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It's amazingly done to portray exactly that through mechanics, I love it. Because you're new recruits to the OSF, you are demonstrably weaker than most major enemies unless you rely on each other, especially on Hard. You almost never want to fight battles 'raw' (without SAS Links) unless you're doing a challenge run of some kind. It's a really smart idea that applies on both the micro and macro levels. You get better at using your SAS resources as you play the game more, moment-to-moment, and you unlock more advanced functions for the system by Bonding Up with your platoon members. It's great.
@@bitchless5104 Spoiler below: Yuito is a natural dud (unpowered) with an implanted power when he was young and in the hospital prior to his mom’s death by Togetsu (Moon Cult led by a psychic super computer) Same hospital Luka and Karen Travers were in. Combined with the canonical pain of the SAS system and Brain Field he is risking permanent brain damage and later in life the loss of his powers. It is natural for psionics in this world to lose powers as they age so they take anti aging hormones to prolong the effectiveness of their OSF personnel. That’s why you have Genma who is in his 50s looking as good as he is. Or Arashi and Luka being senior members in OSF but still look like children. This is for natural psionics. Yuito isn’t natural so there is more risk for him to lose his powers despite how powerful he is by the end. And yes Yuito is in pain but if you keep it on long enough like Kasane says it would probably numb away. But after the game ends it’s only natural for Yuito to retire. So much experimentation on his brain and the fact he’s half clone is a recipe for disaster if he keeps hooking stuff to his head. Love his character since he’s a leader by necessity with the strength of his father and compassion of his mother. Folks say they prefer Kasane but she’s not good when it comes to communication ie. her trying to kill Yuito without explanation. Sorry for this long comment. I fell in love with this game and its world. Hope to see sequels taking place on the moon. Or we fight Aragami with the God Eaters.
Lol, the story is garbage. It's the most generic anime plot ever. The twists were super predictable. The characters were annoying most of the times, though there were a couple that were interesting, but the visual novel approach was horrible. Look, I played tales of arise, which was from the same studio iirc, and that was good, cuz despite being VN style, it wasn't overbearing.....took about a minute at best and you could do at any point. In scarlet nexus, you had VN phases that kept going on and on and on and on for several minutes and one after the other without proper management of gameplay to balance it off. Overall, not a good game. Y'all may like mediocre shit, which is evident given how much poor anime there is today and yet ppl liking them, but imma call out a crappy game when I see it. Game had potential, it just didn't live up to it!!!
It’s been a long time since I played a game for 13 hours on its launch day. I didn’t realize how much I missed the kind of excitement that a game as awesome as Scarlet Nexus can bring me.
I'm super picky about Japanese games because I'm not a big anime person, but I got this on a whim and it's PHENOMENAL. The plot is incredible so far, the combat is super fun, the characters are all great, the art is beautiful...
I need to know, can you still free roam the city and accept requests from people after the story ended? Or are we stuck in a chapter select screen like in FF7
My thoughts exactly and if you haven't already, get Nier: Automata for those exact same reasons. In fact, Nier: Automata is the reason I pre-ordered Scarlet Nexus. Not that they're in anyway connected, but because the devs of Scarlet Nexus said they were making a Nier: Automata inspired game that takes place in a cyberpunk world......😯.....Sold!
@@m_bennett they may have said that but it's got way more in common with astral chain and ghost in the shell than nier... It varies nigh no resemblance in any way to nier
I just finished 100%ing this game, both characters, all achievements, and I am so happy with it. Tales of Arise can't come soon enough if Bandai Namco are capable of putting out something this enjoyable across the board. In a weird way, it made me fall in love with JRPGs, especially action-JRPGs all over again.
I’m almost done with my second playthrough; I’m at 90% trophies and this game has been so much fun; like you, Tales of Arise can’t come out soon enough. As a side note, have you played Persona 5 Strikers? If not, that might be a decent distraction until Tales comes out in September.
I don't know how much I'd like the game, I just don't feel like I want to spend $60 and risk it. I don't normally play games like this but this looks interesting. It reminds me a bit of Astral Chain. He mentions a demo in the video but there doesn't appear to be a demo for pc. It would've been nice if there was I could try it and if like it buy it but I guess demos are for console only for some reason...
I’m absolutely LOVING this game. It has genuinely made me excited to play more everytime I put it down. Yeah it has flaws but there are so many good aspects in the game that i really don’t notice them anymore
@@randallmart92 im playing thru that as well i think im at chapter 4. That game has been amazing so far as well. honestly feels like a more mature persona kinda...
