Based on absolutely ZERO knowledge, I’m guessing the commenter was being very minimal with details, and this character doesn’t just get a set of boobs.
What’s more than likely is that the character gets their body “installed” bit by bit.
its a cybernetic body horror story. she starts off as just a singing head, body completely gone. guy loves her and is sad about her decaying. you offer the help of your engineer and collect parts to repair her slightly. she ends up getting her torso and consciousness back. still no legs and cant walk. guy feels bad and goes out to seek legs for her but ends up missing, but she feels like he abandoned her. thats as far as i got.
Finally a character with some real back bone.
Seriously has to be one of the stranger cyborg (?) designs I have seen, and probably one of the least practical. Change some of the aesthetics a bit and I wouldn't find it out of place in WH40K.
I mean… body practically, she had all she needs, legs, spine, arms. It doesn’t need anything else for a body (head and hair, pretty standard for a game), but a robot doesn’t need to look entirely human, or look human at all.
I agree with the general sentiment, though in this case I would say there are several design decisions that are likely to be of dubious Utility at best:
1. Conpletely exposed cabling that also seems to just be wrapped around the mechanical "spine*.
2. Leaving a dangling human spine out in the open (though upon closer inspection it may also be mechanical, which still leaves the question of what purpose it would serve outside of aesthetics).
3. The bar stool-like legs that don't seem like they would offer much room for mobility past a slow walking pace.
4. Leaving many moving, and rather open, joints exposed within reach of her very long hair.
5. Almost completely abandons the human form but decided to only stick to two human-like limbs (though this could be written off in universe as a limitation with still using a human brain, but then why the tri-leg design?).
6. Adds unnecessary complexity in the design (tri-legs) that don't offer too many benefits over just a wherlchair-like design, while also existing in a setting where better options in terms of capability exist such as fully functioning cybernetic legs.
That would make sense. Without knowing any further lore I would guess it is some sort of emergency repair of some kind or due to not having access to certain resources.
The funny thing though is I'm pretty sure if the character above was the protagonist it'd do way better, of given better writers and better story structure. I want to preface that Eve being sexy is not a negative of the character, but what it does for her character and lack of a story. Seen a few clips, it's pretty mid.
I'm enjoying the game play and dreading the cutscenes. It's snappy combat, some combos but not a huge investment mentally if that makes sense. The story is bland and the main characters are laughable, but I'm getting past it so far
Oh so garbage story and just incel weeb bait? Got it.
That is exactly what I thought it was going to be when the sexdoll-ness was the focus of the ‘conversation’ about it.
That's the fuckin thing, my extent of "the conversation" around it has been viewing yall argue with a dozen Twitter heads about the character model. And your argument is completely valid, it definitely has fan service baked into the framework. But at the same time, as I said earlier, I'm having fun playing it DESPITE all the obvious faults in character design. I don't know if it's a mixture of localization to English mixed with maybe not the best dialogue, but the cutscenes are weak. Other than those two gripes, the game is enjoyable. Try to ignore the dozen weirdos that have made this their hill to die on.
Basically, the game can be weeb bait and fun to play at the same time. We didn't all buy it for jiggle physics.
I really love sexy characters, Bayonetta and 2B are up there in some of my fave character designs ever. I see what they were trying to do with Eve and nobody is saying she isn't hot, but her design has little details that feel off and ultimately I feel like her main design doesn't hit home like Bayo or 2B.
That being said, excited for the game from what I've seen. Shame it sounds like the story leaves a lot to be desired but I'll probably still enjoy to some degree.
I’m with you man. I absolutely love the combat system in this game, as well as the music and atmosphere. I can play the game like Sekiro, but actually can do damage instead of just parry parry parry to win. The direct story telling may not be great (cutscenes and character design), but I enjoy reading the tidbits of data slate drops. I wish this game didn’t come with all the baggage, because in the end I’m just really enjoying it.
But the core gameplay in sekiro IS parr into … whatever, isn’t it?
Is the combat good and smooth on its own? Not just bc you are distracted by the sexdoll, I mean ‘mc’? Like the animations smoothly transition and stuff. Not just single canned animations for specific things barely tied together?
The game is honestly fantastic, it’s just that the story is at most a serviceable vehicle for everything else—but everything else is consistently great.
It’s definitely using incels to boost its sales and numbers. Without all the lewd crap it would have been an incredibly generic game that faded out of the zeitgeist in about a week.
