Stellar Blade Review - PS I Love You XOXO Ep. 215
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
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How does Shift Up's PlayStation exclusive fare? Let's find out from Blessing! Note: Game provided by PlayStation for review.
Time Stamps -
00:00:00 - Start
00:00:40 - Welcomes & Housekeeping
00:04:33 - “What is your best handheld gaming memory?” - Tony
00:09:30 - Stellar Blade Review
00:44:36 - Does Sony’s new PlayStation PC overlay and shared Trophies make Andy and Bless care about Trophies?
00:50:19 - PlayStation Picks
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27 hours!? Thank god! 100+ in Rebirth and I just want to finish it and move on at this point.
Honestly this might be the selling point for me for the exact same reason. After P3 and FF7R… I’m burnt out on long ass games!
@@CesarPalafox90Word
Know what you mean. TOO many annoying mini games!!
@@CesarPalafox90Thoughts & prayers if you did those back to back 🕊️
@@joshuatealeaves I did ☠ thank you
Why is Andy here for the stellar blade review when he has played 0% of the final release of the game?
Being compared to another great game shouldn't be a negative, but other then that this was a good review.
I mean originality and freshness are definitely worth bringing up as a critic. doesn't mean they'll necessarily matter to players
@@aoBubs I agree, never said it wasn't.
@@aoBubs But when ONE game in the industry does something similar, a game that's universally loved mind you, it's not a critique. It should be a compliment.
@@Dan-hz4vf It depends on if it just feels like they're trying to copy another game or if its done terribly. For example Jedi: Fallen Order does things similar to a soulsborne game but it doesn't feel like it's trying to be a copy of it. Its its own thing with shared elements.
@@tylerrichardson3034 Yea, but Stellar Blade does not feel, play, or navigate the world in anyway similar to Nier - it's much better in all aspects. If we're talking story, they're still very different so far, especially in how they tell the story.
2:40 The idea of Greg's general practitioner diagnosing him with Mental Illness from listening to his podcast I'm crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Put the video at 1.5 speed to make Andy and Blessing talk at a normal pace
Hyung Tae Kim is a thirst trap artist and that's ok because ALL his characters are thirst traps. The men, the women, EVERYBODY. He's been doing it for over 25 years. I remember his design with on the Korean RPG Magna Carta and his drawings are a big part of why I'm good at character shading.
Yh looking at his work I don't see it. I just see generic anime dudes with their arms showing? But like 75% of his characters seem to be women anyway.
The dudes I've seen in Stellar Blade specifically are hyper realistic and covered up which makes them look a little weird standing next to Eve who looks like a lifeless sex doll.
@@oni9346 So you mean the women that Eve is modeled on are all lifeless s*x dolls also , wow now that's misogynistic , maybe see the video that maxim korea put out , where it shows how realistic girls like Eve do exist in reality . Not everyone is as ugg as the femi zi journalists that are in kotaku.
If Blessing's main complaint about this is that it seems too familiar and reminds him too much of Nier - then that's fine with me personally as I've never played those games so that won't be an issue.
I honestly hadn't much interest in this game until I tried the demo, and I was very surprised at how fun it was to play. After seeing the positive reviews pretty much across the board, this is definitely one I'll pick up this weekend
Pretty sure his main complaint is that the story is bad.
The composer is the same as Nier
It’s not even close to Nier. It’s more like Scarlet Nexus
@@asdfxcvbn746 I'd trust his judgement over some basic NPC account any day of the week.
Explain this to me: if stories are irrlevant, why do publishers bother implementing them?
@@asdfxcvbn746 What a dumb ass comment. Why do people like god of war or red dead redemption 2? Last of us or ghost of Tsushima? You can like good stories in your video games.
How come andy doesnt review the souls type leaning games? It always seems to be bless and he does well enough but its just strange since its something andys known for? Just curious.
I was reviewing Another Crab's Treasure (soulslike), review is up now!
@@TheAndyCortez Nice! Watching it now!
Hard R isn't something I am aware of and I've been living in the USA for 20+ years, I don't think it's intentional for shift up, and it's evidence that they are removing it right away after being noticed by developers.
