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@endershepard7117

2 ай бұрын

It is to me. And this is coming from someone who thought that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth had no competition for GOTY. I have 200+ hours in FF7 Rebirth. But Stellar Blade is something else. It’s violent, gory, sexy, beautiful and amazing!

@Mr_Tea_Rexx

2 ай бұрын

you realize that the character your playing as was actually scanned from a model so yes its based on a real person

@TheeBrainer

2 ай бұрын

One thing to say " Lara Croft " games.

@reedofwater

2 ай бұрын

Oh c'mon man, stop acting holier than thou, men are never too old to appreciate fine bodies.

@sa-me000

2 ай бұрын

wah!!! 옹발이!!! thank u 😂❤❤

Ah yes, I remember the outrage over God of War and how it is setting unrealistic standards for men.

@devdutdutta8796

2 ай бұрын

I member, how the journalists were attacking the devs for creating a super buff man. They said why can't you make him weak like the * gasp * modern audience ( sarcasm)

@allenoverall7361

2 ай бұрын

I cried at his godly strength 😭

@theblueshanobi

2 ай бұрын

​@@devdutdutta8796 you can't be serious

@AXL.

2 ай бұрын

How dare they make a buff character so unrealistic

@Re.T986

2 ай бұрын

😅 how dare they create unrealistic body expectations for men that men still somehow meet with a little hard work.😂

Remember the controversy about leon being so buff and good looking in resident evil 4 ? Me neither. People need to chill tf out honestly.

@Thorn_416

Ай бұрын

because men (The vast majority of the gaming audience) can't be threatened by a character in media lol

@denkerbosu3551

Ай бұрын

@@Thorn_416 I mean, I've never heard a male say anything like "This handsome male character's setting unrealisitc standards for me, I'll die alone now" Some journos legit insist girs will D.I.E. over this game coming out.

@PlanetShlorpian

Ай бұрын

​@@denkerbosu3551DIE? More like D.E.I. lol.

So nobody questioned how barret was so huge even after missing an arm. Nobody questioned why kratos is so ripped. It’s a freaking video game. Let us fantasize and have good looking characters.

@lennartrex

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@Porter90

2 ай бұрын

The people who care the most about feminine beauty in video games get the least amount of female interaction in the real world. We are celebrating feminine beauty more than ever because we are no longer sticking to a very specifc type of beautiful women and are appreciating women who are more diverse whether that means having more meat on their bones, being older or having stronger jaws and shorter hair it's still great.

@d818581dd

2 ай бұрын

Barret wasn't going into battle in high heels! Please be serious.

@williamstockton5597

2 ай бұрын

@@d818581dd he had giant shoulder muscles even tho he had a gun for an arm. Was he bench pressing with the gun??? No. But it’s a video game and he looks cool so it’s alright. But we get a hot chick and everybody wants to cry? Wtf

@RideorDie1987

2 ай бұрын

The issue is that there are people in the highest positions with the lowest self esteem who push back on whats considered to "look good" based on their insecurities about how they look in comparison..

Gotta appreciate that the devs are creating a full product, rather than relying on Eve as the entire selling point.

@kenethernandez6246

2 ай бұрын

She's just the hook. They knew what they were doing and they know the gameplay has to be good.

@inuclearpickle8628

2 ай бұрын

@@kenethernandez6246Na she is bait the hook is the gameplay

@yeetskeet3

2 ай бұрын

I love that

@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye

2 ай бұрын

Pretty much my opinion as well 🎉

@andreypokesaround

2 ай бұрын

@@kenethernandez6246 absolutely, if they were to rely only on Eve, we'd probably get another X-Blades. As Luke said, the devs could easily profit from a massive amount of gamers who'd buy the game only for the main character, but to create a compelling gameplay and POTENTIALLY a good story is commendable.

I like how its controversial for a woman to be attractive

@RonniSchmidt-mi7pd

2 ай бұрын

It isn't, it's only controversial to gay and trans people, and also Muslims

@joqazi

2 ай бұрын

@@RonniSchmidt-mi7pd i'm trans and i'm not mad at all lol. i love to play as hot chicks

@ranzu3138

2 ай бұрын

Apparently a woman not looking like a super model is also controversial. It goes both ways.

@ranzu3138

2 ай бұрын

@@RonniSchmidt-mi7pd I don't think you've met any gay or trans person, they love attractive ladies.

@raiderdeck9640

2 ай бұрын

damn you just gonna be xenophobic with chest@@RonniSchmidt-mi7pd

Eve looks like a character that could easily fit into the world of Tekken 8

@darrellhall9141

2 ай бұрын

She kind of looks like Kasumi from DOA but she would definitely be awesome in Tekken 8

@tonydeluna8095

2 ай бұрын

@@darrellhall9141agreed 💯! I can see a resemblance of DOA

@sailorboy8314

2 ай бұрын

@@darrellhall9141Especially with the short ponytail. Kasumi is my favorite character from DOA btw

@bennymountain1

Ай бұрын

Nah, female chars in Tekken aren't THAT exaggerated.

@jdspetersgaming

Ай бұрын

Eve needs a soul calibur 7 guest appearance

Why the reflexive dismissal of a hot girl in a game? Why is everyone rolling their eyes at that? If it was a jacked dude, they wouldn’t dismiss it.

@zaphael7238

2 ай бұрын

I miss those games, I miss the tongue in cheek humor and the over the top outfits. Is Eve eye candy? Sure but it’s not like Laura Croft or Bayoneta were not cool characters but also eye candy. I’m not offended by this anymore than I’m offended by every Barbarian character running around in what equates to furred briefs flexing his bulging muscles I like eye candy too.

@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye

2 ай бұрын

Because it’s tacky? Doesn’t mean it’s bad though. Just means to plays to a different audience. People need to learn to ignore shit they don’t like and buy what they do 🎉

@strahinjagov

2 ай бұрын

​@@Humdeeheyyahawikiahayedid you find it tacky when you could unlock an underwear costume for Spider-Man in 2018?

@TheCephalon

2 ай бұрын

Because a jacked guy could fight in a war, while a skinny woman with no armor couldn’t

@SolidSnake240

2 ай бұрын

​@@HumdeeheyyahawikiahayeSo the irl model's body/figure is tacky? Damn

Gotta love how we pretend like this character design is an old thing when Nier, Bayonetta, Dead or Alive (as well as many other on going series) are just a few examples of how it never went away. But because a few people in the right circles wanted to clutch their pearls in this particular case we have to suddenly rewrite reality. It's not design from a bygone era just because some clown on a digital foundry video claimed it was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@SolidSnake240

2 ай бұрын

I was so disappointed in DF with that BS video lol

@alandab

2 ай бұрын

NGL...I expected much better from Luke. I guess in the end, he's not more than a stone's throw from being just as outta touch than Kotaku and DF.

@constantinesoldatos

2 ай бұрын

I agree, why do game characters (male, female or otherwise) need to be realistic in a fantasy setting? People really need to chill out and enjoy each game for what it is as long as it's their cup of tea. I have massive respect for Luke but when he said ''if you're willing to look past this...'' , I mean he's the one having trouble looking past it, the rest of us normal gamers just went like ''huh nice @ss'' for the first 0.5 secs and then literally forgot about it and went on with the gameplay, which is amazing btw. Obviously we get that it's unrealistic which is why we hardly give it a second thought unlike Luke who couldn't see past it (for the wrong reasons). Btw The character is based on a real life model. Obviously they ''enhanced'' a few ''vital'' areas but still who cares and why should we. It's fantasy and people losing it over something that's not meant to represent something real are the ones that seriously need to grow up and stop complaining or crying about it. So immature.