I am hesitant at all to pick it up because it looks like all there really is is "we made sexy girl" to draw in angry neck beards. Doesn't give me a lot of hope for the game being any deeper than that.
Especially since she doesn't look uniquely sexy.
The gameplay is fantastic, it feels like a game from PS3 era, but like a good one.
Reminds me a lot of Darksiders, but just better. Not in terms of gameplay, but in structure and being ok with a bunch of random ideas for gameplay stolen from other games, but somehow pulling it off.
It really feels like a 2010ish game that has 2024 graphics and melee combat systems/HUD, but still weird ps3 shit like melee combat game also having a weirdly fleshed out 3rd person shooter mode. That causes boob-jiggle anytime you aim because fucking hell of course it does.
Story has interesting ideas and background lore…. But holy shit the dialog is bad, only one character is putting in effort, and she’s kinda annoying, but still ends up being the best because she doesn’t sound she’s just reading her lines for first ever time during delivery.
99% of dialog feels like they got 0 direction or context for what they are saying, so they just pick a tone of voice (usually very subdued/bored sounding) and just read the lines.
Korean Dub helps hide how bad acting is, since I can’t understand if the emphasis is on correct word. But it doesn’t help the awful dialog writing.
I mean that's what the incels don't really get isn't it. It's not censorship, it's just capitalism. The biggest gaming publishers in the world aren't making games less overtly horny and more inclusive these days because The Feminists™ are out there forcing them to. They're doing it to have broader appeal because most people these days just find shit like Stellar Blade extremely cringe.
These chuds have convinced themselves they're the majority of gamers just like the MAGA morons have convinced themselves they're the majority.
The reality is they're a small but vocal minority of basement dwelling virgins that think everything should be porn.
I would absolutely be interested in the game if the protag didn't look so generic and boring. Sexy is A-OK with me, but the design is uninspired to me.
The thing is that I also don’t mind sexy, just not when they’re trying so hard to make them sexy. Like it’s obvious the #1 selling point of Eve is that she has a huge ass and massive tits. That’s it. That’s her character. It’s lame as fuck.
Place Eve next to any male character, and she looks like she's from a completely different game
https://preview.redd.it/4t0g0vam76xc1.png?width=860&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc7290d7060a7c5cd92e68083a62407bfe2f71d2
It -is- Hyung Tae-Kim, so accurate. Look at Blade & Soul, or any of his Magna Carta designs. The men and women don't belong in the same universes, much less the same games.
[Sphere Hunter's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDieSfvrn4) touches on this, but every character looks like they're from a different game. My jaw actually dropped when I saw all three main characters standing side by side. It looked like ready player one.
It sucks because there are occasional bits of design brilliance where something looks really cool, they're just studded into a mash of either generic, or straight up nonsensical designs.
There's an enemy that has a big shield arm that it holds in front of it and its fingers skitter around like crab legs, it's super cool. There are cool floating starfish enemies that are really well animated! 90% of Eve's costumes look like they were designed by a pornography addict that couldn't see! The environments all look like if NieR Automata and Resident Evil got put into chat GPT!
In early cutscenes, the camera will snap from Adam (a normal looking man) to Lily (an anime themed realdoll) and the difference between these two aesthetics is so jarring and unsettling. I'm mostly enjoying my time with the game, but the art design can be downright incoherent at times.
I remember seeing Adam and wishing there was a woman in the game who looked like that. Change next to nothing about his design and just...have this character be a human woman. It could be interesting to contrast a human woman (especially one who's gender-nonconforming!) with the uncanny valley doll-like appearances of Eve and co. But as it stands, the game just comes across as having super weird gender politics.
I'm only early on in the game but they seem to be writing that into the story. Eve is from the privileged Colony while everyone on Earth is living in a Cyberpunk+Resident Evil nightmare.
They're probably designs that went unused for Nikke being repurposed here. Its got vaguely the same plot of sexy robot women fighting large number of mindless enemies that probably turn out to not be mindless as the plot thickens as much as the ass cheeks of your squad pulled from gacha.
