SCARLET NEXUS

CG and anime are good. However, the plot is super short (<20 hr I guess) and boring with verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long and confusing galgame-style conversations. Tons of side quests/chanllege are just a nightmare for me. If this were an independent game, I would say it's acceptable. But since it's a product by BANDAI, I think it is definitely below the expectation...

I like the story and the combat style, but not the environment.

This is my first ever game. Very recommended.

Got stuck in tutorial, flying bug things 0HP, tried to follow the tutorial tips but refused to progress,

The game is bad. The combat isn't great with a dodge being the only way to really avoid damage, which doesn't have i-frames but perfect dodges let you counter attack. You maybe can take 3-4 shots from bosses which most have fairly static move sets. It took less than 4 hours to get over the style of combat.

While the combat is bad the story is somehow worse. The twists make no real sense and are set up poorly. The character development is bland. Dialogue is mix between boring and cringe. I hit phase 3 of 12 (basically chapters) and it got bad enough that I dropped the game. Can't recommend this game to anyone, there are way better games for your time

Incredibly boring

While I would not say I hate this game, I would say it is nowhere near what it is priced at regularly, got it on sale for 10 bucks cuz I remembered thinking it looked cool when it came out. Combat is fun at best and inoffensive at worst. Story felt extremely overambitious for what it was, and left me feeling nothing coming out of it. Characters ranged from bland and boring with Luka and Gemma to actually fairly interesting and enjoyable with Tsugumi and Hanabi. All in all, buy this game on sale but otherwise it is NOT worth your money.

Good gameplay and music

Very disappointing and boring game. Final Score - 3.4/10

Graphics - 3/10 - Extremely mediocre fidelity, art style and design is incredibly boring, repetitive and lazy. Everything is red/orange an seemingly inspired by cables and monitors. Low resolution and muddy textures abound, graphic effects are so underwhelming and cheap that most of the time you can't even tell if or when an enemy is attacking.

Gameplay - 3/10 - For gameplay this game is a joke. Next to no enemy variety, fighting the same monsters at the end of the game you were at the beginning. Little to no power fantasy, you unlock extremely boring and basic abilities like "basic attack combo now does 4 hits" and the like. The entire game has training wheels not letting you choose your party composition until the very end of the game. Low player agency, no animation cancelling but extremely fast hit animations, tries to be Dark Souls and Bayonetta all at once, achieving neither. No interesting items or meaningful weapons, shop and upgrade system is a bad joke, the list goes on. Maps are artififical, empty, drab. Lots of retreading the same areas with exact same enemy layout. Pathetic.

Sound - 3/10 - Combat sound effects are very underwhelming, music is so forgettable and bland you'll struggle to remember if there even was any.

Story - 3/10 - Garbled, boring, slog nonsense that throws in pointless time travel, clumsy half-baked romances, all of which presented with still images and incredibly rare and brief cutscenes that are actually animated. I love anime, but this is a joke. A bad one.

Performance - 5/10 - No bugs and smooth throughout with top tier PC as of writing. Not saying much though considering there'll only ever be a couple enemies on screen in a small, linear map and the graphics look like something from 10 years ago.

remember when rpgs from japan came out at least once a year and were not exclusively pixel remakes or Xenoblade

This is a great PSP game. A modern day, $60 PSP game. The story is underwhelming. There is so much tedium. The cutscenes are cool, but there is only so much that can be done. It is just extremely boring. It is a mediocre, bland game that will be forgotten in a few years.

I hate leaving early reviews (I am in chapter 2) but my god, this game pisses me off. The tutorials to be more precise. I can't turn them off, there are non stop 1/4th screen pop ups, full screen pop ups that pause the game (and drop your combo) and the characters mentioning the element and what it does for every single encounter again and again and again, even multiple times during the same encounter.
A flying basic enemy that has a massive electric sparking aura before a dash attack? Yeah I wonder what element it has, glad you tell me that it's shock again for the 100th ti... HOLD UP, WAS THAT OIL??!?!?!! It'll BE HARD FOR YOU TO MOVE IF YOU GET HIT BY IT!!!
Edit: I turned the voice volume to 0 in chapter 3. Sucks for everything outside of combat but it was just getting out of hand. The NPC tips mid-fight started to queue up..
Also I forgot to mention that there is this photo mode button visible all the time. even during cutscenes. amazing.

If the story turns out to be REALLY good I'll change this review.

Played 10 minutes or so. Got annoyed at the 'photo mode' prompt constantly on screen. Searched for how to get rid of it. Found that it would be there for the entire game. Got even more annoyed. Uninstalled.
Which chimp decided that was a good idea?

