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NEURON’S ROOKIE OFFICER: AKIRA HOWARD
Akira is the main protagonist of Nintendo and Platinum Games’s new upcoming series, Astral Chain. Set in a future version of Earth overrun by dangerous alien life forms known as chimera, that started appearing through wormholes after a mysterious meteorite struck the planet. 90% of the planet became inhabitable, with most survivors taking refuge on an artificial floating island known as the Ark, where peace was stored for 10 years until gates began appearing on the Ark as well.
You play as a rookie officer of Neuron, a police force founded to fight and protect against the chimera. After being born on the same year as the meteor strike, you and your twin sibling became orphans and were later adopted by Maximilian Howard, an officer of neuron, and later enlisted yourself. You alongside your twin will investigate chimera crime scenes, fight against chimera, and later uncover the mystery behind the invasion with the help of the introduction of living weapons known as Legions.
Akira is an avatar and similar to some of the Fire Emblem protagonists, you can choose their name, gender, hair style, hair color, eye color, and skin color. The different genders are actually twins and the gender you didn’t choose will have the same eye color, skin color, and hair color as you and tag along with you throughout the story. The protagonist themselves isn’t named Akira, it’s actually the twin you didn’t choose, but since both could be called Akira and can be chosen as the protagonist... that’s their canon name for now.
ARIKA’S POTENTIAL:
MECHANICAL BATON
Akira’s main weapon is the X baton, a long metal slab that is covered in electrical energy to stun and nullify enemies in close-quartered combat. A more hard hitting but lighter and smaller weapon like the X-baton hasn’t been seen in Smash yet, having longer ranged and quick melee styled attacks could be a very interesting avenue to explore and can be differentiated from looking similar to sword fighters.
This isn’t just a normal baton however, as with any futuristic game, it has something up it’s sleeve, and in this case the baton can also be converted into a energy gun. Akira’s move set could be composed of close ranged combat alongside long ranged combat to emphasis the versatility of this weapon.
LEGIONS
Akira’s second main form of combat are legions. Legions are living creatures, former Chimera that were neutralized, experimented on, and trained to aid Neuron police forces in investigations and combat, but they can only be seen by other Chimera and Legion users, their effects on the other hand can be seen by everyone. Since experimentation on the creation of legions is recent, very few are used and the twins are the ones that do. These legions are activated through an arm disk located slightly above their wrist, for visualization, think of how cards are placed on a duel disk in Yugi-Oh. When activated, the user’s hair and eyes turn blue, with blue markings appearing from their face to their upper shoulder, and an electrical chain is formed between the user and legion.
Once in battle, a Legion will focus in on an enemy and use a variety of attacks and commands to aid you. Standard Attacks, where a legion uses their attacks on an enemy on it’s own, which can help you in cases where there are multiple enemies or you need to heal. Sync Attacks are unique attacks that involve both you and your legion to attack in sync with each other for extra damage. And Chain Abilities are unique skills that involves using the chain that connects you and your legion to trap and even attack enemies.
There are five types of legions: Sword, which use arm blades to constantly attack enemies from medium ranged distances. Arrow, which use projectile attacks in the form of a futuristic bow. Beast, which are four legged legions that can be rideable and use a more feral style of attacks. Axe, which use a long bladed weapon that can block attacks and are very powerful at long distances. And Armor, which are extremely strong, use close quartered combat, and are wearable. Legions have health and cannot always be used, once their health is at 0 you must wait some time until they can be used again.
Legions can provide an interesting playstyle for Akira not seen in Smash yet, revolving around cooperating with your legion and using their abilities to their fullest potential.
WHY AKIRA?:
Along with having lots of move set potential, Astral Chain is a new Nintendo series cut from the same cloth as Bayonetta and Devil May Cry which are all by the same director. It’s always fun to have a new interesting series crossover with Smash and can help it in the long run.
Whether they will appear either in this Fighter Pass or potentially afterward is based on how far along the game is in when developers were deciding on the DLC newcomers. Seeing how they usually wait until after a new series is released to decide on a newcomer and the fact the game doesn’t come out until late August, Akira may not have been strongly considered. Despite this, if the game does become successful, Akira could easily become a frontrunner for Smash later on.
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(NOTE: This thread is a work in progress. I will be updating the OP as frequently as I can whenever new info and the game releases.)
