The stylish JRPG Scarlet Nexus got a surprise release during Xbox's Tokyo Game Show stream last September, and now an update reveals the game has been experienced by more than 2 million players around the world.
This figure also includes Xbox and PC Game Pass players. Overall digital sales have reportedly topped one million as well. To celebrate, the game's official Twitter account shared some artwork thanking fans:
In addition to this player count update, a new "Story Demo" has apparently been released across multiple platforms including Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. Here's a brief rundown via Gematsu:
"In it, players can select either of the two main characters—Yuito Sumeragi or Kasane Randall—and experience the beginning of the story. Save data from the demo can be carried over to the full game."
Have you played this game on Xbox yet? Leave a comment down below.
[source twitter.com, via gematsu.com]
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I played this day one on my Xbox. The trailers made me very interested in this game and i wasn't disappointed at all. Its a fun anime style arpg game and it's good to see more people got to enjoy it thanks to gamepass. This just shows that gamepass opens games up for new audiences, the same happened for me with the Yakuza series, which thanks to the availability are now my favorite game series that i played and i bought every single one of the them after playing them.
I was on the fence about this game. went* with Arise first, an then this got added to game pass. I bought a physical copy not long after, its still sealed for when it leaves game pass.
Glad to see this game succeed. I played it closer to launch and really enjoyed it! Probably my 2nd favorite single player game last year only behind Lost Judgment.
Gotta give Bandai some props. They have published some great games the last couple years in particular.
Hmmm had this on my list for awhile… with all the praise for it here I guess I better check it out sooner rather than later!
Great game with great combat, really happy to see it do well.
That's... very very low and I'm thinking there won't be a sequel. Tales will have one though.
Bandai Namco is making a new high graphical engine so their budget seem that will increase too.
Already download it on my series x, I'm still focusing on halo infinite, after that I'm gonna play this one. Already tried the demo on ps5, the game is good and the story is interesting.
Very good game. You can skip the story and go for the best: the gameplay.
Great to see! It's a fantastic game. Interesting, if sometimes incomprehensible story, interesting world and take on the genre. Definitely a favorite from the year. Still playing through Yuito's campaign, not sure if I'll do Kasane's due to overlap. Purchased on sale before it was on GP.
@RevGaming Tales of Arise isn’t getting a sequel they already nixed that.
@NEStalgia I kind of wish they had more of the flowchart layout found in Ai Somnium in order to follow the story better. I mean certain parts of the story make no sense without playing the other side but chapters 9-end is essentially the same.
@Royalblues Square Enix has been very generous with GP, too. Same with Capcom, but haven't seen anything of theirs in a while, and only RE7 has lasted more than a year on GP.
@mousieone Yeah, that's my one grip with it. I dislike the narrative idea that has you play two campaigns that repeat parts of the game in order to get the "full story", and worse is, like you said, some of those parts of the story are pure nonsense separately, and you jump from separate events and everything changes without knowing what just happened at all. Seems like unnecessary game padding and could have been better presented if the chapters had you actually play Yuito and Kasane's parts together (or interleaved) than restarting the game with a new campaign that tells the other part. The idea sounds cool, but the reality of it is weak.
It doesn't help that it suffers a little from FFXIII style jargon explosions where there's an array of proper nouns you're supposed to know between places, people, and factions that you don't have enough history with to understand what's what and what's significant about each until like half way through.
@NEStalgia well yeah I mean the whole side plot with Togetsu isn’t explained well. Also, having see the Karen cuts scenes on YouTube; there is a huge disservice to the story there. I mean it adds so much context. I can’t even fathom why it’s not in the main campaign.
@mousieone Tales. Not Tales of Arise.
Or another entry if you want to call it that.
@mousieone I found Seiran more confusing than Togetsu. Togetsu was just introduced randomly and suddenly was all that mattered out of nowhere.
Karen never made sense at all though. And half the characters seemed important then disposable.
Messy story telling but excellent game
@RevGaming that was given regardless of ToA’s performance.
@NEStalgia have you seen the Karen DLC?
@mousieone I wouldn't be too sure.
@mousieone oohh, I didn't know there was one! I'm have to look into that.
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