So Scarlet Nexus

What’s the low down?

I don’t typically gel with super anime looking games but it does look VERY cool

Just aesthetically

But also it’s frustrating to find any gameplay in the trailers

Even the one titled “Gameplay Trailer” had like two snippets of actual gameplay totaling to maybe fifteen seconds

Is it fun? Are the characters likeable? If I sit down and play it for an hour how much of that hour will be cutscenes?

I’m suspicious but also I keep seeing that shot of the main guy growing a cool face mask under his hood and the weeb in my soul goes “YEAAAAAAAAAAH BOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY”

Apparently the storyline is incomprehensible garbage but the gameplay is good from everything I have heard

Huh

Looks like it came out a year or two ago but a few people on plurk just started talking about it

i think it's part of namco's spring sale, so they might have picked it up on the cheap?

That’d explain it

Well

I have PLENTY to play right now

So unless the game shows up at your house and gives you free handjobs I think I’ll pass

I can confirm the game does not do that.

honestly, I fell off of the game pretty quickly. Might get back to it eventually but who knows

Yeah sounds like a pass, then

I actually picked it up when it was released, I just happened to buy a gamepad for Elden Ring and was like 'you know what I've been putting off because it really wanted me to own a gamepad?'

I don't actually recommend in that much, it is really stylish in places but the combat is a huge mixed bag of 'that's the coolest shit ever' existing alongside 'what idiot designed this?'

The fact that the trailers were SO stingy about showing gameplay was definitely a warning bell

that's just weird imo

because when the combat looks good it looks fuckin awesome

they should have had no trouble with that part

they just failed to design around creating hp sponges at some points

which leads to this issue where they created this highly interactive world to fight in and highly interactive powersets to fight with but some fights just wind up being 'well I guess I will take two swings with my basic attack at this guy and then back off because there's no dodge cancel and they're immune to hitstun'

but it's not a ubiquitous problem