Demon Slayer Gets Its First Arcade Game From Konami
Demon Slayer is stepping into the arcade for the first time. The latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump revealed on Monday that Konami is building the franchise’s first arcade game, titled Kimetsu no Yaiba: Nichirin Battle Slash.
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It will be a card based action game, and the fun twist is the hardware. According to Shueisha, players will battle using a special Nichirin Sword controller. Konami plans to show it off at the Amusement Expo at Tokyo Big Sight on November 15.
This is far from the franchise’s first time in games. The original Demon Slayer title, The Hinokami Chronicles, shipped in Japan and arrived in English across Asia in October 2021, with a North American and European launch a day later on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, and PC through Steam. A Switch version followed in Japan and in English in June 2022.
More recently, the sequel, The Hinokami Chronicles 2, launched in Japan on August 1 and in English on August 5 across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, with Deluxe Edition owners getting up to five days of early access.
My take: An arcade cabinet with an actual Nichirin Sword controller sounds like a blast, and it is the kind of physical, social experience console games just cannot match. I would love to give it a swing.
