{"id":117339,"date":"2020-08-30T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/platinum_celebrates_the_first_anniversary_of_its_switch_exclusive_astral_chain"},"modified":"2020-08-30T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T07:30:00","slug":"platinum-celebrates-the-first-anniversary-of-its-switch-exclusive-astral-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/30\/platinum-celebrates-the-first-anniversary-of-its-switch-exclusive-astral-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Celebrates The First Anniversary Of Its Switch Exclusive Astral Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7716d980cdb54\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7716d980cdb54\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7716d980cdb54\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>It seems like a lifetime ago (at least to us) since the action-adventure hack and slash <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/astral_chain\">Astral Chain<\/a><\/strong> arrived exclusively on the Nintendo Switch, but this week it&#8217;s only <em>just<\/em> reached the one year mark.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the game&#8217;s first anniversary, PlatinumGames prepared a special <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/astralchain.fandom.com\/wiki\/Lappy\">Lappy<\/a> cake for the occasion, and Platinum concept artist Yuki Suda and scenario writer Akiteru Naka drew the following illustrations:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ASTRAL CHAIN concept artist Yuki Suda and scenario writer Akiteru Naka drew these illustrations to celebrate the game&#8217;s first anniversary! It&#8217;s made me extremely happy to see so many people playing ASTRAL CHAIN over the past year. Thank you very much!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ASTRALCHAIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ASTRALCHAIN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IqfJfzmKc9\">pic.twitter.com\/IqfJfzmKc9<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u7530\u6d66 \u8cb4\u4e45 \/ Takahisa Taura (@PG_taura) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PG_taura\/status\/1299723667975204865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30e9\u30c3\u30d4\u30fc\u3001\u4e3b\u4eba\u516c\u3001\u30a2\u30ad\u30e9\u305f\u3061\u3092\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u3067\u3082\u305c\u3072\ud83e\uddd0\u2763\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ASTRALCHAIN_Anniversary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ASTRALCHAIN_Anniversary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eqMztN65BV\">pic.twitter.com\/eqMztN65BV<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u30d7\u30e9\u30c1\u30ca\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u30ba\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@platinumgames_j) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/platinumgames_j\/status\/1299726018547126276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Platinum&#8217;s Hideki Kamiya &#8211; a supervisor on the project &#8211; also supposedly joined in on the fun by apparently sending out an English tweet that simply read &#8220;Astral Chain 2&#8221;. The tweet (assuming the screenshot doing the rounds online <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> a fake) <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PG_kamiya\/status\/1299737181485895681\">appears to now be unavailable<\/a> on his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">for those that can&#8217;t see his tweets, hideki kamiya has casually been livetweeting platinum&#8217;s next line-up completely unbothered lmao <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t3gfbnJvpC\">pic.twitter.com\/t3gfbnJvpC<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u2728 Storm Yorha \u2728 (@StormYorha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StormYorha\/status\/1299739048463020036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Real, fake or even a joke &#8211; we&#8217;re sure Kamiya already has enough on his plate between <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bayonetta_3\">Bayonetta 3<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/platinumgames_announces_project_gg_a_brand_new_game_from_hideki_kamiya\">Project GG<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t played Astral Chain already, what are you waiting for? The game &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/astral_chain_director_says_nintendo_switch_exclusive_sold_above_expectations\">sold above expectations<\/a>&#8221; (presumably a lot of people like it) and we awarded it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/astral_chain\">nine out of ten stars in our review<\/a> and said it was one of the standout hits available on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like a lifetime ago (at least to us) since the action-adventure hack and slash Astral Chain arrived exclusively on the Nintendo Switch, but this week it&#8217;s only just reached the one year mark. To celebrate the game&#8217;s first anniversary, PlatinumGames prepared a special Lappy cake for the occasion, and Platinum concept artist Yuki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}