Azure Striker Gunvolt
A 2D action game featuring a young man with the power of lightning who stands for freedom against the evil ambitions of a massive organization. When lightning strikes, a new legend is born.
Azure Striker Gunvolt is an adventure developed by Inti Creates, released 20 August 2014 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Azure Striker Gunvolt is
Azure Striker Gunvolt is an adventure game developed by Inti Creates and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
It is the near future, and a new type of septimal power has emerged. Although the people initially viewed these powers with fear, a large conglomerate known as the Sumeragi Group has brought peace and order to the world by taking it upon themselves to supervise the adepts who possess these powers. However, it is a peace that has come at the cost of the adepts subjugated by Sumeragi. For what Sumeragi describes as a shelter for adepts is, in fact, a concentration camp. Cruel experiments are conducted daily on the adepts held prisoner there. For a long time, the Sumeragi Group has kept the goals of its experiments a secret. But now, a group that has learned of Sumeragi’s intentions has risen…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Azure Striker Gunvolt series
Azure Striker Gunvolt is the first of 16 entries we hold in the Azure Striker Gunvolt series. The next entry was Mighty Gunvolt in 2014. Its critic score of 95 is 11 points above the series average of 84. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Azure Striker Gunvolt holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 26 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2Ghz or faster processor, 4 GB RAM and 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it launched against
Azure Striker Gunvolt launched on 20 August 2014, within three weeks of Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Destiny and Metro Redux. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Destiny, Metro Redux.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Azure Striker Gunvolt yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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