It’s here that the story mode is at its strongest, and the fighting is where The Hinokami Chronicles truly shines as a whole.
There can be the occasional flash of something clever – one sequence involves finding your way out of a house that is constantly shifting around you, while a later chapter offers up some fun mini-games – but walking around a map is mostly something I tolerated rather than enjoyed.ĭeveloper CyberConnect2 seems to know this too, peppering areas with plenty of fights against a handful of nameless demons to teach you the ropes of combat before throwing you into the fun stuff: the boss fights. Each interaction is exactly the same, forcing you to monotonously repeat it four times.
In one particularly egregious example, Tanjiro has to convince the people of a small city to go inside before nightfall to keep them away from a demon that has been abducting young girls. Instead it’s mostly a slow, dull process that only requires you to push the stick in a direction and listen to some pretty unnecessary dialogue. It might have been an interesting idea if the interactions or movement were entertaining themselves. As you explore, you’ll also be able to collect Memory Fragments, which are short movies that combine voiceovers and stills from the anime series, and Kimetsu Points, which can be used to unlock rewards like characters, alternate costumes, quotes, art, and songs from the soundtrack. After an introductory series of cutscenes, each chapter will have you guide Tanjiro and friends across a mostly linear series of maps as you complete quests by talking to other characters, search out clues that will lead you to where demons might be hiding, and solve small puzzles. The Hinokami Chronicles is divided into eight chapters. You can also unlock them by grinding out Versus mode fights, but doing so would take so long that it wouldn’t be worth it, which isn’t great if you’re just here for the multiplayer. That’s a shame, for two reasons: first, because Demon Slayer’s story is entertaining enough without these extra sections and second, because playing the roughly nine to 12-hour story mode is pretty much the only reasonable way to unlock every playable character for the Versus mode, which is probably where you’ll want to spend most of your time anyway. But when The Hinokami Chronicles makes you walk around and explore the Demon Slayer world between these familiar scenes, it becomes kind of a drag.
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