Demon Slayer, the mega-popular shonen anime sequence a couple of group of samurai…slaying demons, is getting a brand new online game on the Nintendo Swap. However this one isn’t a typical anime combating recreation, however a Mario Social gathering-esque board recreation as an alternative.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Mezase! Saikyou Taishi! (which loosely interprets to “Goal to be the Strongest Soldier”) is a four-player celebration recreation during which you compete with buddies in a mess of minigames—simply exchange the titular plumber with trendy samurai. Identical to in Mario Social gathering, you’ll roll cube to maneuver throughout the tiles of a board recreation and check your abilities in lighthearted video games like guessing which field Nezuko is hiding in or whatnot. Goal to be the Strongest Soldier’s evening cycle, nonetheless, swaps its devil-may-care fanfare with missions during which you could discover and get rid of demons. Y’know, similar to what occurs within the anime.
Whereas Goal to be the Strongest Soldier relegates sequence finest woman Nezuko to being a supporting character, the sport will allow you to play as protag Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Inosuke Hashibira, and 9 Hashira members, in line with Siliconera. You may take a look at the trailer beneath.
Regardless of the field workplace success of its function movies, unimaginable manga and anime gross sales, and its yearly sweep at Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards, Demon Slayer has solely gotten one online game up to now. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles was an area fighter developed by the anime professionals at CyberConnect2, which additionally made the favored Naruto: Final Ninja Storm sequence.
Though the prospect of a Demon Slayer-based Mario Social gathering recreation comes as a weird however welcomed shock to followers sat squarely in the midst of each properties’ Venn diagrams, Goal to be the Strongest Soldier presently solely has a 2024 launch deliberate for the Japanese eShop. But when Hinokami Chronicle’s English launch by Sega is any indication, followers received’t have to carry their breath lengthy for an English launch of this one.
