{"id":2127,"date":"2022-06-13T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/review-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-the-hinokami-chronicles-a-solid-action-adaptation-of-the-hit-series\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:15:36","slug":"review-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-the-hinokami-chronicles-a-solid-action-adaptation-of-the-hit-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/review-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-the-hinokami-chronicles-a-solid-action-adaptation-of-the-hit-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles &#8211; A Solid Action Adaptation Of The Hit Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Devilishly good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the manga only started in 2016, <strong>Demon Slayer<\/strong> has gone on to become one of the most successful media franchises in existence\u2014even passing up the likes of <strong>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/strong> and <strong>Minecraft<\/strong> in raw sales. Despite this, Demon Slayer has had shockingly little presence in video games; aside from a Japan-only mobile game that still has yet to release, the only other game is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/demon_slayer_-kimetsu_no_yaiba-_the_hinokami_chronicles\">Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles<\/a>. This release came to other platforms just this past fall, and now the Switch version has come with all the post-launch DLC from those releases. Though it has some flaws, we found Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles to be thoroughly enjoyable and we think you should consider giving it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Demon Slayer follows Tanjiro, a young man with an axe to grind with demonkind. Prior to the events of the game, a demon attacked and killed his family while he was away\u2014one sister survived, but she didn\u2019t get much of a better deal given that she was turned into a ferocious demon. We take on the role of Tanjiro just as he\u2019s about to complete the final step of his training to become a proper Demon Slayer. Once he\u2019s done so, his goal is then to avenge his family\u2019s death by killing the demon who murdered them and hopefully to find a cure for his sister somewhere along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-the-hinokami-chronicles\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles &#8211; A Solid Action Adaptation Of The Hit Series<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Devilishly good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the manga only started in 2016, <strong>Demon Slayer<\/strong> has gone on to become one of the most successful media franchises in existence\u2014even passing up the likes of <strong>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/strong> and <strong>Minecraft<\/strong> in raw sales. Despite this, Demon Slayer has had shockingly little presence in video games; aside from a Japan-only mobile game that still has yet to release, the only other game is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/demon_slayer_-kimetsu_no_yaiba-_the_hinokami_chronicles\">Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles<\/a>. This release came to other platforms just this past fall, and now the Switch version has come with all the post-launch DLC from those releases. Though it has some flaws, we found Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles to be thoroughly enjoyable and we think you should consider giving it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Demon Slayer follows Tanjiro, a young man with an axe to grind with demonkind. Prior to the events of the game, a demon attacked and killed his family while he was away\u2014one sister survived, but she didn\u2019t get much of a better deal given that she was turned into a ferocious demon. We take on the role of Tanjiro just as he\u2019s about to complete the final step of his training to become a proper Demon Slayer. Once he\u2019s done so, his goal is then to avenge his family\u2019s death by killing the demon who murdered them and hopefully to find a cure for his sister somewhere along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-the-hinokami-chronicles\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}