More than just a Soulslike with a protagonist to serve as eye-candy, Stellar Blade has far surpassed our expectations, offering varied gameplay, outstanding visuals, a sublime soundtrack and an engaging story. It's a must-play for action game fans.
Stellar Blade recalls the classic era of character-action games in truly inspired fashion. It might struggle to deliver on its core narrative, and its platforming is often more frustrating than it isn't, but neither of those things are enough to bring down a thoroughly enjoyable action experience. It wears its inspirations on its sleeve, but manages to build on them in engaging fashion with a deliciously layered combat system and gorgeous presentation to boot.
Stellar Blade is a frenetic action game with elements from "souls" that perfectly mix the best and most fun parts of Bayonetta, Nier Automata, Devil May Cry (even with some pieces of God of War and The Matrix). The game is not so punitive (there is also a "story mode" to make it easier to beginners) and it runs fluid without any kind of frame stuttering on PS5. Also loads almost instantly. It's the real suprise of this year exclusives for PS5. No doubt about it.
Stellar Blade is easily an early contender for game of the year no question about it overwhelming amount positive to say due to game being polished and complete with zero issues clearly game developers play tested it unlike majority of full priced AAA games nowadays embarrassing, and it's the best PS5 exclusive to date.
Stellar Blade has great merit when we see it from a production point of view and as Shift Up's letter of introduction to the international market. As an exclusive to the PlayStation 5, it lets us see that the industry is willing to expand and show us the AAA proposals that other regions have for us. Despite its positive points, the title offers us a generic story and gameplay mechanics that lack depth, although the presentation and production levels are impressive.
Stellar Blade is collage filtered through kaleidoscope, its myriad influences bleeding together in a neon swirl that produces vibrant new colours and dull familiar ones at an uneven pace. When it chooses to use its building blocks to reach new heights it’s a dizzying achievement in combat presentation and approachability, with EVE’s toolset fun and varied enough to carry the weight of the game’s lesser components. It leaves you wanting to see what else this studio could accomplish, even if they’ve gotten this far on borrowed wings.
Stellar Blade has landed a critical hit, successfully slicing through the crowd of well-established action-adventure game giants. If you’re a fan of sleek and stylish combat, with sprinklings of Soulsborne and Nier Automata vibes, you’ll feel right at home when playing Shift Up’s triumphant console debut.
Stellar Blade is a game that ambitiously attempts various elements, but not all of them hit the mark equally. Its shining moments come in the form of exhilarating combat, action-packed levels, and epic boss battles. However, its narrative delivery, open-world segments, and secondary missions falter, leaving some ideas underdeveloped, such as underutilized platforming mechanics and a neglected equipment system. Despite its flaws, it ultimately offers an enjoyable, diverse, and entertaining adventure, especially for those seeking straightforward action. While it falls short of its full potential, Stellar Blade remains a title worth considering for its fun factor alone.
It is one of the most fascinating games you’ll play this year, or any other, a high-profile game that still dares to go against the grain despite its ever growing popularity. Finally a beautiful “female” protagonist it’s been while welcome Eve <3 ignore hate it’s all woke weirdos which try to think they’re better than everyone else, I’ll happily take a real 3d scanned Korean model for eve thanks. Also female looks like an actual woman unlike 95% on market 10/10 must play!
I must commend SHIFT UP for their exceptional achievement with their debut console game. They've outshone many established developers. EVE stands as the central figure in the game's narrative. Beyond being a playable character, she's the driving force behind much of the game's appeal. Her presence is undeniably impactful, thanks to her captivating, sinuous design. However, Stellar Blade offers more than just aesthetics. The gameplay is where the true beauty lies. It seamlessly combines parrying mechanics with stunning animations, all supported by a rock-solid 60 fps. Regrettably, the direction of the story and characters fails to leave a lasting impression.
Great combat system. A mix of Devil may cry and Sekiro. The game is definitely fun. Unfortunately, the story, characters and writing are not very good. The characters are very bland, the story is nice but forgettable. And the writing in general is somewhat okayish, if not mediocre.
But anyway, the real strength of the game is in its gameplay, with its constant, dynamic flow. It's a bit of a disappointment that everything else isn't of the same quality.
I spent 7 hours playing this game and I have a lot of the same feelings I had about Final Fantasy 16 with Stellar Blade. I enjoy the sexiness just as much as the next man but at the end of the day I still expect to play a good game with an interesting story when I play a big Triple A Sony exclusive and this game just doesn't hit for me. One of the biggest gripes I have with this game is the overall depressing vibe to it. The music constantly playing in the background has this super anime, sad and funeral like vibe to it, that just puts me in a state of mind where I feel depressed. Add on to that, the overall look and color schemes of the game and it has that dark and dead colored tint to the environment that makes things even more depressing. Aside from that, the dialogue and story are god awful. I'm 7 hours in and I'm still having a hard time understanding what the hell we are even doing. The English voice actors are terrible. Main character, Eve, outside of her looks is just completely flat and uninteresting, very robotic and flat. Combat is the only part of the game that is some what decent but it still has major problems. Feels way too janky and sometimes it feels like this combat system is not made for the enemy hordes and attacks you run into. Way too reliant on building meter and the way she walks like a snail and the run button not working at times is infuriating in combat. 5/10 game for me - Flushed after 7 hours unfortunately.
SummarySave humanity from extinction in this electrifying story-driven action adventure, made by Korean developer Shift Up, exclusively for PlayStation 5.
Experience blistering combat and a twisting storyline as you unravel the mysteries of Earth's downfall.