A few days ago we brought you the first impressions of Guardians of the Night -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Chronicles of Hinokami and once all the story mode is finished and all the rewards are unlocked, we bring you the complete analysis of this incredible adaptation of a series that has been achieved attract so many fans.
Made by CyberConnect2 and edited by Sega, The team of CyberConnect2 is in charge of bringing large anime series to video games, as is the case with Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot or Naruto Utimate Ninja Storm, CyberConnect2 in its new work has wanted to put all the meat on the grill and brings us one of its most ambitious and best pampered deliveries. Guardians of the Night -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Chronicles of Hinokami it’s a Fighter arena that we can enjoy both online and locally. If you are fans of both the animated series and the manga, take a place that this game interests you.
A heart on fire
The game is divided into several game modes, the first one we will talk about will be history mode ranging from the first season of the anime to the movie Mugen Train, in total there are 8 chapters, with a duration not very long.
This is the adventure of Tanjirō, who will undertake a risky journey to seek a cure to the curse of his little sister and avenge his family killed by a demon. Tanjirō will not travel alone, he will have as companions Zenitsu and Inosuke, two new members to the demon hunter legion who joined our protagonist. The story that we will see will be the same that we find in the anime, full of epic moments, in which we will feel that we are part of the action instead of being spectators of it.
In the part of infinity train, we will meet the first pillar, the Pillar of the flame, Kyōjurō Rengoku, who will embark on a mission to uncover the mystery behind a train in which people mysteriously disappear. Our team of young demon hunters will also receive this mission and will become key elements for the survival of all passengers, since we are in a mobile prison full of innocent passengers and a demon on the loose.
As we finish each chapter they will be unlocked special missions In which we will fight against a demon that will be a greater challenge than those that we will see in the main story, if we complete them we will unlock different rewards, whether they are costumes, game songs, phrases or characters for the battle mode.
Every time we enter the main story, as a general rule we will have to explore a small map where we can jump or sprint in the marked places or use the protagonist’s special gift, smell, to follow the right path. We can also find all the important points and collect kimetsu points, which will be used to unlock more rewards. Finally, we only have to meet the demon and defeat him.
In each great battle we will have different kinematics, each one of them spectacular, once they have little life left for these bosses we will have the opportunity to live moments Quick Time Events where we will have to press a button or several at the right time, to finish each battle in style. Although not everything will be fighting, since on some occasion we will have Minigames that use this same mechanic.
Face your enemies and claim victory
The classic could not be missed battle mode, where we will spend more time once we finish the main story. Here we can select the character we want and have unlocked with a companion, who we can invoke while we fight, and our enemy, with their respective companion as well. We can play so local or online and the victory will be the first one who manages to win three rounds.
In fighting we have two bars, one that is our health and another that is skill, our options in battle will be to attack with basic blows, special blows, grabs, empower ourselves or use our «ulti». As I have told you, we are not alone and we will have a partner, which, as we already saw in the games of the saga Naruto, We can make it attack, save us in times of trouble or even change with it to control it.
Each player has a card Demon Hunter ID that can be personalized with different images that are unlocked in the rewards or voice quotes of the protagonists, this will be our letter of introduction for the online, such as the hunter card in the games of Monster hunter.
The campus, once fully unlocked, is somewhat short, we only have 18 playable characters and some of them are versions of the same character, but with different skin and skills. Some enemies are missing that, although we face them in the game, they cannot be obtained. Luckily, this is going to change soon as the first characters to arrive via a free update and that they are about two of these demons. Hopefully they add more of these characters and if not, we will have to let the story advance in the following installments.
If you are a fan of the series you cannot miss it
Guardians of the Night -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Chronicles of Hinokami where it shines the most is in its graphic section, with a cel shading which looks incredibly good, if you add to this the same voices in Japanese that we could hear in the series and also the soundtrack, we are left with a game made by and for fans.
Reliving each of the most emblematic chapters of the series that manage to make your hair stand on end, but now giving you the opportunity to feel that you are in control in some way, even if only by pressing a button at a certain moment, I loved it.
The game is not perfect, far from it, as I have already said there are missing characters that will not arrive until after launch and some characters are versions of the existing ones, or as I mentioned in the first impressions, the mapping that we can explore is totally corridor and Simple, the fact that Tanjirō is slow in these phases is due to this, since if it were faster we would pass each screen in a sigh. However, it is in the fighting where the game truly shines.
In short, we are faced with a very good adaptation of the original work, with a not very long duration, but that we can extend if we exploit its battle mode playing both with our friends locally and online. The last thing I can say is that I hope the saga continues and progresses giving us a more complete version of this universe.
Guardians of the Night -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Chronicles of Hinokami will be available on October 15 for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S and Pc.
▪ Release date: 10/15/2021