@Zetler

2 ай бұрын

@@alandabHe’s totally giving off Otaku vibes in this video.

@jimmyv3170

2 ай бұрын

​@@SolidSnake240the worst thing I've seen Digital Foundry do was be too scared to review Hogwarts Legacy because of the fake online backlash to where one of their employees (John) threw a child like fit about it on Twitter because people just asked him about why weren't they reviewing the game.

>knows suicide squad is a mess >still gives it a fair chance >it is indeed a mess >new season comes out >decides to give it another chance >it's still a mess >takes one look at Eve >immediately dismissed it >played demo with the intention of dropping it It's weird to see the gaming industry "defend" women... as long as the women in question aren't attractive

@cybersaiko451

2 ай бұрын

It's not just attractiveness but they only seem to defend women who have predominantly masculine traits, because apparently feminism lost It's meaning a long time ago and women are now just relegated to an alternate version of a man because....equality?

@kingblaze979

2 ай бұрын

I was going to say something similar to this glad I'm not the only one that noticed it.

@redninja3056

2 ай бұрын

Maybe because one game was made by rocksteady and the other one focused on the fact that a girl was hot not well designed either

@digitalshinigami8441

2 ай бұрын

but like who is defending suicide squad? dont think this point works in the way you think it does

@MrMooMoo088

2 ай бұрын

​@digitalshinigami8441 I think their point is that everyone knew Suicide Squad was going to be a corporate dumpster fire but people are giving it multiple chances. However, Stellar blade which really doesn't have any history to be critical of was dismissed because of the eye candy. There's a strange trend of people staying loyal to obviously declining Studios while dismissing newer one

As long as the sex appeal isn’t the only appealing thing to a game, I really see no problem with it at all. I also don’t think it’s a “positive change” to make every single female character in all games be the most average female in existence. I also like to play as huge muscular badass guys even if I never seen a single man in my life that actually looks like that.

@LegendaryGlasses

2 ай бұрын

And even if sex appeal was the only appealing thing, that’d be ok. Just don’t buy/play it if you don’t like it. Nobody gets to tell the world what or how to play or what or how to develop. NOBODY.

@theobservarator6424

2 ай бұрын

​@@LegendaryGlasses But don't pretend or get mad if it's called just a porn game.

@LegendaryGlasses

2 ай бұрын

@@theobservarator6424 won’t do if it indeed is a porn game. With pornography content. Bc calling a game like Stellar Blade a porn game is only an insult.

@Choryrth

2 ай бұрын

@@theobservarator6424 ah, but that's the thing. there are no porn games being advertised on anything but porn websites.

@SeudXe

2 ай бұрын

To me it is the only appealing thing to this game

“Teenage boys” so grown men can't like attractive women anymore now?

@degisndinga8853

2 ай бұрын

apparently bro, that argument never makes sense to me. its like their saying once you've reach adulthood he just turn gay

@CharlesZane_

2 ай бұрын

I think I’ve seen just as many women fawning over Eve as men, maybe even more.

@horgecondaliza6644

2 ай бұрын

Oh of course.​@@CharlesZane_

@SpadeApeiron

2 ай бұрын

I can't believe this guy is the same person as digital foundry guy ~ What happened to men !? or when did this happen to men!

@zealootkim3813

Ай бұрын

@@SpadeApeiron ideologi and easy upbringing plus singel moms.

I seriously dont understand the comment: "to appeal to a teenage brain". Is it because the protagonist is a Hot woman??? Im a 47 year old Gamer - female, heterosexual and happily married. I love looking at Hot women who are well written and competent female badasses. Im not sure if this is the case here, but putting the game in a box, meant in a derogatory way, because the female is Hot is incredibly sexist from you. Amazing to see how, nowadays, in an attempt to be so correct and progressive, people end up being more prejudiced and sexist than ever before. Play the game - judge it on gameplay and writing. If the protagonists are attractive....well, to my eyes, even better. I have enough reality when i look at myself at the mirror - let me fantasize with being a Gorgeous woman fighting monsters in space for a couple of hours. Also....I love to see Kratos muscles on my screen while playing God of War. Humanity likes attractive things and beauty - no problem with that!

@EannieMay

2 ай бұрын

I'm a girl, and I love when female characters are pretty, you are not alone

@Mandoon

Ай бұрын

I love you :P (Just playing) Good for you for being a strong woman! I'm a 33-Year-old man and couldn't admire your statement more. Keep being you.

@BlazeSwigglePlayzMc

Ай бұрын

@@derkitheofficial3306 Again it's a fantasy, why would a game need to be realistic or practical 100%? If a game has an attractive character and the creator wants to show thier beauty in a fan servicy way then they should be allowed to.

@N0buKi

Ай бұрын

@@Mandoon refrain from interacting with people, please, it hurts

@roe_k

Ай бұрын

I don't understand why this completely normal position is no longer the default one, honestly. What the fuck happened to people?

Call me crazy but I think it’s ok to have a hot main character. You can have this and you can also have your Ellie’s and abbeys. Both can exist at the same time

@angelaziegler5610

2 ай бұрын

we love hot women protagonists but also strong independent women protagonists, women slay

@dx5741

2 ай бұрын

Ellie is not even ugly. She just looks pale and tired which fits the setting of the game

@ZelBellz

2 ай бұрын

Yeah exactly

Social commentary aside, I wish we had more games that still followed the rule of cool. Doing something not necessarily because it looks realistic or efficient but because it just looks cool, like long trench-coats and always wearing sunglasses, or fighting with chainsaws, emptying thousands of rounds without ever reloading, low-gravity in a skating/snowboarding game. Basically anything like this, SSX, Jak 2, DMC, or Doom

@maineman5757

2 ай бұрын

Bro..... did you not realize? If it is not 1:1 realistic to reality, then it shouldn't exist in video games.

@_sir_reginald

2 ай бұрын

Hear! Hear!! Hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!

@SL4PSH0CK

2 ай бұрын

its great that its the essential for a Hack and Slash.

@ZelBellz

2 ай бұрын

Yes

EVE is literally modeled after a real life woman. Who knew attractive people exist IRL? Shocking I tell you.

@ErgoDog

2 ай бұрын

Her looks are fine, but she is pretty dull in the demo 😅

@KeyonMoffitt101

2 ай бұрын

The problems is usually model women arent monster destroyers lmao . Like the last of us part 2 is realistic. Not Rihanna dominating monsters lmao

@lukascerny6405

2 ай бұрын

Crazy there was no character development in a 40 minutes long demo huh... ​@@ErgoDog

@GamingCaveman1989

2 ай бұрын

yes, based on a cute girl who was reproportioned and beautified by the artists. If you think she wasn't heavily edited, you may have zoomer eyes.

@thataintfalco7106

2 ай бұрын

@@KeyonMoffitt101usually big giant monsters don’t fight cybernetic women. Rule of cool, you know how it is. Plus the game isn’t tryna be realistic.

