[O-N-E]

Damn, the music is nice.

 

[regawdless]

The demo launches on PS5 March 29, with save data carrying over to the full game.

 

[Eneru]

It's really refreshing to see a hot chick in a game again. The best one in the last 5 years or so was princess peach lol.

 

[regawdless]

Good

 

[regawdless]

Previews are popping up, all very positive on the combat. I bet there are a lot hands-on impressions amirite guys

 

[regawdless]

-Feels good to play
-Challenging combat
-Counterattack feels incredible
-High emphasis on parrying/dodging
-Robust skill tree
-God of War Ragnarok combat reference
-Training room
-Wide array of gear
-Excellent use of the DualSense
-Visuals are absolutely stunning
-Excellent soundtrack
-Creepy bosses
-2 difficulty settings (Normal/Story)
-Soulsborne inspiration
-Shortcuts & bonfire checkpoints
-Flashbacks & other events
-Simple puzzles & platforming
-Swim underwater
-Optional enemies & treasure
-Mostly linear & some open areas

 

[regawdless]

Get it boys!

 

[lock2k]

Get it boys!

d'ling now

 

[Gold Loot]

Just got through the opening scene. Game feels great. The GIFs will be glorious

 

[rofif]

This is genuinely fantastic.
Great graphics, music, animation, art design of monsters and world. It's fantastic.
Tachy is the best waifu ever and the costumes... hair physics.
I am overwhelmed lol. It's a real video games! Like we used to get on xbox 360 lol. Thank god and I only got through an opening.

 

[Mal]

Great graphics, great performance, great hero but the game for me is boring. Need to time these perfect parries or dodge, yawn, I'll pass. Sad though, I wanted to support this dev.

 

[regawdless]

Great graphics, great performance, great hero but the game for me is boring. Need to time these perfect parries or dodge, yawn, I'll pass. Sad though, I wanted to support this dev.

What kind of combat would you like to see in the game that wouldn't be boring?

 

[Mal]

What kind of combat would you like to see in the game that wouldn't be boring?

Anything that doesnt rely on perfectly timed parries. I'm just sick of this shit.

 

[regawdless]

Anything that doesnt rely on perfectly timed parries. I'm just sick of this shit.

I can't play it because I don't own a PS5 so I can't really assess it. But I'm with you regarding that point in general. Sekiro is the worst Souls game for me, the parry orgy got boring fast. I was super hyped for Lies of P and it's a very good game but I got annoyed by the crazy parry focus. I'm tired of it.

Having great base combat with good evades and distance management, and then having an optional parry like it Bloodborne - I'd be on board. But as the main aspect of the combat, not my jam.

 

[rofif]

The game is amazing. Play in in korean !!! Also, 4k30 mode is very snapp. No deadzones. plays great.

 

[Hego Damask]

The Stellar Blade demo is released today on PS5 and features 3 graphic modes.
- Performance mode applies a common 1440p resolution at a constant 60fps.
- Balanced mode renders at a common 1440p resolution with a 4K output using TAAU. Its framerate suffers some drop, but maintains its performance at 60fps normally.
- The resolution mode reaches 2160p in exchange for limiting the framerate to 30fps.
- As for the graphic settings, there are no significant changes between modes beyond the anisotropic filtering and the LOD of some distant textures.
- Shadow resolution, drawing distance, ambient occlusion or post-processing (among others) remain the same.
- The possibility of turn off the chromatic aberration effect, which (on a personal level) is exaggerated, is missing.-
As a recommendation, I would choose the performance or balanced mode. Given its nature, 30fps is not an option for a game as frenetic as Stellar Blade and its resolution difference is not that significant.

 

[lock2k]

The game is amazing. Play in in korean !!! Also, 4k30 mode is very snapp. No deadzones. plays great.

I'm playing it in Korean. Amazing.

 

[Dreamlord]

This does look good. Hoping for a PC port soon.

 

[OuterSpace]

Nice to hear the initial impressions are good.

I was a little worried it would just be a tech demo-ish looker that was otherwise a generic character action game mainly getting publicity and fanfare due to proudly hearkening back to the times when T&A like this could be taken for granted. This industry is really undersexed unless you're a malfunction...

Will check out the demo tonight.

 

[DonDonDonPata]

Played the demo today (as well as Sand Land, which was surprisingly fun and cozy).

The opening scene reminded me a lot of Platinum's Vanquish, with a HUGE battle going on. The designs of the ships and the technology are really cool, but the aliens and the architecture in the opening area feel kinda generic. Eh, can't win em all I guess. The combat feels slower and more methodical like Bloodborne or Lies of P, and less like a Devil May Cry or Nier: Automata.

I might snag this and finish a playthrough before I worry about jumping into Dragon's Dogma 2.

Anything that doesnt rely on perfectly timed parries. I'm just sick of this shit.

Seems like Parrying is this generation's 'Quick Time Event' or 'cinematically sliding between two walls' of the action genre.

 

[rofif]

Played the demo today (as well as Sand Land, which was surprisingly fun and cozy).

