On November 14, Aniplex released a trailer for Sega’s Demon Salyer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles game. The trailer reveals that the game will add Gyūtarō as a paid DLC character in Japan.
It was announced that customers could purchase the character individually or as part of a character DLC pack. The characters included in the DLC pack are:
- Tengen Uzui
- Tanjiro Kamado (Entertainment District Arc)
- Nezuko Kamado (Advanced Demon Form)
- Zenitsu Agatsuma (Entertainment District Arc)
- Inosuke Hashibira (Entertainment District Arc)
- Daki
- Gyūtarō
The game is adding new characters over the course of five releases. Previously, the game released Tengen in July and Nezuko Kamado (Advanced Demon Form) in August. Entertainment District arc versions of Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke were introduced as a set of three in September, and Daki debuted in October.
Nezuko, Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke were all originally added in the base game, but it was only their standard versions that players were able to select in the fighter.
The Entertainment District Arc included various new developments in terms of the protagonists learning and showing off new skills, which is why these forms were added to the paid DLC.
Characters like Yahaba and Susamaru were added to the game earlier as free updates.
The game, as described by Sega Asia:
Become the Demon Slayer, Tanjiro Kamado, to fight off the demons threatening humanity in order to turn his sister Nezuko, who has become a demon, back into a human, as well as to avenge the death of his family by hunting down the demon who killed them.
Sega Asia
In addition to the various playable characters, the game also features a story mode that allows fans to relive the story of the original television anime.
The switch version of the game launched in Japan on June 9, and in English on June 10. The game currently has 1 million copies in circulation worldwide.
About Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotoge. Its publication in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump began in February 2016 and ended in May 2020 with 23 collected tankōbon volumes.
In a world filled with demons and demon slayers, Kimetsu no Yaiba follows the lives of two siblings Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado after— the murder of their family at the hands of a demon. Their hardship does not end there, as Nezuko’s life is spared only for her to live as a demon.
As the oldest sibling, Tanjiro vows to protect and cure his sister. The story traces the bond of this brother-sister or better yet, demon slayer and demon combo against the odds of an arch antagonist and the society.
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