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    What to Play: In 'Astral Chain,' anime cops are the good guys — and save lost cats

    by Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times Sep 12, 2019 4 minutes

    Always take time to feed the stray cats. That's at least one of the messages of "Astral Chain," a convoluted action-detective game that gives the ever-popular dystopian genre an optimistic spin.

    Or mostly optimistic. After all, this is a game published by Nintendo, so things never get too depressing or adult, even if "Astral Chain's" anime style means our police force is dressed more for the club than crime fighting (think lots of knee- and thigh-high accessories).

    And yet here, in a sci-fi twist that doesn't mirror our present cultural controversies, the futuristic police are purely in the camp of

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