The opening scene reminded me a lot of Platinum's Vanquish, with a HUGE battle going on. The designs of the ships and the technology are really cool, but the aliens and the architecture in the opening area feel kinda generic. Eh, can't win em all I guess. The combat feels slower and more methodical like Bloodborne or Lies of P, and less like a Devil May Cry or Nier: Automata.

I might snag this and finish a playthrough before I worry about jumping into Dragon's Dogma 2.



Seems like Parrying is this generation's 'Quick Time Event' or 'cinematically sliding between two walls' of the action genre.

Except the parry windows get smaller and smaller with each game. Lies of P had my throwing controller at the wall. Mostly because of animations without much of a windup.
This got some good parrying but the window is terrribly small. Something to be upgraded in the skill tree maybe

 

[DonDonDonPata]

Except the parry windows get smaller and smaller with each game. Lies of P had my throwing controller at the wall. Mostly because of animations without much of a windup.
This got some good parrying but the window is terrribly small. Something to be upgraded in the skill tree maybe

Parry timing was fine but only if you are looking right at the enemy. There isn't a good indicator for attacks coming in from other directions and since the game likes to throw crowds at you, I was getting hit from behind while trying to parry the bigger baddies. The smaller dudes have a tentacle-whip attack with more range than I first gave it credit for and that's what interrupted me the most.

 

[HeresJohnny]

Downloading tonight. Dayum!

 

[lock2k]

 

[Chozofication]

I tried the demo. Combat is competent but nothing out of the ordinary. Visuals were nice.

I think the theme and the story are particularly interesting and as an overall package I will definitely be playing it sooner rather than later

 

[GreyHorace]

The thrashing of Stellar Blade begins from IGN France:

An edited version later:

All these hot takes that the creator of the game has never seen a woman. Here's Shift-UP CEO and game director Kim Hyung-Tae and his wife (who is a graphic designer):

 

[lock2k]

Just finished the demo

This is a locked on buy, and not just because of the fanservice and anti wokeness in general.

The combat is satisfying, the setting is amazing, the characters are charismatic, the overall design and art direction is amazing and Eve herself is a likeable character who isn't an obnoxious bitch. It felt like I was nack in the PS2 days. Just amazing action, no bullshit, no infinite pretentious cutscenes and the music, my god, the music is breathtaking. Eve looking god as hell is the icing on the cake but this is a solid game, a solid experience. I hope this helps kill the western shitty trends.

This game has the key ingredient missing from 99% of modern trash: Love.

 

[Chozofication]

Just finished the demo

This is a locked on buy, and not just because of the fanservice and anti wokeness in general.

The combat is satisfying, the setting is amazing, the characters are charismatic, the overall design and art direction is amazing and Eve herself is a likeable character who isn't an obnoxious bitch. It felt like I was nack in the PS2 days. Just amazing action, no bullshit, no infinite pretentious cutscenes and the music, my god, the music is breathtaking. Eve looking god as hell is the icing on the cake but this is a solid game, a solid experience. I hope this helps kill the western shitty trends.

This game has the key ingredient missing from 99% of modern trash: Love.

I think you're bang on with the it feels like a ps2 game but with modern graphics bit.

Speaking of ps2 and eve, anyone remember eve of extinction for ps2? For some reason that game really captivated my 10yo self lol

 

[regawdless]

Love to see it

 

[regawdless]

IGN France being IGN France

 

[rofif]

IGN France being IGN France

Fucking idiots.
Bland?!
They call this amazing art style bland ?! This is the most intriguing post apocalyptic world I've seen recently. All the statues and greenery. Monsters look amazing

This is bland?!

 

[regawdless]

Fucking idiots.
Bland?!
They call this amazing art style bland ?! This is the most intriguing post apocalyptic world I've seen recently. All the statues and greenery. Monsters look amazing

This is bland?!

They specifically called the main character bland. Which is also embarrassing.

 

[Stilton Disco]

IGN France being IGN France

The bloody audacity of these people, telling us this is a character designed by people that have 'never seen a woman', when the only women they interact with on a regular basis are fat, ugly mutants and men in dresses.

 

[GreyHorace]

The bloody audacity of these people, telling us this is a character designed by people that have 'never seen a woman', when the only women they interact with on a regular basis are fat, ugly mutants and men in dresses.

They still think game developers (who aren't woke) are man-children who've never even known the touch of a woman.

Doesn't explain the late Sir Clive Sinclair though.

 

[Hego Damask]

 

[rofif]

This music holy crap. 4:16 star descent

 

[GreyHorace]

I love this. True developers with a passion for their craft and unashamed of their geeky interests.

BOSS. Talk about looking out for your employees.

Gonna be a lot of one handed playthroughs. LOL

 

[lock2k]

Fucking idiots.
Bland?!
They call this amazing art style bland ?! This is the most intriguing post apocalyptic world I've seen recently. All the statues and greenery. Monsters look amazing

This is bland?!

Exactly - this game has love and soul - it's not designed by comittee like 99% of modern corpo trash - that's why it rules

 

[lock2k]

Also - Tachy

 

[Grinchy]

And it's the early model and not the newer franken5 too