will the story be better this time?Stellar blade's story was basically nier automata, but they have more time and money this time with blood rain.
>>741167610Shit kpop character design and objectively bad, soulless formulaic story. Ripoff of Automata but at a 1/100th of the quality and depth
>>741167610i'm very interested on seeing more of her backstory
>>741167742that better not be a joke about Eebee's ass, this is a serious thread
>>741167610
The first 10 minutes of Stellar Blade Blood Rain gameplay was shown to select media at Summer Game Fest- Extension of the intro scene shown in the reveal trailer- Goes through the city environment - Turns into a chase scene where you fight mutated enemies- Shows off Evie’s mechanized fists- Combat looks hard hitting and as slick as the first game- World looks more interesting than first game- Opening area looks like the intro to FF7- Looks and sounds very impressiveyoutube.com/live/OQVOfMcpA1I?t=3989&si=4-trTBfsb0Pva8Y-
story?
>>741168083thanks intern
>>741167610>Stellar blade's story was basically nier automata
>>741167610Making her a short tomboy was a genius move. Short, slightly tan, brawler tomboys is an untapped market.
>>741167610>Stellar blade's story was basically nier automata,retard
>>741168198>dont talk about video gamesamazing
>>741167610yeah the CEO said they will focus more on the character writing and the story
>>741167610Why do you people keep editing her suit to say TKD?
>>741168478>copy pasting a list of marketing points in every thread is talking about games
>>741167610Probably. They already confirmed that they're putting more effort into the writing this time. The real question is whether a decent story would work in a game in which you are constantly looking at the protagonist's defined ass cheeks.
>>741168765I don't knowTND would workTOTAL NAYTIBA DEATH
>>741167610>Stellar blade's story was basically nier automataIt was "we have nier automata at home". But also, I don't think shift up can write story or come up with any original ideas in general, so probably not.
>>741167610>just finished stellar blade>story was ok but too predictable>gear and exospine buffs are too strong and game changing, base gameplay feels way too bad without upgrades, but I like sekiro's system design philosophy too much so I'm biased>every single enemy baits your parry or dodge with a fuckass delayed fakeout attack as an opener, even the trash mobs which is annoying as fuck>sand area was awful, too big, and there's too many side quests that don't naturally complete as you're exploring which makes exploration feel bad>worst feeling dodge in any action game I've ever seen holy shit, at least copy bayo's dodge. fucking armored core's dash on heavy tread legs with 0 iframes feels better than stellar blade's dodge>no minimap hud, and no button for instant map recall on controllerFirst game is 7. I didn't want to go through new game+, but I'll buy SB2 and hope it's less annoying to play. Playing the game on hard was just awful in general, I'm not doing that shit again.
>>741169446doesn't hard mode only unlock after finishing the game on normal?
>>741168765woah woah woahwhat do you mean "You people"?
>>741167610>TKDhol up
>>741170385no, it may have been like that before but on pc its unlocked from the start.
>>741167610The only thing we know is that Evie is a cop who hunts down terrorists. I'm guessing there'll be some stealth sections too.
>>741167610>Stellar blade's story was basically nier automata,True.
>>741167610I don't see how Nier and Stellar Blades stories have any overlap besides both titles having Androids in the game.
>>741167610I'm going through the story and it's just executed badly. Like there was a moment where it shows all the humans hibernating and it's supposed to be some emotional dramatic moment but I just couldn't give a fuck. But man the boss fights are FUN GOD I LOVE RETRIBUTIONSGET RETRIBUTED GET RETRIBUTEDGET RETRIBUTED
>>741170902God I hope not. Stealth sections in non-stealth games always suck ass.
>>741167610>TKD>Fairness and Peace
>>741171393now I'm imagining Eve just going*CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG**GET RETRIBUTED* *GET RETRIBUTED* *GET RETRIBUTED*
>>741171570this does not go "*clang* *clang* *clang*"
>japanese rape artist already making heroh yes yes yes
>>741172318do not the eviedo not
>>741171463
>>741172318lmao
>>741172318>japanese rape artist
>>741172318>>741172969I am intrigued
I hope they make the story more like NIKKE this time. It would be a complete improvement. Also get cosmograph to do the music. https://youtu.be/Vgug79PtQ_c?si=k-62mCvzOJl3KJ_j
>>741167610THIS is what people are cooming over? Some shapeless teenager?
