{"id":123507,"date":"2022-02-08T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123507"},"modified":"2022-02-08T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:34:04","slug":"demon-slayer-the-hinokami-chronicles-finally-coming-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/123507-demon-slayer-the-hinokami-chronicles-finally-coming-to-switch","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles finally coming to Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sega has announced that the arena-based fighting game Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba &#8211; The Hinokami Chronicles is set to come to the Nintendo Switch on the 10th of June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Exact pricing has not been given. However, the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump revealed that the game would cost around 7,480 yen (R1004).<\/p>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch is the last of the consoles to receive the Demon Slayer game.<\/p>\n<p>The Hinokami Chronicles will arrive with everything found on other platforms, including post-launch content such as six new playable characters, new online missions that reward players with Kimetsu Points to unlock additional rewards, and all the balance changes made to the combat.<\/p>\n<p>The six new characters include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rui<\/li>\n<li>Akaza<\/li>\n<li>Susamaru<\/li>\n<li>Yahaba<\/li>\n<li>Enmu<\/li>\n<li>Yushiro and Tamayo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A physical edition is available for pre-order from Sega&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/demonslayer-hinokami.sega.com\/\">official website<\/a> and comes with a bonus character unlock key for the Kimetsu Academy Tanjiro Kamado.<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123510 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ss4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hinokami Chronicles follows Tanjiro, the kindhearted boy who joins the Demon Slayer Corps to turn his sister Nezuko, who was made a demon, back into a human.<\/p>\n<p>In the 10 hour single-player campaign, you get to fight as most of the main characters from the Demon Slayer Corps and take on iconic bosses such as Rui and Enmu.<\/p>\n<p>Combat is easy to understand yet fulfilling when you pull off a tricky combination. Combat is made even more enjoyable, with all dialogue being voiced by the original English and Japanese voice casts from the anime.<\/p>\n<p>You now get to enjoy all the drama of the anime&#8217;s first season all over again with the added fun of fighting the demons yourself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Demon Slayer Hinokami Chronicles - Nintendo Switch Announcement Trailer \u9b3c\u6ec5\u306e\u5203 \u30d2\u30ce\u30ab\u30df\u8840\u98a8\u8b5a\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkUXPUlYGrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With the release of the OLED Nintendo Switch in late October last year, The Hinokami Chronicles would be a perfect game to show off the new display.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/123501-the-10-most-anticipated-games-of-2022\">The most anticipated games of 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time to slay some demons on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":123513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25690,21,73,1109,22949],"class_list":["post-123507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","tag-demon-slayer","tag-headline","tag-nintendo","tag-sega","tag-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}