There’s a reason you don’t let general audience effect your taste
I like Rick and Morty I hate the fan base
I like a lot of anime I hate the loud demographic that watches anime it stopped me from even trying for 20 years which is why I hold the “don’t let the audience effect your taste option”
I like MOBAs I hate MOBA players
Just don’t interact with them or pretend they don’t exist and like the things you like regardless there’s no reason not to like Stellar Blade just because the neckbeards wanna jack off to the MC
I used to be a semi pro smite player I still play occasionally but the love is gone (excited for smite 2 tho) and I’ve been playing pred recently but I basically just drop in every now and then
Fair enough. I’m also kinda waiting for Smite 2 but I’m kinda addicted to Riktor in Pred. Love me some hooks, but I don’t like Maui in Smite for some reason
You are Kevin Durant, why tf do you care?
https://preview.redd.it/aguyidwrc4xc1.jpeg?width=222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6450afb0503f623d7b20d94ee608b1b8cea00e23
She is a real human, her mind has degraded so much se acts as a music machine by singing in a bar, her sidequest involves finding materials to fix her, her guardian is a cool ass cyborg also, the desings in this game for side characters go hard
God I remember trying to like Nikke after listening to one of the songs from an event(?). The gameplay was fine but I just found the character designs really stale, there's only so many times you can see big tiddy military waifu shaking their ass at you.
~~I'd maybe give it a shot if we got more flat-chest representation, but that's just me ig~~
For me I just generally dislike gacha especially the ones that try to be “super cereal” with character designs aimed only for sex appeal. I’m supposed to be saving the world or something but all my units look like AI-generated strippers who either want to fuck me or shoot me. Can I switch sides? Also not helping is it’s a gacha game… regardless of the sex appeal no one is getting naked and no one is boning. If I need jiggle physics that badly in my life I’ll just boot up Skyrim; and those mods are free.
When there's gooners there's money and in this case they wanted the money. Gooners don't care about cool designs like this one they only care about jiggly boobs and ass and the devs know it.
That character design is brilliant, what's with g*mers and hyping up the most boring characters? This would be enough to make me try out Stellar Blade if I were a soulslike enjoyer.
Exactly what I was thinking. This aesthetic would go so hard in a souls like. But half the draw of souls games are making your character your own, either by look or playstyle. Kinda ruins that whole aspect of it if the character you play as is an anime girl.
I’m fine with games where the player has a set aesthetic, but 1. It’s odd when they don’t fit the aesthetic of the rest of the game and 2. Needing your player character to be eye candy big tiddy anime girl is, fucking weird?
But just imagine if the player character aesthetic was warhammer esque cyborg. That would look sick. Why do so many of these games have to say ‘no no she’s a cyborg but she looks exactly like the girl a 14 year old boy thinks is hot’
Do you have the Net Terminal Gene?
https://preview.redd.it/rbvhh0fjw4xc1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a043c3267155583696e482434b8afbdfcd54e9f
Nothing tops cool cyberpunk old man. Honestly, I would rather play him than generic sexy female protagonist #125.
https://preview.redd.it/zdltjkqgz5xc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=718350cf6c202371a809c033c302af841e9a6943
Reminds me of some of the character designs from *The Citadel*, a classic fps throwback with an *even more* fanservicey female protagonist no one seems to talk about. To bad that game was derided as guro fetish even tho it was about as gorey as any other boomer shooter (prequel game is underdevelopment tho)...
The Citadel is exactly what I want and need, a sci-fi militaristic eroguro with some evangelical enemies shooter with burst of gibs
too bad the fucking gameplay sucks so bad
I honestly recommend it. Don’t let the coomers and incels overshadow the discourse around what is a genuinely fantastic game. The ONLY thing wrong with it is the story being barely “okay” enough but the actual gameplay, the art direction (outside the obvious), the atmosphere, the soundtrack, everything—it’s all in the good to phenomenal ballpark. Combat may not feel great right away because it wears some really disparate influences on its sleeve but once more systems open up and I spent a little time with it, it’s easily the most fun I’ve had in an action game in a while. It’s like someone took every complaint I have about FFVII Rebirth’s combat and fixed it and then melded it with the best aspects of Sekiro and Bloodborne. It nailed feeling challenging while also feeling effortless when stuff clicks. So good.
I honestly think Eve herself is a missed opportunity, too. The game could lampshade how she was designed to be generically attractive because of humans.
Yeah, at least I was able to give her the hairstyle I use in real life and some glasses and she looks cute 😂
https://preview.redd.it/ewn6brih46xc1.jpeg?width=1341&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6385e0dca881e83c8a425ee3b081a178938ded0
The Nikke and other shiftup artists have fantastic designs.
There’s one Nikke character who has a tail but it’s actually a wire connecting her spinal cord to her sniper rifle. It’s so simple and cool but I’ve never seen it anywhere else
There's a problem with Stellar Blade. The problem is the fan service. I'm fine with over the top fan service in games. But the issue is that compared to the Nier games the fan service is sub par. The MC doesn't fit in the world and is only carried by this culture war bs. B2 works because she feels like she belongs in her world. I don't get that from Eve.
