Stellar Blade is...Actually Pretty Good ("I don't play video games to play dress up with a Korean Barbie doll")

("I don't play video games to play dress up with a Korean Barbie doll")

- Synthetic Man (based mode)

good work on his part for going in depth on the gameplay section vs the other crap, this is basically like a poor mans Nier: Automata. Tho the enemy designs in Stellar Blade are better.. I personally prefer organic enemy to robots 

 Those special moves have pretty colors, i'll give it that much i guess, Again the demon aesthetic for the boss designs are pretty cool, most of this thing just looks cheap.

And yeah, there's no exaggeration to the body types, she just looks like a slender average toothpick with no jawline, looks so plastic. the ppl going gaga for Eve’s rump  here likely have little life experience to tell the difference between a butt and actual cake. 

  Game's whole cultural stake is carried by the purdy pixels gimmick, Create-A Sim dressup mode, more like "Beta Blade".

Which is why this isn't an answer to wokeness but actually will enable it. Because this isn't a good look. This  is the other side of the woke coin, equally cringe.

 Games like this  don't age well because the presentation is transparent & oozes desperation, a little bit of a creepy factor. It defeats itself because it communicates to the mainstream that for women to be pretty or appealing women have to be objectified and the fact that that is the main reason why this got any attention vs the ACTUAL GAME- is why the mainstream machine will go even harder. 

It’s not like the game presented the characters respectfully & showed the west how it’s done WITHOUT the sexploitation, no it just tapped into a different degree of second hand embarrassment and ppl actually think this is a step in the right direction.

 Elizabeth Comstock is pretty, smart,  interesting arc & story, powerful as sh^t , sassy, pretty hot in the DLC when she pulls the femme fatale style--

 but you can’t dress her up in stripper outfits & the in-game camera doesn’t pan on her rear when she does a special attack. (imagine my disappointment)

The difference here is respectful execution vs playing Barbie with digital waifu’s, gameplay be damned, the dressup is the real reason for the majority  following for this game.

(Reminds me of the shortlived buzz surrounding Quiet from MGSV, or that Amazon Vampire from RE8 that nobody talks about anymore)

 And the reason for that is dressing them up & down is a mechanic of control, if they put a Sims 3 body modifier in the mix, you’d get 5x the following for this game. It's not about the actual game, it's about ppl (mainly boys) playing with dolls.

 That's why this isn't going to age well. It’s not raising a bar, nor is it saying anything, nor is it doing anything new or innovative. It’s part of the problem.

But that’s only if you try to insert this in the fabled “culture war”, if you don’t do that? It’s just a poor man’s nier automata, it’s trashy. 

 Exactly 20:12 Bro just said the loud part even louder.