Astral Chain (Switch)

Demon Cop

Finally, a game that isn't a remake. And made by Platinum so high octane action is on the menu. It's about twins that joined the police force Neuron like their adoptive father. Neuron is a special division that targets attacks from Chimeras, demons from the astral plane that spreads corruption and started attacking humanity when a meteor hit the earth. The chimeras travels through these red gates and occasionally kidnaps people so you gotta save the people on the Ark. The Ark is a constructed island in the pacific that was created to gather people to save them from the corruption.  The Ark is run by the UNION that set up Neuron with the new technology of the Legions that was constructed by their commander Yoseph Calvert. With it the officers of Neuron have caught chimeras and turned them into fighting abilities by the astral chain. Theirs five legions, sword, arrow, arm, beast and axe. 

During one mission into the astral plane all legions are corrupted, but you take your back. As you escape the astral plane your father stays behind and presumably dies. Meanwhile a missing scientist, Jena Anderson appears after 20 years and with her hightened gate activity. You also meet the hacker Hal that works for Neuron that helps you uncover some information. Basically the government is evil and keeping the people in fear  (and it hints that they are behind the pandemic that hit the earth earlier). While confronting Jena your sibling is skewered and taken to the Ark Research Institute (ARI). And as you look for information from the hacker group Hermit in the forbidden zone you are attacked by a chimera controlled by Jena. Your sibling arrives in a new suit and with a new legion. Due to trespassing you get put in jail, but an emergency causes you to be released to save the people. The ruckus ends with Jena attacking Yoseph head on, but during the battle the player dies, and is awakened by merging with the legion, going on a rampage. When you almost kills your sibling, Jena steps in and is killed. And then Yoseph orders the Raven unit that taken over from Neuron and is led by your sibling to kill you, and pretty much reenacts the garage scene in Robocop after Robocop learns about directive 4. You are saved by Hal that went into hiding together with Olive, the communicator expert. You try to rescue Brenda, the Neuron medic that hides in the sewers, but are confronted by your sibling, but before anything happens the Raven unit arrives, and it turns out that they are all clones of your sibling. They kill your sibling to activate the legion merging. You learn to activate your own again and escapes. You regroup and head to ARI to confront Yoseph at the top of the tower. At the top the plot is revealed... I think. Seems that Yoseph tried to merge with the legions in order to make Noah (get it... Noah's ark?). He kills all the clones and your sibling. After a battle you beat him, your sibling stops him and then the legion kills him.

The game plot lost me at the end. Maybe if I can beat the post-game mission it would be clearer since there is three files with password protection, but I got beat up at the ARI and quit pretty much. Also, one clone of your sibling survived the destruction so status quo uphold. Now, the game was fun. Though, the action is standard for Platinum and it works. The more fun part was the detective side of the game. Go around the site, getting clues to deduce what happened or use as way to get information. Spy with your legions or help people in their everyday lives. Sadly, that is the smallest part of the game. You can save cats, take pictures of people, places and enemies. Find all toilets in game to get paper to a toilet fairy... this game is weird at times. Get costumes and dress up. Learning from my mistake with Wonderful 101 I played it on Casual and it took me some 25 hours. I encountered two bugs as well. First was where you find the ghost picture mission. I went away and intended to get back later, but I couldn't go back in the tunnel. Something stopped my character from getting in. Another was leaving Hal's secret hideout and I fell out of bounds. First I thought it was part of the story as I fell and restarted since Hal is a hacker, but when nothing happened I load my save and went out without problem.  Lucky nothing was lost there.