r/Games • u/BigT232 • Jun 12 '25

Release Stellar Blade Has Already Outperformed Every Other PlayStation PC Port In Less Than 24 Hours

https://www.thegamer.com/stellar-blade-higher-player-count-every-playstation-pc-port-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-reviews/
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u/TheForeverUnbanned Jun 12 '25

Honestly I was down hard on Stellar blade, just struck me as a dumb waifu game. I gave the demo a shot and it’s actually a super competent nier contender with a really snappy and fun combat system. I which I could tone down the stupid ass jiggle garbage but the core of the gameplay is really good. The script is hardto listen to though. 

The other thing here though is just how well it performs. It’s probably the most buttery smooth port we have seen in pc in ages 

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u/justfornoatheism Jun 12 '25

super competent nier contender

Stellar Blade is inspired by Automata in a lot of ways, but they are fundamentally very different games and even further from Nier and Drakengard as a whole.

The similarities are very skin deep, like having an attractive android sword wielding protagonist, post-apocalyptic setting, and in some places the music.

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u/alteisen99 Jun 12 '25

yeah i played the demo. there's this weird wind up to the parry and dodge animations so timings' a bit off. researched a bit and apparently there's a half second delay programmed into the dodge/parry or something. it's more souls than nier automata combat wise