@@nekotorin YES exactly. Add in the bonding events , relationships, all the activities in the city,… right now I’m at the part finding the girl who joins ur party
Also, for people first going into the game, I recommend playing Yuito first. There's some ambiguous things from his view that are entirely spelled out from Kasane's perspective, but not really the other way around.
Yuitos story was definitely designed to be played first. It was clear they intended it to be that way, and they should’ve recommended that when you first started the game. Either way tho it’s not like kasanes story completely ruins yuito’s. There’s a lot of stuff in yuitos story that kasane’s completely brushes over.
While I can't snag it day one, this is definitely gonna have a spot in my collection for sure. Honestly, big props to Bandai Namco for putting some real faith and budget behind their talent and letting the creativity fly
@@enzocrespin5806 Yes, there are several major flaws within the game: 1. *The city feels dead and empty.* You can talk to some pedestrians or even obtain "side quests" from NPCs, but otherwise there's nothing else to do. *There's only one shop in the game, and it's handled by an NPC that doubles as a save station.* 2. *Boring "side quests"* that seem more like a challenge rather than an actual quest, like *"kill an enemy with this method"* or *"collect an item then return it to quest giver".* 3. *Poor NG+ design and replayability.* Imagine spending hours to get the best equipment for your team, only to find out *there's no level scaling in EX New Game (NG+) and everything dies in one hit.* I would argue that the characters in the game are pretty bland with shallow development; the sort you always see in generic anime/manga series. But these things are subjective, so I'll leave it at that.
@@brahmantyoihsan5938 Honestly, much of what you said doesn't really make the game sound all that horrible as your previous comment suggested. It just sounds like an unexceptional/average game at most.
oh my. someone who didn’t throw electronic music under one umbrella and knows dubstep is a branching genre on its own. a man of culture and excellent taste in music i see. lol but great review, thank you. definitely plan on getting it- along with the games on my 100+ wish list 🤣
The main thing Scarlet Nexus makes me think is that I wish Bamco did more original stuff like this. I mean, the plot and writing might not be world shaking but I'd much rather have more of this, and interesting combat systems to boot, than the endless grind of going through whichever anime arc of whichever popular show - that fans of said anime know like the back of their hands - they've decided to push each year. Oh, one thing I would say is that the dualsense haptics really add to the combat if you're playing on PS5 - the feedback is subtle but feeling the tension build in the trigger as you prepare a psychokenisis attack really adds to fighting and the feeling of that tension breaking and the trigger going limp if you get hit before it's done really hammers home the disappointment you didn't get to let it fly.
Just finished my first playthrough as Yuito. Definitely well worth the wait in my opinion, and I understand how you feel about immediately going back and trying out the other story. I'm glad they added a new game plus to make seeing the other story not as tedious. Definitely an Anime/10 story wise lol
I don’t go back tho I use two different saves when story is repetitive I skip I know they have different things in the story and luckily I know where the different things are because it’s easy to spot them
Im playing from 2 days this game and im in totally love with this game, its so great and original, single bad thing sometimes can be the camera because its a lot of zoom out but in rest game its 10/10+
One thing about the SAS system. You can upgrade the powers by increasing your bonds with the respective characters. Sometimes it can change the power entirely, for example, clairvoyance: allows you to see invisible enemies and get perfect dodges easier. Not much right? When you fully upgrade it, it does all that PLUS: increasing crush damage (think sekiros guard system, once the bar is gone, then it's an instakill) & allows you to instantly stun an enemy off a perfect dodge counter
Update on my Scarlet Nexus progression! I got all achievements on Scarlet Nexus making it my eighth official game on Steam to make my Perfect Games list as well as the third RPG to become part of my Perfect Games list with the first two RPGs being Cyberpunk 2077 and Outriders!
Just finished 100%-ing this game with a good 85 hours. So far, my game of the year until something else knocks me out of the park. Haven't played a "Tales of" game, but with how many people are looking forward to it, and how good it looks, I'll definitely give Arise a try.
I am currently playing through Kasane's campaign first and I'm nearly finished it but I must say that this game is really amazing and a blast to play. I was pleasantly surprised how good this game is since I am a bit picky about my RPGs and especially JRPGs which this is definitely one of the better ones I have played in the last few years. I hope it will get a sequel or a spinoff since Scarlet Nexus has great franchise potential.
@@Deviljho5 lol yes it's that good bro, I only played it for 33 minutes, and I had to go into work at 7pm tonight until 7am, and Scarlet nexus is all I'm thinking about.
