Stellar Blade

[TecmoZack]

Originally Posted by Diesel

The demo is relaunching Friday.

Nice.

Interested to try.

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by Diesel

The demo is relaunching Friday.

And the progress you make in the demo will save when you/if you buy the full game.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by Diesel

The demo is relaunching Friday.

Cool, thanks. I'll test it out.
It would have to be very impressive IMO to earn my 69.99 plus tax, but hopefully it's a fun demo.

Originally Posted by eiknarf

And the progress you make in the demo will save when you/if you buy the full game.

That's good to know, thanks.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Diesel

The demo is relaunching Friday.

Looking forward to it.

I Bought the full Deluxe Edition when I bought Rebirth. I think the game will be ok but I’m getting Soul-Like vibes. I sure hope it’s not. Had enough of that challenge finishing Elden Ring.

[Zivouhr]

I wonder if they intentionally let the early demo release to build up anticipation and hype for the game? Those demo releases require someone to type in a very specific release date. It's not some kind of accident unless they set a placeholder and then everyone forgot about it after making a new release date. Get a few lucky people to play it, take it away, and I start to wonder what I missed and if the demo will return.

Looking forward to testing out the gameplay and combat. To see if there is a sense of exploration in the game, or if it's strictly focused on fighting bosses as the main theme, which it seems to be.

Originally Posted by Derb

Looking forward to it.

I Bought the full Deluxe Edition when I bought Rebirth. I think the game will be ok but I’m getting Soul-Like vibes. I sure hope it’s not. Had enough of that challenge finishing Elden Ring.

Nice work completing Elden Ring. I'm guessing you've completed Bloodborne too, as well as Demon's Soul PS5. Tough games for sure.

Watching the boss fights, they are definitely going for a very wide boss health meter, much like these very tough boss games.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

I wonder if they intentionally let the early demo release to build up anticipation and hype for the game? Those demo releases require someone to type in a very specific release date. It's not some kind of accident unless they set a placeholder and then everyone forgot about it after making a new release date. Get a few lucky people to play it, take it away, and I start to wonder what I missed and if the demo will return.

Looking forward to testing out the gameplay and combat. To see if there is a sense of exploration in the game, or if it's strictly focused on fighting bosses as the main theme, which it seems to be.



Nice work completing Elden Ring. I'm guessing you've completed Bloodborne too, as well as Demon's Soul PS5. Tough games for sure.

Watching the boss fights, they are definitely going for a very wide boss health meter, much like these very tough boss games.

Yeah Elden I didn’t do all PSN trophies, but I did 100% Bloodborn. Didn’t get far at all in DS.

Stellar Blade shouldn’t be as difficult. Curious how big the story is with it?

[TecmoZack]

Originally Posted by Derb

Yeah Elden I didn’t do all PSN trophies, but I did 100% Bloodborn. Didn’t get far at all in DS.

Stellar Blade shouldn’t be as difficult. Curious how big the story is with it?

Here you go. Hope this helps. Found on Reddit.

developer interviews released in Korea
https://bbs.ruliweb.com/news/read/195030

https://www.gametoc.co.kr/news/artic...ml?idxno=80284

https://www.khgames.co.kr/news/artic...l?idxno=226134

‘Stella Blade’ does not require any additional expenses that gamers are not aware of other than the cost of purchasing the package. The only exception is if you create a collaboration costume with another company's IP, that amount can be sold for a fee.

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If you focus on the main quest, it lasted about 25 hours. If you play the game by taking care of all the sub-quests, you should enjoy it for 30 to 35 hours, and if you take care of all the collector elements, you should enjoy it for more than 40 hours.

<Translate with Google Translator>


So 25-40 hours.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by Derb

Yeah Elden I didn’t do all PSN trophies, but I did 100% Bloodborn. Didn’t get far at all in DS.

Stellar Blade shouldn’t be as difficult. Curious how big the story is with it?