Our male video game heroes can be handsome and fit and look the part…but don’t you dare do the same with a female protagonist

@sa-me000

2 ай бұрын

maybe………… “ asian “ women 🙄

@zarris2635

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure the problem is that the women are designed to be attractive to *men* and have, to some, unnecessary and ill-fitting armor or character designs for the world they are in. Think like... in old school games there's the attractive male hero character wearing full (if maybe semi-form fitting) plate armor. Nothing wrong with that right? Well, if you take that same armor and apply it to the female hero character models it turns into a metal bikini. The issue is less making characters attractive and more in *how* they are being made attractive. Are the same standards being applied to both male and female models? Are they being given the same amount of character outside of their looks (if that's relevant to the game)? Are the character designs made to appeal to a general audience or to a specific demographic? When I see the models for Stellar Blade I see a "male gaze" focus on the design. That's the issue that some people have with it. Not that the characters are "attractive", but that they are attractive in a specific way that is meant to appeal to a male audience and reduces their female character designs to overtly sexualized beauty.

@dustybenscot7199

2 ай бұрын

get this women also like playing hot women character no one like playing ugly character. @@zarris2635

@sagitta9891

2 ай бұрын

​@@sa-me000 Elizabeth Comstock is an American and she still looks good.

@Bemenhorst

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@zarris2635 I agree with your statement about why there’s a difference. However I still don’t see a problem in making your female characters look a certain way as a stylistic choice. The game is a product and therefore has a target audience it tries to reach to have economic success. If someone doesn’t like what they’re seeing, they are probably not the target audience. Both the developer and targeted consumer don’t have any moral obligation according to a certain subjective view of the world. In the end though, this whole debate is just both sides farming for engagement

I like hot women and I will never apologize for it.

@FazeParticles

2 ай бұрын

the normies and libs will crucify you for that statement. good thing is it's all rhetoric at the end of the day. well except for the attempts to cancel this game and company by IGN and Kotaku. aside from that we eating good.

@irlsoldierboy6225

2 ай бұрын

@@FazeParticles I'm a leftist but hearing straight dudes pretending to be opressed is so funny to me LOL. I miss when this game was just some niche thing and I wish we can go back so bad

@Mohgenstein

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@FazeParticles ”Normies” - 🤓

@Phillipmurr

2 ай бұрын

@@irlsoldierboy6225 you forgot to mention straight white . Really let that signal burn bright.

@Vifnis

Ай бұрын

"edgy teenager detected" *sweet babies detected*

Never apologize for wanting attractive female characters in your video games.

We...uh....we do realize that the body model for Eve is based on a real woman. Right? Her name is Shin Jae-eun, btw.

@behamut92

2 ай бұрын

The girl is practically a stick compared to the stellar in game model

@kenethernandez6246

2 ай бұрын

​@@behamut92If you go based on the picture of her in the scan only you could say that but definitely not if you look at other pictures she has. The model has some pretty substantial assets.

@waltonbanks3797

2 ай бұрын

​@behamut92 yea thts not even close to true lmao but even if it was help me to understand...so curvy woman arnt allowed only fat or manly ones n we cant speak negative about em but body shaming is allowed if we r shaming the woman that dont fit the bullshit narrative being pushed tht attractive woman with jiggly tits slim waistline and a nice ass are non existant

@ErgoDog

2 ай бұрын

Eve have no personality at all. I liked the protagonist of Nier Automata morr

@khaalmalki4039

2 ай бұрын

@@ErgoDog Really ? You mean a 1 hour demo that has more gameplay than story didn't make you like her over a character in game that came out in 2017 ?

2:06 "This type of game is still common in some parts of the world, but we haven't really seen it in the west that much. And part of that is because there has been sort of a concerted effort to get away from scantily clad women headlining games and instead try to make the headlining characters especially if they're female more human, more normal." I'm sorry, what? More human, more normal? She is literally modelled after a real human woman...

@G360LIVE

2 ай бұрын

Not to mention, that's very insulting to women who are attractive and curvy and look like real, normal, HEALTHY, human women. It's a shame activists want to discriminate against attractive women now and exclude them from our entertainment. I thought activists were supposed to be inclusive.

@wizardwolf1020

2 ай бұрын

@@G360LIVEit’s like the body positivity movement. It started as a means to stop fat shaming to be less insulting of peoples unhealthy appearances whether it be medical reasons or a result of bad habits. Now it’s devolved into obese people having an excuse to not better themselves or get in better shape while also getting to insult people who are skinny, physically fit, or attractive.

@d818581dd

2 ай бұрын

yeah okay, so why is there way more hate for females in video games who aren't considered attractive? The amount of criticism of how MJ looked in Spiderman way surpasses two articles criticising this game for having an attractive protagonist. but off course that will be ignored ignored.

@wizardwolf1020

2 ай бұрын

@@d818581dd cause MJ is literally supposed to be hot. Part of her character is being the seemingly impossible to get girl who’s beautiful with determination and can have anyone she wants. What’s worse is that they literally change her (and Peter’s) models after the first game which fans expressed being unhappy about. She looks nothing like her actual actress which is a practice that’s become more and more common in other games like Horizon, Last of Us part 2, Mass Effect Andromeda, the upcoming Star Wars rogue game, etc.

@BeccaVinesz

Ай бұрын

​@@d818581ddBecause they completely changed characters who were already made to be attractive? Do you know how she looks in the comics? Or even the older movies.

If I wanted "realistic" or ordinariy" I go out my front door and catch a bus... In a video game I want to see and or be *THE IDEAL!* its called escapsim for a reason.

"Chunk" meaning people who actually dont play videogames and just write about them. The Demo sold me, its not just eye candy, but an actual engaging action game.

@digitalshinigami8441

2 ай бұрын

"people who dont actually play games" sounds like a way to dismiss opinions that dont align with your own

@r.k845

2 ай бұрын

@@digitalshinigami8441I’ll dismiss people who don’t play actual games yeah.

@NE-oj4be

2 ай бұрын

@@digitalshinigami8441 yes, if they don't play games, what makes you think i would actually listen to those people. They aren't gamers and shouldn't be pampered because the game isn't for them

@ambrosiogiovanni6952

2 ай бұрын

@@digitalshinigami8441 They aren't gamers. Their opinion don't matter.

@alpsalish

2 ай бұрын

Not really, it actually looks very uninteresting.

More enemy variety in this demo than all of Dragons Dogma 2

@MrBepis-qx5ye

2 ай бұрын

That’s facts

@Eeanjay

2 ай бұрын

Damn

@SolidSnake240

2 ай бұрын

I love DD2....I hate how true this is 😂

@imsentinelprime9279

2 ай бұрын

Pretty true, after a few hours of playing dogma, you've seen most of all the enemies. Which there isn't much variety.