>>741173371retard?
>>741173660Evie butt!
>>741173660>>741175054
>>741174214Chibi Eebee
I went and looked up what girls think of this since they tend to be less face blind then men and I am inclined to believe them. She looks like a child
>>741176015because I masturbate to children
>>741176015Reminder
>>741175924cute
>>741167610probably not, Koreans don't know how to make good games
>>741172969>>741172318>That metal chinIs she talking to Raiden?
>>741168275>Signing Ai arthahaha lol
>>741173660That's my daughterwife!
>>741176108>control household spendingI'm guessing they aren't even the ones bringing in the money.
>>741167908I'm glad my wife likes the binky I picked out for her
>>741176294This guy.
>>741176357They're not. They spend their husband's money. Do you not know anything about white women?
>>741176294For the moment it's the terrorist leader in the trailer. You see him talking to the bomber in the beginning, and Evie catches up to at the crosswalk in the end.
>>741176357Housewives are generally the ones who control the day-to-day household spending (food, maintenance, childcare, gifts, vacations etc) outside of their husbands' occasional random splurges.
>>741176015It will never not be funny
>>741176015>GirlGamersoh nonono who is gonna tell him
The few asians you see in western media outside of particular "stars" are short sometimes chubby and average looking. Especially in commercials.That said I also don't know how many actually look for careers in western media so there might be some bias just due to the hiring pool they have to work with.
>>741176418the way this guy looks at her on the jaywalk is really cool. the way they exchange looks tells u a lot without telling u much. imagine some evil terrorist lord with an (almost) twisted moral logic or deep vengeance and evie slowly "falling" for him from his mysterious ways. i mean probably not because innocents are going to get killed and whatnot but who knows. i'd love to see like a twisted form of romance or deep loyalty, complete attention, profound understanding, respect or like fixation but that comes from opposition, duty, revenge, or intellectual rivalry rather than romantic/sexual love. pure obsession, seeing only each other, mutually shaping their lives with one another.
>>741172202Which mod?
>>741176975Bit of a cliche really like Kuze in GitS, the bad guy isn't quite what he seems. Well, that was already Adam I suppose as the Alpha. Simple and works I guess, but maybe the dialogue will be a lot better this time.
>>741177017The funny thing is, if you say that Evie is based off Alita, they will just say that just because Alita existed 30 years ago doesn't make it right today. They'd probably burst a vein if you tell them Evangelion has naked 14 year olds.
>>741175924>>741175054>>741175110off model garbage
>>741167610>will the story be better this time?i mean i love steller blade but the story was "acceptable", i think the lore was more interesting than the story if that makes sense
>>741177146keep seething
>>741176975It would be Kino if you could join the terrorists because Evie starts to trust this guy.
>>741169446>Playing the game on hard was just awful in general, I'm not doing that shit again.Yeah I didn't know it was supposed to be NG+ and it's a huge slog. I have no idea how you can rate it anything above a 6/10. Apart from Eve waving her fat shitter in your face and a couple of decent music tracks this game has zero sauce.
>>741177360Skill issue. The game is great if you don't suck.
>>741177501I beat Tachy in 2 tries and that's the last boss I fought that wasn't a fucking recolor. I dunno what even counts as a hard boss in this game cos you fight them all the same and they all get reused 3 times honestly man can you not fucking read I didn't say I wasn't able to do it I said it was a fucking slog.
>>741177217One side's terrorist is another side's freedom fighter. Sort of depends on what the fight is about. And in some cases both are right, because neither side is really the good guys, or bad guys. It can be complicated.
>>741177654skill issue, also no major boss is ever reused only some side boss and at most 1 recolor. Lying ass nigga.
>>741178321this>>741177654Tachy is like the halfway point you lying faggot
>i beat tachy the last boss
>>741167610Even Kim himself (director) said the story was bad, especially compared to their gacha game Nikke, so that's one of the things he wants to fix.
>>741178587>>741178641Can both of you not read? Tachy is the "LAST BOSS I FOUGHT THAT ISN'T A RECOLOUR" holy shit are you actually jeets? I didn't say she was the last boss of the game because I'm still doing fetch quests in the fucking desert. Also here are the bosses I've unlocked for the bossfight mode which includes SOME of the reused bosses but not even all of them lmao.