I am glad I only paid $10. Game play was fun for about 10 hours or so then became very repetitive.
Story was boring. Bonding episodes slowed everything to a crawl and felt like a chore.

Did one play through and decided wasn't worth doing the other character.

Two words: Anime slop. Combat mechanics are fun, animations are stylish, story felt boring, and side content seems pointless. I'd give it a 4 out of 10.

enemies whose design its as bad as having both sides of your pillow warm

npc who are copy pasted being a 30 dollar game

gameplay that gets boring quickly

if you want a great game to cure imsomnia buy it

Slog to play through the game.

fun gameplay and story. like the world building. solid game. devil may cry type

Great game

Great story and characters, movement feels a bit weird. I recommend to play Kasane story first, because she has more interesting bosses and show richer story. Especially if you want to make just one run.

Menu is terrible and so boring quests. I understand, that devs made them in a training style to understand mechanics better, but they are so annoying and some of them is not reliable. Also when playing Yuito, i had bug with directions - sometimes "North direction" (W) didn't work as intended and character moved left-right instead.
Idea with gifts is not new - Code Vein has it too, but here it is a whole different level. Seeing mountains of gifts at base probably is too much. But funny interactions worth it)
Design of monsters and bosses is splendid. Clearly fresh air. And so with mechanics.
As for team, some members is more useful than others.
Basically you have Fire/Electric teammates to deal close range damage.
For survival you have "Stone" guy that makes whole team completely invulnerable for short time.
Stealth and Time slowdown you can use both, as defensive and offensive tool.
Little boy and girl (teleport and anti-stealth vision) useful at some moments, but overall is nothing special.
Kyoka with duplication skill is very good as support for main character.

It will take 20-30 hours for first walkthrough. It takes 50 hours to do every possible achievement during first run. But you will need 20 more to finish second story and other achievements. You can't do all achievements in one run.

Overall i was very skeptical about this game at first, but story (crazy) and characters worth it.

Meh story, cool combat mechanics, awesome soundtracks (took me 3 years just to write this review

Bought it on 3 different consoles...enough said.

naise

good

Scarlet Nexus an anime style and story of a game, although my experience is ive come to Love and Hate the game in some aspect of its content and its mechanics.

Experience and Thoughts

At first of all the game has like per episode like anime it has 12 or 24 episode(If you play both MC pov) coz you will play 2 different Main Protagonist one is Wholesome Dense and other is Awkwardly Edgy which either pick one of them in your first playthrough you will still be given some question or mystery on their pov at first 2 MC are together then seperate ways later on, on some episode which will give you not experiencing the other MC what went through in him/her. So in the end its up to you if your gonna play both MC for experiencing different Pov. Which made me kinda burn out coz as per episode goes in 1 MC playthrough it takes a lot of time like more on sitting in 80% Cutscences and 20% Gameplay also its more has frame per frame scene like a slideshow than actually action movie or anime.

Combat Gameplay
Combat is okay, in the end it says its an Action RPG but most of time it feels like its a turn base Action RPG which i got to experience like if ive taken action to attack i'll get attacked by other called Other (what they called the monster in game) free at side or back, like ive gotta do some face tanking at some point and there is some have insane Super Armor if it make sense in Gamer sense, but it made some sense and reason on coz they made called SAS which your taking the Skill or Abilities of your party members each party has aspect of their ability like ex. Temporarily Invincible, Teleportation dash, Clairvoyance, Hypervelocity(Timestop) and more which you'll use to them at your advantage and timing on combat, although they're not forever on use they have durations and cooldown which gives me a vibe its an turn base Action RPG at some point, theres also this Bond you gotta do in party members to grow the strength of they're ability for you in SAS which more cutscene again on every Bond you have to do, Note: you have 8 Party Members and 1 MC(who ever you picked MC to play) to Bond and effort them 1 by 1 with 1 mission with them alone.

Overall Its Pretty Good Game, Greatly Recommend it give it a shot on Discount

All Genshin-like-games should have gameplay like here.

It's worth playing for sure. It's story is honestly good and that's all i care about lol.

This game is pretty good I actually have my downs but it's been pretty addicting people complain about the storyline but I think that it's fair seeing as it action RPG's should be more into the art of it being action RPG I definitely recommend this game

First of all I'd like to mention that I was getting rather bored with the JRPG genre. So when starting out with Scarlet Nexus, I was rather sceptical as well due to my stale experiences from the past. HOWEVER: This completely changed as soon as I spent a couple of hours in this game. There were many interesting aspects that made me enjoy both the story and the combat thoroughly. Even though there were also some negatives, they (usually) weren't too game-breaking. If you decide to play the game, I recommend that you play on a controller.