I wonder if the devs meant for the sign to read as “Hard” as a sexual faux pas but didn’t think about the “r” at the end because it looked more natural in the environment. They probably have no idea what the colloquial “Hard R” means in the US. 😂
@@squishybuspr could be, your guess is as good as mine to be honest. I am not even close to understand the language of Korean and the culture of korea at all to be able to formulate an educated guess.😅
Stellar Blade looks really good. I'll probably pick it up once I'm done streaming my platinum run for FF7 Rebirth. We getting through the hard mode tonight 💪
How did Andy time the smoke like that?
Had to rewind, he did time it flawlessly
The hard r Is such a stupid complaint. No one outside the US would ever know what it means .if no one told me what it was I would never know what it meant . Also it’s obvious that the developers had no idea either .
I don't know if it's ignorance or being from Scotland and just not having a clue, but I've never heard of that term that was seen in Stellar Blade. I literally had to look it up because IGN weren't explaining what it was and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out myself.
Definitely gotta have people looking into the cultural translation connotations in games released!
I definitely had to look this R thing up being from England and an older dude. I had absolutely no idea and the first things I came up with were that they were being naughty like the boob thing, like "harder, harder!"... Or maybe joking about a hard R rating for the game because of the cheekiness. All sorts of things like that. I had absolutely no idea what you were talking about here and it definitely translates as a very shitty thing indeed huh!
As I said to start with, just goes to show you need people looking through all sorts of aspects of games with a fine tooth comb.
Or it's just Harder?
This is Transistor meets the best of Nier. I wish the combat and parry was faster though
Trust Andy on patreon dollars helping Greg's throat. Andy is the throat goat!
Oh good. They have Andy on this review! The Savior of KF the Nitro Rifle
I guess the Graffiti is already patched out.
Wait what’s wrong with the hard R graffiti?
Nier is my favorite series, I'm even more pumped for this game now lol Great review Bless
We talk enough on this Chanel about how the final fantasy men are “hot”. So Its finally my turn to say. Stellar blade is HOT! :) & the game is beautiful! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
So brave 😂
Ah yes finally its women’s turn to be objectified instead of men
Finally a hero brave enough to speak on these important issues
I mean if hypocrisy had a face it would be left-wing journos especially sjw gaming journos , is it any surprise that they only like to see good looking men and hate good looking women.
@@lordbobert4029 Thank god. We've had enough ugly women in games recently lol
Can someone tell me if Greg has stopped coughing yet so I know whether to watch 😂
Rebirth is also a "last harah" for UE4. Especially as an open world game which UE4 is supposed to be terrible for. I'm sure the 3rd Remake game will also be UE4 again because I doubt they want to switch engines at this point.
How would UE4 be terrible for an open world game? Literally makes no sense. You have to make optimizations. You have to know what features you don't need from an engine and strip it out. This isn't rocket science, it's literally just work that needs to be done regardless of the engine.
Considering UE has some of the best tools for creating open worlds... I would think it's one of the better options. Unless you want to spend a ton of time and money making your own engine, which many studios/publishers don't see as cost effective.
Heck, CDPR is dropping their own engine for Unreal. You think Epic just finally figured out open world development with UE5? lol
I love Bless' review comparing it to Nier. I've never played Nier so it should feel fresh to me
I honestly saw the image that Blessing mentioned and thought it was read as “Harder.” Even that could be misconstrued as something, but I’m glad Bless brought up the other connotation.
not wanting cheeks on screen 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️… isn’t the R for the name of the shop girl
I think it's the same composer as Nier Automata
Wish I wasn't a broke boy, but I am. In a career transition. Thank you so much for making this stuff available for free.
Why in the world wouldn't they release the podcast for free? They wouldn't be able to sustain a paid audience if everything was gated behind a paywall. And this is a review episode, which is an easy way to get new eyes on the podcast.
@@Tatman2TheResQ People were telling that to Watcher
Having watched multiple SB reviews, this is the broad consensus:
+ Great combat (narrower parry/dodge windows than Sekiro)
+ Good boss battles
- Paper thin characterizations
- Repetitive fetch side quests
Aggregate Score: 8ish/10
Gonna keep my expectations tempered, Lies of P knocked it out of the park and if SB can come close it'll be good[
Lies of P was... so fkn good 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽.
I am all for new studios emerging from other countries of Asia but I hope they won't all end up samey. I loved Lies of P. I think I am gonna pick up stellar blade when it is not 70 dollar and black myth wukong is at my radar. But already these 3 games seem very similar. 3rd person action games with inspiration from other popular games. And the games they are inspired from are the same games.