>>741177146It won't be off model once the game releases, at least on my PC
>>741177654>I beat Tachy in 2 tries>on hard mode>quit right afteryeah nah you rage quit after she beat your ass
>>741179002>replies to a poster who has finished the game>says he played it on hard mode and gives it a 6/10 rating>makes the retarded statement about tachy and other bosses>never specifies he's still playingsounds like your problem.
>>741168275Only American fatties could ever call a mcdonalds diabetic meal of garbage a meal based off a game for promotional purposes. All that shit on the table is easily 3k calories.
>>741167610Paid marketing shill thread.
>Immediate backpedaling and moving goalpostsDamn the izzat must be protected at all costs I guess.
>>741179636I was paid yes, in the form of the Stellar Blade 2 reveal
uh oh tendo melty
>>741173660>>741175054>>741175110>>741177201much betterordering 20 copies
>>741177039Not a mod. it's one of the outfits.
>>741177654>>741177501>>741177360>>741169446I played normal mode. The first alpha wrecked my shit, took like 10 tries. But that practice helped me improve because I beat most of the new monsters on my first try after that, including bosses. Idk something just clicked and I "got it" and suddenly the combat was super smooth to me. I guess I was playing too much.
I bought the game after the new trailer and I love it. The sweet spot between actionslop and goonerbait. I can't wait for all the sexy outfits Evie will get.
>>741180728also I never figured this out>open a chest early in the game>use the photo tool to screenshot dat ass>after that, I was unable to enter photo mode while opening chests what gives?pic related, the first screenshot I took
>>741180963It works for some and not for others, I noticed it too. Its also disabled when picking up notes from dead bodies.no idea why its this way
>>741178710People rail on shit like the combat and other shit The story and the sidequests were the weakest link in the OG Stellar Blade. Everything else was pretty nice honestly. THe game is a solid 8/10 for me. I'll play it again soon just because I liked it so much. I'm glad there are some devs that take constructive feedback well.>>741180728It definitely feels like a 6th/7th gen exploitation game like Bullet Witch, Bayonetta or Bloodrayne with that mix of sex appeal and high octane action. I have to replay it sooner rather than later. Are there any mods to give Eve a redhead option for all of her hairstyles?>>741180338I feel like everyone that hates the combat started on hard when normal is where you should start and hard is for NG+, when you've gotten more burst/beta energy to account for the increased enemy aggression and health. The game is definitely balanced for that and doing a first playthrough on hard is retarded unless you know what you are doing.
>>741167838>>741167742lmao
wait, it wasn't a little boy?
it's not enough to dodge or block an attack. you have to push the button at the moment it hits or you don't get energy for your skills which do all the damage.
>>7411813988/10 for me too, sidequests being all samey was the thing that irked me. I get that its a desolate world scenario but damn.
>>741176108kek
>>741181398Normal is too easy. You barely get to fight the bosses.In the a "4x lower increase for hard mode" mod was the right balance for me. Also a mod to make the bosses have less downtime.
>>741176108That loud obnoxious lady is an eastern european jew btw.
>>741167610you think they're going to hire a team of writers for this?>vidya game stories always suck
>>741181549what boy has breasts like this?
>>741182397Just get the writing team for NIKKE. It would be a straight improvement over what SB got.
>>741181696S,ame. I genuinely felt that they should've made the some of the sidequests a lot more lighthearted, like the sidequests in the OG Nier where you have to find some dude's son who ran away only to find out he ran away so he didn't get caught up in his family's criminal enterprise or the one in Automata where you rescue a little girl machine and 9S gets roped into a birds and the bees talk.All the sidequests are either end up with someone dying or with a neutral conclusion. I get the ones with the more important NPCs having some drama to them, but some of them should've had more funny rather than macabre endings.>>741182118>"4x lower increase for hard mode" mod I'll look into that. Thanks for the heads up. Speaking about SB2, hopefully they get the difficulty curve right with that game.>>741182346She's Albanian. Jonie is an Albanian surname. Still would though.
remember that sidequest where some female npc thought kaya was fucking her boyfriend? good times
>>741182808>>741182417>>741179930I think I want to jerk off to these sluts
>>741182572These are the two mods I mentioned.https://www.nexusmods.com/stellarblade/mods/2158https://www.nexusmods.com/stellarblade/mods/2624I tried various other difficulty mods, but the top one feels right. Its called "Harder Normal Mode", but affects the hard mode.
