In the game, players assume the role of either male recruit Yuito Sumeragi or female recruit Kasane Randall, both freshly-minted members in the OSF (Other Suppression Force), an elite branch of the military in New Himuka that is tasked with protecting the country’s citizens from a brain-consuming race of beasts collectively referred to as “Others.” Others regularly invade human cities through an anomaly in the stratosphere called “The Extinction Layer,” which sees these creatures randomly drop from the sky to cause carnage and chaos wherever they land.Ī disturbingly bizarre cross of oversized human parts, animal parts, plant life, ancient sculpture and 20 th century furniture, The Others a unique Japanese take on the concept of “destroyed beauty,” which extends to the crumbling outskirts of the capital city, Suoh, long abandoned by humanity in the face of the alien threat. That said, Scarlet Nexus is a completely different game, and possesses more than enough originality in its design, its characters and its story to stand out on its own. There’s also the common thread (pun intended) of how both games feature combat that involves the visual motif of the player character being tethered to an ally (though in Astral Chain, that connection is literal).
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That is, until Bandai Namco revealed Scarlet Nexus to the world during the Xbox Series X Game Reveal Showcase in May of 2020 and made me forget all about that nearly two-year-old game.īrought to us by the same team behind the Tales of series of RPGs, Scarlet Nexus coincidentally draws on some of the same basic plot elements found in Astral Chain, such as powerful demons pouring into the human world via a mysterious rift, and the optional male or female protagonist of the game belonging to a special task force created to deal with these otherworldly creatures. I never played it, but I dug just about everything I heard and saw about it, and even though it was published by Nintendo I still clung for an entire year to the desperate hope that the game would somehow make its way to one of the two consoles that I owned. I’ll get right down to it Scarlet Nexus is the Sci-Fi Action JRPG that I have been craving since Astral Chain.Īs someone who mains an Xbox Series X and dabbles in PlayStation but doesn’t own a Nintendo Switch, I completely missed out on Platinum Game’s 2019 Switch-exclusive sleeper hit and its anime-cyberpunk leanings.
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