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Scarlet nexus newsletter12/23/2023 At least on the mission front, it’s a lot of abandoned factories, lonely construction sites and drab, empty freeway overpasses. I get that Scarlet Nexus takes place in the distant future, and that distant future is dystopian, so lack of color and variety is mostly on-brand. One complaint I have is that the game’s environments, in contrast to its incredible monsters, are rather bland and same-y. It has me craving a first-person spin-off that leans into the horror aspects of the game’s unsettling enemy art. All I’m saying is that Scarlet Nexus gives the Silent Hill series a run for its money in the WTF department, and I’m certainly not complaining. I mean, just what the hell are these entities? They’re like this off-putting amalgamation of household items, animal parts, bad feelings, and backward-crawling Exorcist animation. Saws Paws is, as far as I can tell, one of those Rafflesia corpse flowers that’s wearing a corset (because of course it is) carried around on a pair of arguably feminine legs with-yes, you guessed it-hand saws for feet. guess? Naomi Randall, with its weirdly normal name, is part actual house, part blind twin mannequin busts. You know, like the blob fish or the goblin shark. These things, whatever they actually are- and kudos to you if you can put them into any kind of meaningful natural order- more fall into the category of ‘Nature’s egregious mistakes’. The tree spigot creature I mentioned in the intro to this article, AKA the Winery Chinery (yes, that’s its actual name), is but one of countless enemy abominations originating from the Extinction Belt to the more civilized environments of Scarlet Nexus. It has to be, because the creatures you fight are anything but, and in the best possible way. ![]() I’m really hoping that Bandai Namco can patch this out at some point, because otherwise Scarlet Nexus is a visual treat. Unfortunately, for how well the game runs, there is some significant pop-in on both versions, most notably with vehicles and other interactive objects as you run through the city. To be totally objective, though, PS5 does come out on top with this title, even if it is by a hair. I only took note of the small framerate drops after later viewing Digital Foundry’s video. ![]() I’ve been playing Scarlet Nexus on my Xbox Series X and the performance has been downright beautiful, the in-game cutscenes and epic finishing moves (Brain Crushes) especially so. These frame dips are really just that: slight, and incredibly so, probably not even enough to be noticeable to the average gaming eye.
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