>>741183526Mole dev strikes again.
>>741183526sudden need for eebee milk
>>741181696Is that a mod?
>>741167713>shit kpop>shows a picture of Quistis who looks like Gackt>from a franchise that makes every character look like Gackt at different eras in his life>Biggest inspiration of Blood Rain is Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita>"formulaic and soulless">Nier is "deep"If Nier is deep then so is EvangelionThey're not, Nier and Eva are the definition of the meme LOLDEEP
>>741167742Sidestory>Backstory.
Stellar Blade seems to be more yuri than Nier Automata.
>>741183782the outfit? Yeah, Type B Harness Suit
dont fall for the rage bait
>>741183967It does lack a shota.
>>741183998Futa is better than shota anyway
>>741181696kaya's sister so pretty, i found the game a bit too harsh on people though like, if a character disappered or some sidequests asked u to find someone, you pretty knew they were dead. only exception was Su when he went to look for the legs alone like a retard and i thought for sure he was, but no.
>>741183997Incel gooner virgin. Why can't you handle a 40 year old white woman in your games?If you can't get hard to a wrinkly flabby lady who looks like your grandma, are you even a man?
>>741183984I may buy it when it's under 30 bucks.
The town in the trailer looks cool visually but since this is weeb shit I expect the story to be retarded
i legit hollered when i saw this shit man. God bless this company
>>741184230chinkweeb and gookweeb is often more retarded than true japan weeb.
>>741184263
>>741184330yYes exactly. Like the story in this will be way more retarded and stupid than anything in a Final Fantasy game or a Persona game.
I know you will all call me a faggot for this but I'm put off by the overly sexually design. Its too much. I'm not even a woketard as I didnt like how Tifa got nerfed in FF7 Remake. But the way this girl looks is too too silly. Its too much and I dont really understand why you are not insulted by the fact the devs think you are retarded coomers. Its so patronising.
>>741184263Su's a lucky man.
>>741184506you are a woke faggot.thanks for confirming.
>>741184506the fact that you had to pull a "i even have black friends" with that tifa thing means its over for you anon
>>741184506Have you tried the Stellar Blade demo? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3564860/Stellar_Blade_Demo/
>>741184506stop playing games in your living room faggot
>>741184506You're way more woke than you think you are. And likely very young. Eve isn't even that sexualized compared to lots of animeslop or games from years past.
>>741184506And they say we're the ones afraid of woman. I'm glad devs like these stopped taking you fags seriously.
>>741183967speaking of yuriYou can tell she's also designed for women who's into shotas but want a girl too.
that guy sounds like the journalist who said Eve is too sexualized then was found wearing skirts on the weekends
>>741184656I'm really not woke at all. I hate woke shit like dragon age and whatnot. Lara Croft doesnt look sexy enough in the Tomb Raider Remake. Her boobs are too small and her ass is too flat. The girl in this game looks too sexualised though like that part in the trailer with the butt jiggle is just so stupid and silly looking.
>>741184748gaming "journalists" are no different from troll posters trying to get as many (you)s as possible. except they get to monetize it.
>>741184810You're really not fooling anyone newfag
>>741184810Have you tried the demo? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3564860/Stellar_Blade_Demo/
>>741184960Nope. I don't really care about the first game. I was only sorta interested in this new one as the town looks cool visually.
>>741176015
That reminds me, anyone who says the butt jiggle for Evie in the trailer was silly looking/unrealistic is not capable of visualizing her ass in 3D and realize its the outside of her ass moving like that not the entire cheeks.watch it again with this >>741173660 in mind
>>741185058
>evie the literal same height as the female npcs>they says shes too youngi sense some jealously
>>741176108That retarded bitch in the pic is so full of herself. I watched one of her videos and she kept mentioning how she thinks she is very attractive and has always been very attractive all her life.
>>741183984does the skindentation have physics?
>>741184960Why is there no demo for the newest game?
>>741185471Uhhhh, it's too new to have a demo.
>>741185392think so, been a while.
Will there be alternate outfits I can put her in to make her less sexual?
>>741185607guess
>muh storyshut the fuck up
>>741185607Do you like Kung Fu?
i hope evie has a quirk like eve and collects martial arts mags
>>741185940100% will and she'll have the brightest smile when she finds one of the collectibles
is this outfit really necessary for a soldier?
