![]() The destroyed city streets and swirling iron scrap heaps you traverse all look sharp and well-detailed, even if traversing them runs out of nuance fairly quickly. To its credit, Scarlet Nexus does know when to pull its own conflict in and focus on the human element underneath all of its plotlines, and these emotional moments land more often than not, even when it starts to wobble under the accumulated weight of its own labyrinthine lore towards the end. It is like bingeing four different shonen anime at once, getting the protagonists of two different series confused, and reveling in the melodrama of saving the world with super-powered brains and overblown monologues. Scarlet Nexus is at its narrative best when it dives headfirst into inscrutable betrayals, weird body horror monsters, and proper nouns like ‘The Red Strings,’ spoken in hushed, reverent tones that mean nothing to us, the players. Scarlet Nexus reviewįrom this straightforward premise we meet the rest of Scarlet Nexus’ cast, full of bright-eyed and brightly-color-haired OSF members, with easy-to-remember gimmicks like “very competitive, with purple hair,” or “wears glasses and resents you for being good at your job.” The plot is jam-packed with excessive twists and turns, taking the early premise of secret anti-monster police and turning it on its head so many times that the starting line becomes impossible to recognize. Fellow members of the OSF will accompany players during fights, serving as AI teammates and allowing you to tap into their distinct psychic powers and use them as your own, which opens up different styles of combat that use their super speed, invisibility, and more. Players control one of two protagonists, either humble and friendly Yuito Sumeragi or guarded and driven Kasane Randall, warriors of a sci-fi military squad called the Other Suppression Force (OSF) who are tasked with using their telekinetic powers to fight strange biomechanical monstrosities called Others. This is a title that knows how to go big, and even when it misses, it’s still unafraid to take huge swings and shoot for its most ambitious possibilities. ![]() Bandai Namco’s anime-soaked action-RPG Scarlet Nexus knows games that use subtext, and thinks they’re all cowards.
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