
You soon begin to encounter enemies which require you to borrow specific powers, for example, clairvoyance lets you lock onto Others who hide behind an otherwise impenetrable fog. With the left trigger, you can hurl rare but useful environmental objects at enemies, causing huge damage, particularly if you also time extra button presses as they land. At the end of the day both are fantastic choices and I don't think you would be disappointed with either. Like others have said, Scarlet Nexus seems like a prototype for a lot of the features in Tales of Arise. Then, if you follow those up with carefully timed melee attacks, you cause extra damage and recharge your electrokinesis, so it’s all about building chains of attacks. Scarlet Nexus is a fantastic game, but I think you will get more for your money from Tales of Arise.

Using the right trigger, you can pick up random objects from your surroundings and hurl them at your targeted enemy. Scarlet Nexus, stylized as SCARLET NEXUS, is a Japanese action role-playing game developed by Bandai Namco and Tose, and published by Bandai. Gameplay-wise, Scarlet Nexus is highly satisfying, pleasingly distinctive, and as tactically demanding as you would expect a JRPG to be. There’s an uncomfortable period in which every other cut scene seems to include a character asking, ‘What’s going on?’ but eventually things become clear, if rarely predictable. The two storylines are initially more or less identical but diverge after a certain point, when a key plot point throws everything into chaos, with time-travelling and initially baffling conspiracies entering the mix. Their OSF squad-mates have different powers – among them hypervelocity, pyrokinesis, invisibility, clairvoyance, and electrokinesis – which they can borrow for short periods via a brain-connection system called SAS, which also lets them communicate telepathically.

Although they have different physical attacks they have the same psychokinetic powers, which eventually emerges as being integral to the story. The first thing you must do is decide whether to play as Yuito or Kasane. Their job is to confronts and kills the Others deadly creatures that are apparently invading the Tokyo-like city of Suoh from another dimension. Set in a very Japanese parallel universe, it follows the fortunes of Yuito Sumeragi and Kasane Randall, two young cadets graduating to the OSF, a sort of psionic police force. Scarlet Nexus’ storyline is a wild slice of sci-fi that lurches in some deliciously improbable directions, yet contains calming character-bonding interludes that have the feel of a soap opera and bring a welcome sense of ebb and flow.
