You are not left to fend for yourself on this dangerous world a main theme of Scarlet Nexus that trickles down to the gameplay.

Scarlet Nexus wants so desperately to make you feel like you’re a kid in a playground, and it mostly succeeds. Grabbing a train and slamming it into monsters lined up on the tracks, or getting on top of a bus and driving it down a street to kill anything in my path never failed to fill me with bliss. They take longer to activate and leave you vulnerable, but are much more effective at taking down the Others. There’s a good variety of objects you can throw with your mind, yet the large objects tended to be where most of my fun with the psychokinesis came from. Right trigger for normal and small sized ones, left for the large ones. Spread around the world are a plethora of objects that can be picked up by pressing one of the two triggers on the controller. Yuito and Kasane both have the power of Psychokinesis, which shows in the main gameplay gimmick. Almost every human is born with special powers, such as pyrokinesis or teleportation, and the OSF recruits the best of the best to serve as defenders against the Others. ‘Others’ are the mysterious monsters that threaten the inhabitants of earth in this brain-punk alternate reality. They both are residents in the city of Suoh, and new recruits of the OSF (Other Suppression Force). To understand the whole story, you’ll need to play both routes. While they share some similarities in their personality, how they approach the main conflict differs greatly. There are two protagonists: Yuito Sumeragi and Kasane Randall. I have issues with Scarlet Nexus, the ones in question make themselves rather obvious after only a few hours of play, but this is truly greater than the sum of its parts.įrom the moment you start, you’re given a choice on which side you wish to experience the narrative. As much as we tend to boil video game criticism down to extremes, I think that mindset poisons the well of discussion. This is not an entirely bad thing, however.

Scarlet Nexus gets so much right for a first attempt, and it is definitely one of the best games I’ve seen from Bandai Namco in years, but imperfections are aplenty. Out of all of these, that last one ended up sticking with me the most during my playthrough. Clear ambition, innovative gameplay, gorgeous visuals, and room to improve. Scarlet Nexus contains just about everything you’d want to see from a new game IP.

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