Stellar Blade plays very different than Lies of P
I’m confused about the trophy hate? Shouldn’t we want our trophies to carry over to PC? Did you guys want to earn the exact same trophies again but just on PC? Lol if so, thats crazy. Why would you want to do the same missions again just to earn the same trophies? I’m missing something
Some people, icluding me, like to platinum a game multiple times if we really like it. That's why I don't autopop between PS4 and PS5, I want to get those trophies again, plus its another platinum you can get, that you know you're capable of getting and enjoy getting. If the trophies didn't carry over and I could earn them again on PC that would be an incentive for me to play these games on PC, but since they don't I'm probably not going to.
@@tylerrichardson3034 Thank you for providing context. That actually makes a lot of sense
Shift Up is not new. Founded in 2013.
I suppose i’m ignorant cuz I had no idea what “Hard R” even was until I had to look it up after seeing this… the fact that things like that automatically puts your mind towards racism is terrible. Now, if it’s intentional yes that’s not good at all and needs to be addressed appropriately but man I hate that’s what we first think about. I’m so over the hate towards one another. What a world we live in. 😢
I hope Andy returns for Ghost of Tsushima on PC.
There’s no point in using performance mode. Balanced has better image quality and is still 60fps
I’ll pick this up when it goes on discount on steam in 4 years
bracing for impact on this one 😅
edit: I’m glad Bless enjoyed the game! I’m looking forward to it, tho it’s not a day one for me cuz my wallet is still reeling from Rebirth. that “hard R” easter egg is CRAZY, tho!
So “HARD R”… I read that as “Take a Hard Right” given there was an arrow too. Was there anything to the right of that wall?
Are you serious?
😂 okay 👍 today you definitely wong
I've never played Neir or any soulsborne so this game is a 5/5 for me then?
If you haven't played either of them because they don't look interesting then no, if you are interested in soulslikes, play elden Ring, sekiro, ds1, or ds3 before you play this
Blessing is so multifaceted in his reviews and what he plays it’s super refreshing, love to see it!!
Thanks for this guys, I’ve been yearning for more Automata stuff for some time now and Stellar Blade definitely draws inspiration and will scratch that itch. The cosmetics are hella enticing though have to admit 👀
Playstation Day and date is near. You don’t invest in a PS overlay for PC unless you are committed to multi platform.
They already are committed to releasing their games to PC, thats why so many are on PC, but I think day and date is a little bit of a stretch, more like a timed exclusive on their console and goes to PC after a year.
Whats the big deal about Hard R? 😂
I think the devs made a mistake including that , good that that is gone , and everyone knows what the hard R stands for dude.
@@azureemarald5722 I really dont and I dont live in the US.
@@magnainsomnia I live in southeast Asia and even I know.
@@magnainsomnia Even not living in the US, if you don't know what it means, or at least have an a general idea, you must live under a rock.
Yeah hard r is a American thing people still accuse Korean for saying the n word when they are saying you
Americans think they are the only ones in the world , they have very little information about other countries or cultures.
So I didn’t know what was going on when they were talking about the r thing. I thought it was about an R rating like how things are rated M for mature. So I was like why are they making a big deal of something which seemed like nothing. It was only until I looked it up and found it was connecting to a super racist thing. Some context here is super important cause I can’t be the only one who wasn’t aware what the developers might have been reference. But there is no background info before KF talks about it. We just have to know what that phrase means. Again not everyone is aware so give some context so the audience knows.
@@asdfxcvbn746🤡
Is Bless the only one who played the actual game? Only one code I guess? Seems odd.
Probably the only one willing to do the review.
I downthumbed your comment btw. Only 11 people can't always play the same games at the same time in time for a review. A lot of times like normal humans they too get to games they might want to play late too. Use your noggin.
My guess is andy chose not to play it so he could do so on stream. Kinda sucks not getting his full impressions on a game at embargo though
Now that all embargoes are up, I can now say that we had hella games come in. Had to divide and conquer. And we’re also busy outside of just playing games. - Barrett
@@KindaFunnyGames I would think that's obvious, but thanks for explaining it for people.
This dude really said he didn’t want to see the cheeks on his screen. Definitely confirmed my suspicions of him lmaoo
It is so refreshing to see Andy on PS:ILYXOXO!
He needs to show up more, especially as he's ,most of the time, the most objective video games critic. (Bless is terrible imho, too much on the subjective criticism side).
