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Action RPG Stellar Blade has respectable Devil May Cry energy in latest trailerOut April on consoles, PC release TBC
Out April on consoles, PC release TBC
Image credit:Sony
Image credit:Sony
Sony has shared footage of swanky action-RPGStellar Bladeat the publisher’s latest State of Play event. It’s launching on April 26th for PS5 – there’s no PC release date just yet, and I do hope developer Shift Up make the effort, because some rather cheesecakey female character models notwithstanding, this looks pretty decent.
Stellar Blade - New Gameplay Overview | PS5 GamesWatch on YouTube
Stellar Blade - New Gameplay Overview | PS5 Games
The game casts you as Eve, a high-kicking, sword-swiping warrior lady who is fighting a bunch of leery aliens and robots for control of a far-future Earth. Together with various feisty companions, including an engineer called Lily, she’ll combo, double-jump and shoot her way across some fetching wasteland environments.
There are supply stations where you can stop, recover your stats, buy stuff and enhance your equipment and skills. The weapons seem to cover a decent range, from basic one-handed swords to beam cannons so large they fit round your body. The enemies are a motley bunch, too: there’s an alien ogre wielding pieces of bone, and a panther-ish entity with a giant clawed hand for a face, which reminds me of the ancient Oddworld series.
I like the cut of the game’s animations and especially the toe-curling bursts of slow-mo when you parry or perform a QTE finisher. At times, it feels like a posher, updatedNier: Automata - there’s a shared cyborg theme - though I’ll be extremely surprised if what I’ve caught of Stellar Blade’s storyline and writing are in the same league. Colour me “keen to hear about a PC port”.
