#me: i'm like dropping hints that i'm obsessed with their dynamic based on their 1½ interactions so far

[coffeestainedcamera]

Oh look, Stellar Blade demo is out for real and not about to get yanked from everyone's devices lol. Anyway, played it and this dragged me back to when I was a teenager in 2010's. Which is nice bc seriously, the state of spectacle action games these days is dire.

We've got decently responsive combat here with ye old perfect dodges and parries. Things felt a little too reliant on former initially, but then started actually mixing them up a bit. Ah well, this is chapter 1 and you gotta ease people in. Not reinventing the wheel yet, but it's fun.

By the way, make sure to disable screen shake and motion blur in the settings if you get motion sick!

Haven't seen enough exploration yet to say anything here. There are minor jump scares here lol, be careful with dark abandoned buildings.

The soundtrack is dynamic and does a decent job of hinting when you should pay attention. It's nice.

The story is irrelevant bc let's be real. This is a spectacle action game and it's not a priority lol. Anyway, something something fight some monsters for humanity. It's cliche and yes, the nice mentor perishes in the first five minutes.

Side note but those enemy designs are amazing. Like, new sleep paralysis demons dropped lol.

The whole thing did feel a bit dragged back by devs' obsession with butt shots and setting them up. It was distracting and felt so try-hard. Like, I'm pretty sure it'd sell based on the strong "ps3 game with modern graphics" energy alone.

In short: good first console effort for a studio that had a shooting galley game for phones as its biggest title, but feels like I've played this before. And aside from the streetwear outfit, I haven't seen one fit for the lead that deserves rights. Given that I spend hours in character creators and refuse to use gear if it looks ugly on my character, this is actually a deal-breaker for me.

[igniferous]

█▐  @artificile​    |✖|    lynn you best believe---

               〝  Why  would  I  have  any  interest  in  befriending  imbeciles ?     I  have  NOTHING  IN  COMMON  with  the  kind  of  rowdy  juveniles  who  waste  their  time  doing——  what,  shopping ?    Playing  games ?    Acting  like  fools  in  public ?    Utterly  disgusting.  〞        She  might  have  better  luck  dropping  him  off  near  a  retirement  community.