>>741186563thats her skin suit so yeah
>>741186563
>>741186563so many faggots lost their goddamn minds seeing this it was great
>>741186563This thing sucks since it actually is a full suit 100% covering her body
>>741185940I can't keep thinking about Evie Fist and always remember to Kazuya's Iron's Fist Tournament announcement.
>>741187053
Will vulva physics return in SB2?
>>741179560that's barely enough for one person
>>741187156>Tekken 3 Cover inspirationI can see the vision.
>>741167610why does people care about the story in these kind of gamesi played 2 Bayonetta games and all i could tell is that angels were trying to kill me so i went to their HQ to kill the pope and godsame with Devil May Cry, there's an evil castle with not Dracula waiting at then, then in the 3rd game (the second never happened) your evil twin spaned an evil tower full of bosses and it's your job to kick his assDouble Dragon set the gold standard for story telling in these kind of gamejust have someone to rescue and avenge through a set of clorfull bosses with a horde of punks thughs and hoodlums standing between you and the big baddie
>>741187218is that actually vulva physics or just shitty weights on the ass physics?
I just hope this is like godhand, thatd be cool
>>741180484>>741175924>>741172318love her
>>741187581It has similarities
>>741184506Young chud realizes that his own squad will shit him when he deviates, probably explains why all their opinions are xeroxed.
>>741176015>I will blindly believe women instead of forming my own opinion because I believe they have some superpower I don't haveholy simping shit
ANON WATCH OUT
I really like the human body. Especially one that suggests agility and vitality.And especially especially when it's of the fairer sex, of which I am not. That adds just another layer of mystery to me. And if you want my opinion, I think it's better that they're young.Because the young can be young, and get old later, but the opposite cannot be true.
>see people jerk off over Stellar Blade because of Eve>boot up the demo>there's an ugly brown mutt guy>read up on the plot because no way I'm touching the game now>the best ending has Eve and the mutt merging togetherYour waifu got touched by a shitskin lol
>>741187483The game does sell itself as a game with a compelling narrative and Shift Up wants to provide a story and characters people will cherish. Its part of their studio's DNA and it's something people complained about after seeing how great their storytelling chops could be in their gacha game. I personally did not expect much from the story (although I found a lot to like in it) and I think that a lot of people overrate the importance of a story in a video game if it's fun to play, but a fun game with a great story does elevate the experience. It also makes the price of admission feel worthwhile, especially since full priced games feel so expensive these days.
dont fall for the race bait retard
>>741184506>I complained that the character with big tits got realistic big tits, that's why I know I'm not a faggotall I confirmed about your post is that you're an absolute retard
>>741188052that gook is the game director's self insert btw
>>741188146in the game he flirts and teases lily tbdesu. when he talks to eve it's all business.
>>741188228Lily is smart so she often catches onto his lies and he has to shut her down or distract her, I didnt see any flirting
>>741169446Just beat the game as well.Played Hard only up to halfway through the desert then went back to normal, so much fucking better holy shit, and Normal still kicked my ass around lategame.Hard is a trap, it's harder but it's also not fucking fun at all when a boss is onscreen.
>>741188417nice korean teenager
By the way can we agree the entire space mission for the 4th mcguffin was goddamn fucking amazing throughout?
>>741188649>>741169446People complained that normal mode was too easy and wanted the devs to unlock hard mode from the start instead of waiting until NG+ to get it. So, they unlocked it, but it was balanced around NG+ and naturally wasn't that fun to play.
I should talk to kaya more
DORO
>>741188872If you're talking about the orbital elevator, yea, everyone seemed to like that part.
>>741188872Because space elevator, if you completely ignore wasteland and great desert is like half the entire game. It was clear that the game was fairly short until they added these two content padding zones.
