re: Stellar blade all known details; a remarkably looking impressive game pix ofc

Yea, had a feeling there were going to be tough fights especially after the fight with the crow naytiba.

I’ve enjoyed the game and will jump into an NG+ after.

Need to platinum the game.

Guess I’ll update as well.

On the return trip to Zion after going up. I loved the ride up and everything including the boss and its arena.

I have been super busy and haven’t been able to play quite as much lately but do hope to beat it soon.

I did collect all 49 cans and was sad that I’m still unable to equip the new gear yet…probably my biggest complaint of the game haha.

Anyone done the new boss rush mode yet? It’s tons of fun, and you need to beat the game twice and make sure to choose the other option than your first to have both final bosses in it. The new outfit you get in it looks very cool.

Also sales have apparently been so strong it climbed above Shift Ups highest expectations. I imagine we will see a pc port in 6 months-12 months depending on if they decide to do DLC or not which would extend the time so they can justify a 60$ pc price with all extra content. They also are apparently going to move forward with a sequel which is a great move. It’s extremely hard to create a new IP this successful.

Be careful of blue blink attacks with here she does them back toback so after you blink through once be ready to do it immediately again then you are safe for a full onslaught 4 beta charge combo. She is imo the hardest boss in the game.

When she gets into later phases and does the anime move you have access to as your circle burst skill imo the best action is just hold block through it and then try to perfect dodge her dive bomb.

If you are still struggling double up on melee protection gear ranged protection gear and overall protection the three star one is 8% i think

If you can spare one gear piece for the one that overcharges burst metere or adds like 25% more at 3 stars the trianlge one where you dive downward if you upgrade it well will knock off shield and 2 yellow dots of poise each use, itll help get the stagger triangle hits if you are having parry issues.

Last tip idk how far into the fight youve made it but when she enters phase 3 she will immediately punish any use of triple hit from your beta skills fyi its around the 40% health marks

I finally took her out. Had to retool some gear pieces.

I was set up for mobs rather than bosses.

It ultimately just came down to requiring more beta attacks that would knock her down.

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Last tip idk how far into the fight youve made it but when she enters phase 3 she will immediately punish any use of triple hit from your beta skills fyi its around the 40% health marks

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I don’t think this applies to shock wave. It still hits her with the third and knocks her down.

Also anyone else tried doing a hard mode run but not in NG+? Its an INSANE difficulty spike. Took me almost 2 hours to beat abaddon.

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Also anyone else tried doing a hard mode run but not in NG+? It’s an INSANE difficulty spike. Took me almost 2 hours to beat abaddon.

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Nope. I can only imagine what some of the later bosses are like if Abaddon is that tough.

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You think they’ll do paid DLC scrufffy? It helps add value for Sony when they go to pc with a 60$ price tags for a 12 month old game minimum? My idea would be a 5-8 hour experience set on the colony so we can learn all about that, perhaps a new character or use eve prior to the drop at the open

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Would be cool if so.

Maybe a prequel story where you fight as Raven or you fight on the parts of the colony that ultimately fall.

I just did NG+ on hard. Right about to fight Abaddon, but going cut the grass first.

To a few people saying 7/10 need more bosses or something else that I no offense find stupid as hell like combat isn’t polished or platforming annoyed me etc. this is a new IP launched by a studio whose never made a AAA game and it is EXTENSIVELY polished with a very well designed and thought out mechanically super satisfying addicting and just flat out fun combat gameplay system and loop. The bosses are overwhelmingly being praised near unanimously as a new bar raising moment for games which will all be held to this standard moving forward. It’s sold SO WELL it even surpassed shift ups highest possible ceiling projections of the high end and isn’t slowing down. Rebirth daily numbers after launch peaked around 4.12 million…anyone wanna guess Stellar Blades? 8.20 Million. For a new IP that’s essentially unheard of. A sequel has already been green lit.

I’m not saying it’s a masterpiece 10/10 if I had to offer a critique it would be

- The narrative is frankly a very poor nier Automata plagiarism without all the philosophical implications and deep effort that made that game compelling; however for a first pass it does it’s job with plenty to build off for a second part and where I personally hope they improve most

- The open world zones promised the great dessert fricking suck for lack of a better wording option. Not the content there as I find much of it good and compelling just the level design, encounter design, etc

- The censorship on Sony or whomevers part is a disgrace, even made more so by how minor and insignificant it is and it’s very clearly just a way to ever so slightly kneel to homosexual who’re racist in games journalism

- The voice acting for the English version at least mostly frickkng blows

- While the game has pretty good side quest like 50-60% of the time on par with like rebirth it still has too many far too many bs no story or interesting hook fetch quest or things similar

- Most mini games are very nice but fishing without turning on the accessibility settings is the worst mini game idea ever