This week’s Famitsu review scores:

Astral Chain (Switch) – 9/10/9/9 [37/40]

Azur Lane: Crosswave (PS4) – 8/8/8/7 [31/40]

Find the Balance (Switch) – 7/8/7/7 [29/40]

Forager (PS4, Switch) – 8/8/8/8 [32/40]

Immortal: Unchained (PS4) – 8/7/7/6 [28/40]

Koral (Switch) – 7/7/6/8 [28/40]

Obakeidoro! (Switch) – 7/8/7/8 [30/40]

Oninaki (PS4, Switch) – 8/8/7/8 [31/40]

Vambrace: Cold Soul (PS4, Switch) – 7/7/8/7 [29/40]

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Great scores for Astral Chain. Though, Famitsu tends to give high scores to big releases (don't mean big in terms of sales). Excited and nervous to see how it is received overall. Hoping for an 88 or more on metacritic (only because that might attract some attention), with 91 being the maximum I think. But I don't want to be too optimistic.

Hot damn wasn't expecting such a good score for Astral Chain. Good for PlatinumGames.

And I would also be surprised if this performs any better than high 80s on MC. I don't know what a 37 has historically translated to, on average, but anything that pushes beyond a 90 is pretty solid.

Well Bayonetta 2 got a 92 on Switch and a 91 on Wii U, Bayonetta got a 90 on PC and a 90 on Xbox 360, and Nier: Automata got a 88 on PS4 and a 90 on Xbox One (PS4 Pro version is pretty bad performance wise). 

I hope it can get a 90-91, but yeah, a high 80 is more likely. It just isn't as implausible as it would seem, given the above titles. 

Oninaki is currently at 71 on Opencritic. TRF makes good, but not great games.

I have high hopes for Astral Chain. Gotta get that 88 Opencritic score to help knock Apex Legends off Opencritic's "Best of 2019" list. 

Apex Legends started out really good, but EA has been screwing with it lately. 

The Astral Chain hype is real!

The previews and everything I'm seeing for astral chain makes me really look forward to it. I cant wait. It's reallygoing to be an expensive rest of the year for switch owners. So many great exclusives and 3rd party games. Awesome.