Stellar Blade - Review | Progress Bar

South Korean developer Shift Up asks the question: What if NieR: Automata was less interesting and more horny?

[Andrew336]

Lol

[solideagle]

I was thinking that there has not been any 4 or 5/10 review and here we are lol

5/10 actually means a broken mess of a game...

[Lexreborn2]

10/10 fantastic must play/experience
9/10 amazing
8/10 great
7/10 good
6/10 above average
5/10 means mediocre
4/10 is bad overall
3/10 is bad and broken mess
2/10 is damn near unplayable and bad
1/10 is no redeeming qualities whatsoever

[Lexreborn2]

https://corp.ign.com/review...

I find it hilarious that people on the internet really treat review scales as if it’s ambiguous and out of a score of 10. 5 is bad…

This the major reason people argue over the internet is because they hold scores in such high esteem. But there’s no agreement on what things mean.

What good is it to hold a review as important or not if you don’t even know how the people/platform view the score itself.

The very site that’s got people up in arms doesn’t even have a scale and what the numbers mean it’s just slapped on to an opinion.

This why people be getting emotionally high jacked by reviews too. Because a 5 to some people mean unplayable. And a 5 to others means a basic game/time filler.

Then people attacking sites and others because they don’t even really know what the reviewer means with the number.

This exactly why yall either need to switch to a universal system or drop the numbers all together.

[z2g]

You can def tell which outlets actually view PlayStation objectively. This and ign being 2 of them. These smaller rags 10/10!! 9/10!! Can’t take that seriously when the legit pubs aren’t quite being so generous. Also - very very very very few games deserve a 10, and only slightly more deserve 9s imo. So thanks to the rags actually being objective and critical.

[Hypertension140]

Did you read the review?
Half of it is just talking about the "sexualization." I don't think most reviews are being fair to it.

Most, if not all reviewers who scored the game very low are actually praising the games combat. Gameplay should always come first, isn't that what you Xbox guys keep telling us?

[Crows90]

They gotta follow through with the bias.. they can't give the game a good score even if the game is good. It's not politically correct to do so.

[shadowknight203]

Political correctness, I can't wait for that to end. Hopefully..

[gammaray13]

you are proof that there really are people born without a brain

[Ironmike]

Ign review was fair it's a good game but its nor amazing combat is good bur there's to much weight to character and the platforming is awful

[VersusDMC]

"Stellar Blade goes so far beyond titillation or dogmatically and cynically targeting a certain type of gamer. The sexualisation is so over the top, so brazen, so shameless, that I can only deduce that to dehumanise and objectify women was the point."

The Reviewer is in the reset era threads admitting to lowering the score because of the "sexualization"...

[Crows90]

Hey..let him be. He is the target he despises...only horny little teenagers obsess over this stuff..

[Scissorman]

I didn't even need to read the article to know why it was given a 5/10. The insecurity of some people is unreal.

[Hypertension140]

You're right, its about half of this article in fact, that's why they only gave it a 5.

[Eonjay]

This is actually anti women. As any real feminist will tell you, they believe that women should not be confined by the expectations. They want to see every version of the female form expressed. They actually believe in the expression feminine sexuality. They actually consider it a bonus that a woman can be both hot and kick ass at the same time.

[Crows90]

Not only anti woman but there's probably a ton of discrimination towards Asian women mixed in there. We've seen sexy outfits on other games and they haven't gotten as much attention since the women look more "western"

These reviewers are clearly ashamed of themselves for being hooked on some pervy Asian stuff. That's my guess anyways.

[Christopher]

I agree, but I also agree if it was the women saying this about this game and not the usual crowd of gamers who complain about too many ugly women in video games then it would come off as more meaningful and expressive of the feminist movement.

[Eonjay]

I agree. The whole childish mentality of trying to purge gaming of females who they deem to be below par is stupid and its very damaging Women come in all shapes and sizes and this was never an issue with male video game characters nor should it be. By the same token, if that is what the reviewer is responding to then he should say that. Attacking this game out of frustration with idiots is not helping his cause at all. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[CrimsonWing69]

You don’t do yourself any favors trying to push this sh*t out to people. Clearly, the majority don’t view this as a 5/10 and I have to question your critique skills or your political stance for you to say this is a 5/10.

I mean clearly this is a biased review and if that’s what we can expect from your “reviews” then you can f*ck right off and lose traffic to your site.

[Crows90]

These creeps need to stop reviewing these games.

Get a hold of yourselves and try to focus on the review!

[Traecy]

Digital Foundry praises Stellar Blade for what it is, especially for the gameplay which is most important including graphics, technology & fps. Can't wait to play the game tomorrow evening after work.

[Inverno]

Nice bait mate.

[Tody_ZA]

Did you dock 5 points off Bayonetta or does Nintendo get a free pass? I hope you also wrote an article about how Game of Thrones is a crime against women.

[Christopher]

GoT the show is a crime against women. Specifically Lady Stoneheart.

[ravens52]

Smdh. Stupid stuff like this takes the entire score down. I don't buy my games based off scores, but other people may. If it deserves it I get it. This is a bs review. Period.

[shammgod]

Let me take a guess, they are triggered by the outfits?

[Bathyj]

I'm embarrassed they're Australian
On ANZAC no less.

Better men than you died so you could have the freedom to bitch about taking freedom away from other people.

[Vithar]

Here is it, the click bait outlier

[blackblades]

Surprised there isnt a group that get someone blacklisted. I understand people have there opinions but theres a line drawn

[Christopher]

While I kind of get the author's take (I don't think it belongs as part of the overall review tbh, just make an opinion piece about the design choices that don't affect the overall gameplay and aren't, as the author points out, even poorly characterized in the game itself but are just there), seems weird to spend a lot of time discussing something that can be solved by just choosing an outfit that suits how you would want to see your character.

Even in the screenshots, I notice the author chose the default look that covers up more. If the developer wants to offer more choices, is that a reason to affect the score? Or do you need to add to your review an expression of optional appearances that have no impact on story, gameplay, or the like? Perhaps just take time to open up a discussion outside of the review about the veer towards the sexualization of characters is more prominent while the opposite isn't?

It's okay to have an opinion that you'd rather not play as hyper-sexualized characters, I share that view. But you went in knowing what this game was and had options to limit the view. That sounds good to me and not a reason to go into more depth over that than any other specific gameplay element.

[Flewid638]

Fair, but Devil May Cry acting/story is also cheeseball and people still enjoy those. This is a popcorn flick, not a deep narrative game.

Both can be fun.

[gigoran8]

In a way, seeing a website give a score like this is a good thing. It helps me to know which websites that I cannot trust and to avoid. what a pathetic review.

[gold_drake]

god forbid there are good looking women in fiction work.

[nzjono]

This review is infected with DEI and Sweet Baby Inc

[RiseNShine]

it was about time the some media that no one ever heard about tries to click bait with a ridiculous score, it works like a clock, not going to take the bait though, just passing by on N4G for the laughs.

[Fonsecap]

There still no reason to give it a five just because of sexualisation, there are plenty of reviewers on metacritic that point the sexualisation and still give the game 8 or 8.5, however I don't get what game reviewers and gaming journalists have anything to do with pc politics and such, they have to judge the game by gameplay, music, combat, the tech side of the game and leave the politics to the politicians and activists... And people it's just a doll on a video game, if it was a movie I could give it a pass, but no, it's a v.i.d.eo g.a.m.e it's not real...