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Stellar Blade - Review Thread
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Snaxan got great reactions from the demo & good gameplay with decent parries & combat, compared to other demo videos I've watched.
View: https://youtu.be/jaBofa3oFtE
Shame for some microphone issues in the video though.
Looking forward to her Stellar videos.
View: https://youtu.be/jaBofa3oFtE
Shame for some microphone issues in the video though.
Looking forward to her Stellar videos.
Part of what they learned from HFW on PS+ Extra was you need to give a game two holiday periods, so the sales curve does not stall. Even if the game might not have sold like other fp games.
Seems you found the reason why it scores so high :') sadly
Hope it's good but my friends really going ham because of the MC tells me so much on what they where going for
For a series as bad about this as it is, I remember Dead or Alive 6 had some shockingly realistic breast physics. There was real effort put into actual weight rather than just the standard random jiggling, with it logically changing based on the fabric and fit of the costumes. ofc this was the same game where the men all had the same flat body that barely looked textured so you can tell their priorities were real fuckin lopsided.
I appreciate your response: definitely don't feel like you need to be overly defensive here, I know sometimes conversations about stuff like this can be dicey but it's very obvious to me you're engaging in completely good faith. That's valuable and worthwhile all on its own.
I think you and I are basically in an accord regarding your comments around how the sexualization is just air-dropped into the game devoid of context. I definitely think something about that is "ickier" than say...what you say FF7 Rebirth does with Tifa (I haven't played it yet) or, on the opposite scale, a dedicated soft-porn game explicitly created to titalate. It adds a miasma of casualness that seems especially pernicious: "of course she is curvy and bouncy and glistening...why wouldn't she be?"
As a closer point of comparison, I'd even say the (ancient, forgotten) GameCube game PN03 is better in this regard. It also has a sexy lady being curvacious and doing gyrations in a future sci-fi setting, but it is very self-aware. Now, I'm not saying that game is some feminist triumph--far from it--but it goes back to a sense of honesty or straightfowardness. If you're going to go there: own it, and accept that people will criticise or be put off. Don't just drop some male gaze sex doll into a setting that has nothing to do with and no interest in male gaze sex dolls.
I think if this game WERE a more committed to the concept of a theoretical "sexy fashion show"--even in the context of sci-fi alien fighting--then it would paradoxically feel less egregious. But the fashion, sexualization and the core game elements feel like roommates of convenience, as it stands right now. They're not in conversation with one another, if that makes sense.
To be clear, that wouldn't solve my complaints if they were, but I think it would make the defense of high-fashion interest ring a bit more true.
I've read 25 hours or so for normal story completion, 35-50 hours to 100% the game. Trophies are not tied to difficulty so can go for 100% at any difficulty. Not sure about requiring NG+ or if you are locked out of collectibles or if you can get them post game or not.
I also haven't read anything about DLC, expansion passes, etc so no clue how that will factor in. Or what the deluxe edition adds, I assume more costumes but will have to look at that tonight.
Also saw a few tweets saying game releases tomorrow but my understanding was April 26th was NA release, I guess maybe factoring in worldwide times it must be sometime tomorrow in some regions.
Between this and Lies of P, Korean developers seem to be coming for the ARPG crown. This doesn't look like something I'd want to spend $70 on but I'll grab it when it goes on sale.
Are you saying *everyone* who gave this a high score did it because the main character is sexualized?
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Everyone has their own opinions! Dragon's Dogma 2 got rated pretty high across the board and I thought it was a 7 at best lol
No, not for all.
But then again I put loose notes on a review because it's mostly one person. I liked the demo myself and will see how it pans out
Crimson Desert looks like it wants to be this gen's Witcher 3 and/or BotW at the same time, so I'm really curious how that one will pan out. Though I somehow doubt I'll have the time necessary to actually play it.
The other seemingly insanely ambitious ARPG is Where Winds Meet, but that's from a Chinese developer. Would be interesting to get some feedback from the beta they ran this month.
I know you gotta promote your work, but I'd go insane if I had to go justify my review on twitter to organized hate groups emboldened by the owner and lack of moderation while arguing that 7 is a good for the thousandth time with the most encouraging reply being ai gibberish from the porn bots. It would make a pretty good Twilight Zone episode.
Seems to be 25 with doing a regular number of SQ's. 40+ for if you're going deep on it. If the demo is anything to go by, people who like it a lot will dump a lot more into it than that though.