@@Deviljho5 i've been playing for 25 hours now n I'm not reaching the end yet. Coz I love the combat so much tht I tend to forgot that I have story to end 😂
I may very slow at getting through games compared to most people, but I finally got through the story on Yuitos' side. (Based on the demo, I played the entire game on Hard mode, and that was definitely the right choice.) Warning, long ass comment: First, the combat really is sublime. Some may look at the move list and wonder why you don't get a lot of new attacks for your main weapon, but the SAS menu is where the real meat and potatoes of combat can be found, and that DOES include more attacks where you use your allies to attack, and some cases where you do get new moves entirely like Hanabi's flamethrower. The strategy of combat feels incredible because your powers aren’t just one extra thing added. They have multiple properties both offensive and defensive. Tsugumi’s power might seem like it has no offense to it, but one of the first upgrades you get is an effect that makes counters with her power crack enemy armor instantly. Gemma’s gives you ways to set up attacks you wouldn’t have a window for normally. Kagero’s invisibility adds a unique charge attack to your move list that you can absolutely use as part of your combos, especially if you activate hypervelocity to slow time while you charge. The game does make good use of these powers too, they’re not just there as toys in a game where you could just hack through with your sword. Especially on hard mode, you NEED to be quick on the draw with your powers in some fights. The general flow of combat is finding a good approach to go in with and thinking on your feet to change strategies as your current powers run out and others recharge. The story is pretty zany and it definitely has a lot to say about our own interconnected world, particularly in some of the individual character scenes. Gemma’s absolutely surprised me, hitting on a topic I’m sure is seen in many contemporary countries, but is particularly an issue here in the States. It works a good bit like Xillia II wherein you switch back and forth between main story events and chilling out with side content in the spaces between (minus being in debt this time. XD ) My thoughts on the panel scenes are that they’re actually a good idea for handling scenes where the characters would mainly just be standing around talking (you know, like normal people). They do a good job focusing on expressions. Going back to Gemma’s story, there was one panel at the end of his where just his change in expression said SO much about how much he’d changed. I love the rest of the companions just as much too, especially Shiden, Luka and Kagero, not to mention I already love Kasane, and this isn’t even her side of the story yet. What about Yuito? Well I have to say, he got steadily more interesting as he started to get his bearings from being a fish out of water at the start and ended up being one of my favorites because of an exclusive scene in his story around chapter 10. He turned a trope I’ve seen many times in video game upside down in the best way and even made me laugh. XD Suffice it to say, he’s got more personal motivations then you’d expect at first glance. This game is absolutely a Tales game in Sci-fi mode and I love all of that. A scene partway into the story pretty much confirms this is a Tales game thanks to a running joke in the series. XD Some things in the story could be better, and I think side quests (which work like client orders in PSO2, or perhaps NGS would be more accurate as you can complete them remotely) should offer you memory items for customization instead of actual items as they rarely offered me anything I actually needed. Fortunately character quests comprise the bulk of side content. I’m always inclined to ask for more enemies to add to the mix as well, but I have to admit, the endgame fights felt pretty satisfying taking on powerful targets all at once and tearing them a new one because I had so many tricks at my disposal. I absolutely want more games and I’m glad I have a postgame and another playthrough yet to run. :)
I do have to say the game starts very anime like. the combat carries the game till the story picks up, then both just make a for a fun and cool experience. I'm halfway down with the first campaign, but I'm just enjoying it and having a good time.
I finished the Yuito campaign without maxing the bond on 4 characters (they were all level 5 but I couldn't get them any higher) and I was weeping by the end of the credits.
I really liked those cutscenes that almost look like a manga panel. I experienced them in Tales of Arise, just a quick way to get to know characters, their thoughts on the situation and shit like that. Glad to see them back here haha!
i think the only problems i could find with this game would be the writing and voice acting (both english and japanese) but otherwise it’s extremely good
Scarlet Nexus is amazing. I bought the steam version full price and I have no regrets. Only problem is that the side quests are generic fetch quests or extermination quests, and they are lame. The main story sequence are the meat of the game and its spectular. 8.5 of 10 for me.
Looks like a mix between Tales and Astral Chain, consider me intrigued. There's way too many good JRPGs for me to play now, I'll be busy for the rest of the year and then some.
@@somedopemojo43 hmmm legends of heroes will always be my 1st strong recommendation for anyone looking to play a new jrpg but since you are already playing it…..and you also already played yakuza 7 hmmmm have you tried atelier ryza? That’s a good one, nier replicant/automata? Persona 5 royal/strikers? The Ys series? Tokyo Xanadu? Valkyria chronicles? Specifically 1 and 4 (That one is a tactical jrpg), final fantasy 7 remake? Sakura of rice and ruin? Those are the ones I have in my collection and they’re all great. I have more games than that but you just said jrgps, hopefully I helped you out a little.