>>741189215Come to think of it, while i understand the large zones served as padding, did thid game really need TWO desert biomes?Cmon, one could have easily been a forest instead of a desert.
so comfyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfONACff3hI
>>741188872pure kino
>>741189689FVAAAAAARK
>>741187483In any game really, if I want a story I'd just put the controller down and watch Sony movieslop
>>741167610>Stellar blade's story was basically nier automataso a bad story? yoko taro slops were never good
>>741189609That's part of why a game like Stellar Blade is successful at only a few million copies sold. Two post-apocalyptic desert areas allows for a lot of repurposed assets. It's not hard to imagine that adding a forest biome would've required a lot more time and resources, which would've been taxing for the first console-quality game for the studio. But they did designed them differently. Gameplaywise, the first desert was more of a metroidvania with specific paths and unlockable shortcuts, where as the second one was more open world where you could go in any direction you liked with points of interests scattered about. I'm sure they'll address this issue in the second game as the first was a big commercial success for them and they seem to be addressing a lot of the complaints people had about the first game. But you gotta wonder how many different "biomes" we'll get in a city setting. Or maybe there'll be more than just the city that we'll be playing in.
>game is called bloodrain because the colony will be brought down in crimson embersKINO
>>741189930this is too fucking kinoim going to die
>>741189990*reminds you of the hypertube section* oops
>>741189930So is this gonna be the game where we fuck Mother Sphere for good?Or is the gook cooking a twist where the final boss is the god-tier Eve?
>>741190409The only thing I did not like about the hypertube was that we were only allowed to run it once per run. There was no option to rerun it just for fun and it was not an easy mini-game.
>>741190594same, I wanted to go back through it almost immediately after Belial interrupted my fun with more fun
>>741167742>>741183856What about her frontstory? or is that an entirely different story
Can i go back to fighting Adam if i already beat the robot or is my choice locked in?
>>741191895Your choice is locked in. You gotta do another playthrough or maybe there's a mod for it.
>>741191895pretty sure theres a save point at the camp before the final fight
>>741191895if you only use wb pumps to revive and don't revive at camp you can pick the other option, that's how i got two endings in one run
>>741167610>will the story be better this time?Who cares? Will the gameplay not be garbage this time?
>>741187483>>741189874Because like >>741188056 said, a good story isn't necessary to make a good game, but a great game with a good story makes the game much more worthwhile than a great game with a decent story (or outright bad one). Arcade games only needed to wordy about mechanics since they were by their nature limited experiences that you were expected to beat in 30 minutes and likewise 6th gen action games were more worried about having a solid mechanical foundation rather than their story.Now that most of that is crystallized and devs can make a game experience that is mechanically fun to play, story is a big hook to actually get you to buy it. No one will waste their time on a game with an especially shallow story, which strangely enough, I've found ties into how mechanically sound a game is most of the time. Movie games really suck not just because they have no gameplay (but that is one of the most primary factor as to why they do), but because they have to rely on emotional manipulation to get you to care about the characters and the world rather than actual gameplay exploration and interaction that most games would have you do. I don't care about any of the characters or the world in a movie game like Les of Us or Mom's a Whore since I'm just passively absorbing their travels and only act when the game tells me to. Meanwhile, even in an action game like the DMC games, Nier games, Bayonetta, Bloodrayne, Stellar Blade, the original GoW trilogy and Ascension and pretty much any action game, the story motivates the action and the stage where it takes place.The story doesn't have to be Ancient Greek literature levels of great, but it should be good enough to compel actual action in game. The story is just an element that adds to the gameplay feedback loop in a positive manner, in a good game at least.
>>741176015We have reached that weird point in time where european supremacists tell koreans they are not allowed to be attracted to koreans.
>>741191974Well if it exists it's buried under the massive amount of coomer mods, rip.
>>741188382Adam should've CORRECTED Lily with Eve joining in too. That brat needs to learn her lesson.
>>741177148As in the world building is better than the actual story?
>>741190478Who knows? I had a couple of ideas of where a sequel could go based off of the endings, but what Shift Up has shown off so far has me totally stumped. I've kind of started believing what another anon said in these threads that BR will be kind of a soft reboot. So, maybe it'll be set like 100 years after the events of Stellar Blade or something so there'll be something connected to the first game, but it'll be set so far away that everything will mostly be a fresh setting. Heck, there may not be a Mother Sphere in BR.
>>741192282>inb4 mother sphere was preparing war with aliens she knew were coming
>>741192362That's a good point, it's never explained why she got rid of humans after all.I chalked it up to humanity being past its potential and all, but maybe she wanted to clean Earth to grow an army capable of fighting an invasion instead, but Raffy/Adam made things go to shit through Naytibas/Natives.
>>741189930>>741190478mother sphere was right about humans. turning themselves into monsters just to spite androids is the most batshit insane thing a species can do.how can you associate yourself with that?it's better to just abandon them and go all inon robots who claim to be the real humans.
