Stellar Blade review - style over substance | Video Gamer

Astonishingly stylish combat and a fantastic soundtrack help elevate this game.

[Crows90]

Straight for the horse mouth, "I already found it difficult to get invested in the characters and the story Stellar Blade is trying to tell when it’s selling itself the way it is."

The writer was already writing it off before playing it. Hence the score. It's so blatant it's hard to ignore. This is the very definition of bias.

The review praises gameplay and sound...so pretty much 80% of the game.

So the writer actually wanted to give an 8/10 but because of the imposed controversy they were forced to give it lower.

You don't give a game, which you confess having tons of fun with, a 6/10

[ravens52]

Expected from some reviews unfortunately. We all knew they'd use that to take points.

[DOMination-]

Crows90 and Ravens52 haha

Did you just reply to yourself? Because it feels like you just replied to yourself

[Tacoboto]

Don't click the review - only advice I can give until the mods delete my comment again for criticizing what is obvious click-bait (with referencing the reviewer's history).

Your quote reinforces that it's click bait.

[Crows90]

I mean it's just not a legitimate review. The review the game for what it is not your predispositions based on a imposed controversy. This guy is a very definition of individual that judges books by covers. It's almost like he's a teenage reviewer going through puberty.

[YourMommySpoils]

Jack needs to find another career.

[Tacoboto]

Reposting my deleted comment (thanks Mods!):

Here it is!

This is a click-bait review. Can't even read it on a phone unless you get lucky and the banner shows the "Continue" action.

Continuing the drama this game has gone through, Videogamer subverts our expectations by not being immediately forced to the front page, but guarantees discourse and clicks by being tied for the worst-scoring review.

This reviewer, a Guide writer that likes RPGs but only names mobile games... (Comment history ends there)

I went on to say this reviewer consistently gives 6's to hardcore console games. This, Ronin, and Granblue back to back.

Why does N4G feel the need to erase comments calling out low quality websites and reviews?

[Luc20]

Can't stand videogamer. Boring and click baity. It'll disappear after a while as it has nothing to value to offer

[DOMination-]

All you need to know is videogamer owns N4G.

It's not worth worrying about a review score for a game lol.. there's plenty of other reviews that are very positive about Stellar Blade. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, even if it's written by AI...

[Tacoboto]

I'm not worried, I'm just increasingly disappointed at the way this site is run, and shoddy questionable reviews like this from its owner are a sign of things to come that are only for the worse.

Especially since they are now both actively deleting criticism and outwardly inviting click-bait as part of their Videogamer identity.

[Christopher]

***Reposting my deleted comment (thanks Mods!): ***

I don't know what this is about. Just FYI, we can't delete comments, only mark as inappropriate/spam.

***shoddy questionable reviews like this from its owner are a sign of things to come that are only for the worse. ***

I think you're putting way too much importance on one person's opinion. Let alone next week you might praise them for doing something with which you agree.

[Tacoboto]

This is the comment link in my history:

https://n4g.com/comments/re...

"The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

Second time this has happened, both on posts critical of Videogamer.

[Christopher]

@Tacoboto That's a duplicate story that was deleted by the author for being a duplicate story. You're complaining that a community member removed their own submission because this one existed on the home page.

[Tacoboto]

My comment redirects to an article ID 2596457
This is article ID 2596469. So I do see that, this post is newer.

So the only thing I believe now is you deleted the original post. How is an older ID the duplicate post...

[Christopher]

Tacoboto: https://imgur.com/a/FU4FaiD

[Christopher]

I'm chuckling over here. It's fine, I'm your Huckleberry for irate blame game.

[Bathyj]

Is this the same crappy website that makes an article every time someone on social media says helldivers 2 should do this?

[Gravesinger_]

Having a skin tight suit and bouncing tits wasn't gonna make this game of the year, and for those of you who thought it would...seek help lol. From day one I knew this game was gonna be average to below average. Its noting but a fan service game.

[Asplundh]

You say that like it isn't getting 9's and 10's from most reviewers.

[anast]

The writer praised the game but doesn't like beautiful women, so he/she gave it a 6.

[jznrpg]

Videogamer need clicks. They post Helldivers 2 everyday for them.

[jznrpg]

Im not saying the review is BS but I do notice VG putting their articles at the top, constant barrage of pointless HD2 articles and other practices for the sole reason of getting clicks and low scores get more clicks than high scores generally. This may not be their intention but I can not rule it out.

[Christopher]

Just to note, the _only_ VG articles that get 'put' anywhere are reviews (auto-approved on submission) and the game deal stuff (same as reviews, maybe one every few days on average, though can vary). All the Helldivers articles are approved by and influenced solely by N4G users. No one else. I'll leave you to your opinion on why they write what they write.

[ChasterMies]

The usual beating on the site that gives out the lowest score. If the gaming review industry is to have any legitimacy, it needs harsh critics. I support a site’s right to give low scores.

[gold_drake]

its just so odd to judge a game on its controversies. or their characters looks. cause i find the characters to be really well written. thats what rly matters to me.

[Hereandthere]

Video Gamer is the best and most unbiased gaming website online, but this review is off by 2 points at least.

[CrimsonWing69]

The funniest part about this is on this very site there’s a review for this game that says “Substance Meets Style,” which if you were a consumer who makes purchasing decisions based off reviews, which one do you pick? Reviews are so pointless and this one obviously has a chip on its shoulder making it even more difficult to take seriously.

[SoloGamer1]

another dumb review smh..