Quick Look: Astral Chain

The co-op section was bad because no one's actually gonna play the game that way, but other than that I don't see how this wasn't an accurate representation of the game. Basically you're unhappy he picked a story mission that you don't like as much as some of the other ones? Well, that's the game for ya. You're gonna be dropped in a sectioned off area of the city where you'll have to play L.A. Noire for an hour, before being pulled into the Astral Plane where you're doing a whole lot of Legion-based puzzle solving. The game feels heavily segmented. You can easily go an hour or two without having to do any real combat. It can get a bit exhausting, to be honest. Even Yakuza allows you to beat up random street thugs while exploring the city and doing sidequests.

But hey, I'm still early on myself. Maybe the game changes at some point. But right now, I wish the game's structure was a bit different.

Despite the weird energy in this QL, I think this game looks pretty good. I don't normally like platinum games, but the art style and the walk around police stuff is sort of drawing me in.

A sale buy for sure.

Fuck this. This sucks. This sucks ass. I hate this. This sucks ass. I hate it. This sucks so bad. This is just garbage. I hate this. I hate this. Oh I hate this. Oh this is brutal.

If you liked what you saw, check it out!

@goldfishrt: You're basing this on a quick look that doesn't really focus on the game as a whole. Hard pass seems unfair with the critical acclaim this game is getting from so many other channels.

Is it hard to hit the reset button and start the QL over?
Personally, the Lappy stuff seemed like the most interesting thing here
since flashy action holds no appeal if there isn't story and characters to back it up.

@yesiamaduck: I'm always torn on that stuff. It happens all the time here and I'm of two minds. Yeah of course the whole time i was like "Why not cut this and start it after the quest is over?" Which seems the obvious thing to do. But also I enjoy that they are doing a full, honest, unedited look at the game and those moments really drive that point home. Like when there's big bugs and jank it shows. When things happen spontaneously it feels great and organic. So I don't think it reflects on standards as much as just the very rigid formats they stick to and why. But also they could have just started it after that quest if they didn't feel it was representative of the game to them.

The game looks like it should be awesome, but everything about this turns me off and looks way too clunky.

@tonybaloni: You're making the assumption that I didn't read and watch a ton of other stuff on the game. I like games of this ilk and many past Platinum games. I think Astral Chain looks like a seriously not-fun game. I was genuinely excited for it too.

This game is fantastic. If you're interested in it, don't let Dan "I HATE READING" Rykert stop you from getting it.

good god man, Dan, chill out

This is probably one of the worst quick looks I've seen on this site. Dan's playing on easy mode, griping about playing through a fun little sidequest, doing the horribly implemented co-op mode, and just poorly presenting the game in general.

I usually don’t comment and Dan I LOVE you buddy, I think the world of you and and big fan of yours, sincerely. That being said, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SLOW DOWN ON YOUR TEXT /CONVERSATION SCROLLING. I am not even talking about the first 10 minutes, I have noticed it on the last few of your Quicklooks it has gotten worse. I read pretty fast too but I have had to pause my Apple TV repeatedly when watching on the app to read the game text, you’re just a second too fast. I come to GB to see if I am interestedin games so your quick looks shape a lot of my purchases for me and what I buy for my son. It seems nit-picky but just wanted to share as I’ve noticed it getting worse to the point I gave up on this quick look and turned it off early on.

Now, the first 10 mins were insane 😂. I actually did want to read what the text you skipped through but I realize what you were trying to get to. It was still part of the game and deserved to be shown since you started it. I went and check and it only really saved you about 2 minutes of skipping through that text vs moving at a decent reading speed. 😂😂. Maybe next time just re-start your save or something instead.

Love you guys!

Wow this quick looked sucked and is a good example how to torpedo an amazing game through inpatience & incompatience.

At some point, starting a quicklook over might be the better solution becuase this is just a bad video. No one in the audience is going to enjoy the text-heavy quest where the text can't be read through, while the people playing the game are gnashing their teeth on how it sucks that they're stuck in this mission. It almost feels like the main goal is : Make a video about this game within +- 30-40 min, instead of 'present this game to the viewers'.