>>741177654the harder bosses are at the end. be patient. not a super hard game but the difficulty goes up a bit
>>741192362Whatever it is, let's go. The trailer looked amazing. Evie looked amazing. The city looked amazing. The combat looked amazing. Wherever they're going with the story, I'm on board. They've earned my faith with the first game.
>>741192443>>741192998SU can take this really far and give us hot ailen waifus
>>741169446>>worst feeling dodge in any action game I've ever seen holy shit,This is only if you don't unlock the dodge perks. Once you unlock them it feels smooth. >every single enemy baits your parry or dodge with a fuckass delayed fakeout attack as an opener, even the trash mobs which is annoying as fuckDifferent strokes for different folks. I actually like feints and fakeouts as a mechanic. They are very troll -ey and make you pay attention. >side quests that don't naturally complete as you're exploring which makes exploration feel badNot sure what this even means. Side quests don't work like that in most games. >Playing the game on hard was just awful in general, I'm not doing that shit again.Then don't play on hard?Your problems seem mostly self imposed
>>741192746That's part of why i want to pick the other ending so bad.Adam is wrong here, there is no purpose in reviving humanity beyond itself here, Andro-Eidos surpass them in all things, they are categorically inferior, and would be absolutely be nothing but canon fodder against the leftover Naytibas roaming around + Mother Sphere that already rejects Eve's choice in the true ending.
>>741179002Didn't you just claim that you finished the game? The bosses are re used for some side quests. And the main quest has one re used boss fight for the tps section. But everything else is original.
>>741180116Dang. Looks like one of the best outfits in the game but you have to get to Eidos 9 three entire times to get it
>>741193475Had to crop because of file size limits.
>>741182118I found the difficulty was mostly fine in the beginning and end, it was the middle that was a bit too easy. Either way, you can challenge the bosses again any time you want via the boss rush mode, which is actually one of my favorite features in the game. It lets you set the difficulty and also your gear level. It lets me enjoy the boss fights more than the base game.
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>>741177148This might be a schizo take but I think the music did a better job of telling the story than the actual story.
>>741193609No idea how people got so good at photo mode, but I appreciate their efforts.
>>741177360Most play it on normal? If you thought it was too hard why didn't you switch?
>>741177654How is it a slog? Also only side quests reuse bosses minus one exception.
>>741182417a buy who took lots of estrogen
This suit seems to give her a buff
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>>741172318ugly as shit art>>741172969and cringe
I dunno. I've recently tried out their mobile game, Nikke: Goddess of Victory. It's actually kinda interesting.It kind of leverages its ecchi softcore hentai designs for an artistic purpose. An artistic purpose that is clearly secondary to its commercial purpose, which is to act as a selling point, but it's also clearly self aware of how ridiculous its character designs are. And I don't mean "self-aware" in the sense of poking fun at it, but in the sense of treating that objectification as a core theme. Its cast of collectible waifus in loosely military themed fetish wear are battle androids (with the minds of real women) and most of the games story arcs explore their status as a dehumanized underclass in a militarized, post apocalyptic society, sort of a Terminator setting where robots have taken over the world and humans live in underground shelters.It's still sexploitation and, at least from what I personally played of it, never really manages to transcend its status as such, but goes to some length to inject some actual pathos.I hope Stellar Blade 2 can do the same. I found the first game extremely bland. The only aspect of it that I liked was the way all those tight spandex clothes you could put on Eve had some flavour text of all those brands who manufactured them, suggesting a world where there's a merge between high fashion and combat gear, which I found kind of interesting. It made me wonder what that society that dispatches super soldiers that look like K-Pop idols in designer clothes to fight monsters on a ruined earth is actually like. We never learn much about it. But it would be interesting if they explored it.
>>741167713I pirated, played and enjoyed both
>>741176015You get to play as children in other games but only one group of people is thinking about the pedo implication
>>741195447yep a hungry man thinks about bread
>>741171041>Both games having androids in them>And both games being set on a post apocalyptic earth >And both games make you play as members of an android military fighting for mankind.>And both games giving you mission to wipe out an enemy force occupying earth.>And both games using the fact that the humanity you fight for is extinct as a twist>And both games having the two species fighting claiming to be the true succesors to mankind.Yeah, I don't see the similarities either.
