All the while, William’s passion for games remained. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, William entered the realm of fine arts administration, assisting curators, artists, and fine art professionals with the realization of contemporary art exhibitions. Kasane seems to undergo a complete character change, whereas Yuito develops very little, almost painting him as the perfect character, and Kasane as the flawed one who needed to change.William Parks is an editor at Game Rant with a background in visual arts. As the game goes along the story gets more and more outlandish and becomes increasingly more difficult to follow. But the story is just… never really explained in any significant detail, it expects you to just accept a lot of things as “that’s just how it is”. I didn’t mind it too much, because I am a sucker for a wild confusing ride of anime stupidity at the best of times. Unfortunately, the story is where this game sort of falls apart. The game allows you to lower difficulty at any time, so I would definitely recommend starting on hard, and dropping the difficulty if you find the game too difficult, but I honestly believe the game was designed with hard being the optimal difficulty to play on. The combat is easy and intuitive enough that playing on a lower difficulty may actually detract from the best aspect of the game. There was maybe two boss fights in the whole game that I found truly difficulty, but they were rewarding in playing out correctly. Perhaps I’m a bad judge of difficulty at times, but I don’t see a reason to really play this game on anything but the hardest difficulty. It’s what makes this game really worth playing.
It’s actually a combat mechanic that I’d love to see more games try and pick up and put their own spin on it. The more you play, the better the combat feels and the psychokinesis works so seamlessly. You can instantly recognise dangerous threats from fodder designed to refill your psychokinesis gauge so you can slam more barriers and cars and pallets into the tougher enemies. The ‘Others’ that make up the bulk of the enemies and bosses of the game have an incredibly large array of designs and abilities. On that note, enemy design is pretty inventive. Whilst the game suffers from recolour syndrome there is actually small additions to the abilities of enemies of the same style as the game progresses that they feel somewhat unique.
When you take a fight well, you watch enemies melt away, and find yourself using your brain crush, a unique instant kill for most enemies, over and over in a fight. You rinse and repeat, and whilst it may feel repetitive at times, the combat feels incredibly rewarding. In the space of 5 seconds, you can activate a fire enchantment on your weapon, throw a car at an enemy, dash rapidly at them, and cut them to ribbons. After working out that I didn’t need to hold forward the whole time I was attacking, I realised how dumb I was being. At first, I thought the combat was awkward, and too flighty. However, if you are a fan of action style combat, with unique mechanics and great feel, then Scarlet Nexus is going to be 40 hours of a great time for you. They aren’t all that unique, and realistically, they never get fleshed out to an adequate enough level, there’s more emotional attachment to characters who you never get to have on your team but have actual backstory development. If you aren’t a fan of shows like Attack on Titan, Naruto and similar, you’re going to have a really hard time getting past these characters. A close to retirement veteran who is hard-headed and on the straight and narrow, the flamboyant man who is just a little bit too flirty with all the girls, you know how the rest goes. These characters are very much typical anime characters, the shy and introverted girl but with the one person that she actually talks to. Considering Yuito and Kasane are trying to fight each other for half of the game, the fact you can still have bonding moments with the characters trying to kill your chosen main character, comes off as more than a little bit strange. Which in the context of what is happening for an extended portion of the game, requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief. There is a very large cast in the game, with 8 interactable team-mates, 4 for each character but you can still build your relationship with the opposing ones. This extends to the ensemble of characters around the main two.
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