@XxWolfxWaRioRxX

2 ай бұрын

So damm true and I believe there is about 60 enemy types in Stellar blade including bosses

I love how we get told all the time that we are just imagining things, when we see that characters get altered to look way worse than the model or actress they are based upon, but when a game dares to openly use the sexiness of their heroine as part of the publicity, they all start spitting venom and insult the devs and any gamer interested in it. It's like just ask a woman or a gay gamer, what they think about visually attractive guys in games, I don't hear them complaining or cry sexism about that. These people act as if sexy equals sexism, as if sexualization of a fictitious character is the same as that of real people, as if it is an insult to all of humanity if a game has a sexy female protagonist. I've not and will never buy a game because the protagonist is hot, but damn if I will ever apologize for preferring a good-looking female character in a game over a plain or ugly one. It's a bundle of code and graphics, not a real person, how they look doesn't change how I see real women or makes me respect them less. I understand that for a woman, the male gaze can be a problem, but certainly not for a character in a game? She's not gonna feel uncomfortable, or disparaged by it. And let's be honest here, we have so many games with attractive male leads or with more "realistic" female characters, just accept that if you don't like how the characters in Stellar Blade look, that it is not a game aimed at you as a target audience. Isn't that exactly what they keep telling us, when we complain about the portrayal of certain characters in many modern AAA games?

@ArchlordZer0

2 ай бұрын

Can you give me one example of this happening from like an outlet and not just Twitter trolls?

@ikaemos

2 ай бұрын

I mean, as a gay gamer, I don't think _God of War_ would be improved at all if Kratos-or, if we go by the apparent age of many eye-candy heroines, Atreus-was wearing a codpiece thin enough to see the outline of the glans, rip-away assless chaps, and a shirt cut so that you can follow the happy trail from root to tip. Just picture it - _really_ picture it. If I try, I can't even see the damn work, because the character designer is blocking the view, with a hand down their pants. It's a story cracking its own believability for an entirely meta reason (sex appeal) in a way that cannot be rationalized from within the fiction. Titillation can be done effectively, other mediums to it all the time - if a Bond film wants to put Eva Green or Ana De Armas in a low-cut dress, the screenwriters set the scene at a luxurious gala. You just put some work into it. Doing it like this is indulgent, patronizing and artificial.

@dieyng

2 ай бұрын

@@ArchlordZer0Wait, seriously? Do you like never read the stupid bullshit Kotaku and IGN put out? Just check what gaming news sites have had to say about Stellar Blade ever since the character reveal.

@ArchlordZer0

2 ай бұрын

@@dieyng I haven’t seen these articles. You act like there has never been any attractive females in games recently.

@dieyng

2 ай бұрын

@@ikaemosYou mean patronizing, like making character models artificially look way less attractive than the women they are based upon? Like in Spider-Man 2, Mass Effect Andromeda, Horizon Forbidden West and so many other games in recent years? Isn't it way more patronizing to actually try to create something less appealing to the eye, as a means to educate us horrible straight male gamers? Patronizing for me is connected with looking and talking down to people, and that is not something I see coming from the devs, here, rather from the hit pieces coming from the gaming news sites tbh. But seriously, I do see parts of your point, especially since you made it very easy to imagine. 🙂 I admit I was thinking less of Kratos and more along the lines of Leon Kennedy or Cloud Strife or similar guys, tbh. I mean, I don't hear any complaints about sometimes seemingly half the main cast of Final Fantasy games running around like extras in a BDSM style music video. 🙂 Yes, the outfit is gratuitous, very gratuitous, and you won't hear me denying that the character is pretty sexualized. Tbh. it is a bit too much for me as well, I could see outfits like that as possible variant costumes or something a character wears for a short time, not the whole game. It has a bit of the look of a sexy outfit mod pack for a Bethesda RPG. For me, her outfit is actually a bit too distracting, and I would prefer an option to tone it down a bit, but that doesn't change that I hate this kind of venomous campaign against any dev who dares not fall into line with how games are supposed to look today and I really don't see how it hurts anybody. Eve might be modelled after a real woman, but she is just a bunch of textures on a body model. And if someone's personal sensibilities are triggered by a game like that, those people could always just not play it. A little indulgence isn't a bad thing, and I honestly don't see how it is patronizing. They aren't trying to force their approach on anybody. And this is one game we are talking about, one game out of how many, when most others are perfectly fine and politically correct? It's like, give the teenage boys and socially inept guys one game to indulge in, and you can have all the other games. And when it comes to things artificially being stuck onto and induced into games a sexy outfit would personally be less of a worry for me, I do worry more about ridiculous levels of monetization and blatant political messaging, that is so in your face, that it feels insulting to my intelligence, even if I do agree with most of it ideologically. Let those who want it have that one game and be a bit more lenient against stuff that hurts your sensibilities, is the advice I'd like to give some of these so-called journalists, only if you do that, can you expect similar behaviour from those disagreeing with your POV. If you instantly lash out like rabid dogs every time someone dares to go against what you deem appropriate, you can't really complain about the backlash that generates. I wish this kind of discussion wouldn't be led so venomous and a bit more nuanced from both sides, but just look at the headlines whenever one of these topics pops up. I admit I am myself reacting a bit thin-skinned by now, and I'm not proud to be that guy. Yet it does sometimes feel as if in the last ten years gaming journalists have one main goal and that is to tell devs how games are allowed to be and gamers which games they are allowed to like and enjoy, and that's something I definitely don't like and appreciate. Sorry for that wall of text, but I wanted to make clear that I do take your comment seriously and appreciate that you put it all down in a civilized if slightly sardonic manner (hence you also got a like from me for it), but I also wanted to explain my problems with the whole reaction to Stellar Blade a bit more.

Love how we can’t have attractive women as protagonists anymore but we can still get unrealisticly jacked men with anime haircuts

I mean the fact that shes wearing such tight cloths is probably why she can move like that.... Thats why gymnists dress like that .. and we dont complain about that....

@d818581dd

2 ай бұрын

And the high heels?

@bobbaseball5182

2 ай бұрын

Raiden from mgr wore high heels, and somehow it didnt stop him from.. well being the fucking badass that he is

@matthewmorgan5680

Ай бұрын

Sure but it provides no protection and why would anyone fight in heels? I have no problem with attractive people in games, but certain aspects just make no sense and that personally ruins the immersion. It just doesn’t make any sense from a worldbuilding standpoint.

@bobbaseball5182

Ай бұрын

@@matthewmorgan5680 it looks cool as fuck thats why its there and he also uses his heels to hold his sword

A “chunk of the gaming community” is the perfect way to describe those people.

@azagrial

2 ай бұрын

Its the modern audience that seems pretty small when you look player numbers from games like suicide squad

@markburns2621

2 ай бұрын

Not really, they don't even game in the 1st place

@SuperKendoman

2 ай бұрын

*A very loud minority of the online community, who probably don't even play games and like to engage in lazy activism

@nacht9586

2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't even call them "gamers" in the first place and I would just call them "people who like to see themselves and their beliefs validated in other people's hobbies"

@dieyng

2 ай бұрын

I'd say a tiny sliver of the gaming community. And a lot of assholes who consider themselves gaming journalists and the twitter mob.

I hope this game sells in the millions just to spite the ESG/DEI lovers.

@ranzu3138

2 ай бұрын

Didn't the gamergate dudes screeched about women not looking like super models? Just sayin, we can have both, no need to make this into a pathetic culture war thing

@VampireKa1n

2 ай бұрын

It will if it's a good, fun game. And then those people will screech about how the awful games they're involved in don't sell "because of bigots"

@Arkaner3

2 ай бұрын

@@ranzu3138 This definitely needs to be a culture war. We're sick and tired of the woke nonsense and the uglification of VIRTUAL CHARACTERS. Nobody is objectifying real people here so tune down the virtue signaling and let people enjoy their hobbies in peace.