>>741184685I think she's going to be popular with Japanese artist this time. Eve was too Korean designed in mind. Meanwhile Evie has that shota/tomboy brat look to her. JP artist will have a lot to work with.
sbfags posting their 1 new fan art a day to make it seem like people actually give a shit.fortnite clown mogging evie without even trying
>>741195634your insecurity about this game is hilarious.
>>741176418Chotto matte
>>741195634That's a lot when you consider how much non-gacha characters these days get fanart. Like how many did Grace get considering that RE9 sold more than 5 million copies at this point. Crimson Desert sold 6 million and I haven't seen fan art of that either.
>>741195570Mankind isn't extinct. Also, Stellar Blade doesn't have a shota.
>>741193919>>741193736>>741192002pumping
>>741196017Well, Stellar Blade has one protagonist and Nier Automata has three, I guess that is the most meaningful difference.I guess Lily kind of serves as an analogue to 9S and Raven to A2, but even I concede it's a bit of a stretch.
>>741196073>Lily kind of serves as an analogue to 9Si want to put my pp in lily.
>>741196164Yeah, she was the only design in that game I actually found attractive.
>>741195570Nta but they are similar in premise, but when you actually discuss the story and concepts involved, they're plenty different. NA is about aliens and humans fighting as a backdrop, both creating machines and androids to fight a proxy war but the twist is that both their masters have been dead for centuries or more. The story is also about 9s' obsession with 2b, not knowing that he had been killed by 2b, then 2e and replaced multiple times for closesly knowing the truth. In Nier Automata, humanity is truly good for good and it's about robots trying to know what being human actually feels like and 9s undergoes all of that throughout the game, fear, happiness, love, pain and madness. It's a story that explores the human condition.By comparison, Stellar Blade is more like Terminator where man's folly with technology leads it to destroy himself, first with the creation of Mother Sphere, who he thought would help mankind but instead deemed them obsolete and just like Skynet decides to eradicate them and replace them with machines. Then fast forward into the future, Eve is given a choice to completely erase humanity and give the reins of the future to androids or give humanity a second chance in the game of natural selection. It also throws in some conflict about religion somewhere but it wasn't really explored that much.
>>741196424gone for good*
:3
Come to think of it, Evie kinda looks like a smaller, younger Yumia from atelier.
"Naytiba"?Hahaha, what did they mean by this?
Doesn't matter because the Indians who play these games don't care about story.
>>741183984MOREEE
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>>741196912Commanders shouldn't be doing that with their subordinates.
>TKD sold
>>741167742She has negative ass compared to eve
the gaslighting isnt working
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>>741167610There's a story?
>>741198103its hard tk notice but once tou look away from the ass, yes there is one
Ebie butt sexe
i think i will just skip straight to porns
>>741167610Why does all the art make her fat if she looks great in game?
>>741200358when you stop gaslighting
>>741171024Why did i watch that whole thing
Alita Battle Angel game would be cooler
>>741180338>I played normal mode. The first alpha wrecked my shit, took like 10 tries. Damn you suck ass at videogames
Most 2D "art" seems to be AI as well
>>741201354It would be, but it's close enough because she looks the same age as Alita does in the comics, unlike the live action movie
>>741204062I didn't watch the spielberg movie. How different was it from the manga
>>741188056I would like to shake hands with the man (or woman) who crafted these beauties.
>>741203984You can tell the 2d art is ai if it actually looks decently drawn. Most of the genuine 2d art looks like shit.
>>741167610Stellar Blade's story wasn't even bad. It was okay. The world building was actually quite good, too.If the story was genuinely bad I don't think it would have gotten nearly as many Raven fans.
>>741204269They gave her an obviously adult actor, except to make her look more "anime" they blew up her eyes and make them take up a larger percentage of her face in CG. Younger characters have always been depicted with large eyes as an indicator of the character's age. Evie looks closer to Alita's manga age, even though she is older. Granted Gally/Alita had an older brain, but thats almost like vampires.
The reveal
>>741204062Alita in the comic doesn't look like a pubescent adrogynous shota
breakfast with Eebee
>>741167610They said that they couldn't focus more on the story in the first game and that they would do that in the sequel
>>741173660Because people prefer hebes, retard.
>>741208197not my problem, retard.
I wish tomboys were real.
