Sony’s first State of Play of the year has kicked off with a new trailer for Stellar Blade, the PlayStation 5 exclusive that was previously known as Project Eve. We get to meet new characters such as Lilly, who will be your tech guru and upgrade your equipment. As standard for games from the Far East, there’s a banging vocal theme tune as well!
Stellar Blade is coming out on 26th April 2024.
You’ll be playing as Eve as she’s deployed to an apocalyptic Earth to fight back against an alien race called NA:tives, but in the process happens upon a chap named Adam – Adam & Eve, geddit? – who leads her to the last surviving city, Xion – which you’d pronounce “Zion”, another Bible reference. Eve is called “Angel” by the inhabitants of Xion.
You’ll have to journey to defeat the invading NA:tive aliens who have all-but wiped out humanity, and the guns and flashy swords in the combat certainly don’t look like something you’d find in Sunday school. Stellar Blade looks to feature slick and fast-paced action and combat that will bring to mind Bayonetta and Nier Automata.
You’ll kit yourself out with Beta Skills and Burst Skills, mastering the parry, evade and timing needed to break through the enemies. You can aquire new skills and upgrades at camps, and also take a nice nap while changing in to entirely impractical sexy costumes.
This will be a really interesting game to keep tabs on, as Sony is publishing Korean developer Skill Up’s work. Originally announced in 2019 as Project Eve, the game has come a long way since then – for one thing, it’s now PlayStation exclusive – and was rebranded as Stellar Place in a September 2022 State of Play.
The game’s trailers have drawn some criticism for player character Eve’s physique, with people thinking it didn’t look realistic. Skill Up shot this down by showing that the game uses 3D scans for character models, and Eve is portrayed by model Shin Jae-eun.
Source; YouTube
