The Demon Slayer video game is coming some time in 2021, and while we wait for an exact release date, we have to be content with brand new trailers showing off different characters every so often.
Today, we have a new one from developer CyberConnect2, which shows off a character that we obviously have known is in the game, lead hero Tanjiro Kamado, but a…different version of him than we’ve seen before.
A major development in the Demon Slayer anime is that while Tanjiro starts out using Water Breathing, eventually he realizes that he can wield the Kamado family technique of Sun Breathing, effectively a more powerful form of Fire Breathing. Here in this trailer, we see Tanjiro wielding Sun Breathing (Hinokami Kagura) for the first time, destroying his opponents with it.
It goes without saying that the Demon Slayer game, when it does arrive, is going to be a massive hit. Demon Slayer is one of the most popular programs in then world right now, and managed to produce one of the first box office hits post-pandemic with its Mugen Train movie, setting records in Japan but even performing extremely well in the West.
The game looks to draw directly from the animated series with its fighting style and cinematic executions. We still apparently have a lot more characters to see in the game, as they have mostly been focused on Demon Slayers themselves, and I think they’re probably still hiding a good amount of demons.
As we get deeper into 2021 here, I would expect there to be an actual release date for this soon enough, as we’re heading into summer and a fall date seems likely. I suppose we could see the game delayed, but from everything released so far, it does look fairly far along.
I do hope that we can see the world of Demon Slayer expand into more games, as I think there’s a lot of potential for something more akin to an RPG than just a fighting game, though there are other components to the CyberConnect2 game we haven’t seen in full yet, so we’ll have to see. More to come, stay tuned.
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