If you then die, and head back in, Scarlet Nexus will put you back at the start of the cutscene again. The only annoyance is that if you are going to fight a boss, for instance, they are invariably introduced by a cutscene. The list of complaints is very small, to be honest. The voice acting is all top notch as well, and all in all I have no complaints about the way Scarlet Nexus is able to conduct itself at all.
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There are missions present which require watching of the series in order to uncover code words, so it’s nice to see the crossover to other media. At times it really does look like you are playing through an anime series, and as luck would have it, there is a series launching that will have tie backs to the game. The way that Scarlet Nexus looks and sounds – in fact, everything about the whole presentation – is praise-worthy.
We won’t go too deep here, but my Kasane has rabbit ears whilst Luka is wearing a proper pair of Kardashian sunglasses. There is also a huge amount of visual customisation, and in a pleasing touch, anyone whose appearance you alter will appear in all the cutscenes exactly as you made them look. You are certainly able to craft your character into a fighting machine that is more tailored to your way of fighting.
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This sees you given the ability to equip new and improved weapons to you and your allies, alongside mods that give extra health or a forcefield. Spending points on the nodes of this gives you extra abilities, very much in the standard kind of RPG style. As you level up, you have access to three skill trees, known as the Brain Map. The RPG segments are also fully realised and great fun to explore. As you go through the game, level up and get more attacks, the options expand as well, and soon dodging and retaliating with a thrown object becomes second nature. If there’s a better feeling than battling a massive, screen-filling Other, building up the combo gauge, then pulling a huge dump truck off a nearby roof and smashing the enemy with it, I’ve not experienced it in a while.ĭodging enemy attacks is also a massive part of Scarlet Nexus, very much in a Code Vein style, and if the dodge is pulled off with perfect timing, the action drops into slow motion, allowing you to counter attack. Add to this power attacks using parts of the scenery, and there is no shortage of offensive options. I played as Kasane on my first playthrough, and the way she uses a combination of weapon attacks, breaking off now and then to smack a tougher enemy around the head with a car before diving back in with her knives, never gets old. The actual combat in Scarlet Nexus, however you choose to fight with whomever’s powers, is fantastic and fluid. Kasane and Yuito have the same powers, so on the rare occasions they join forces, they just increase their built-in Gravikinesis power. Kagero’s invisibility ability allows you to charge up a back stab attack to do massive damage, and so on and so forth. For instance, some of the Others move too fast for you to hit, so you need to borrow Arashi’s Hyperspeed ability, which makes the rest of the world move in slow motion. In an interesting move, you can borrow the skills of the members of your squad too, so depending on who you have changes the way that you fight. It’s here where the combat and gameplay systems come to the fore and these are very well-designed indeed, with Scarlet Nexus playing out like a cross between Code Vein and almost Devil May Cry, particularly in regards some of the enormous bosses and skills that you can use. So, the scene is set, and a cast of literally dozens of OSF members are set to do their part as well.
Each character has a different narrative to follow, crossing over at certain points in the game, which in turn leads to some fantastic storytelling opportunities. Kasane and her older (adoptive) sister, Naomi, join the OSF at the same time, and their storylines are bound together.
The second is a young girl, also coincidentally from a powerful family, called Kasane Randall. The first is a young man from a great family, Yuito Sumeragi, whose father is the current chairman of the government. As Scarlet Nexus opens, we have to choose who we are going to be, from a choice of two OSF recruits. These are Others, and it is their presence which has led to the formation of the OSF (Other Suppression Force) a squad of people with special powers who can put their abilities to good use.
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