== The Positives: ==

+ The combat gameplay was where I had the most fun. Combat in this game has an interesting learning curve. You'll learn many core mechanics within the first few hours, which can become overwhelming rather quickly. But you will also get the hang of it just as quick as well. While you're in combat and unlock more and more stuff, you'll eventually track multiple progression bars, use different abilities from you and your teammates, and figure out enemy weaknesses too. There are multiple layers in combat which keeps it rather fresh, even when getting close to the end of the game.
+ The story is really interesting. I'm not going to spoil too much, but as a short preview: Even though the main story line follows the classical JRPG-trope of saving the current world, the implementation itself was done sooooo much better. You can experience the story as either of two possible main characters with their own POVs. There are many secondary and tertiary story lines that you'll follow along while going though the main story too. The writing was done in a way that actually made me care. It felt like the world and the story were connected, which increases immersion and care that I would give into the game. For any given chapter, there was revealed enough for interesting plot twists, but not so much that the rest of the story became easily predictable. Lame tropes/cliches were kept to a minimum. In other games it felt more like the world is just a hollow shell for the story, but there was no solid connection between these two.
+ For the above point I'd also like to add this: Even though the story starts off rather 'normal', it goes uphill pretty quickly. From there it only keeps improving. This kept me hooked and glued to the screen.
+ I experienced no performance issues or bugs.

== Neutral/Subjective points: ==

> Cutscenes were traditional cutscenes in the classical way but rather some sort of slideshow with backgrounds, scenes and characters joining and leaving the screen. It's not everyone's taste, but I like that the developers tried something new here which I haven't seen before.
> Even though I really praised the story above, I would like to mention that drawback of the linear story without descision-making is the replayability: Once you've played the main story with one or perhaps even both characters, new playthroughs will become rather boring since you can't influence anything. But I'm also okay with that because not every game needs to support an infinite amount of possible replays.
> Some characters may appear to have annoying properties at the early- to mid-game. But this is necessary to have some top-tier character development later on.

== The Negatives: ==

- Certain Cutscenes - or rather transitions from gameplay to cutscenes - were immersion breaking from time to time. By that I mean that it happened quite often that I literally obliterated the enemies. In the follow-up cutscenes after that, the enemies are then suddenly standing up again and my team is pushed into a corner instead. This disconnection between cutscenes and gameplay felt dissatisfying and therefore bothered me rather frequently.
- Another major annoyance for the cutscenes was the fact that the "skip" and "photo mode" buttons were always visible in the bottom right corner of the screen. I didn't find any options to hide or fade out the buttons from the view. This may sound like spoilt complaining, but it does really annoy in a cutscene-heavy story-driven game that takes between 25 and 70 hours depending on your playstyle and goals.
- The side quests or optional tasks in this game didn't add much value to a playthrough. Many were just like "Kill X monsters while ability Y is active". I didn't grind them explicitly, but when I had the opportunity I tried to finish a task whenever possible.

yes

omg the opening song is fire, the game too, I'm just dealing with a "bit" of skill issue

Voice acting is great, didn't try the Japanese VA. Writing is a bit miss sometime. The story is not too crazy, if you've watch a lot anime from 2012-2016, especially the one with post apocalypse setting, it's pretty much like them.

A lot of charming side story and wholesome interaction with the side character
and also a really good ending, a clear and concise ending

The game itself get somewhat repetitive, I mean a lot of hack and slash also have this problem after couple hours of game play. The game sometimes also put you in the some ridiculous scenario, that often end up in cheap death.

The combat is really fun, the more you get more teammates the more fun it gets.

Overall pretty solid anime hack n slash 7/10

most repetitive gameplay ive ever seen

Fun combat, and the SAS powers are interesting, and let you make the most of your team. A few bugs here, and there, like one that wouldn't let me turn in a quest because I already had the materials.

Dude I wish I'd played this on release. This is way better than the critics had me believe. The combat was weird at first but then becomes a blast, the voice acting is on point, and I actually really like the characters.

good game

game fun

I loved the game and the story. Combat is TOP tier!

