PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade demo out now! + IGN Preview

@sargentd: I want to play it but have been in crunch at work for the last month, I hope I get to play anything soon at this point! Having this demo drop when I can't get to it sucks for me.

Will have to check it out!

Are you checking it out because of the interesting gameplay?

Got to admit the IGN preview makes it sound promising. I do like having well thought out defensive options in action games. My hopes for this are now a bit higher.

mean while every switch game looks like a ps3 title.

rise does not look like a ps3 game yes ps4.

stella blade looks like a ps5 game. the lighting ect.

so what flop has sony had so far this year? helldivers (9), final fantasy (8), rise (7)

looks all good to me. if they scored a 4 or 5 then yes flop.

2024 so far is ps5 year. nothing yet from xbox or third party exclusive on xbox.

I can't wait. hack and slash game. not another souls like game or open world game.

besides she is hot lol. I put that in for pedro. so he can call me fragile for liking hot females in my not real games.

@gifford38: Didn't you hear? They digitized just the body, but not the face of a real-life model to design the character. As long as she's facing away from the screen, you could fap to her and it wouldn't be weird at all.

That's weird I seen the model and it looks just like her.

I can't get over on how bad the enemies design is. Its literally a piece of meat that attacks. Zero artistic design went into this, they look insanely generic. Like holy shit the vampires in Redfall look better, and they were laughable to begin with.

yea, we need a good hack n slash game that isn't God of War lol

I'll give the demo a try.. not sure what to think yet, but I've bought games after playing their demos that I would probably wouldn't have bought otherwise.. but the same can be said in reverse as well.

Played about 25 minutes during my break.

Initial impressions

• Love the Nier Automata vibes. Music is very similar, so is setting.
• Graphics are good overall, facial textures kind of bland.
• Movement is weighty, which is different from Nier/Bayonetta
• But the combat is satisfying so far.
• Camera can be hard to follow, you constantly have to press the targeting button
• Seems like there's a lot of options to upgrade your character's ability, which great.
• Can't pause cut scenes?!

Overall, positive impressions so far!

Well tried the demo and wasn’t terribly impressed to be honest. Jumping feels floaty. Parry and dodge timing feels a bit off. When I think that I should get a perfect parry it’s too late. When I try to anticipate it I’m usually too early. Just doesn’t seem to be where I expect it to be. Game looks good and the story could be interesting though. Will wait and see how it turns out overall.

@TheEroica: With Helldivers 2 and FF7 Rebirth Sony is leading the pack of the big three so far.

Stellar Blade imo looks like the most interesting of the upcoming games from either of the 3 as well.

It looks like Bayonetta, if Bayonetta actually was good. Combat feels better than Nioh too. Not quite FromSoft/God of War level but its great.

Downloaded the demo, but i feel disgusted booting it up.

My issue with this game is that I can't play it in front of my daughter or wife without feeling like a pervy teenager or something. It looks decent, but my wife and daughter tend to watch me play quite often. I may pick it up if I like the demo and just make it a Portal played game only, lol. I would like a good hack & slash to play.

Bet if there was a study, over 95% of those who've played it, fapped to it.🤣On SW that would be 100%.

I’ll be downloading it tomorrow when I’m home from work. How is everyone enjoying it so far?

@gifford38: I am glad I am living rent free in your head but I am more surprised you are able to retain.😂

Just finished the demo. Overall, I liked it, and I think I will get it! The combat system took some time getting used to, but it’s different, and I like it. It’s kind of like a sped up Dark Souls type game.

Played the demo again and still just not feeling it. Probably going to pass on this.

Hey! They digitized just the body of a real life woman. As long as you don't look at her face while doing your business, it's not weird.

🤣

Not expecting this to be as good as the top games of the genre, ie. Ninja Gaiden/Bayonetta/Devil May Cry, but do hope that it’s decent enough. Will certainly check out the demo.

Gee, that sounds familiar. 😂

Don't care about it now, thanks for the insight

Playing it right now, and my fellow cows don't want me to post environmental pics of this game. We're talking about Gears 1-Gears 2 visuals here. Haven't seen this much DX9 vibes in years.

Can y'all defend this EXCLUSIVE? I can't shittalk this shovelware when everyone is ignoring it like Rise Of The Ronin.