@corygibson3304

2 ай бұрын

​@ranzu3138 First that's not even remotely what Gamergate was about. Did some talk about it? Probably but wasn't the main point. Second why shouldn't things be a culture war. One side has waged the war for a while they just got pissed people are fighting back just like Gamergate originally.

@ranzu3138

2 ай бұрын

@@Arkaner3 this needs no culture war shenanigans, artists should be free to make whatever the hell they want. If they like to make sexy character GOOD If they like to make more grounded/unattractive characters GOOD Being mad at a character being ugly is equally hilarious as being mad at a character being pretty.

From days of old when women were allowed to be presented as attractive in your escapist media.

@FazeParticles

2 ай бұрын

it was only 10 years ago when we could have our video game characters be attractive and scantily clad.

@Pyovali

2 ай бұрын

There has been a lot of screeching in the olden days too. It's just that these days the media is taking *their* side instead of the actual consumer.

The gameplay is solid and the characters are beautiful with a compelling story. What's not to love??

@Shimamon27

2 ай бұрын

Woke people hate it that their beauty standards are the enemies in this game.

@redninja3056

2 ай бұрын

How do you know the story is compelling? Sounds you're overhyping the game

@imsentinelprime9279

2 ай бұрын

I mean it's a one hour demo.

@AgntFL

2 ай бұрын

@@redninja3056how do you know it’s not? You’re over doubting

@redninja3056

2 ай бұрын

@AgntFL I don't I'm not the one saying the games story sucks because we haven't seen it

As a girl gamer, if there is an option in character creation to make a hot female character, I will make my character the sexiest character I possibly can. I don’t want realism. I’m not playing Schindler’s List: The Video Game.

@yarou3124

2 ай бұрын

As a male gamer, I want musucular badass male character in a videogame, I'm skinny, and I don't feel the need to be presented in a videogame.

@no2war274

2 ай бұрын

I played the demo and after finishing it, I preordered it almost instantly cause I am a huge fan of Neir, Bayonetta, DMC and Soulbourne games. So when I was playing this it just spoke to me. And I completely agree with your POV. The combat was on point, the world looked amazing and the enemies were OMG just so cool and gross looking and I loved it XD. This game comes out 3 days after my birthday so I will be enjoying a late birthday present XD

@JamCooper

2 ай бұрын

Bayonetta is my favorite game of all time, and Bayonetta 2 was even better. I don't have words for how disappointed I was in Bayonetta 3, and I'm hoping that Stellar Blade can fill that void. I wish it was coming out on pc, but I definitely don't mind dusting off my PS5 for this one.

@sa-me000

2 ай бұрын

HBD bro~ thank u❤ more love south korean game😊 enjoy playng😊

@arielm9847

2 ай бұрын

@@JamCooper Just FYI, definitely try it out the demo. It doesn't play like Bayo. Blocking and parrying is your main form of defense. Eve's dodge is tiny and has no I-frames unless you land a perfect dodge and is more of a last resort when you have to defend against an unblockable move. I loved the demo and pre-ordered the deluxe edition of stellar blade but it plays very different than DMC/NieR/Bayo. Just setting the right expectations. I wouldn't call it better or worse but notably different.

@Shinnnyu_

2 ай бұрын

I’m buying this game too and I don’t have a PS5 yet

Im mostly indifferent to the idea of a main characters attractiveness but what tilts it for me is the idea that a supposed “authority” in gaming community is trying to shame devs and gamers for preferring attractive characters over plain looking characters in a FANTASY VIDEO GAME. It gives such hater energy that i want the game to succeed in spite of them.

@_sir_reginald

2 ай бұрын

Just as your quotation marks imply there's no "authority". It's all just politics 😒

@Phillipmurr

2 ай бұрын

Not only that aesthetics in art is a real thing. That’s why you see more paintings of sunsets. Then Plain skies.

This game is really gonna shake things up

@BosGaurus05

2 ай бұрын

Shake what?

@diegoflores1119

2 ай бұрын

Two MAJOR things

@endershepard7117

2 ай бұрын

I’m still playing the demo to level up all the skill sets that I can because Shift Up are clever as a fox 🦊 for allowing our save data to transfer over to the full game. And I keep saying this one thing. I can’t believe how based this game is with all the T&A in 2024. But I’m here for it.

@andreypokesaround

2 ай бұрын

jiggle things up*

@ErgoDog

2 ай бұрын

Doesn't seem that special or new. Just polished fun prob

I had no interest in this game but saw 1 person play the demo and tried it. I'm sold on this game, honestly. Idc about the model debate, I just want good games that are satisfying to play.

@SolidSnake240

2 ай бұрын

You're one of the sensible people online

@AgntFL

2 ай бұрын

I learned about the game because of the controversy, but the trailer intrigued me more than her looks and I’m a sucker for imaginative worlds like this showed off, the demo just got me to upgrade to the deluxe version

@erikwilliams8692

2 ай бұрын

what looks good or unique about the game? @@AgntFL

I wish we could see more of this style with beautiful women and unrealistic clothing. It just suits this game and it transports you into the world.

@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye

2 ай бұрын

Are you daft 😂 that’s most video games and media before 2014

@SMandz

2 ай бұрын

@@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye that is why they wished it could be seen more. Nowadays in the western media, the characters of games are uglified in the name of "realism" and there is pandering wokeness and propaganda in such games.. Spiderman 2 and Suicide Squad KDJL to name a few.

@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye

2 ай бұрын

@@SMandz that’s a terminally online mindset bro. Stop playing AAA trash and play indie/jap games. AAA has always been slop. See CoD, Madden, etc…

@redninja3056

2 ай бұрын

​@SMandz so what made harley Quinn ugly? Not trying to defend the game its garbage but how is she ugly?

@senseinuuh

2 ай бұрын

@@Humdeeheyyahawikiahayeyou just said it before 2014. buddy that is 10 years ago

I love how the people who are upset about this game were absolutely silent during any Bayonetta release

@jonasking9587

2 ай бұрын

I'm not seeing anyone upset. I'm seeing a lot of people ACT like there's a big reaction against her design. But I'm not seeing that reaction. I specifically stopped playing Bayonetta because the camp was anime cringe and the camera kept trying to crawl up her ass. I don't care that people like Bayonetta. They can have that and enjoy it. I didn't make a big stink about it then just like I'm not now. This character looks embarrassing to me. I'll play the game if it's good. Again, just like MK9...

@MaticulousGamer

Ай бұрын

Tomb Raider, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Bloody Roar (nurse outfit haha) Street Fighter (Cammy) we can do this all day... it just goes to show, they're not gamers. they're SJWs, parading as such, or they're straight up agents from a certain Sweet "newborn" company.. if they were true gamers, this wouldn't even be an argument, because of the examples I just listed. nefarious group of alphabet singers

@jonasking9587

Ай бұрын

@@MaticulousGamer who are you talking about, specifically, that is upset about this character design? I've only seen some mild eye rolling, like "welp, boys will be boys." I think it's pretty cringe but will be picking it up some time. If for nothing else than I like character action games.

