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On October 20th that year, new in-development footage was shown, including a boss battle, in a live-stream talking about several Inti games.<ref name="Inti Creates live-stream">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzLIpg9OnM&t=3024s Inti Creates live-stream]</ref> On that same day, they announced that Inti Creates will showcase an public demo of Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 on November 29th. On November 12th, less than four weeks before the public demo, Inti Creates posted a image on Twitter showcasing Kirin in a different pose, possibly showing an new cover image for the game. |
On October 20th that year, new in-development footage was shown, including a boss battle, in a live-stream talking about several Inti games.<ref name="Inti Creates live-stream">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzLIpg9OnM&t=3024s Inti Creates live-stream]</ref> On that same day, they announced that Inti Creates will showcase an public demo of Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 on November 29th. On November 12th, less than four weeks before the public demo, Inti Creates posted a image on Twitter showcasing Kirin in a different pose, possibly showing an new cover image for the game. |
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== Trivia == |
== Trivia == |
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Fates are sealed as paradigms shift and a new era unfolds. What lies beyond the path toward hope?
—Tagline
Azure Striker Gunvolt 3, known as Armed Blue: Gunvolt 3 /// Gibs (蒼き雷霆 ガンヴォルト 鎖環) in Japan, is an upcoming game produced by Inti Creates in development for the Nintendo Switch, and marks the return of the mainline Azure Striker Gunvolt series since 2016's Azure Striker Gunvolt 2.
Gunvolt once again returns as a playable character, with a seemingly overhauled moveset, lacking the Flashfield entirely. Joining him is a new playable character named Kirin, who uses a mix of ranged and melee attacks with her sword and enchanted talismans.
Pre-release Information
Playable Characters
Like Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, the game has two playable characters: Gunvolt, but now includes a newcomer to the series, Kirin.
Gunvolt
Through unknown circumstances, Gunvolt has joined his past enemy the Sumeragi Group.
Gunvolt's playstyle is similar to the preceding games in that he can tag multiple enemies at once, but instead now sends destructive surges of lightning at enemies in bursts (with the bursts seemingly ranging from one to eight based on the number of tags), instead of dealing damage over time like the first two games, the Flashfield seemingly being retired. Gunvolt can now apply tags in other manners as well, as his air dash can now "teleport" through enemies, placing a tag in the process. The traditional EP gauge is no longer seen as well, with it being replaced with a system similar to Copen's Bullits, where the lightning surges consume these individual gauges and can be instantly refilled by tapping down twice.
Kirin
A shrine maiden possessing a septima capable of sealing others. This septima has yet to receive an official English name, but in the Japanese press release is named
Kirin is melee-focused, but is able to use ranged attacks in the form of enchanted talismans. She can throw these talismans at enemies, and it fills a bar below the health bar. Once filled, it can initiate a stun leaving the enemy vulnerable to her sword combos. Using this, she can deflect projectiles with a well-timed swing of her sword. Like GV, it seems she (or rather, the beast following her) can shoot surges of lightning at tagged enemies.
In the Digi Games Expo demo:
- Kirin lacks certain actions seen in the trailer, such as the lightning attack.
- Kirin does not possess Prevasion.
- Hitting foes with a talisman and getting a red lock-on allows contact without collision damage. The same is true for bosses, but it allegedly requires many talismans.
- While in this state, the boss's HP bar goes from red to light purple, and attacking them causes more damage.
- Kudos bonuses come from quickly killing a foe after striking it with a talisman.
Enemies
Bosses
SP skill cut-ins are in the style of ASG1 rather than Luminous Avenger iX. Boss health bars appear to feature a slot for a faction logo, but it is left empty in the Digi Games Expo demo.
| Name | Info | Image |
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| "Grim Reaper" | Scythe wielder with drone bits assembled on their back in a bat-like wing formation. Reaper motif. Blue/Green boss. Ghostly powers. SP skill is Death Procession (デスプロセッション) and involves trying to strike the player with the scythe while teleporting, followed by riding a skeletal horse motorcycle across the stage, and then again by returning from off-screen.
First seen in the 2020 October stream, then at the Digi Games Expo demo. |
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| "Banchō Turtle" | Banchō (juvenile Japanese gang leader) motif. Turtle-like design. Red boss. Martial artist. SP skill has a "1 on 1 brawl" feel and turns the walls into damage zones like Viper's fight, and shoots aura that drags the player towards the boss.
First seen at the Digi Games Expo demo. |
Medium Bosses
| Name | Info | Image |
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| Plasma Legion variant | In what is presumed to be the opening stage, a heavily modified and quadrupedal variant of the Plasma Legion is fought. |   |
Common Enemies
Stages
Development
After the release of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, series director Yoshihisa Tsuda reportedly struggled with ideas for the third title[1], with CEO Takuya Aizu specifying that while the story had few issues, it was the gameplay that was holding back full-scale development, as Tsuda wanted to devise a new way to reinvent the series' formula, uncomfortable with simply reusing the same system with different stages and bosses[2]. This led to the announcement and release of Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX, directed by Toshiaki Tai, which was developed in order to tide fans over and give Tsuda more time to come up with ideas[3]. Eventually, development would begin sometime in early 2020[4], with the game being announced shortly afterwards on June 27th, 2020 on stream at Bitsummit Gaiden, as is series tradition. Kirin's character design was finalized by March 30th, 2020.[5]
On October 20th that year, new in-development footage was shown, including a boss battle, in a live-stream talking about several Inti games.[6] On that same day, they announced that Inti Creates will showcase an public demo of Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 on November 29th. On November 12th, less than four weeks before the public demo, Inti Creates posted a image on Twitter showcasing Kirin in a different pose, possibly showing an new cover image for the game.
On November 29th at the Digi Games Expo, the game was purportedly said to only be 5% complete despite featuring two bosses and stages. The demo did not include any voice acting or story elements. On December 25, 2020, Inti released another development live stream involving mostly the Oil Platform stage and shortly the Winter Christmas stage. However, on December 28, 2020, three days after Christmas, 4gamer.net published an article showing the screenshots of the ASG3 demo, including the SP skill of the boss of Winter Christmas.
Trivia
- 3 sets a number of milestones for the franchise, being:
- This is the first main series Gunvolt game to have a female playable character.
- Additionally, this is the first game to feature melee combat.
- This is the first game to have an animal character.
- This is the first game where a boss uses a vehicle during battle.
- This is the first main series Gunvolt game to have a female playable character.
