When it comes to strange enemy designs, things surely can’t get much weirder than Bandai Namco’s upcoming action RPG Scarlet Nexus. Flowers with ostrich legs and stilettos, a slinky with human hands – it’s all rather disturbing stuff. Kind of like that horrible spider doll from Toy Story.
Thankfully, the game’s developers are here with some answers as to why these look so darn odd, as discussed in a recent Scarlet Nexus preview viewed by Eurogamer.
For context, the game is set in a technologically advanced society called New Himika – a country “so big that the concept of ‘overseas’ doesn’t even exist,” as art director Kouta Ochiai explained. This civilisation has developed based on technology surrounding the brain, with the populace using a form of brain-internet called the Psynet, while some use advanced brain power in the form of various psykinetic abilities. It’s not all glamorous, however, as this world is frequently visited by “the Others”: alien creatures without a consciousness that feed on human brains. Those are the flower bouquet things, if you hadn’t guessed.