@@somedopemojo43 I also forgot to include dragon quest 11, Sakura wars, and tales of berseria if those interest you at all, and no problem bro happy to help!
Only setting that gave me issues with camera on PC using mouse and keyboard was Camera Motion Blur, set if to Off because setting it to On will cause very weird jittery movement of the camera.
You just earned yourself a new subscriber! I havent played Scarlet Nexus yet and a lot of video reviews I've watched nit-pick and they don't seem to realize what Bamco JRPGs are like. JRPGs get a bad rep a lot of times because non JRPG fans on gaming sites do the reviews. They think Final Fantasy VII is the best JRPG to exist and try to use that as a Base for Role Playing Adventure games. It's honestly annoying. It's a big reason the (J)RPG industry died but thankfully it's making a comeback due to solo games getting good reviews recently so people are starting to enjoy stories and RPGs again.
Game is super super solid. And soo much fun. With a really surprising amount of depth. I think a lot of reviewers are dropping the ball on this game. With that being said. They are allowed to not like somthing i do. Unfortunately soo many people go by their opinions instead of making up their own minds with the information gathered. I think this game is gonna get slept on hard for all the wrong reasons.
Normally I am not someone that needs reviews in order to buy or play a game but this month was a little packed for me with things I wanted to buy and play, also is my last long vacation until my last semester at university so I wanted to squeeze every minute of fun that I could in this two months. However I was very sad to see that many reviewers that I respec disliked or hated the game, but your appreciation for the game as well as some bits of info that nedded clarification were the last bits of motivation that I nedded for buying the game and to be honest I am very glad I did, loving the game so far!. p.s. Nice analogy at the beginning
Just subbed finished the Demo for both characters, amazing combat, gameplay, story, gonna be getting this game soon, so excited to play the full game, loving everything so far! 🙌😃
@@JRPGGaming I understand that of course. It just drives me nuts when they will use such a broad term as psychokinesis. That basically refers to power of the mind as a whole instead of what it actually is. Now I haven't had a chance to play the game yet but I know from playing games like Psi Ops and watching movies like Carrie and Firestarter that a term like psychokinesis is just too broad a generalization, like for example, does the game have any pyrokinetics, in case you didn't know, the general term for a pyrokinetic is a "Firestarter". But if the characters are only moving things with their mind, they're telekinetic and should be called as such. Just a minor nitpick though lol
This is actually not an RPG at all it's an action RPG please don't get this term used totally different game but it's hands down one of the best action RPGs that has come out in the last 10 years
If you want to get technical, none of these Japanese games are role playing games at all. Most are just combat & cutscenes. But looking at all of the different, often unrelated games widely called action RPGs. There's been so many of them and so many different types of them in the last 10 years alone that it'd be pretty hard for this to be 'hands down' the best one.
6 hours in and loving it but I am really not a fan of the Still comic book like cutscenes. A lot of them are just characters talking but more than a couple have also been fighting scenes and it can be difficult to really see what is happening or the impact of an attack with the still shots. The side quests also seem awful, the quest objectives so far have no relevance to the quest dialouge. E.g. 1 side quest was an npc complaining about enemies destroying his house. Quest objective, kill 3 particular flying enemies with a special ability. Otherwise seems great and am loving it.
Taking aside the common trend that pretty much all Anime-like games are always overbloated in ratings in steam and pretty much every rating platform (due to smaller demographics of the market base and said people have a real unending thirst for Anime-art games, no matter how bad). Scarlet Nexus was a bit, disappointing for me and I had really low expectations coming into the game. I love Bandai-Namco games, Code Vein was one of my favorite games to play, so is the Tales series. And the only thing that I can honestly say good about this game is the combat, and that's stretching it, because Code Vein and (one) Tales series games did it much better. But it's still good to play, and I have no complaints about the combat system. The other parts are really bad though. Like I don't understand how people would actually not rate it bad, don't you people ever play games that actually have good plot, narrative, character development, world building and structure? No? Witcher 3? Dragon Age? Mass Effect? Baldur's? FF series? God of War? How's Scarlet Nexus story is even remotely good? it's like it's written by a 15 year old who has no idea how story progression in games works. The plot is so convoluted in the first few chapters that I have no idea how they managed to maintain the entire structure of the narrative. The character development was so bad that I literally couldn't care less about the other characters aside from Kaname and Yuito. And plot holes... don't even go there.