Akira is the main protagonist of Nintendo and Platinum Games’s new upcoming series, Astral Chain. Set in a future version of Earth overrun by dangerous alien life forms known as chimera, that started appearing through wormholes after a mysterious meteorite struck the planet. 90% of the planet became inhabitable, with most survivors taking refuge on an artificial floating island known as the Ark, where peace was stored for 10 years until gates began appearing on the Ark as well.
You play as a rookie officer of Neuron, a police force founded to fight and protect against the chimera. After being born on the same year as the meteor strike, you and your twin sibling became orphans and were later adopted by Maximilian Howard, an officer of neuron, and later enlisted yourself. You alongside your twin will investigate chimera crime scenes, fight against chimera, and later uncover the mystery behind the invasion with the help of the introduction of living weapons known as Legions.
Akira is an avatar and similar to some of the Fire Emblem protagonists, you can choose their name, gender, hair style, hair color, eye color, and skin color. The different genders are actually twins and the gender you didn’t choose will have the same eye color, skin color, and hair color as you and tag along with you throughout the story. The protagonist themselves isn’t named Akira, it’s actually the twin you didn’t choose, but since both could be called Akira and can be chosen as the protagonist... that’s their canon name for now.
ARIKA’S POTENTIAL:
MECHANICAL BATON
Akira’s main weapon is the X baton, a long metal slab that is covered in electrical energy to stun and nullify enemies in close-quartered combat. A more hard hitting but lighter and smaller weapon like the X-baton hasn’t been seen in Smash yet, having longer ranged and quick melee styled attacks could be a very interesting avenue to explore and can be differentiated from looking similar to sword fighters.
This isn’t just a normal baton however, as with any futuristic game, it has something up it’s sleeve, and in this case the baton can also be converted into a energy gun. Akira’s move set could be composed of close ranged combat alongside long ranged combat to emphasis the versatility of this weapon.
LEGIONS
Akira’s second main form of combat are legions. Legions are living creatures, former Chimera that were neutralized, experimented on, and trained to aid Neuron police forces in investigations and combat, but they can only be seen by other Chimera and Legion users, their effects on the other hand can be seen by everyone. Since experimentation on the creation of legions is recent, very few are used and the twins are the ones that do. These legions are activated through an arm disk located slightly above their wrist, for visualization, think of how cards are placed on a duel disk in Yugi-Oh. When activated, the user’s hair and eyes turn blue, with blue markings appearing from their face to their upper shoulder, and an electrical chain is formed between the user and legion.
Once in battle, a Legion will focus in on an enemy and use a variety of attacks and commands to aid you. Standard Attacks, where a legion uses their attacks on an enemy on it’s own, which can help you in cases where there are multiple enemies or you need to heal. Sync Attacks are unique attacks that involve both you and your legion to attack in sync with each other for extra damage. And Chain Abilities are unique skills that involves using the chain that connects you and your legion to trap and even attack enemies.
There are five types of legions: Sword, which use arm blades to constantly attack enemies from medium ranged distances. Arrow, which use projectile attacks in the form of a futuristic bow. Beast, which are four legged legions that can be rideable and use a more feral style of attacks. Axe, which use a long bladed weapon that can block attacks and are very powerful at long distances. And Armor, which are extremely strong, use close quartered combat, and are wearable. Legions have health and cannot always be used, once their health is at 0 you must wait some time until they can be used again.
Legions can provide an interesting playstyle for Akira not seen in Smash yet, revolving around cooperating with your legion and using their abilities to their fullest potential.
WHY AKIRA?:
Along with having lots of move set potential, Astral Chain is a new Nintendo series cut from the same cloth as Bayonetta and Devil May Cry which are all by the same director. It’s always fun to have a new interesting series crossover with Smash and can help it in the long run.
Whether they will appear either in this Fighter Pass or potentially afterward is based on how far along the game is in when developers were deciding on the DLC newcomers. Seeing how they usually wait until after a new series is released to decide on a newcomer and the fact the game doesn’t come out until late August, Akira may not have been strongly considered. Despite this, if the game does become successful, Akira could easily become a frontrunner for Smash later on.
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(NOTE: This thread is a work in progress. I will be updating the OP as frequently as I can whenever new info and the game releases.)
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