Another Anime action rpg that's trash

[Crash]

I regret buying this on my ps4, so here's to hoping I can save some people some money.

Story from the start is lackluster, nothing major happens or anything important that makes you want to find out what's going on, it's literally just "Oh, these enemies called "Others" like to invade us and kill people, so we will go on missions and kill them", the only major "plot" 5 hours in playing as Kisane is she's over protective of her sister and she wants to make sure the guy that's into her isn't a waste man, outside of that, 5 hours in and there's been no real story development outside of "must kill Others".

Combat...ohh boy, I thought it was going to be Nier-esc in how it plays but how wrong was I, the combat is so horribly stiff it's not even funny, you need to lock onto enemies otherwise you'll be watching your attacks miss.

The stiff bit of the combat is that you have heavy animation lock making it impossible to actually have a pleasant time on this game, it seems that literally every mob has ranged attacks they will spam out if you're not near them, and the animations acompanying them aren't long enough to justify animation lock with every attack you do, meaning that you will 100% be taking damage very often that is impossible to avoid when fighting multiple enemies at once as you'll be fighting one mob and the other enemies will decide to spit a range attack at you which will actually flinch you out of it and knock you down, so you better pray to god you've learnt the recovery skill otherwise you'll be spending most of your time laying on the floor.

It's safe to say I've stopped playing the game, I don't even understand how the game has a positive rating, sometimes I think that people don't understand what a good game/experience is and just say "oh yeah, this game was good", I'm sorry but a game with combat as abysmal as this and a story that's non-existant a little over 5 hours in...yeah, I'm throwing in the towel.

The only POSITIVE thing is the skills and how they interact with each other, but even then, you have a Clairvoyance skill that seems like it was introduced as nothing more than a "Is there an invisible mob? best pop Clairvoyance and slap it to knock it out of invisibility" and "Oh, that annoying mob design decided to make the entire area smoke to where you can't see passed your nose? better Clairvoyance! oh, what's that? it's still all smoke, the mob doing it is still alive and the skill has ran out? oh well, have fun being blind!"

Best worst game ever.

[Virake]

sounds like you just failed to learn how to play the game properly.

[Frankbt92]

This game is great, and combat is the best thing about it, I found it original and fun, but is only my opinion. The thing you said about animation in middle combat can be disabled in the menu so I think you just scratched the surfaced and gave up on it

[Lyff]

I'm not agreeing with everything he said but tbf every games we get nowadays are trash.
Square Enix keep giving us 5$ games for 80$ so ofc Bandai try the same (even tho Bandai do better than SE nowadays...), most of which ain't even worth a modded skyrim --'

[Ronald Tekener]

Originally posted by Frankbt92:

This game is great, and combat is the best thing about it, I found it original and fun, but is only my opinion. The thing you said about animation in middle combat can be disabled in the menu so I think you just scratched the surfaced and gave up on it

True, the combat system is very nice when you understand it proper,to me one of the best combat systems ive played

[jwolfcotham]

was fun tho u might just be bad

[budisourdog]

This is exactly how the game feels when you start it. At least with Kasane and all the default camera lock auto lock auto target auto aim nonsense it like traps you in the enemies fields of fire and you just die or get hit by every attack from the enemies and don't have the freedom of movement to simply move out of the way or dodge until you disable every single one of these things trying to "assist" you. Her gameplay improves exponentially with SAS and skills, but that starting up is bad indeed.

Double C attack in center skill tree, absolute must. Rotation is RMB LMB C C, infinite mana.
Abuse the electrified C attack for AOE stun / mana regen, spam it + duplication for 3x it and chainsaw through tougher enemies.
Abuse Hypervelocity and invisibility for chained crits and killcams of weaklings.
Brain drive state that reduces mana use, regens it, and heals you is very good.
Ultimate ability thing is uh yeah that. Abuse it to just win bossfights immediately.

[NunoTheDude(Youtube)]

i tougth the story and charaters is really good tbh it starts off as tropey but quickly developes the charaters, the bond and ex bonds episodes do a grat job at fleshing them out

[Degenerate]

I love the combat. Having all the powers just makes awesome damage and more

[PolygonerHD]

You have bought console, bruh, your opinion is not valid. The game is solid 7.5/10, btw

[xblastex]

Finally someone with a critical opinion on this terribl... wait a moment... what you described were the terrible pacing of the first 5 hours and you just sucking. YOU sucked at this game and said, "Yup, this game is nothing but BS." pfft.

