Software:Stellar Blade

Short description: Upcoming 2024 video game

Template:Video game infobox Stellar Blade is an upcoming action-adventure game developed by Shift Up and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is scheduled to be released for PlayStation 5 on April 26, 2024.

Gameplay

Stellar Blade is played from a third-person perspective. The gameplay is split into two parts: combat and exploration. Combat focuses on countering enemy attacks and proceeding to use combo skills and items to defeat enemies. Skills are acquired after spending Beta Gauge (BG). BG is gained after successfully parrying and evading in battle. A Burst Gauge meter is also filled up by parrying enemy attacks and executing combos, which can then be activated to grant buffs or use powerful attacks against enemies. The game also utilizes the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller's haptic feedback in order to deliver feedback on enemy attacks and weapon accuracy. Exploration around the game world features wall scaling and swinging on ropes in order to traverse the environment and find hidden secrets, such as extra costumes. The game will feature English voice acting, safe points to regain health as well as buy items and npcs who can provide Eve with side quests, with the option of either taking them on or ignoring them.

Story

In the near future, humanity is driven from the Earth after a losing a war against alien invaders called Naytiba. To reclaim the Earth, the protagonist Eve and her squad are deployed from the Colony to fight the Naytiba and take back Earth. Eventually, Eve meets a survivor named Adam, who leads her to Xion, the last surviving human city on Earth. Eve then makes contact with the elder Orcal and establishes relationships with the residents of Xion in order to further her mission to save Earth.

Development

The game was first revealed via a teaser trailer under the working title Project Eve on April 4, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows to be developed on Unreal Engine 4 by Shift Up, a Korean studio founded by Blade & Soul illustrator Kim Hyung-tae. A prototype for new gameplay and art direction was shown in late 2020 without mentioning any of the game's platforms for release. The game was later announced to be an exclusive for PlayStation 5 and would be published by Sony Interactive Entertainment during a September 2021 PlayStation showcase. In a September 2022 State of Play, the game's final title was revealed to be Stellar Blade with new gameplay shown off and an original release window scheduled for 2023. In December 2023, the game was delayed to 2024. As a response to people who claimed Eve's physique to not really exist, the studio released a video that showed the game uses 3D scanning for character models with Eve being based on the model Shin Jae-eun. On January 31 2024, it was announced that the game would be released on April 26 of the same year at a Playstation State of Play showcase.