All of this is powered by PlatinumGames in-house engine which is shaping up nicely on Switch. Unlike most titles from Platinum, however, Astral Chain targets just 30 frames per second instead. The slower nature of the gameplay and larger environments feel like a fair trade-off. It's an attractive game then with fluid animation, detailed worlds to explore and plenty of modern visual effects.
When you take everything together, then, Astral Chain is one ambitious project with a wider selection of unique ideas and gameplay concepts than any other Platinum title to date. Whether or not it all congeals into something coherent remains to be seen but, at this point, it holds a lot of promise.