Scarlet Nexus/ Surprise JRPG game of the year

I've heard some good things about it as well. I've fallen back so hard into FF14 so I haven't been able to dedicate any time to it though. It's something I want to play before the end of the year though.

Hmmm.

It's classified as an ARPG. What's the combat like?

I dunno about spending $60 on it. Gamepass has spoiled me so bad

The combat is the shining star of this game. Trust me when I tell you this. The demo is free which is basically a 30 minute on rails demonstration of all the basics before you unlock the skull tree. You gain access to insanely amazing things. As it is in spirit a takes game you have bonding experiences which play more like the ones in persona that further add to the combat. You can borrow teammate abilities, trigger what are for all intents persona 5 all out attacks but from what I can tell are random, you gain access at some point to a super seyan mode with a 25 second timer or so that if you let run out kills you. By and large combat is flashy, addicting, deep, and never gets stale as both play through characters are very different one is a sword character playing close with melee the other the opposite. I’m not too far in but from reviews the story is also fairly top notch with invading aliens, humans unlocked psychic powers to combat them, and some sort of evil government and our team of young adults are on the case. There’s gotta be 1000 cosmetics which as I said are all fully populated in every cut scene no skimping. The cutscenes themselves alternate from normal style to a sort of visual novel style. I’ve heard reports from very few people of bugs that can erase saves but you’d have to be super unlucky. It’s also said by time you have started to unlock lots of your powers normal can get easy so recommend playing hard. I 8/10 this game and if you e seen me on this board I don’t do that often and when I do they’re pretty much loved by all. I’ll lastly say the story itself is a bit more coherent if you start as the girl play through first as she’s an established member of the group where the guy is a new recruit but most reccimend the guy first. And if you wanna do the second story next you have the option of playing vanilla or carrying over all upgrades and just blasting through.

And yes it’s an Arpg in the same way the tales series is. The story is a Jrpg trust me

You’ll get 60 hours from both campaigns playing a normal pace. There’s post game and challenges too.

There’s other neat touches thrown in like when using brain field (your super power time limit move) you’ll hear voices that disoriented you and have plot relevance all making your ability to track the death timer harder. The sheer detail of how the world is so populated and what you can do in it with your telekenis is amazing too. Drop oil onto an enemy they’ll catch on fire if you throw some there way, same with other environment effects. You can be affected by status stuff too.

Both MCs fight different, take completely different paths, both do different dungeons and face completely different bosses only conveying for the end

Last thing I’ll say is the game gives open world illusions at time and some level areas are huge but it is a linear game don’t doubt it

I did not like the game at all. It felt very cheaply made. Cutscenes are placed with still image comic book frames over dialogue. There's only a small handful of areas that you revisit numerous times. The enemies turn into giant sponges.

I played the demo for this and Tales of Arise today. I thought the combat for Scarlet Nexus was more fun or atleast I got the hang of it a lot quicker than Tales. Nexus' UI felt very noisy at first once I got out of the tutorial but I eventually figured out what everything was and how to string combos with melee attacks and the psychokinesis attacks.

I'm still a little lost on Tales of Arise's combat. I get that you wanna string combos and build up the counter bar on enemies but it felt like my combos were dropping for no reason sometimes and I never could build up the counter bar on the bosses and the counter would just trigger randomly sometimes.