SCARLET NEXUS -Strangers of History- (Karen's Route)

'''Caution: This article are purely a fan-made idea and has no relations for movement or anything for demanding developers for remake/remastered/rerelease to fix the feature in the original game. Once again please consider this as fan-idea, also please buy SCARLET NEXUS on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X and Steam to support the series.'''

SCARLET NEXUS -Karen's Route: My Final Journey- is an expansion story mode exclusively featured in SCARLET NEXUS -Red String of Fate- which is a direct-continuation to Karen's Episode: Unknown History continue focuses on Karen Travers story and the first time of him as a playable character in this game. This story mode scenario compiled with SCARLET NEXUS -Red String of Fate- available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and PC.

Synopsis
His last chance, his last jump...

''To save Alice, Karen must pay the ultimate sacrifice in means to erase his existence, his trace, and his history, only for her sake. One man like him has gone through enough make everyone suffer for trying to make that point he can be with her again, but this time would be different for him in order to settle this.''

However, unexpected phenomenon came by Kunad Gate and his time jump, causing the unknown triggered side effect of Red String, Extinction Belt, and Entanglement which soon became unstable, causing the timeline where he left off became messed up due to big distortion, thus disaster due to his action, and Kunad Gate that Kasane and Yuito become part where all of entanglement release causing it into madness.

''Karen awake and arrives in the unknown space, time and reality lead by Red Strings, in the unknown places where it neither in Suoh, Seiran or Togetsu, or even in Entanglement itself, but it almost similar to Chronos Terminal, atmosphere however... completely different. Sudden came with other self came from that past time parallel axis, his shadow self, or rather, his forgotten selfs in unknown time that he had abandoned, causing Karen seeing a mirror and remind his darkness, sinner, sadness, and madness that he caused.''

'“This is a story of man named Karen Travers who’ll face the greatest consequences of his action, and his greatest punishment is coming to him. The last of his history shall be written”.'

Chapter/Phase

 * Prologue Phase: The Unknown Beginning
 * Phase 1: The Broken Mirror of Mirror
 * Phase 2: Coldest World
 * Phase 3: Haunted Past of Thousands of Memories
 * Phase 4: Cutting Deeper in Despair
 * Phase 5: Sinner, Sadness, and Madness
 * Phase 6: What for...?
 * Phase 7: The Choice of Meaning of it's Purest Hope
 * Phase 8: My Final Wish
 * Epilogue: To You...

Characters

 * Karen Travers
 * The Other Karen
 * Fubuki Springers
 * Alice Ichijou
 * Wakana
 * Yuito Sumeragi
 * Kasane Randall
 * Togetsu Believers
 * Yakumo Sumeragi
 * Recorder of Time
 * More...

Requirement unlock for Karen's Route Main Story
Player need to finish two main story routes, Yuito and Kasane and complete viewing Karen's Episode: Unknown History in order to unlock Karen's Route of main story. You can start playing this routes by selecting EX New game, you can choose Karen Routes and choose difficulty mode that you want to take. You can use two save clear data in order to access a carry over features which can be used during playing Karen's route, however, SAS ability, Bond Episode, Attires and more from the main game will not included in Karen's story mode.

Other Tidbits about this game

 * Karen's Route: My Final Journey would be completely new atmosphere and somehow different direction from Yuito and Kasane Routes, while this routes introduce some completely new plots and lores which never even explained before in the main story, while this main focus story still holds connection to what happen following a final boss fight in SCARLET NEXUS.
 * It is very recommended for players to finish Karen Episode: Unknown History from Brain Eater Pack DLC of SCARLET NEXUS in order to understand when you enter Karen's route story. Karen's Episode revealed to be a part of the prologue of this story mode which gives glimpse about Karen's past and what it leads to the main game story and this route story.
 * While players might notice the completely different from Karen's Episode ending, while it take on a same outcomes as how it told about Karen making his last jump to save Alice by sacrificing his existence, while this routes took place what happen to him when he make last jump, and player can experience something very different from what they though about his ending and told beyond what's really happen, which this Karen's route is a prove for that there's unexpected twist happen behind that ending of Karen's Episode that leads to this.
 * The difference between Karen's Episode and Karen Main Story Route, where his episode tells about his past and behind his intention of how he went to past and repeating the same process and struggling in order to save Alice and Fubuki, and closely developed Karen's character in depth which never seen before in the main game, including his depth relationship between him and Luka.
 * While in Karen's route main story is different from his episode, where this story theme about Consequences, Punishment, Self-Question, and Choice as the story will take darker approach. As Karen making his last jump as part of his redemption, but no one like Karen could ever escape his shadow of thousands of past and his sin that he brought to those around him, facing a terrible suffering and consequences that he had gone through given us to realize, no matter in the end for you finally achieve what you hoped for, no one could escape the past that what you did. This story also about questioning what it means about entrusting the future, hope and move beyond of his deeply hurt past and choice to make ultimate sacrifice for Alice, Fubuki, Luca, and for the future they'll live in, and understand what his meaning of what journey his started, what caused interference he did and made decision to end it, even the stakes are very higher than that.
 * The opening prologue of Karen story will shown Karen and Fubuki on it's final test to become a Cadet OSF, which same as how Yuito and Kasane story started and doing a first mission as an OSF on their first fighting Major Others. However, as the Prologue Phase ended, the story moves toward timeskip to the present day where he awoke in the unknown place following his decision making a last jump to close Kunad Gate and erased the Extinction Belt.
 * Player be able to learn a new past childhood to teen to adult about Karen which were never seen before in the main game or even in Karen's Episode during main story progression, while Karen's story perspective in SCARLET NEXUS main game can be viewed by obtaining the Strings of Memories which are part of Karen's memories that are scattered due to strange effect within Red Strings that caused him. that also can be obtained as the main story progresed.
 * Bond Memories will greatly expand new bond interaction between him with Fubuki, Alice, and Luca, also Karen's new side of his character, but it's very quiet different from Yuito and Kasane with Bond Episode.
 * There will be new side of Karen's character that never even seen in SCARLET NEXUS Main game and even in Karen's Episode: Unknown History, it something that can be bound almost totally different what it previously shown.
 * This is a final conclusion to Karen's story in SCARLET NEXUS, while this main route also teasing new lores that would happen in the sequel. (At least if I know what it is).
 * Karen's main story approximately can be finished within 10-15 hours of gameplay given of how you progressing through phases.
 * This story routes will using Cinematic Cutscenes, instead using Comic Style Cutscenes which is mainly use in the SCARLET NEXUS main game, however, the Bond Memories would still using that style.
 * There will be an unique side-mission which are very different from Yuito and Kasane, which has set in different timeline, different situation, different objectives, and different tolds. It has total 25 mission, but mission wider and big.
 * Some surprising character will appear in Karen's route main story, in a very unexpected occasion.
 * Brand-new ending and post-credit ending are presented in Karen’s route. Although post-credit ending will be plot-twist.