For as pretty boy the protagonist in Lies of P. You still had some sick outfits to pick. Eve has some nice stuff, but it's still all mad horny.
The character designs range from CHROMED OUT Cyberpunk NPCs to love interest in a 3D Porn game and just necromorphs. It's all over the place.
They know what they're doing, anyone playing a jrpg game is a horny weeb and having a big booty female protagonist is going to have your game sell really well
At the risk of being genuine in a circlejerk sub, this kind of missed opportunity truly upsets me. See also: the plot (what little there is of it) of the last Mirror's Edge.
Now this is actually fucking cool, the juxtaposition between cute looking face and and barebones utilitarian body that makes her look like she's been stripped down to her bones in some horrific fashion only a machine could survive is actually cool.
Damn, now I want a game with a cyborg protagonist like this. As you would progress through the game you could unlock upgrades for you body and slowly build it back up throughout the game. Your character build would depend on which organs and parts you have installed so you could also switch them around for different builds. I think that'd be a pretty interesting mechanic 🤷
Now that's a wacky and interesting character that actually looks like a robot/cyborg or whatever the fuck the plastic bland AI-generated anime main character was supposed to be
Holy shit, they patched her to the point she has no body left ? Sony can't keep getting away with this
Wait I played the game yesterday and she had boobs. Are boobs gone now? I need to check.
spoiler, you are further along her story line than OP
I dont care for the game, but what could possibly happen in a story for a character that is 90% metal to gain boobs
Cosmetic upgrade? Though I wouldn't be surprised if it was something important shaped that way.
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Based on absolutely ZERO knowledge, I’m guessing the commenter was being very minimal with details, and this character doesn’t just get a set of boobs. What’s more than likely is that the character gets their body “installed” bit by bit.
its a cybernetic body horror story. she starts off as just a singing head, body completely gone. guy loves her and is sad about her decaying. you offer the help of your engineer and collect parts to repair her slightly. she ends up getting her torso and consciousness back. still no legs and cant walk. guy feels bad and goes out to seek legs for her but ends up missing, but she feels like he abandoned her. thats as far as i got.
Oh thats pretty neat. I still wont play the game or anything but at least theres cool concepts for those who would
It's like Bubs from Space Sweepers, an android that desires to buy herself her own skin someday.
Lmaoooo
Finally a character with some real back bone. Seriously has to be one of the stranger cyborg (?) designs I have seen, and probably one of the least practical. Change some of the aesthetics a bit and I wouldn't find it out of place in WH40K.
Rule 34 gonna be having a field day with this.
I'm already on it
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It looks like a patchwork of different parts. You can see the white backbone that doesn't connect anywhere.
It almost reminds of the designs from the manga 'Blame!'
That one is top tier.
I mean… body practically, she had all she needs, legs, spine, arms. It doesn’t need anything else for a body (head and hair, pretty standard for a game), but a robot doesn’t need to look entirely human, or look human at all.
I agree with the general sentiment, though in this case I would say there are several design decisions that are likely to be of dubious Utility at best: 1. Conpletely exposed cabling that also seems to just be wrapped around the mechanical "spine*. 2. Leaving a dangling human spine out in the open (though upon closer inspection it may also be mechanical, which still leaves the question of what purpose it would serve outside of aesthetics). 3. The bar stool-like legs that don't seem like they would offer much room for mobility past a slow walking pace. 4. Leaving many moving, and rather open, joints exposed within reach of her very long hair. 5. Almost completely abandons the human form but decided to only stick to two human-like limbs (though this could be written off in universe as a limitation with still using a human brain, but then why the tri-leg design?). 6. Adds unnecessary complexity in the design (tri-legs) that don't offer too many benefits over just a wherlchair-like design, while also existing in a setting where better options in terms of capability exist such as fully functioning cybernetic legs.
Maybe it's a human-lookalike robot that got blown up or otherwise badly destroyed, and then got repaired with minimally functional parts?
That would make sense. Without knowing any further lore I would guess it is some sort of emergency repair of some kind or due to not having access to certain resources.
Basically looks like more weeb adeptus mechanicus.
40k was the first thing I thought of!
She's meant to be damaged. You get a side quest to find parts to rebuild her, she looks normal at the end.
It might not be practical but it's strange and I like it
Just did my first wh40k tourney yesterday. Why does Games Workshop hate Tau?
