Although they have different physical attacks they have the same psychokinetic powers, which eventually emerges as being integral to the story. The first thing you must do is decide whether to play as Yuito or Kasane. Their job is to confronts and kills the Others deadly creatures that are apparently invading the Tokyo-like city of Suoh from another dimension. Set in a very Japanese parallel universe, it follows the fortunes of Yuito Sumeragi and Kasane Randall, two young cadets graduating to the OSF, a sort of psionic police force. It feels like a natural evolution from previous anime games that Bandai Namco has release, and I prefer it to many of their anime adaptations, partly because it feels like a game that could be an anime, rather than the other way around.Scarlet Nexus’ storyline is a wild slice of sci-fi that lurches in some deliciously improbable directions, yet contains calming character-bonding interludes that have the feel of a soap opera and bring a welcome sense of ebb and flow. My time with Scarlet Nexus has left me really curious about it, and certainly a lot more excited than I was before going hands-on with it. Well, I actually don’t know if you’re gonna have romance in this game, so we should assume it’s just making bonds, but we all know how anime games and relationships usually work.Īs you can tell, there are a lot of systems in place here, and given that I only played the first three hours or so, there is going to be plenty more to come. Sometimes that’s going to be via gifts, sometimes it’s going to be via special missions, but the aim is always the same try and date people. That’s right, you’re gonna have the chance to build up your social links with all of these characters to become stronger. These abilities get stronger if you have a better bond with those who originally own the abilities, which leads to one of the other systems. This means you can infuse your weapon with fire damage, or go invisible, or see the unseen. ![]() ![]() You eventually get the ability to add other abilities to yours too thanks to a weird mindlink system. It’s not as complicated as Devil May Cry, for example, but it does have a similar veneer of stylish action to it, which means you generally feel like an absolute badass as you mix and match your attacks to disperse the Others in front of you. I actually really enjoyed the fights overall. It doesn’t sound all that complicated, but more and more layers were added to it throughout my time with the game, and there were clearly a few more things to come later on, based on the skill trees. The fighting is a little different depending on your character, but the basics have you using a mix of weak and strong weapon attacks interspersed with your psychokinetic powers, which will have you yeeting bikes and other scenery at weird monsters. Most of your interactions are going to be running around, talking to people, and then fighting Others. It’s a bit like you’re venturing into dungeons all over the place, but they don’t all feel like dungeons, from what I played. Also they eat human brains.Īnyway, enough of the setting, as fascinating as it is, and onto the gameplay. Scarlet Nexus takes place in relatively contained open-ish areas situated on a gigantic world map that you fast travel around. One of the first enemies you come across is a vase with legs and high heels for some reason, and you’ll fight against gigantic primates with rusted metal for arms and cannons on their back, among other oddities. They’re not going to sound it when I describe them in a second, but they’re all rather unnerving. Others are the collective name for the monsters you’ll face, all of which have some really cool designs. Also, it seems to be commonplace for Others to invade the city, the battles to fight them back seeing things like cars getting thrown at them. That feels inconvenient to me, but needs must, I guess. That definitely seems pretty bad, but maybe that’s just me. This means that the media operates via drones they send all over the place, and even that the things you see in real life can be censored to protect your mental health. You’ve then got the world outside of your squad, which has digital stuff all over the place, including (it seems) chips in everyone’s brains. ![]() In fact, the one adult in your little posse is a complete oddity. ![]() For starters, everyone who fights is young, and they’re kept young by using “Growth stunting hormones”, presumably because this somehow makes them more powerful. Alongside everything being a bit more digital than normal and the world being invaded by mutated monsters, there are the telltale signs that Scarlet Nexus might just have some darker undercurrents.
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