@MaticulousGamer

Ай бұрын

@@jonasking9587 it's as cringe as Tomb Raider, Tekken (female characters), MGS4 female bosses, Bayonetta etc...this is not new; what IS new, is the apparent outrage from a loud minority, trying to ruin OUR (gamers') media with their virtue signalling and other agendas. just KZread Endymion, and look up his Sweet Baby videos among many others. You may think its nothing, but these weirdos have their claws in the gaming industry and they don't like that we're fighting back! IGN had to apologise for one of their reviewers' comments towards the devs, kotaku have gone even further with their attacks and the west have done everything they can to suppress the interest around Stellar Blade, and failed. It now sits No.1 on the preorder list.. but don't, for one second, think there isn't a war against gamers and our video games. I implore you to go check out the channel I suggested

3:35 Wrong. it doesn't piss off the gaming community it pisses of people who want to force their political believes everywhere, they are not gamers.

@Porter90

2 ай бұрын

Attractive female characters are not the problem, as long as they are not tacky and cringy like Eve from SB. As a girl i want to play as a femboi with a boyfriend. That's what most girls want, but they don't make those kind of games, sadly. The people who care the most about feminine beauty in video games get the least amount of female interaction in the real world. We are celebrating feminine beauty more than ever because we are no longer sticking to a very specifc type of beautiful women and are appreciating women who are more diverse whether that means having more meat on their bones, being older or having stronger jaws and shorter hair it's still great.

@whylekat

2 ай бұрын

Are you seriously saying the developers of the video game don't play video games?? 🤡

@mephistopheles9411

Ай бұрын

@@Porter90I don’t agree😂

No one complains when shirtless kratos walks in or zangief wrestles ryu to the ground. But a model scanned female character joins in and weirdo journalist loose they shit.

How much this game is getting hating on🤦‍♂️By people that probably don't even play video games 😂, all they are doing is making this game popular. and gone making it even sell more when it comes out. And making the developers that made this game have more support

@willwolf8436

2 ай бұрын

Part of the reason I wanted to try the demo. these types of games never really interest me. I was surprisingly enjoying the game

@jonasking9587

2 ай бұрын

Not a single person in these comments dismissed the game for her design. Do you guys understand that you are imagining things??? Nearly every comment is someone saying a version of "people are dismissing the game for her design," and NO ONE is.

@artiss92

2 ай бұрын

@@jonasking9587 I'm not talking about the Commons on here I just saying, that all🙂

The aesthetic is beautiful. We want to see more of it 😎

@17thknight

2 ай бұрын

Grow up.

@x_xvihtahousux_x1969

Ай бұрын

​@@17thknight Let people have fun, you should grow up.

I dont care much if EVE is hot (she is). I loved the gameplay.

@butHomeisNowhere___

2 ай бұрын

Why would you care about that? I haven't seen anyone mad about her being attractive. All I've seen is anime profiles talking about how it's antiwoke because she's hot??? Which makes literally no sense lmao don't tell me this is all just Twitter discourse...

@aultra-magawhostandsagains7974

2 ай бұрын

@@butHomeisNowhere___You know it’s funny when these posts come up on Twitter,because nowadays I hardly use Twitter😂

@yarou3124

2 ай бұрын

​@butHomeisNowhere___ IGN France journal insulted the dev, but for the most part, yeah it is Twitter

@butHomeisNowhere___

2 ай бұрын

@@yarou3124 I'll have to check out the IGN comment, but I had a sneaking suspicion that it was mostly Twitter crap lol thanks 🙂

@golfer435

Ай бұрын

​@@butHomeisNowhere___IGN France, Inverse, The Gamer...Studio hit pieces and braindead articles have been everywhere in the last few weeks

Super smart to design the armor that way. It’s a sci-fi game so you can create a reasonable explanation for why it looks good and offers practical protection. As long as the lore is consistent, it doesn’t necessarily need to work the same way armor does in the real world

@redninja3056

2 ай бұрын

Not really the design sucks

@ikaemos

2 ай бұрын

N-no, that's not how skin-tight garments work; you would get the sports-bra look. And I'd really like to hear their sci-fi justification for the wedge-heels.

@AgntFL

2 ай бұрын

@@redninja3056the design is fine, seriously just go be miserable in the corner because she doesn’t look it al sharpton got his face beat in

@redninja3056

2 ай бұрын

@AgntFL no it bothers me when people buy a game for terrible design and I will voice that objective fact

@wizardwolf1020

2 ай бұрын

@@redninja3056it’s a good design plus there’s other outfits

Luke reminds me of the phrase "I'm not like most girls" 🙄 also if you REALLY LISTEN to what he's saying he ain't saying nothing really 😂

@DV-ou1yu

2 ай бұрын

Lmao true

@YouStankGoEat

2 ай бұрын

@@DV-ou1yu 😂

@SolidSnake240

2 ай бұрын

Fr. I tried to give this dude a chance multiple times but nah I'm good now lol.

@YouStankGoEat

2 ай бұрын

@@SolidSnake240 😂

@dieyng

2 ай бұрын

He's manoeuvring very carefully. A lot of gaming youtubers act that way, they don't want to insult their viewers by appearing supportive to the ridiculous BS coming from activists and "gaming journalists" (quotations because there are like 4-5 real journalists among that bunch and two of them are Paul Tassi and Jason Schreier), while at the same time they don't want to open themselves up to the attack mob and be labelled as alt.right, which for these people sadly means anyone who dares to not agree with them on a single point.

My wife and I loved the demo, we preordered it. We will be there on launch day.

Didn't expect Luke to be one of the bad guys now. What a shame.

i started the demo mostly because the heroine looked super pretty and i loved the game visually. It's super pleasing to my eyes to see cute women in armor with long fancy hairs like that, it's something you rarely see in fantasy games and its the whole point of fantasy games anyway, to create something visually and unrealistically beautiful, and i saw the comments hoping to see the same happy reaction that i had but that wasnt the case. Then also luke added "these kinda visuals mostly appeals teen boys." XD sir, no. as a woman in 30's i love hot women too! i think everybody likes pretty women. lol ignoring everyone hating on the heroine, the game was very decent in my opinion in many aspects such as combat style and the variety of enemies, the world etc, that most games fail to achieve these days with "ugly realistic" visuals. I dont think anybody enjoys wrenched but realistic skins with terrible gameplay.

Luke had to be very careful when forming his sentences in that review

@joewalsh886

2 ай бұрын

Yep he's scared lol

@CoD7Vietnam

2 ай бұрын

He did call people that like attractive women in video game “monkey-brains” so I’d say he went a bit more than just being careful

@misberave

2 ай бұрын

@@CoD7Vietnam he’s just pretending, so his wife won’t be jealous

Not going to "try" and look past the character design. I love the characters and I'm tired of western media trying to make it seem like appreciating the female form is somehow bad and that these aren't real people. The model who Eve is based on and the studio leaders wife are very much human and probably don't like being told they aren't human. Also I always find it funny that it's perfectly fine for a male character to be almost naked and basically eye candy but if it's a woman, all of a sudden it's "reinforcing negative stereotypes". Beautiful people are awesome and I'd rather look at idealized versions of humans for 40 hours than some ugly example of the average unhealthy asshole. And ya the game is amazing and I'm definitely picking up the deluxe edition.

3:03 A good term to describe the monsters are "Cronenburg", after David Cronenburg, the horror director. His works usually feature creatures that look like the enemies Eve fights.

