play this game and I love fire emblem.

Pt standard is giving me a run for my money. Definitely can't just mash to win.

The combat seems pretty basic and button-mashy at first, but it gets absolutely bonkers when you get further and get good at swapping between legions and start getting S+ rankings, especially once you unlock the moves that let you unchain your legions. Like, the average fight for me at the beginning of the game was basically: Press ZR. Press ZR some more. Press ZR even more. Occasionally press ZL. Press ZR again. But now the average fight for me is more like: Send the wolf into the middle of the enemy group and howl to stun them. Swap to arrow legion, call it back to me, unchain it to lay down support fire, swap to sword. ZL to send the sword out, ZL+ZR to pull myself into the group. Do the area chain attack to bind the whole group and sync attack follow-ups, then continue attacking until the arrow is done. Unchain the sword and swap to arm. Merge with the arm and MUDA MUDA MUDA everyone until sword is done. Unchain the arm and swap to whoever seems like the best at this moment. And repeat. Swap to legion, use ability, do some damage, unchain, swap to next legion, etc. And I'm sure there are a lot of options I'm not even using. Like I haven't figured out how to effectively use the axe legion yet.

I'm absolutely in love with this game. They hit it out of the park.

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Best moment of play for me so far: While fighting the arm nemesis there are all these goopy glue puddles around that you're "ment" to avoid, but the boss has one attack that creats a gravity effect that pulls you in and deals damage if you're pulled all the way to the center. So what do you do, well you can just run away or use you legion to pull you away OR jump into the gloopy glue and get stuck and feel like a genius. That fight takes about 5 mins, the fact that someone took the time to create that great moment for me just thank you Platinum.

I am absolutely floored by how dope this game is. It’s my GOTY thus far in 2019, and that’s a tough nut to crack. Lol. Nut.

Arlo, you're my favourite blue monster and my favourite Nintendo-KZfaqr. I'm always happy to see a new upload by you. Good stuff, as always! 💚

I hear that hub music in the background

Thank you for this video! Thanks for your time and your work :)

When I was at about 10 hours in, I read that the first playthrough has ~15 hours, so I was disappointed about being almost done and decided to play less hours a day, since it's still some time until Zelda comes out. Also while I was already exploring a bit (about 80% per chapter done), I decided to be even more thorough for the remaining chapters, so I can stretch the time even more. I'm now at ~28 hours playtime at the start of chapter 11. I guess I will end the game with around 30 hours of playtime. I'm unsure, if I will make a second playthrough or will complete each chapter with 100% and do all tasks (or however they are called in english in this game). I usually like completing stuff, but as I understand it, chapters will be reset completely when redoing them, so I'll have to find everything again I already found, which means I can't forget a single thing on each try. I'm not sold to this idea. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is three things: - I like that game very much (despite not having it mentioned in the first paragraph) - For anyone fearing it's way too short: There is easily 30+ hours of content, if you don't rush it, but keep exploring. - I really wonder why people rush all the games. As another example: Fire Emblem Three Houses most reviews mentioned ~70 hours playtime, I cleared it at ~110 hours. Yes, I did some grinding, because I changed classes with most characters, but it wasn't 40 hours of grinding. Just because there are many interesting games releasing, doesn't mean we should rush them. There will be times when less interesting games release and then we will have games left to fill the gap.

Butternut Squash? Yes please!

I wasn't expecting a Jim Sterling crossover on this channel.

Starting a game in casual at first just to get the feel of the controls and gameplay is nothing to be ashamed of Arlo. I sometimes do this just to practice and then, later on, I go on full force hard mode!

@Arlo what is your top 10 most hours played games on switch?

I just recently discovered you so I'm here late. Astral chain is one of my favorite games that has been released on the switch. I was fully engaged in the combat system the instant we had access to the legion. I spent endless hours on the post game missions refining my strategies because the combat felt so rewarding. The game sold over a million copies by the end of 2019, and I think platinum games has expressed interest in a sequel dependant upon the overall reception so I think a sequel is likely.

I think Astral Chain is my game of the year. I love it so much.

Thank you for talking about this game. It's so good and I haven't seen many KZfaqrs talk about it

Arlo videos just make me happy. Thank you arlo.

I discovered your channel a few months ago from your breath of the wild review, and I am so glad that I did. You provide the most in depth and honest (*cough cough ign*) reviews that I have found, and entertaining at that! I don't have any plans to buy astral chain, but I still watched the review because of how much fun these are to watch. Thank you for making great and passionate reviews :)

Feels like a game before HD era where it's not just cool combat but actual exploration without being open world, balances progression, paced out story moments. So amazing

My favorite thing about this game (and multiple action games for that matter) is that you can have beaten the game and then watch someone trying things out in the lab and you’ll see an attack or technique you’ve never seen before and think “wait a minute, you can do that?!” A good example is in this very video I had no idea you can pull off a sync attack after landing a successful slash through an opponent’s attack and now I’m trying to find practical uses for it during boss fights to up my score. This game just seems to have endless depth and I love it!

Im playing on the hardest difficulty right now and honestly, its painfully fun. Its so fucking good. Its just the right amount of difficulty so retry a boss once or twice

Congrats on 400k subscribers!

So glad you reviewed this, ive been super curious about it, you seem to have similar tastes in games as I do, so keep it up buddy

*Who is hyped* for the September Nintendo Direct

Thanks Arlo. This video finally made me able to decide that i want this game

I Hope Wonderful 101 gets finaly ported to the Switch that game is fantastic and deserves better

At first I wasn't interested when I saw this at E3, but now that you've shown more I think i might try it!!

