It can be a little jarring talking in detail about Tsugumi’s flowers, or Luka’s body-building regimen when the world is on the brink of destruction, but if you can look past that, these sections increase your attachment as a player no-end. Taking a leaf from Persona 5, there are bond episodes to explore that delve into your teammates in satisfying ways, trying and mostly succeeding in showing another side of them beyond their fighting skills and powers.
In between the twelve main chapters (in each story) you can visit your hideout and hangout with your party members.
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It’s the most necessary second playthrough I’ve seen in a game for a while, and almost manages to be an anime attempt at what The Last Of Us 2 succeeded in last year – making us care for both sides in a story so full of greys its nearly black.
Only the player understands what is truly happening, and only after playing both sides through to the end. Conversely, when playing as Kasane, you will get those answers, but now Yuito is the enemy with ulterior motives. For example, starting with Yuito has you questioning Kasane’s motives, and fighting to understand why she acts the way she does. This is especially apparent with whichever protagonist you didn’t start with. Perhaps my favourite were the characters themselves from pyrokinesis-wielder and Yuito’s childhood friend Hanabi to forever-young teleporter Luka, the game handles your suspicion of and loyalty to your teammates in remarkably interesting ways. New Himuka and Seiran (the two governments) seem like two sides of the same coin a lot of the time, and whether you play as Kasane or Yuito, you will feel like your story is the ‘right’ path, and that the ‘other’ side is twisted and wrong. The plot veers in directions I had not seen coming, and because of its predilection for covering all sides as equally as possible, it demonstrates far more grey-area storytelling than most anime manages. If you are paying attention however, it’s a great rollercoaster. I won’t spoil where the story goes from there but let’s say if you find the first handful of hours hard to keep up with, it won’t get better for you. It’s all dealt with in true anime videogame fashion with superpowered showdowns in the middle of the street and lots of surprised faces. Governments are monitoring and experimenting on civilians, Others are eating brains, militaries are splintering into rebel factions with each squad finding itself on different sides of a coup as they begin to learn just how insane their governments have become. Others are strange alien creatures made up of half organic and half inanimate parts, with a taste for human brains, especially ones demonstrating a bit of psychokinesis.Īs both begin their first days on the job clearing Others from the streets and saving civilians, things take a right-angled nosedive into crazy extremely fast. New recruits Yuito Sumeragi, or Kasane Randall, have just completed their basic training in the Other Suppression Force, the OSF, a military full of superpower-using teens for the most part, who protect Earth from the Others. Each becomes the antagonist for the other’s story in a way that’ll have you questioning their motives, loyalty and sanity throughout each of the two playthroughs. Scarlet Nexus’ story is split in two, following two very different protagonists with intersecting plots through a collection of main story beats which stay largely the same. We’ll start with a bit of exposition, because without it, most of the other elements of the game don’t make much sense.
Instead of deep RPG stats manipulation, the Scarlet Nexus team has chosen to pour development time into a fun and rewarding combat system that borrows from the Tales Of series’ Artes to create something bold and new and most importantly, satisfying to play. A science fiction action-adventure RPG, with very streamlined RPG elements, it tells a wild and complex anime story that can quickly lose inattentive or dialogue-skipping players.
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A new IP by way of the Bandai Namco team responsible for the majestic Tales of Vesperia and the recent souls-like Code Vein, Scarlet Nexus is probably not what you’d expect from that intro.