What I can appreciate even more about this game is its difficulty slider. You’ll be utilizing the majority of the buttons on your controller to play this game. It’s not as easy as a Musou game, but it isn’t as hard as a Soulsborne game. There’s actually some skill and game sense you need to have or you’ll find yourself losing battles. This isn’t the kind of game where you just spam one button in and win. It’s smooth like butter with a gameplay loop that doesn’t get stale after a few hours. It looked really stylish and over the top with cool cinematic finishing moves and team attacks. The gameplay is what personally intrigued me the most for Scarlet Nexus. However, what the game has to offer in terms of story makes this gripe something I can overlook for the most part. It breaks the immersion at times when you’re reading the dialogue with still images. You get the idea of what’s going on, but I wish everything just had the cutscenes acted out. Sometimes, and this is mostly when actually controlling your character freely, you’ll get no spoken dialogue and just text boxes when interacting with others. Other times, there will be a freeze frame of what’s currently going on, with character portraits overlapping what is going on in the scene with dialogue. Sometimes, there will be fully animated cutscenes with dialogue. My only gripe about the delivery of the story is that the game’s cutscenes aren’t consistent. Good thing Bandai Namco put in a whole compendium in its own game giving character bios, digestible summaries of what happens after each completed chapter, and all sorts of other info like enemy intel so players don’t have to seek external means to do so. The story of this game is also one that is quite interesting and somewhat convoluted, with decent plot twists and plentiful dialogue. However, the story unfolds from the perspectives of these two individuals, so Yuito’s playthrough won’t be the same as Kasane’s. It also doesn’t matter who you start off with first because the story follows a parallel plot, meaning the game will come to the same conclusion. Their overall duty in this organization is to protect humanity from the enemy called the “Others.” They also have different back stories and motives while serving in the OSF. They’re basically gender counterparts of each other, having the same psionic capabilities, but different weapons for combat. Pick Yuito Sumeragi or Kasane Randall, new recruits to the OSF (Other Suppression Force). What I can also appreciate about the game from the get-go is that upon starting up your first playthrough, you have an option to play the story as one of two main protagonists. Better yet, since this kind of trope hasn’t been too overdone yet, Scarlet Nexus has the upper hand in having some originality. The idea of a futuristic society ridden with intrusive ads and all this government surveillance mumbo jumbo could not have come at a better time. Everyone is connected to this neural network called PsyNet. The environments, namely in the civilian-populated cities, wreak of flashy advertisements and zero personal privacy to its citizens. In fact, Bandai Namco deemed this aesthetic to be “brain punk.” It makes sense. If you combine the aforementioned Astral Chain, add in some Cyberpunk 2077, and a coat of red paint, this is the kind of game it is. Funny enough, Scarlet Nexus is also getting that treatment, so this is definitely a big deal. I specifically named these games as examples because they started off as just games and have since gotten their own anime adaptations to go alongside them. It does so much right and hopefully it achieves the success levels of games like Persona and Danganronpa. It also has the qualities of a game that definitely had lots of love put into it. It sports a sizable cast of memorable characters with their own quirks and abilities. Think of Astral Chain, but replace the blue with red colors. This game has those aforementioned cool and flashy details with a surprising amount of depth to its combat controls. It’s not your typical anime RPG game where it looks all cool and flashy with an overly simple controller scheme. However, my experience with Scarlet Nexus was quite phenomenal. Anime games in general, especially in western hemisphere, don’t perform very well aside from your typical big names like Dragon Ball or Naruto. I had tempered expectations with this game, given that the various anime ARPGs out there don’t have lasting power. Platforms: PS4 (reviewed on), PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, PC By Elliott Gatica 1 year ago Follow Tweet
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