I'm sure they didn't crib all their ideas from Nier Automata.
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Reviewing a bit better than I thought it would, which is nice. Loved the demo, excited to pick up my pre-order on Friday!
I remember the IGN reviewer who gave Starfield 7 had to defend the score in a twitter space.
Several reviews in the OP that went into the writing give the sense that...like, your post may have more thought put into it than the game in that regard. Just in the sense of they use the names for window-dressing, and if anything they may just be duping from other usage in pop-culture more than an allusion like you're wondering.
If it isn't that deep it should be. That's a great narrative that touches actual social aspects in human society. Instead of this 'sexualization for teenage boys' shtick.
Yes, I read, but I was hoping it would be different for Forspoken.
Incidentall the only 3 fp games I bought at launch are HFW, Demon Souls and Returnal, after those got into Extra I decided to wait. Ofc they changed the policy right after that and still waiting for Ragnarok lol
A friend that reviewed the game told me that while the story is bland/generic/predictable, he found the lore to be quite interesting.
Maybe those that liked the story are coming from that angle.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like they did much with that.
View: https://twitter.com/gameinformer/status/1783165304702386483
That is 100 percent the right move. Good on them for making it happen so quickly.
I gave it 5/10. There is an OK game here but the objectification and dehumanisation of women is undeniable and inescapable.
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I appreciate your writing style and thought you made some great observations, even outside the elephant in the room.
It makes me think of a lot of the mid-budget RPGs from the PS2 era that sort of imply "lore" by cribbing names and terminology like that, yeah. This is a secondhand response on my part (I've just read a bunch of the reviews), but it really seems to be name-dropping at best. You can generally tell if a creator is talking about how something is "from the Bible" (in the Christian, capital "B") sense, but a big chunk of the terms are Apocryphal stuff with no mention of that distinction, that they're just referencing in 90s-era anime.
I honestly don't see why IGN are getting criticised for giving this game 1 point lower than it's current average score.
Do I disagree with IGN a lot? Sure, but people are being melodramatic. It's not like they've scored it 3 or 4 and I don't think they mentioned Eve's design once in their entire review irc. They talk about the characters being bland and lacking in any personality, which is a common complaint I'm seeing amongst other reviewers as well.
You will always have people that are sensitive about high profile games not getting the "right scores" regardless of whether or not there's a culture war attached to it, just the depressing state of things
I might misinterpret his words, but I find his arguments for the chartacter design really apologetic. I hope I just read it wrong, but to me it seemed like he basically says that it's totally fine, because that's how Korea is. He acknowledges that it's a problem, but very briefly and doesn't go deeper into why women in the West might find this rightfully disturbing, instead he brushes it off because Stellar Blade is a good game.
Will either rent or buy later on sale I think. I still need to stop procrastinating and continue Rebirth.😅
Story and characters here being mediocore was pretty clear from the start, and not that uncommon in the genre. Bayonetta and DMC stories are basic as hell too. If DMCV for example didn't have spectacular gameplay mechanics and fun characters, then that story and level design wouldn't have carried anything.
So if the gameplay here and levels, as it seems, are fun enough I can see myself having a good time, even though I struggled with some of those parries in the demo.
Story and characters here being mediocore was pretty clear from the start, and not that uncommon in the genre. Bayonetta and DMC stories are basic as hell too. If DMCV for example didn't have spectacular gameplay mechanics and fun characters, then that story and level design wouldn't have carried anything.
So if the gameplay here and levels, as it seems, are fun enough I can see myself having a good time, even though I struggled with some of those parries in the demo.
I likewise appreciate the conversation and I think we're probably on similar wavelengths on a lot of this. :)
That's honestly the kind of angle I was kinda hoping would be in the full game when I played the demo. Not as some sort of CYA "retroactive narrative justification" thing but it would be nice if the artistic choice was sort of contextualized within the work as part of a bigger picture.
What's a "right" score though? The ones that only certain groups of people agree with?
The problem is, regardless of how detailed and thorough a review might be, some will always attribute intent to something even when there is none. I'm already seeing people criticising the review saying it's only been marked down because of "SexUlAlzAtIoN" when the review doesn't even mention it.
yep if anything this tame compare to some of the craziness we see before with other reviews.
As for reviews it around what i expect , so not bad for there first AAA console game.