I just picked up the ultimate edition on psn for $50 and the only question I have is HOW HAVE I NOT PLAYED THIS YET? Very few games make me ask this but this one did🤦♂️ great vid like and sub.
I love the concept and style, just.. not the combat or skill tree. It felt like I didn’t have any combos, despite how flashy it looks. I had light attacks that never changed, a back step attack, and the ability to throw stuff. It never really felt like the combat changed from that, every battle felt the same. Square, square, square, triangle, R2, repeat until enemy is dead.
Actually have to agree with this one. Combat is very shallow. There's almost no room for experimentation. It feels like Tales but without the complexity of the battle mechanics.
These monsters would be literally horrific irl of course, but in the context of the game I think they’re great. I saw red stilettoed feet on goat configured lower legs leading to long shapely thighs topped with a fully exposed bone-tail all under a sexy corset and topped with pretty flowers for a head and I had to see more. Fantastically insane.
Found this game on game pass and while I usually haven’t really thought too much of it upon seeing it, I thought why not and tried it out. Turns out it was pretty fun and enjoyable for an anime game.
I thought the naming and titles of the game characters was over board, which made me not want to play this on PS4. A year later, and I’m back playing this on a Steam Deck and let me tell you, it is a PERFECT game got the Steam Deck!
Strikers, Nier Replicant, now Scarlet Nexus with Tales right around the corner. Looks like I'm set for 2021. God bless Japan! Cheers and thanks for the video.
0:10 I didn't see it coming XD anyway between this, Azure translation last month, Rise, TWEWY Neo, Arise and the DP remakes we're going to have tons of new JRPGs
i love how more and more games have bonding events like fire emblem and persona, i just love that stuff because it makes the other characters so much more then just a NPC that is told to be a good friend of us, instead we really feel like becoming friends with them and understanding them
Games have had companion and romance events, affinity metres and quests for a long time, since the 80s. Both in Western and Japanese games. If you're only seeing it now, there's a lot of games you could look back on that you've missed.
Right, instead they get to be an npc with 2-3 surface level traits/interests that are wholly defining of their personality instead of just the one. Oh wowee cuntman is nice sumtimes when u get 2 know him i cannot believe this what a character development but wait there’s more he’s also bad at cooking LOL. this is my experience with most bonding systems
Regarding ultrawide support: It pillarboxes appropriately with no weird stretching on a 2560x1080 monitor with no need for external programs or futzing with any settings, but it's still "just" 16:9. With how abysmal ultrawide support is in general, I'll gladly take this.
That's good to know! I used to have an ultrawide and felt the same way, like.. as long as it didn't totally mess the game up or make it unplayable, I was fine with pillarbox 16:9. Of course I'd still like to see proper support for them become the standard even though it doesn't affect me anymore.
Great review! I enjoyed Code Vein so this was a day one purchase for me. I will say Code Vein was much more combat-oriented while Scarlet Nexus a ton more dialogue and story building. I've only played a couple hours but there are times when I feel like "let's get back to the fighting" to be honest.
Bravely Default 2, Nier Replicant, YS IX, Scarlet Nexus, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Shin Megami Tensei III remaster and SMT V, Tales of Arise, lots of good rpgs this year. And if Monster Hunter Rise counts as action rpg that too. Yakuza Like a Dragon came out last year and just got port this year so not counting it
Cool, other reviews said I basically had to do both stories. Thanks for saying it does wrap up. I like the idea of having to live with the story I pick. Also, I don’t want to look at that dude’s hair more than I have to.
I have to admit I was a bit bummed after watching other reviews which gave Scarlet Nexus 7/10 at most, but after watching this I'm hyped all over again to play this game ^^
The anime will suck compared to the game, IMO. Main reason: not enough screen-time to fit the events, character development and lore into a 20-minutes 12-episode TV-show.
10 hours in and im on chapter 4 and I love this game.it gives me if bandai made a persona style game.i heard some reviews say it doesn't have memorable music ive I sat and listened to a few memorable songs especially the first city
When you've finished the story, tell me whether you can reenter and free roam the cities or not. I don't want to buy this game if I have to select a previous chapter just to walk around the city again after the story ended.
@@giorgosnikolaou7219 damn, does regifting gifts work in increasingly bond level? I’m trying to max out bonds in my Ex Kasane play through before the final boss.
Good review - game looks great, would you say starting a fresh playthrough on hard would be a good experience? As am very interested in this, but don't want combat that feels brainless, and as you put it, monotonous. Thanks
Looks very interesting! When I saw it for the 1st time I didn't care about it but this review is making me considering it. Looks a mix of Tales x Astral Chain 👍
