Stellar Blade (April 26th, PS5)

Furry said:

I used to work with a guy who made train noises as he walked. Later found out he was gay.

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All furries are gay. You had 100% chance of being right.

Not that the writing is stellar in the first place, but I legit thought "the Colony" meant something further away given how the opening sequence is an invasion fleet of spaceships arriving. As in a colony on another planet in another solar system. Not simply in orbit like Elysium, hell they could have made it a moon colony or something.

Malakriss said:

Not that the writing is stellar in the first place, but I legit thought "the Colony" meant something further away given how the opening sequence is an invasion fleet of spaceships arriving. As in a colony on another planet in another solar system. Not simply in orbit like Elysium, hell they could have made it a moon colony or something.

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There might be another Colony, since the "Colony Extinction Event" saw the majority of its habitat pods fall to Earth causing the apocalyptical damage. Though I don't trust my memory about this.

Rajaah said:

Finally playing this. So far I'm not sure if I like it. The dodging and blocking are "off", or maybe they just have tiny windows of effectiveness. After playing through Bloodborne and having zero issues ducking and dodging through fights, in this game I'm pretty much getting hit by everything whether I dodge or not. Well, probably half my dodges work. I got the Blink skill and, again, about half the times that I do that, I end up just doing a regular dodge instead of a Blink, and usually get hit. The timing of everything is just way off compared to what I'm used to in other games.

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Perfect dodges/parries allow you to do counter attacks, so getting those skills as well as increasing the window to use them are the best tools and timings to learn.

Story mode gives trainer QTE and slowdowns to teach these timings but harder difficulties throw you to the wolves unless you enter the training room and practice yourself.

The autists are doing their thing, apparently there are four different chest sizes and three booty sizes depending on the outfit

Phazael said:

Its also only ever happening to Asian made games. Baldurs Gate 3 Eifel Tower with literal bear in the mix and TloU2 Quick Time cornhole the tranny event? Not even a peep. Make a female protagonist look attractive (and arguably more conservatively dressed than parts of those two games) and the blue hairs come out of the woodwork. Basically its a double standard that they only ever try to apply to non-western (read: not woke overrun studios) games.

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If it involves their cringe inducing androgenous characters then it's fine

Tranny agenda and screwing people up

You got this

Rajaah said:

Finally playing this. So far I'm not sure if I like it. The dodging and blocking are "off", or maybe they just have tiny windows of effectiveness. After playing through Bloodborne and having zero issues ducking and dodging through fights, in this game I'm pretty much getting hit by everything whether I dodge or not. Well, probably half my dodges work. I got the Blink skill and, again, about half the times that I do that, I end up just doing a regular dodge instead of a Blink, and usually get hit. The timing of everything is just way off compared to what I'm used to in other games.

The setting isn't doing much for me either. Yeah the game looks great but I haven't found much of it interesting, it's just ruins after ruins after ruins. The mobs are damage sponges and none of them are interesting, they're all just misshapen mud golem type things. I didn't like Bloodborne at first either so maybe this'll click after a couple hours. Not gonna give up on it yet.

Also how do you change outfits? Looked it up online and the results I got were that there's a spot in camp where you can craft new outfits and put them on via the menu. Welp, my camps don't have anything like that, they just have the shop (which is incredibly barebones), skill tree, rest chair, and a record player. Maybe I'm just not far enough yet, but I've been at it for like 2 hours. Found this at the next "bonfire" lol

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There are skills and gear which extend the windows for Parry and Dodge, there is also a Double Dodge (a blessing and curse*). Blink will become second nature if you practice in the Training Room. The Training Room will also let you learn the basic attack combos, letting you find the ones you can pull off easily. Just spamming square will be slow. There is also the Execution skill(s), this will one shot everything you can perform it on, so you can just destroy the Shield mobs.

Ruin after ruin is kinda what the game is about, the surface of the entire planet got fucked, with nearly ALL lifeforms going extinct. There are various zones that have their own aesthetic, but is all destroyed or rebuilding. There is a good amount of mob variety, but its all sci-fi horror stuff, there are more humanoid like enemies as well. The Story is the biggest weakness of the game. I like the idea of what it is telling, but it lacks much depth as if the writers didn't think it through for several steps.

If you try out Story Mode, just understand that the mobs will do less dmg to you, but you're not doing more dmg to them. It is the combat tells that Story mode is for, and you'll still need to get the timings down to get the Perfect Parry / Dodge. It is not like FF16's version where pressing 1 button does everything, and automatic dodges. *If you get Double Dodge, know that the game buffers 1 additional input. So if you double tap dodge, but get a perfect dodge on that first tap, you won't be able to cancel the buffered tap with a counter. Double Dodge is great for getting distance though. If combat clicks with you at some point, the later stages of the game are really fun.

news out today that ghosts of tsushima is reaching Sony highs on sales/CCUs, hopefully that means more Sony/PS5 games on PC sooner. Stellar Blade isn't a first party Sony game but it is only on PS5 and I assume Sony must have paid for some of its development

pc version would be insane, imagine the mods. obvious nude mods and stuff but also play as Sydney Sweeney or 2B

If you really want to be degen; In Xion, near the main entrance there is a ladder off to one side, take the ladder down then jump down onto a ledge handhold. Turn the camera into the wall, so Eve disappears. Now move the right stick til the camer stops looking up, then pull the left stick back til the screen stops. If all works as it does for me, you'll get a facefull of Eve's private parts. I did this for all outfits, for science. There are clearly some outfits that the dev team devoted a lot of time cleaning up vs. the others that have a lot of distorted textures. And yes, the physical / unpatched version is better/cleaner.

Really fun game over all, PS says I've put 110hrs into the game (3 playthroughs for endings), but a chunk of that is probably afk doing other stuff. So about 90hrs probably. The Story really needed a continuity pass to smooth out the obvious wtf differences in the lore... but the Story wasn't their focus, so its ok. The best fights: Raven, Crow (Raven in Naytiba form), Gigas (first fight), and Abaddon (2nd fight). Spire 4 was the best sequence of fights though, ppl weren't lying when they said the last few hours of the game were top tier.

There was a news article about Shift Up earnings call, where SU says sales have exceeded expectations enough to consider a PC port / DLC content updates. I am sure they will release the Boss Rush as the "DLC content", but I hope its a really fleshed out system that includes new outfits.

Boss rush is fine and all but that's combat, they need something to cater to the fan service. Instead of just leaning on the billiards table develop a whole entire mini-game for it with every possible camera angle. That's what the masses yearn for.

edit: Boss Challenge drops May 24th

List of features being added tomorrow

Should be fun until Raven, again.

Also, there is a gift that Roxanne wants to give us after the update.