Ah platinum games seems to be back on top of their game Good work boys

Good job Arlo. Looks interesting.

Exceedingly pleasant is the best way to address an audience. Arlo, you know your fans well

You’re an inspiration for my channel Arlo. 😘

Good news, Arlo! It's shaping up to be Platinum's best-selling game if early sales data by Amazon, the UK and the eShop is anything to go by.

The game foreshadows the plottwist that joseph is the bad guy so strong that you always wait for it, but it takes so long that you think it‘s not coming anymore but then the story presses that whole plottwist into two files

I was so sceptic about the whole game. But you did convince me to try it, when I have the possibility, thank you Arlo!

Got Astral Chain recently and I’ve been loving it so far.

Other reviewers: “You play as a special forced operative who is tethered to.a Chinera, a nightmarish monster from a parallel world...” Arlo: “It’s you, and you got a monster chained to you.” Thanks for being concise!

I could listen to that HQ background song all day long.

11:42 Arlo trying to get into the women’s bathroom lol

Was waiting to see Arlo’s thoughts on this game. I’ve been on the fence about using one of my vouchers on it. Gonna wait till after the direct tomorrow to decide

Astral Chain is blowing me away. I am glad you are giving it a chance.

Great game, glad to hear you’re enjoying it!

you can change the UI color too in settings

NGL Astral Chain's my favorite Switch Exclusive.

Arlo it's very nice to come to your reviews to see a simplified version of big corporate reviews. I love how IGN will take a minute explaining a basic gist of combat and you just say "you're a dude and you got a guy chained to you".

Gamestop has this game (digital version) like 60% off for Black Friday 2021! I've had my eye on it for a while but thought I'd check what the internet had to say before buying. This Arlo stamp of approval was all I needed to push be over the edge and get it.

Love the longer vids

A little easter egg I found is one of the preset colors for you legion is the Eva unit 1 color scheme, pretty neat

by chance, would that chain be of an astral persuasion?

This game is so damn awesome. The year of the Switch once again

Oh shit!!! Thank you for showing me this game like this...you got me interested...again Man I just love your channel so much, big fan, thank you.

I've heard so much good stuff about this, that I tried to get a physical copy...and it seems they sold out (not a lot of copies were shipped...)

I'm definitely getting this.

Another exclusive to add to my wishlist for when I pick up a Switch. I was following _Astral Chain_ briefly when it was announced but had no clue it was already out. Nice to see that impressions are good, though I kind of expect that when Platinum is doing original content.

I am just asking, did you borrow the gameplay footage from zackscottgames? Cause the movements and slashes are so similar including where you slashed the energy current for the robot in maison forest

This game is definitely on my “interested” list. I’ll probably buy it in a couple months. On a side note, did you actually get any further in Three houses? I know you have problems finishing, so I was just curious how far you got.

Astral Chain: Neon Genesis Stardust Crusaders

The only problem I have is difficulty with the camera during combat, the chain jump being finicky because I hit the corner of a wall or object and drop to my death, getting stun locked to death, dodge lag, healing delay (I mash the button for taking medicine but can’t take any and I can’t dodge because I’m stun locked)

Seriously using the chain in combat in multiple ways makes me feel so smart at times xD. Its such a cool well realized mechanical tool.

This game is amazing! Enjoyed playing it so much!

Hey Arlo Love the video has always's wondering if you gonna give castle crashers a try?

Akira the waifu police for smash bros as 1st fighter from the 2nd dlc pack. 🤯🤯🤯

Couldn‘t say it any better! This game came out of nowhere and simply blew my mind. It exploded on youtube and I was a bit skeptical about the hype. But man… Best surprise on the switch since I bought the system. It ramped up to one of the best games I ever played. This game is packed and I think the story is way better than the usual platinum games action hack and slay games. It is actually one of the best things in this game. Can‘t recommend it enough. Cheers

Loving it so far, i picked it up first day

I beat it already and I already have 28 hours of gameplay done I'm trying to complete everything

This game was so fun, I was very pleasantly surprised.

Can you fully review it once you complete it. I can only afford 1 more game for a year or 2 Is it worth as the last game I might get for switch?

Damnnnn Arlo you gonna be at Sac!? Ugh too bad I live in Wisconsin now .. :(

I got it and been loving it!!

For me, it's going to be hard to pick GOTY between Fire Emblem and Astral Chain for Nintendo. While I'm certainly excited for the games releasing later in the year, I just don't see them being as good as these two. I know other people probably don't like Astral Chain as much as I do - but dammit if this game wasn't made for me.

Nice I really want to play it.

I love this game. Been dying to get it ever since I happened to watch the E3 reveal and fell in love. and I finally did! Haven’t finished it yet but it’s one of my favorites for the switch for sure. It’s so much fun

I just started File 6 and I have to say I adore this game, it might be my GotY

It would be a little bit cool if where the chain was represented the relashonships like if it was on the legions hand they where close and bonded

tis a good game

Platinum Games needs to make a new Digimon game. This Astral Chain system could definitely work with the concept of Digimon.

In Arlo we trust.

Didn't platinum develop this? If so it makes since that its super polished bayonetta is probably my favorite action game series so ive been pretty intrigued about this for a while now.

I got Astrial Chain this Christmas I love it