No no no. Put it this way:
Scarlet Nexus is a RPG with an interesting narrative, art, and game-play style that is constantly undercut by horrid pacing, annoying/insufferable characters, bad writing, overly repetitive game play, and an empty world.
Next you need to support the arguments you made in your hook:
In kasane's story it takes around 5ish hours for the story to even "begin". The characters are cookie cutter tropes you've seen before, only getting fleshed out in non/semicannon side stories. Writers introduce ideas and abandon them, plot holes aplenty (KAREN). Gameplay fails to evolve throughout the game, leaving you with little different from the start. The world is just barren of meaningful things outside of the main story. 1/2

[xblastex]

Then you give further information that may not be covered by your hook:
Some other issues I have with SN, in no order.
SN's narrative style is heavily inspired by manga and anime, and this also applies to the way dialogue and cutscenes are handled. They decided to use a fully voiced Manga panel style which admittedly makes me uncomfortable; as it comes off as lazy and bogs down the pacing. This is especially annoying because SN's environment and art design can be gorgeous, the VA's are genuinely trying, and the animated cutscenes are beautiful; however most of the story is experienced through the manga panel to its detriment.
Another issue is the mini tutorials through Haruka and Wateru. They pop up every time there's an elemental attack used by an enemy and give a loud and annoying supprised comment and say some obvious line like "HAH?! Was that water?! If it soaks you, you'll be wet; making you vulnerable to electrical attacks." They can do this every map with every element. I'd say it's not too bad, I didn't notice them shutting up even after I turned off tutorials... 2/3

[xblastex]

SN's story is rife with issues due to poor writing and anime logic. Most of the cast's issues stem from either their stupidity, magically incompetent "super competent" leaders, lazy use of their powers, and their own actions. There is no excuse for how ineffective the Kasane Corps is at solving basic problems, especially when they all have extremely potent superpowers.

This last point is an issue with immersion. The OSF is an advanced military organization whose sole role is to be the OTHER SUPPRESSION FORCE. Others being the magic monsters only special espers like kasane and co. can kill, for some reason. There is another organization with the 'normal' soldiers being boring normal espers who defend the only nation on the planet from 'outside forces' that aren't others. Yup that's the real explanation used in game. Now there is an unspecified number of these normal soldiers, but it was implied during the first fight with Karen that 40 OSF soldiers was ~half of the entire force. It was also implied that Karen took the lion's share of the OSF when he left to the other city that now declared independence. This group is so small the entire known army fits into a real US platoon; and somehow they are adequately defending what looks to be mainland japan. 3/3

[xblastex]

Originally posted by PolygonerHD:

You have bought console, bruh, your opinion is not valid. The game is solid 7.5/10, btw

people like you are the reason there is animosity between platforms. His opinions are as valid as yours, even if he just sucked at the game. You play with what you got and do your best to try to have fun. So just go have fun and ignore him.

[Sona]

Originally posted by PolygonerHD:

You have bought console, bruh, your opinion is not valid. The game is solid 7.5/10, btw

Bruh, I bought (xbox) controller for my PC version of this game cuz SC is unplayable with keyboard and mouse.
Whoever play this game using KB/mouse must be ultimate masochist.

[Verified Error 505]

Originally posted by Crash:

I regret buying this on my ps4, so here's to hoping I can save some people some money.

Story from the start is lackluster, nothing major happens or anything important that makes you want to find out what's going on, it's literally just "Oh, these enemies called "Others" like to invade us and kill people, so we will go on missions and kill them", the only major "plot" 5 hours in playing as Kisane is she's over protective of her sister and she wants to make sure the guy that's into her isn't a waste man, outside of that, 5 hours in and there's been no real story development outside of "must kill Others".

Combat...ohh boy, I thought it was going to be Nier-esc in how it plays but how wrong was I, the combat is so horribly stiff it's not even funny, you need to lock onto enemies otherwise you'll be watching your attacks miss.

The stiff bit of the combat is that you have heavy animation lock making it impossible to actually have a pleasant time on this game, it seems that literally every mob has ranged attacks they will spam out if you're not near them, and the animations acompanying them aren't long enough to justify animation lock with every attack you do, meaning that you will 100% be taking damage very often that is impossible to avoid when fighting multiple enemies at once as you'll be fighting one mob and the other enemies will decide to spit a range attack at you which will actually flinch you out of it and knock you down, so you better pray to god you've learnt the recovery skill otherwise you'll be spending most of your time laying on the floor.

It's safe to say I've stopped playing the game, I don't even understand how the game has a positive rating, sometimes I think that people don't understand what a good game/experience is and just say "oh yeah, this game was good", I'm sorry but a game with combat as abysmal as this and a story that's non-existant a little over 5 hours in...yeah, I'm throwing in the towel.

The only POSITIVE thing is the skills and how they interact with each other, but even then, you have a Clairvoyance skill that seems like it was introduced as nothing more than a "Is there an invisible mob? best pop Clairvoyance and slap it to knock it out of invisibility" and "Oh, that annoying mob design decided to make the entire area smoke to where you can't see passed your nose? better Clairvoyance! oh, what's that? it's still all smoke, the mob doing it is still alive and the skill has ran out? oh well, have fun being blind!"

Best worst game ever.

Ty for the info, it looked good and i thought of giving it a shoot, but then i saw all the negative critic and wanted to check the forum aswell. Too bad its not half as decend as Code Vein.