Thanks. These Boss battle games require a ton of practice, a big time investment to defeating all the bosses.
Yes, I wonder about the length of the story game.

Originally Posted by TecmoZack

Here you go. Hope this helps. Found on Reddit.

developer interviews released in Korea
https://bbs.ruliweb.com/news/read/195030

https://www.gametoc.co.kr/news/artic...ml?idxno=80284

https://www.khgames.co.kr/news/artic...l?idxno=226134

‘Stella Blade’ does not require any additional expenses that gamers are not aware of other than the cost of purchasing the package. The only exception is if you create a collaboration costume with another company's IP, that amount can be sold for a fee.

--------------------

If you focus on the main quest, it lasted about 25 hours. If you play the game by taking care of all the sub-quests, you should enjoy it for 30 to 35 hours, and if you take care of all the collector elements, you should enjoy it for more than 40 hours.

<Translate with Google Translator>


So 25-40 hours.

25 hours for the main story. That's good. Thanks. That's a good length for an action based game I'd say.

[TecmoZack]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Thanks. These Boss battle games require a ton of practice, a big time investment to defeating all the bosses.
Yes, I wonder about the length of the story game.



25 hours for the main story. That's good. Thanks. That's a good length for an action based game I'd say.

Agreed. Rise Of the Ronin is around the same. Prob like 70ish hours for 100%.

Excited for the demo to see if this will get my $$$.

[TecmoZack]

Review Of The Demo. (Found On Reddit)

Spoilers in Demo Review

We’re a small, independent Aussie gaming outlet and got to play the demo early! Here’s what we thought.

https://questdaily.com.au/game-previ...ay-sci-fi-ps5/

[Zivouhr]

Friday for the Stellar blade Project Eve demo.

For a demo, as a good rule for the developer, they should probably let the player experience the basic gameplay for part of a level, or no more than necessary.

For a gamer playing a demo, I really enjoy when a demo lets me play as long as I want, whether by being able to replay the demo endlessly, or taking my time with it, if there is no timer. I don't want too much spoiled though. Like don't provide the entire map or entire world to explore in 20 minutes.

I've played demos that give way too much freedom, to the point I no longer need to play the main game unless the story was really captivating or something. As long as a demo doesn't give the player access to too much, it's a smartly designed demo.

One of my favorite demos was on the Playstation 1 Demo disc included with the Playstation 1 console in 1998. It was Soul Reaver, and only gave you access to a small water pool area and a cave mountain structure with a bell tower. You fought a few vampire enemies and then reached the exit. Short, but great, and let you enjoy the gameplay but not giving too much away.
MGS1 was another good one, along with Playstation Magazine's PS1 demo of Silent Hill 1, and MotoRacer 2.

Sounds like Stellar Blade gives access to a small city area and then that opening boss battle with the companion character, which seems reasonable without giving too much gameplay away.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by TecmoZack

Here you go. Hope this helps. Found on Reddit.

developer interviews released in Korea
https://bbs.ruliweb.com/news/read/195030

https://www.gametoc.co.kr/news/artic...ml?idxno=80284

https://www.khgames.co.kr/news/artic...l?idxno=226134

‘Stella Blade’ does not require any additional expenses that gamers are not aware of other than the cost of purchasing the package. The only exception is if you create a collaboration costume with another company's IP, that amount can be sold for a fee.

--------------------

If you focus on the main quest, it lasted about 25 hours. If you play the game by taking care of all the sub-quests, you should enjoy it for 30 to 35 hours, and if you take care of all the collector elements, you should enjoy it for more than 40 hours.

<Translate with Google Translator>


So 25-40 hours.

Cheers.

As I posted about hoping it’s not like a Souls game, 2 videos showed up on YouTube. 1 from PS Access discussing the game today.

It appears it’s more souls like than I thought.

-Enemies respawn after taking breaks at camps.
-Combat is largely focused on blocking, perfect parries, dodging, lock on is similar too.

