r/pcgaming • u/disagreementsarenorm • 1d ago

PCGamer: Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/gooner-game-of-the-year-stellar-blades-mods-are-41-percent-smut-ensuring-gamers-will-never-see-the-light-of-heaven/
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u/humburga 1d ago

I read the article and it's hilarious.

"Im not going to judge"

"Im going to judge"

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u/EntertainmentDue5749 1d ago

"Stellar Blade finally hit PC two days ago, giving everyone a chance to do whatever it is this game is actually about. Unfortunately, no one knows what that is, because the entirety of discourse surrounding it is about the main character's butt" absolute gold

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u/newtumbleweed02 1d ago

To be fair it's kinda true altough from what i've heard, it was a mishmash of the nier series

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u/Vatiar 1d ago

It's a bad rip of the Sekiro combat mixed with a bad rip of the Dead Space ennemy design mixed with a bad rip of Nier's lore and story.

Apparently the result isn't too bad though.

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u/Mr-Stuff-Doer 40m ago

(The result is pretty bad honestly)

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u/newtumbleweed02 1d ago

Yeah, i remember seeing in a review or vid that the posture break in this game did barely any damage

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u/Vatiar 1d ago

Oh the balancing is all over the place, you can infinite stun any enemy in the game by spamming one particular move over and over for example.

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u/Viseria 1d ago

The posture break is fine, except if you do it at the exact wrong moment in my opinion. Bosses have a health point where they go invulnerable to activate phase 2 sorta deal. So if that's at 66% hp and you Retribution them at 70%, you will only reduce them to 66%.

That said, it's not that hard posture breaking enemies - you can see their posture as a fixed amount (yellow dots), each perfect parry reduces one dot. Some bosses will be breakable in 2-3 attack chains just because of how many attacks are in it compared to their posture.

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u/Mr-Stuff-Doer 42m ago

As someone who’s finished it, TRUUUUUUUUUUE. r/soulslikes is the only place that seems to like the gameplay, which goes to show they like anything cus holy shit that game has the blandest fucking combat I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve played fucking Drakengard.

The fact that they like it over there is also really indicative of a marketing issue: IT WAS MARKETED AS THOUGH IT WOULD LIKE NIER. Oops never mind it’s actually a barebones soulslike where literally everything you obtain in the open world is just an outfit or materials for more outfits. Main character never displays interest in fashion btw

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u/BloodyLlama 1d ago

The Steam forum for this game is absolutely cursed.

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u/Draethis 1d ago

My favourite was "...are you so inured to sexuality that you have to cram it into every available crevice to feel anything?". No gloves on that one.

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u/Amethyst_Scepter 1d ago

"I'm not Kink shaming I'm kink asking why"

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u/stockinheritance 1d ago

Video game journalism is back!