Psychic Slickness
While we’ve been hearing a lot about the world, concepts, and characters of Bandai Namco’s upcoming hack ‘n’ slash RPG,Scarlet Nexus, we haven’t seen too much in the way of actual gameplay. Fortunately, a publisher live stream held to “celebrate the release date announcement” contains around 20 minutes of action from the “Brainpunk” adventure.
The videoisa little unwieldy, but features multiple short segments that showcase both the action and exploration elements of the upcoming sci-fi title, which follows a unit of psychic warriors – The OSF – as they attempt to take Earth back from an invading force of literal brain-eaters known as “The Others,” drawn to the planet by its sudden radiance of mental energy.
The gameplay footage has more than a touch ofNier: Automataabout it – at least in regards to combat and flow – and sees The OSF touring the city of “New Himuka” (1:07), showing off their respective attacks and abilities (1:19), delving intoScarlet Nexus‘ “Bond” system (1:24) and then putting it all to work in a series of chaotic throwdown with several Others, climaxing in a mighty boss battle with a skin-crawly giant (1:28).
Scarlet Nexusmight not be a release at the forefront of everyone’s minds, but I can’t help but sense a littleAstral Chainabout it. That is to say, perhaps the Brainpunk adventure will receive a relatively quiet release, but will fast find favor among anime and action games fans, becoming more successful than many were initially expecting. With the recent announcement of a tie-in anime,produced by Sunrise no less, it does seem that Bandai Namco will be throwing a lot of weight behind Scarlet Nexus from a marketing standpoint.
To be cliched, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and as such it is important to get a physical feel forScarlet Nexusin action. Hopefully Bandai Namco will see fit to release a demo before the game’s official launch, June 25, on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.
Scarlet Nexus gameplay video[Gematsu]