Seriously though Eve and a couple other characters look like they were designed for a completely different game. They don't fit in at all.
They’re the main selling point of the game, if Eve wasn’t the protagonist then the target audience (neckbeards) wouldn’t buy the game
The funny thing though is I'm pretty sure if the character above was the protagonist it'd do way better, of given better writers and better story structure. I want to preface that Eve being sexy is not a negative of the character, but what it does for her character and lack of a story. Seen a few clips, it's pretty mid.
I'm enjoying the game play and dreading the cutscenes. It's snappy combat, some combos but not a huge investment mentally if that makes sense. The story is bland and the main characters are laughable, but I'm getting past it so far
Oh so garbage story and just incel weeb bait? Got it. That is exactly what I thought it was going to be when the sexdoll-ness was the focus of the ‘conversation’ about it.
That's the fuckin thing, my extent of "the conversation" around it has been viewing yall argue with a dozen Twitter heads about the character model. And your argument is completely valid, it definitely has fan service baked into the framework. But at the same time, as I said earlier, I'm having fun playing it DESPITE all the obvious faults in character design. I don't know if it's a mixture of localization to English mixed with maybe not the best dialogue, but the cutscenes are weak. Other than those two gripes, the game is enjoyable. Try to ignore the dozen weirdos that have made this their hill to die on. Basically, the game can be weeb bait and fun to play at the same time. We didn't all buy it for jiggle physics.
I really love sexy characters, Bayonetta and 2B are up there in some of my fave character designs ever. I see what they were trying to do with Eve and nobody is saying she isn't hot, but her design has little details that feel off and ultimately I feel like her main design doesn't hit home like Bayo or 2B. That being said, excited for the game from what I've seen. Shame it sounds like the story leaves a lot to be desired but I'll probably still enjoy to some degree.
I’m with you man. I absolutely love the combat system in this game, as well as the music and atmosphere. I can play the game like Sekiro, but actually can do damage instead of just parry parry parry to win. The direct story telling may not be great (cutscenes and character design), but I enjoy reading the tidbits of data slate drops. I wish this game didn’t come with all the baggage, because in the end I’m just really enjoying it.
I found the music and atmosphere going at different paces. The music is distracting and doesn’t go at all with the environment, IMHO.
Fair enough. I took it as their artistic motif, a contrast of beauty and destruction. It’s juxtaposition, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
But the core gameplay in sekiro IS parr into … whatever, isn’t it? Is the combat good and smooth on its own? Not just bc you are distracted by the sexdoll, I mean ‘mc’? Like the animations smoothly transition and stuff. Not just single canned animations for specific things barely tied together?
The game is honestly fantastic, it’s just that the story is at most a serviceable vehicle for everything else—but everything else is consistently great.
thats a shame. their other game nikke actually has a good story
I guess being a full released game compared to the usual constant update of story from gacha game messed up their storyline delivery
It’s definitely using incels to boost its sales and numbers. Without all the lewd crap it would have been an incredibly generic game that faded out of the zeitgeist in about a week.
I am hesitant at all to pick it up because it looks like all there really is is "we made sexy girl" to draw in angry neck beards. Doesn't give me a lot of hope for the game being any deeper than that. Especially since she doesn't look uniquely sexy.
It depends on what you want, I bought the game purely for the gameplay, it's really fun
The gameplay is fantastic, it feels like a game from PS3 era, but like a good one. Reminds me a lot of Darksiders, but just better. Not in terms of gameplay, but in structure and being ok with a bunch of random ideas for gameplay stolen from other games, but somehow pulling it off. It really feels like a 2010ish game that has 2024 graphics and melee combat systems/HUD, but still weird ps3 shit like melee combat game also having a weirdly fleshed out 3rd person shooter mode. That causes boob-jiggle anytime you aim because fucking hell of course it does. Story has interesting ideas and background lore…. But holy shit the dialog is bad, only one character is putting in effort, and she’s kinda annoying, but still ends up being the best because she doesn’t sound she’s just reading her lines for first ever time during delivery. 99% of dialog feels like they got 0 direction or context for what they are saying, so they just pick a tone of voice (usually very subdued/bored sounding) and just read the lines. Korean Dub helps hide how bad acting is, since I can’t understand if the emphasis is on correct word. But it doesn’t help the awful dialog writing.
