I had an urge to play another Action JRPG recently, so I decided to give Scarlet Nexus a try.
Despite hearing mostly decent things about the game, I didn't have high expectations for it, and after playing through it, I'm glad I did, for several reasons.
First of all, I'm gonna get 2 things out of the way; the gameplay is very good, it's not perfect, but it's deep enough to keep the player entertained for at least 1 playthrough.
Also, the art style is good as well.
With that being said, however, the most interesting thing about Scarlet Nexus is that everything else in this game just... kinda sucks.
The worst offender in my opinion is the whole "PowerPoint presentation/Manga panel" looking cutscenes; oh my god, they're SO goddamn boring! And if that wasn't enough, the story, the writing and the characters are just awful; nonsensical time travel garbage paired with literally every generic trope imaginable. It's like the game doesn't try to be interesting or unpredictable in the slightest.
It doesn't help that the game is very linear, so you go from cutscene to cutscene every few minutes, listening to its terrible characters and writing all the time.
While the game's world has interesting concept and ideas, the level design is pretty bad and most areas are rehashed multiple times through the story.
Also, the enemy and boss variety is seriously lacking.
Lastly, the last few missions and the final dungeon are so tedious, it's almost unbearable.

Pros:
+ Enjoyable and cool gameplay
+ Nice visuals
+ Intriguing concept and world

Cons:
- Very boring cutscene format
- Badly written & completely generic story and characters
- Extremely linear structure and level design
- Rehashed levels and very poor enemy variety
- Flawed pacing

Narrative: 2/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Content: 5/10
Characters: 2/10
Music: ?/10
Art Style: 7/10

Final Rating: 4/10
- Weak -
Scarlet Nexus is the kind of game where you have to "turn off your brain" and enjoy the gameplay without paying attention to anything else around it... because everything else in this game just sucks.

Do I recommend it?:
Not really, but only at low price if you're interested in it.

[Main Story]
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The story that involves the game in someway is interesting, because you have two points of view to the same story, the graphic and environment are good but the level design could be a little better in my opinion. The way the story is telling to the player I like the visual novel aspect, but also the small cutscene were you make bounds with your friends were let you know little more about them. There are some soundtrack I did like, but not all of them. I think in the end the game is good but don't put high expectations like I did.

I love this game. The combat, especially when you get into the second half of the game just feels so good. Both characters get so powerful by the end that you can fill the screen with particle effects but never get lost in the action. Enemy designs are really creative and disturbing, though I wish there were more of them. The branching narrative works pretty well, but Yuito does feel like the intended PoV character. I still liked Kasane and all of the other side characters. The plot gets wild but still fun. My only complaints are that I wish certain things were dialed up a bit, such as enemy variety, special psychokinesis objects, boss variety, and non-combat useage of powers.

Scarlet Nexus se convierte en mi primera decepción del año por culpa de un sistema de combates muy interesante pero que se queda a medias, una parte social muy básica que solo sirve para cortar el rollo y una historia con un ritmo francamente malo y contado mediante un formato comic que te saca totalmente del “anime”.

Lo que no me ha gustado:
- La historia. Redundante muchas veces y el formato comic lo arruina.
- El sistema de relaciones con los personajes.
- Muy repetitivo (Tanto niveles como enemigos) y alargado artificialmente.

Lo que me ha gustado:
- Sus personajes y el sistema de poderes. Con una mejor implementación y sinergia entre ellos podría haber estado muchísimo mejor el combate. Hay mucho potencial.

Nota final: 6

Como um player que realmente não liga pra lore de video games, eu realmente curti bastante scarlet nexus!! O combate apesar de ser limitado é bem divertido! Os SAS apesar de também serem limitados são bem legais de usar (Principalmente o do clone/raio/controle psiquico)

Eu joguei na perspectiva do yuito e pretendo sim jogar com a kasane depois

Os personagens são MUITO legais pelo menos pra mim. Eles são bem arquetipozinhos de anime mas me agradaram assim mesmo (Tamo junto luka!!!)

Quando comentei sobre a limitação de combate eu quis dizer mais sobre a oportunidade que eles tiveram pra fazer um sistema de combate mais legalzinho, tipo, o Yuito tem os poderes psiquicos e tal mas ele só tem a opção de ataque fraco, ataque forte, ataque carregado, e ataque psiquico... é mostrado no jogo o quanto ele tem liberdade sobre as coisas com os poderes dele mas acaba que é só isso mesmo. Os SAS são entram meio que nisso também, acabam sendo poderes simples que poderiam ser mais bem desenvolvidos ou algo do tipo