Not so fun “game” with a really crazy story almost too crazy and that’s not necessarily a good thing but still quite enjoyable especially the ending, the combat Is fun and diverse with the powers you can use from your fellow comrades of the OSF however I can’t say the same for the combos, It Is cool you can use the SAS system to use some different powers like electricity and fire etc. but It doesn’t feel like enough I feel like having different movesets you could unlock on the brain map with yuito and kasane, would have been a nice touch since making the same 3 combos over and over again gets boring and speaking of boring I really felt like I was watching more of an anime than playing an actual game I felt like the bond episodes were cool at first but then some of them were so long that It felt like a chore I felt I was spending way more time watching and reading than actually playing the game to the point I got desperate to finish the “game” so I could move on, and play another thing, It felt like you played for 30 minutes and right after you finish a mission you have like 1 hour of bond episodes where our Incest simp Yuito Is mesmerized every time by his nonchalant half sister, or Is helping his comrades with the power of FrIeNdShIP, I get It It’s a way to give personalities and uniqueness but our MC It’s too much of a rainbow, apart from all the corniness It Is still a pretty ‘decent’ game but the levels felt repetitive, to the layouts and designs and even our enemies the “others” for me there was really no wow factor apart from the story crazy loops and there were a lot to the point where I had to stop and ask myself what I was playing, one second you are fighting along side your crew members but then the people you fight for are collecting brains and people from the moon and so on. but just like the movesets the levels are repetitive and bland, but It Is still unique In a way so I’ll give It that, so despite this being more an anime/manga than an actual game I would still recommend It depending on the person who asks since It does has It’s charm from the cool psionic powers you can use, but for the majority of people I would not be able to recommend this game, It Is definitely far from being good, I would say It’s an alright game 5/10 from me
And PS
Why would you show such a cool power like Fubuki’s psionic ice power and not let us use It, pretty lame and also who calls a very extensive and knowledgeable data archiving mega system “BABE”? Seriously?

You'll find more entertainment value in Amy Schumer's videos than in this game's plot. Other than that the combat is pretty nice.

nice game

Finally finish the game with 1st protagonist. Story line 10/10. Game play and fighting mechanic 10/10. Beautiful environment and characters. It may take time to get used to the overall game mechanic but it really worth it. Post game really worth it... many unlockables and new game + so many things to explore. Recommended game. 10/10 star game.

Barely an hour into the game, and already incredible sick and tired of the cut scenes. Holy shit there is just way too many. If you like cut scenes this game is for you. If you do not like cut scenes it is not worth, even on sale

Great game overall but flawed with some questionable design choices, especially towards the end of the story.

My first impression of this game was that somebody had played NieR: Automata and decided to make their own take on it in a futuristic setting and more anime - the monsters are some weird creatures made out of real world items just merged together and you become part of a defence force that fights them and protects humanity. The storyline overall is pretty good, I definitely liked the world building (albeit it's lacking in a few places), the playable characters and party members are great, music is great and the story presentation visually is also pretty nice - I think they came up with a good visual style overall.

I do have to commend the animation team as well. There's a team bond system here (very simplistic - trade your materials for a gift and give it to increase bond level) and when you give gifts the team members will keep them on their dedicated desks and from time to time you can see them interacting with those gifts or just go about their day doing other things like exercising, cooking, or just lounging on a sofa. It's a small attention to details but it was nice to see that gifts weren't just a checkbox on a list but actually is something that characters could interact with. Not to mention that the bond stories themselves are quite nice - they don't drag on too much and provide really strong benefits for you in combat.

The combat starts off a bit simple but once you get access to more party members it really opens up and becomes really quite enjoyable. It is the opposite of enjoyable in sections where they take away your party members and you have to fight by yourself, though, because it's obvious that the gameplay is centered around using the powers of your party members alongside your own (luckily this doesn't happen often). It does also feel like a Star Wars game if it was more anime, since your main power is literally grabbing stuff and throwing it at enemies Jedi: Fallen Order/Force Unleashed style.

If I had to really complain about one thing then I'd say is that the last 2 phases (chapters) of the game feel like they were designed by a different team because they have long gameplay sections that drag on and on for literally no purpose, felt like padding for the sake of padding instead of trying to make a climactic end of the story.

I'd say that if you've played NieR: Automata you can expect a "lite" version of it. It's a great game with a good story, good characters and some really cool gameplay mechanics overall dragged down by some weird design decisions that just made me question how did they not get caught in internal testing. I'll definitely finish the second playthrough to see the other side of the story and might also check out the anime adaptation too (there's even a little side quest related to it!).

Worth the money best game I have played in a while. Also I have yet to see the anime and rarely play jrpg games.

Whole lotta red and a whole lotta my wife not getting any action in bed because I play it to much. Fuck you Linda I'm not getting off this game to give you the best 5 min weinering of your life.
#futurewidow #divorse #ineedalawer #shewilltakeeverything

I haven't played many jrpg's, but this one is super fun and got me to check out the anime. I like that there are 2 characters and I tried both, but now leaning more for Yulto with his cool sword sheathing animation. The combo's of telekinesis and melee feel great.

Awesome graphics, rad and super fun combat system, engaging story. Whats not to like?

although the story is the same as an anime the way the game tell you is the best i'll recommend playing this game first then watch the anime

good story, good mechanic, not repetitive, very good