Thank you.

When I first saw this games trailer, I knew it wasn't for me. I just don't like these types of games, or games that are heavy in Japanese/Asian culture vibes. Games like Nioh or Wo Long are current day examples of this type of "vibe" I'm referring to. Maybe it's just the disconnect between their culture and mine? Possibly. Of course there's games like Elden Souls Borne that are my favorite, so it's hard to pinpoint what exactly turns me off. Not to mention the character is very sexy, so I can't play or even watch it since I'm trying to get off p**n. It would just be a trigger that I don't want to put myself into.

I hated everything so damn much in the demo that i didn't even have the strength to finish it. You know what it reminded me off of? Being a QA tester that is playing a trash tier game because its their job, not because they're into it. Definition of brain torture.

Also, as i suspected, this game has the ugliest enemies design since Prey 2017. Do you know what the ShiftUp's artistists were inspired by when designing them? They visited their local butcher. Its literally pieces of meat with swords. Abysmal to say the least.

@hardwenzen: how could you not finish it, it’s pretty short lol

When i see explorable areas, i go to exploring, and while doing so, seeing the environment, all that came to mind is Gears of War 2 running in DX9. Then i asked myself wtf am i doing when i have Helldivers 2 and DD2 ready to be played, and turned off this shovelware.

Heard people mention how this game has soundtracks inspired by Automata. Are y'all high? The music in Stellar Blade is girly ass kpop, while Automata had a bunch of awesome soundtracks that don't sound ANYTHING like what's in SB. People are trying way too hard to give this game a pass as a Nier inspired title, but outside of ass and booba they don't have much similarities unless, to you, a no name indie developer releasing a Souls inspired title is literally like Dark Souls, and a good example of that is Mortal Shell.

@hardwenzen: WHy the hate. I thought the demo was really good. the combat is refined AF.

I think Stellar Blade might be 2024's Lies of P.

Doubt it will be as good though.

1. Extremely poor enemies design.
2. Poorly animated attacks that feel like half the enemies have their attacks coming from their ass.
3. What looks like a combo based game, but locks you into animations with no ways of animation cancelling (from what i've seen at least)
4. Ugly and uninspiring world that reminds me of Gears of War 2, a game from 2008.
5. Story is guaranteed to be the ultimate shovelware in gaming.
6. All characters shown are cheesy cringe.
7. Focus on her body instead of cool set pieces or character interactions a la DMC is lazy design.
8. The video below is how this game was funded. Does it look to you like its made by a developer that cares about quality?

@hardwenzen: the guy from Digital Foundry loves it. So you should love it, too.

I haven't tried it yet, but will likely give it a chance sometime later today.

Steven Segal loves eating all these delicious looking enemies. What's your favourite Segal movie?

Bet you the only reason he is saying this is because he fapped to the demo🤣

If DF says that THIS is a good looking game, i've taken a bunch of screenshots, i will make a DF expose thread.

The flesh physics still look as bad as they did twenty years ago. Her boobs look like balloons filled with water pulled up repeatedly, lol.

Ain't nobody is talking about gameplay. Its 100% her tits, ass or half naked outfits. Outside of gacha mobile games, i don't recall ever seeing this for a console game, and no, Automata wasn't anywhere near as bad.

There seems to be a yearning for sexier female protagonists, perhaps this will do really well on that alone.

Yeah there definitely is, because the last 5 years it seems developers try to make the woman in thier games as bland as possible.

I like playing OW with my buds.. we were playing last night to try out the new hero.. and couldn't stop laughing about how damn busted she looks... it's like they made this female "hero" to be a overweight deshuffled homeless chick with jacked teeth... why blizzard... lol..

There was 0 chance that John WASNT going to like it lol

They need to introduce Shadowheart into this game, and i will become the biggest fan there is. Day one no questions asked😎

So far so good, it reminds me a little of Sekiro

Looks bad. Not sure why this game garnered so much attention, but this is the age of crap games it seems, what with Palworld and all the early access crap getting attention over good shit.

I guess the attention this game gets has mostly to do with the character's butt.

seems everyone are loving it. even tyrone magnus. maybe you should try it.

Need to have some real fembots with full AI already or... maybe not...

Very high caliber baby!! lol :P