I know who the Dentist is but felt like sharing it would be weird. I'm so cool!!
Isn't she kinda like an android? Is she actually SUPPOSED to show emotion?
Not enough "stellar blade is stellar" unsubbed
People be looking for racism everywhere 🙄
I wonder what the meetings behind the scenes at Kinda Funny are like. I have never been a fan of Blessings reviews. (I've also had plenty of issues with how the Games Daily scripts are written, but that's a different show.)
I just dont understand how this can be possible with Greg being here. Like dude, it's cool you wanna be hands off and just let people do their thing, but you need to help your people because the content is suffering for it.
Edit: Thankfully y'all had Andy on here to ask good questions that were all way more interesting than anything that had been said prior.
@@asdfxcvbn746 I already support LSM on Patreon. I also support and want KF to do better. LSM doesn't need you championing them in other creator's comments.
First?
Comparing the game to Nier Automata is lazy. It’s more like Sekiro X Scarlet Nexus
Comparing the game to Sekiro or Scarlet Nexus is lazy. It's more like Nier Automata
Why is everyone so obsessed with 1 sexy female character, play any JRPG game the characters are always visually appealing and sexualised (men & women) it’s just how Asain cultures often design fictional characters. I don’t understand why it’s become controversial topic around this game.
I've been wondering that this whole time.
Tekken had a whole roster of hot chicks, but for some reason this game gets memed to hell and back about the protagonist.
3 people on the review panel, one hasn’t played it and two have only played the demo, kinda funny at its best 😂 it has a sexy anime chick so of course bless will review it high
Got your click and engagement though!!! 😂
Y’all grasping at straws with that hard r sign 😂
It's patched out, in a week time no one will care
Hard R probably is just a play on words with "Harder" rather than what you're thinking. Really doubt the korean studio knows has the R word in their lexicon.
Already removed
So who cares
It sounds to me like a 6/10 game that only manages to get 8s because its a copy of NIER and has the backup of Sony
Grow up Blessing. That hard R is coincidental. American sensitivies 🤦♂️
The culture war is real. If you’re a parent you should be very afraid. Leave the children alone. As for this game, don’t play it in front of children or anyone who is very sensitive to this type of stuff. It’s rated M for a reason. Remember when you were 7 and your parents said no violent video games but you got them and played it anyway. Stellar Blade is kinda like that, it’s for adult gamers, not kids or your grandparents to watch. Yeah, she’s very sexualized and it’s ok. It’s catering to a specific audience and again that is ok too. If you try to create a product that tries to please everyone.. guess what… it always falls short. I’m just happy to see that gaming can be for everyone. If games didn’t grow up with me I don’t think I’d still be playing them. As for the hard R. I thought it meant rated R, not racist. Yeah I said it, but come on it doesn’t make sense. Why racism all of a sudden? Wasn’t the issue over sexualization? In movies we place R ratings when women are overly nude and sexualized. This game would be a hard R. Idk makes more sense to me this way.
Say no to drugs, kids. Video games are fine though.
I keep coming back to this channel in hopes for actual content and yet I have found that some people that work for KInda Funny are just there to promote their own content. Why does Andy who plays games like Stellar Blade choose not to for his employer but will most definitely play it day one for his channel. In the age of Layoff's I think we have to start asking the question are some people just not invested to their job.
I'm all for criticism when it makes sense, but Andy does a ton of work outside of reviewing games... which was never a primary thing for him anyway.
He can easily be on camera more each week than Blessing. That time Blessing isn't on camera? Easily spent playing games. That's why you see him do so many reviews, because he has time to play during company hours.
You're beyond out of pocket for saying that about Andy. lol
I think he realized if Janet doesn’t have to play games on this channel to be featured then why should he.
@@SenorRaulito Janet is no longer on the show, she showed up recently because Greg was sick.
Andy is on this episode because he is a fan of Souls games, and this game was compared to that genre. So it's nice to get him to ask questions to Blessing, who also likes Souls games and played the game.
Wtf kinda crack do y'all smoke?!
I just miss when gaming podcasts where more the 1 person played the whole game. Kinda Funny has been complaining that this year has been dry on games yet they don’t have time to finish them.
As for Janet, listen to their GOTY episode n take a shot every time she says “ I voted for game I have not finished.” After 30 minutes you’ll die of alcohol poisoning.