Kotaku: Astral Chain Director Says It Actually Can Be Two-Player, But It Makes The Game Harder

[Chaos17]

One player controlling two characters was what most fascinated Taura, but the idea of including co-op did occur to him as he and his colleagues designed Astral Chain. "I thought as I was developing the game that, of course, it could be made into that kind of system where it could be split up, but generally what I wanted to do is have one player control two characters at the same time," he explained. "But the Switch actually has this great feature where, obviously, you can detach the Joy-Con and share play. We wanted to take advantage of that as well."

Taura compared it to Super Mario Galaxy, in which one player can collect star bits while the other plays as Mario. "But this game is different from that," Taura went on, "Because you don't just have one person doing assists. Both players actually have to put effort into controlling the characters and playing the game."

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Source: https://kotaku.com/astral-chain-director-says-it-actually-can-be-two-playe-1835624876

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[Pikagreg]

This takes tethered co-op to a new level :p

 

[Vampirolol]

Astral Chain is pretty much the only reason that makes me want to speedrun these summer holydays.

 

[Blizz]

The second to fourth second in that gif looks a bit weird on the wolf Legion, think it's a combination of the rotation and the bite forward attack being almost instant.

 

[Chaos17]

Co-op may be tough sometimes since you need to be in sync with your playmate but in some fight you need to dodge as the character then use at same time your legion, co-op would be great in those moments, imo

 

[-shadow-]

This in co-op with my friends? Yeah... No! They (and I myself as well) suck way to hard at this normally!

 

[Deleted member 679]

This sounds really cool! Reminds me of what Inaba said about interesting hardware being inspiring, instead of just more power.

Not a feature I'd ever use, but it sounds neat.

 

[Chaos17]

This in co-op with my friends? Yeah... No! They (and I myself as well) suck way to hard at this normally!

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They said during E3 there would be a mode for people who will have trouble to use 2 characters at once. They want everybody be able to enjoy their games :)

 

[-shadow-]

I already enjoyed Bayonetta a ton with only stone medals, I'll manage at least! :p

 

[Harpoon]

Happy to finally have clarification on this feature. I look forward to seeing how it goes when people try to use it!

 

[ckareset]

This game looks awesome. I hope it sells well, as opposed to Bayonetta