@dieyng

2 ай бұрын

It's Cronenberg. But yeah, cronenbergian and Cronenberg-esque would be good attributes to describe those creatures.

Nobody complained when Metal Gear Solid 4 was showing off Old Snakes ass the whole game in his stealth suit. I don't want to hear s*** now😅

big budgets on this one bois

@captainalex157

2 ай бұрын

Pimp army!

@glens2019

2 ай бұрын

Yes, sir!

@TheBsmith97

2 ай бұрын

Yes, sir!

@RealTalk720

2 ай бұрын

Payload Pimps Assemble!

@Karlach_

2 ай бұрын

Coomer nation rise up!

Jeez, I'm a girl, and I love hot scantily clad women. I dont want to relate to the character because of their looks. I want my sweet escapism. # Justice for hot female characters

thats a really small "chunk" really really small .

@inuclearpickle8628

2 ай бұрын

Yeah they screech loudly

@Choryrth

2 ай бұрын

@@inuclearpickle8628 considering they own basically all gaming journalism, a large portion of larger youtubers, and are backed by the modern left? yeah they are gonna be loud.

Looks absolutely titillating

@Karlach_

2 ай бұрын

_ba dum tss_

@inuclearpickle8628

2 ай бұрын

I respect the pun

@Bignuke87

2 ай бұрын

@@Karlach_ that the sound of your infernal heart? 😋

@Bignuke87

2 ай бұрын

@inuclearpickle8628 thanks! It was a Stellar pun.

@Bignuke87

2 ай бұрын

​@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye you probably shouldn't misspell buffoon when trying to throw insults 😂

Players having a hard time with parrying in Sekiro or Wo Long may struggle with this. But you'll eventually get used to it, I think

If the devs want to make ultra sexy male/female/other characters, go for it. People dont need to buy the game if it offends them.

@martinnic8235

2 ай бұрын

So it can work other way, if devs want to make "ugly" character, people don't need to buy the game if it offends them, right?

@r.k845

2 ай бұрын

@@martinnic8235Yeah

@Barni2212

2 ай бұрын

@@martinnic8235 Yes. People already doing that, and we see the results already. Earning the biggest flops in the gaming industry back to back. But hey. Keep up the "good" work. Maybe those 4 people who is the target audience will buy it eventually.

@martinnic8235

2 ай бұрын

@@Barni2212 And you mean which by those biggest flops?

@imsentinelprime9279

2 ай бұрын

Most folks don't like ugly

"unrealistic body" Maybe for the Muricans. But here in my country I see these "unrealistic" bodies every day on the street.

@yarou3124

2 ай бұрын

I would argue that being overweight is unrealistic. Not many of us in the 3rd world country had the luxury to overeat.

the monster design is good because they design them in clay and 3D scan them to make the ingame models. shift up are kinda unhinged in the good way, nikke's full of fantastic music and good art direction too.

@no2war274

2 ай бұрын

Wow. I didn't know that. That's some dedication to your craft. Amazing.

As it turned out men enjoy hot women fighting aliens…who knew.

Level design is gonna be very important for this game imo

The people who outrage about girls like that in games is probably less then 5% of actual gamers

I mean Luke, the person who did the body double for the main character is a real person. So, the anger about "unrealistic women in games" is misplaced. This is a real person's mocapped body. We can''t appreciate actual beautiful women anymore? Sounds like a shameful place to be in as a society.

@LukeStephensTV

2 ай бұрын

The point is the outfits. It’s like those 2005 action movies where everyone is wearing latex. It looks cool, but is definitely impractical. But I think the lesson here is that it’s a game about fighting massive alien monstrosities and flying androids. Practicality doesn’t need to be that high on the priority list and it’s ok to just have a character that looks cool haha

@KharaChmiel

2 ай бұрын

@@LukeStephensTVI get that angle and thanks for responding, love your work! There was a section of people who were angry about the outfits but there was ALSO a segment of people angry over the model itself, saying it was unrealistic to have a woman look like that, and that's where I was coming from haha. I do agree that practicality does indeed fly out the window when dealing with cephalopods from space. I believe also that the devs lean into the gear's impracticability too; like the most "see-through" piece of gear has like 0 defense and it's flavor text calls you out for wearing it lol.

@kou4891

2 ай бұрын

As for the outfits in the section with additional boss, the outfits were pretty normal and good looking. So I don’t think they are just focusing on revealing outfits.

@nikifallen93

2 ай бұрын

Nah, all the outfits are hella sexy and awesome. The fact that some women have unusual proportions naturally or (heavens forfend!), get boob jobs, doesn’t make this supermodel’s body ‘realistic’. But don’t worry about those loud people who care. And boob jobs can be life-alteringly wonderful. Whether they modeled Eve’s body after a real woman or not, they would have shaped her the same, because it looks awesome. I think Eve looks freaking fantastic. I could look at her for hours. Which is exactly what gamers will be doing when playing this game. I’m not sure I can stomach those monsters, but this game is definitely not pandering to me, because then the whole game would have been that other lady walking around a beautiful planet picking up resources and maybe hunting animals for food and cooking and dressing up in all those outfits. But if this game has a pretty ending, maybe I’ll buy it anyway and get used to the gore. Either way, I hope this beautiful game is a roaring success. It looks amazing!

@Humdeeheyyahawikiahaye

2 ай бұрын

Have that same energy when the main character is black 😂 or is that also woke shit because [Arbitrary reasons]

Im proud of my monkey brain and yes im in my 30s

the only portion of the community it outrages is those who dont actually play games and those who for some reason want to pretend they dont like looking at attractive people

Just FYI once you beat the demo and the montage plays, once you go back to main menu you have a new option available and can do another boss fight from later in game with more active skills and different outfit

I played the demo and it was phenomenal! Can’t wait for the release

When I first saw the character model of Master Chief I cried in shame because I could never achieve the perfect 7 feet (2.13 m) tall and 1,000 pounds (450 kg) in armour.

I had the exact same options Luke where I really wasn't expecting much from this game, and wasn't excited for it. But when I heard there was a full demo, I sat down and played it this past weekend. I was completely surprised by how good it was. It feels like a really good mix of a character action game like God of War or Devil May Cry, but mixed with more soulslike elements like I-Frame dodges, parries, and limited refillable healing. The bosses were good but I was actually more impressed by the standard enemies which are surprisingly fun to fight. I especially like the monster with a shield for an arm where you can try to get behind him, try to strike when he's vulnerable, beat him entirely with parries into retribution, or go full aggressive and break down his shield with pure offense. This definitely went from a game that wasn't on my radar at all, to one I'm now highly interested in. Definitely helps I'm still a huge simp for any good soulslikes despite it seeming like some people are burnt out on them.

Listen everybody it's okay to like fan service. I don't know why people act so weird over it because the character happens to be a woman if the character was male such as Spider-Man I wouldn't see any complaints. I wish everyone would stop acting like Angry nuns its very annoying

This game is a breath of fresh air especially after seeing that monstrosity in the fable trailer 😂

Remember when the Digital Foundry people got mad at this game... i love how they are even more mad now that the demo came out

@no2war274

2 ай бұрын

Tom made a pretty based review on this demo. You know... unlike that one.⬆

They actually put a lot of work into this combat. It feels/sounds so satisfying to pull off the parries.