Now I’m expecting a good challenge. Even if I choose Story Mode.

[TecmoZack]

Yeah.

If story mode difficulty is close to Rise Of Ronin I'm gold.

If closer to true Souls I'll prob pass. Happy I get to try before I buy.

[eiknarf]

Anyone know the file size of the demo?

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

Anyone know the file size of the demo?

If its the same as the first time its right over 16GB.

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by Diesel

If its the same as the first time its right over 16GB.

Oh wow
That’s half the file size of the full game, (I’m reading that the full game is 35GB)

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by TecmoZack

Yeah.

If story mode difficulty is close to Rise Of Ronin I'm gold.

If closer to true Souls I'll prob pass. Happy I get to try before I buy.

I don't mind dodging, blocking, and timing attacks, as long as it's a fair fight and the bosses aren't really cheap with their attacks.

But I hear what you're saying. Sometimes game bosses are really cheap with their hits and the player is almost dead in a few swipes of their strikes. Without as much time to spare, rather than repeating the same fight 100 times, I rather just switch to easy mode and get through it already. If I had a ton of time and it was the only game of interest, things would be different like back in the old days of the NES and SMS.

[TecmoZack]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

I don't mind dodging, blocking, and timing attacks, as long as it's a fair fight and the bosses aren't really cheap with their attacks.

But I hear what you're saying. Sometimes game bosses are really cheap with their hits and the player is almost dead in a few swipes of their strikes. Without as much time to spare, rather than repeating the same fight 100 times, I rather just switch to easy mode and get through it already. If I had a ton of time and it was the only game of interest, things would be different like back in the old days of the NES and SMS.

Feel the same way. 42 now. If I was in my 20s I would have no prob with the hard games at all.

I just don't have as much time to get OP.

[emailking]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

With PS5, what is interesting is you can move the digital version game and its updates to storage on an external hard drive. It is preserved on that hard drive in that state if I'm not mistaken. So if you have the main game installed on PS5 and it gets an update you didn't want, you can hopefully just delete it from installation, and then pull up the older version you had stored. I've been doing that with some games lately, but need to really see for sure as I haven't found too many updates I don't like.

Maybe I'm not understanding something, but I don't see how this can work. Are you saying you can have the same game installed separately on both the internal hard drive and the external hard drive?

[Zivouhr]

Stellar Blade demo today? Nothing on PS5 Store yet. Maybe in the afternoon or something.

Originally Posted by emailking

Maybe I'm not understanding something, but I don't see how this can work. Are you saying you can have the same game installed separately on both the internal hard drive and the external hard drive?

Yes. I can have the same game installed on my external hard drive, and installed on PS5 at the same time, but the older version will be on the external HDD. I think it's something newer, as in the past on PS5, I remember seeing the whole game MOVED from the external HDD, but now it stays there and just Copies it to PS5. Which is cool.

Sorry, I was thinking of the post in the PS5 Rant thread below:
It's when trying to install the game on PS5 from the PS4 disc, it brings up a prompt that says it's on another external HDD and to use that to access it. I think it's when the PS5 detects a game is already installed on a separate external HDD, it automatically refuses to install it on my PS5 or current external different HDD that I have connected to PS5. It tells me to insert the other HDD. Which is ridiculous because what if that one breaks or is lost along with my PS4? I don't know how to access those games from PS5 to a PS4. Thankfully that's not the situation but I have to look on my PS4 and move the game to my PS5 to test it out on PS5. What a hassle.

Originally Posted by TecmoZack

Feel the same way. 42 now. If I was in my 20s I would have no prob with the hard games at all.

I just don't have as much time to get OP.

Thanks. Yeah, time is the main factor to these tough games. I'm sure you've completed enough tough games in your lifetime earlier in life. I look back at some of the tough NES and SMS games I completed as a kid, and a lot of it was because buying a game back then was a major event, saving up for it and then carefully selecting the one game that would keep me busy for a good month or more.