Those strange enemies are called Others and you are a rookie member of the Other Suppression Force, a military organization with a name so loaded you will almost certainly expect a few of the twists and turns the game takes in its early hours. It is pretty good at being both of those things, but sometimes, like the beasts it contains, the proportions are a little off. It’s also a slow burn visual novel that presents the bulk of its story in stilted motion comic panels. It is a frenetic character action RPG with some of the flashiest finishing moves I’ve ever seen in a game. Scarlet Nexus itself is, similarly, built from genre bits that might, at first, feel at odds with each other. It’s hard to not to imagine these monsters as the result of Toy Story’s Sid bringing his ghastly experiments to the backyard garden. Another is basically a horse, with a Slinky where its torso should be and a plant for a head. Later, you meet an enemy with the body of a jungle cat, a head formed from an oak tree, and a valve on its chest, which it cranks periodically to summon a gush of water or oil onto the battlefield. Early on, you encounter herds of porcelain vases hoisting blooming roses on long, slender legs. Just about every creature you fight in the cyberpunk world of New Himuka is formed from these disparate components.
That set-up seems to be the guiding philosophy for enemy design in Scarlet Nexus, a new action RPG from Bandai Namco. A plant, an animal, and a common household item walk into a bar…
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