I went ahead and requested off the day and weekend this game comes out this shit gonna be one of those ones

It is wild that being attractive is considered “old times” and it actually pisses people off and people can’t say people don’t look like this when this is literally a Korean model they made this after. In the west they actively take steps to avoid attractiveness

I do kinda hate how luke just reduces it to "if you like the promos youre a monkey brain horny teenager" while like, no? Most people like playing as attractive people, theres a reason why so many games have mainly attractive characters. Also its futuristic so the armour they use is projected which would mean you can just wear the bare essentials

@silverancient7840

2 ай бұрын

If you had actual good comprehension skills, he actually did praise the demo for playing pretty good and actually barely talked about.That's a narrative in your own brain

@rayous5480

2 ай бұрын

@@silverancient7840 dude i know, but in the beginning he quite clearly made it sound more negative. Also its funny that you criticize my comprehension skills when you cant even finish your sentences properly :P

I find it very interesting you bring up the crustacean idea for the enemies it does seem like a lot of the enemies to have aquatic like features

I love it. I remember when ppl made games with their own style. I think it's nice. I'm also a fan of claymore and berserk so...I welcome it all

Yeah from way back when women in entertainment were beautiful.

Thanks Luke for bringing absolutely nothing new to this already exhausted discussion. It shocks me that in an era where supposedly anyone should be free to be anything they want we're still going to debate club over female characters that are designed to be attractive. If you know who is the man in my profile picture then you probably know I enjoy games about hot guys being sexy. I really wish people were as free to enjoy characters like EVE as I will enjoy the upcoming dnf berserker game (starring a half naked anime man going all edgy on monsters).

It's crazy how quickly you've become one of my main sources for all things game news.

Since you usually replay games or check on them to see if you'd think differently, would you replay Nier Automata again an see what you think about it now?

@dannyCoolSwag

Ай бұрын

Trash

Played the demo. Reminds me of a mix of Lies of P and Nier Automata….two of my favorite games ever. Preordered immediately after doing the boss rush.

Remember when the Pearl-clutchers got upset because of Tracer's butt? Or the times they got upset over Bayonetta and 2B? Just ignore it when anybody says anything about a game being over sexualized. Odds are they don't know what they're talking about.

i actually like the part in the pool , where you can drag a piece of wood, and jump on it and get to the stairs

People here don't really seem to understand what people mean by based on a real model. It's like how movies are based on a true story meaning that they used the model in motion capture and used her likeness. She's literally a cyborg based on a real woman, so of course she not going to be exactly the same. And this idea that the developers were trying to appeal to horny men don't really seem to understand that they actually took this concept from the anime Ghost in the Shell. The main character could've chosen any female cyborg body but chose the hot one and kept using it because I guarantee that any male or female would choose a hot male/female cyborg body if you had the choice. And anyone complaining about her skin tight outfit certainly didn't play the Demo because in the boss fight you didn't have to choose a skin tight outfit, though you have to be really dumb thinking that how much her outfit covered makes a different because she's a cyborg. Everyone's argument in here against the being hot just wants to complain because the developers weren't pandering to anyone, it just melted sense if you take into account that she's a cyborg. I guarantee that everyone that is planning to buy it decided to do so because it's a damn good game with an incredible battle system. The main character is just a bonus. And to those that said she'd boring, this isn't the FF16 demo. They aren't trying to draw you in with the story, they used the battle system to do that.

Why unrealistic body? I guess gaming journos have never seen a gym from inside and are rarely outside in general, but this body is absolutely achievable, given you have the genetic fundament for it. Is it polished up? Yes. But its not unrealistic. For that we have sooo much better examples. Especially what incredibly muscular women we saw in games over the past few years is sooo much less realistic, even if they took tons of steroids (but then other parts of their body and especially the face would change dramatically as well).

@dannyCoolSwag

Ай бұрын

Whats so unrealistic she is just normal not buff not fat just average i don't see anything there

The significant phallic innuendo straight out the gate is pretty funny too. Those "hellpods" were pretty uh... Penetration optimized, and the ogre enemy swinging around his big swollen ball- hands...

@Bignuke87

2 ай бұрын

The enemy at the end with the teeth on either side...you already know.

@markburns2621

2 ай бұрын

They literally shot white interestingly shaped pods containing people out of a chode and through an obstacle course akin to when Monica's womb was referred to as a "hostile environment" in friends. Only to have literally one person make it out alive. The entire intro is a money shot.

'The precision of hitbox' is very good in this game. You can actually evade enemies trying to grab you by throat if you time your jump and duck. as well as using some of your combo (where the character jumps to attack) to dodge low-sweeping attacks.

Peak editing. Laughed so much in this video.

I am going to be picking this up for the intense combat and great soundtrack it’s got absolutely nothing to do with how good the jiggle physics are what so ever.

@northstar6920

2 ай бұрын

it doesnt hurt though...

@Lawry200

2 ай бұрын

@@northstar6920 That’s your words not mine 😂 I said nothing of the sort.

Anyone ever notice that no matter what it is media nor anyone else ever shame women for their preferences? Only men are shamed.

If the clothing is from the future and stretches with your body then it would actually be a good thing if that's what it was made for in the future with a material made for that. It would keep all your clothes from getting in your way which would be a huge help in combat. I would know firsthand being a veteran. I can't tell you how many times something got caught on my clothes and although it would look ugly on men, some extra strong extra stretchy fabric as close to your skin as possible would be a huge help and is the same reason why we have to cut our hair the way we do so it doesn't get caught on anything and so no one can pull it. Some people just don't understand but I mean if it's meant to be sexy then that's a different story but functionally in the right context with some sort of material we don't currently have this would actually be beneficial.

we never get to see some really good demos anymore that can showcase a game and help build its hype and trust in the developers to perform. i would have never heard of this game but i’ve seen so much people playing the demo it actually has me interested. good job on their part.

That is indeed a HUGEEE epic set piece😊😊

The moment Stellar Blade comes to steam, I'm gonna buy it immediately! I just wished it came to PC

@wolfofthegate7181

2 ай бұрын

probably have to wait another year or so

@LowResLeafa

2 ай бұрын

If it comes at all. Remember this isn't a SE game so the chance of it coming to steam isn't 100%

@Ibn_Battuta

2 ай бұрын

@@wolfofthegate7181 Yeah. I'm guessing till mid-2025 😖 Exclusivity greed sucks

@spikedeagle6795

2 ай бұрын

You must feel the same way towards pc exclusives too huh 😣

@emperordalek102

2 ай бұрын

@@Ibn_Battuta exactly when ever a exclusive game comes out it kills the hype for literally any game cause no one will be playing it in 3 or 4 years time. if this continues then its time to call out the laziness of sony cause this can not stand for pc players. cause this happened with bloodbourne

I actually think the juxtaposition of the character design to the game world is kinda genius. makes both stand out more. Them assets!

I was pretty much in the same boat as you Luke. Gave it a whirl because of your video. Its a game i didn't know i wanted. The environments are stunning, the combat has a incredible sense of inertia, and the music......so ethereal. It takes me back to stand alone complexes opening song for the 1st season.

Not that this is what they would look like, but plenty of different combat suits are quite skintight. It is understandable when some people find the design of the character unpleasant. But I would also say that not only 15-year-olds would find it pleasant.