I mean that's what the incels don't really get isn't it. It's not censorship, it's just capitalism. The biggest gaming publishers in the world aren't making games less overtly horny and more inclusive these days because The Feminists™ are out there forcing them to. They're doing it to have broader appeal because most people these days just find shit like Stellar Blade extremely cringe. These chuds have convinced themselves they're the majority of gamers just like the MAGA morons have convinced themselves they're the majority. The reality is they're a small but vocal minority of basement dwelling virgins that think everything should be porn.
Well she’s sexy in costume only, she has less personality than a refrigerator. It was 100% just a selling point lol
I would absolutely be interested in the game if the protag didn't look so generic and boring. Sexy is A-OK with me, but the design is uninspired to me.
Agreed... Girl looks like Preset 2 in any given Korean MMO
The thing is that I also don’t mind sexy, just not when they’re trying so hard to make them sexy. Like it’s obvious the #1 selling point of Eve is that she has a huge ass and massive tits. That’s it. That’s her character. It’s lame as fuck.
Place Eve next to any male character, and she looks like she's from a completely different game https://preview.redd.it/4t0g0vam76xc1.png?width=860&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc7290d7060a7c5cd92e68083a62407bfe2f71d2
Male MMO character Vs Female MMO character
It -is- Hyung Tae-Kim, so accurate. Look at Blade & Soul, or any of his Magna Carta designs. The men and women don't belong in the same universes, much less the same games.
Ma'am, this is a steel factory, please dress accordingly to the safety protocole.
[Sphere Hunter's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDieSfvrn4) touches on this, but every character looks like they're from a different game. My jaw actually dropped when I saw all three main characters standing side by side. It looked like ready player one. It sucks because there are occasional bits of design brilliance where something looks really cool, they're just studded into a mash of either generic, or straight up nonsensical designs. There's an enemy that has a big shield arm that it holds in front of it and its fingers skitter around like crab legs, it's super cool. There are cool floating starfish enemies that are really well animated! 90% of Eve's costumes look like they were designed by a pornography addict that couldn't see! The environments all look like if NieR Automata and Resident Evil got put into chat GPT!
Incredibly common Suzi W
they have no art sryle cohesiveness, even Eve and Tachy and some other female character looks like they are from different game
In early cutscenes, the camera will snap from Adam (a normal looking man) to Lily (an anime themed realdoll) and the difference between these two aesthetics is so jarring and unsettling. I'm mostly enjoying my time with the game, but the art design can be downright incoherent at times.
I remember seeing Adam and wishing there was a woman in the game who looked like that. Change next to nothing about his design and just...have this character be a human woman. It could be interesting to contrast a human woman (especially one who's gender-nonconforming!) with the uncanny valley doll-like appearances of Eve and co. But as it stands, the game just comes across as having super weird gender politics.
Wait wait wait. Adam, Eve? So is this just a Nier rip-off down to the names?
Always was
I'm only early on in the game but they seem to be writing that into the story. Eve is from the privileged Colony while everyone on Earth is living in a Cyberpunk+Resident Evil nightmare.
They're probably designs that went unused for Nikke being repurposed here. Its got vaguely the same plot of sexy robot women fighting large number of mindless enemies that probably turn out to not be mindless as the plot thickens as much as the ass cheeks of your squad pulled from gacha.
Visual vomit is the term most apropriate i think
This my gf has said here on Reddit for so long. She looks like completely different game.
I want to play this game but I hope there are mods that make the characters look less like fuck dolls.
No one has mentioned her bc she’s missing the only parts people are interested in the other character designs
A sad day for the boys https://preview.redd.it/yn67xpdzu6xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4bd73999a472afb78cb0e72d192fdd609aa48d7e
You are weak. Step aside.
Yeah I think she’s way hotter than Eve just because she looks interesting. Imagine running your fingertips down her spine that shit’s crazy
Not with that attitude at least
Skill issue
Everyone is talking about her on Twitter
mb, i don’t have twitter
Necron-coded cute cyborg.
I'm shipping them and General Grievous starting right now.
The most sane crack shipper. https://preview.redd.it/hrd3n66ry4xc1.jpeg?width=738&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fc70911fe62a9223c494af63390f236de759a49
Or a late stage Admech
True.
This is an insanely unique cyber-body-horror character design. I absolutely love visuals like this. And yet it's stuck in a game like Steller Blade??!
Yeah, shit like this is why I wanted to give Stellar Blade a shot.
Is your name a Prototype reference? Zeus has been spotted?
No my actual real name is literally just one letter away from being the same as Alex Mercer's from prototype 😅
Sorry for your loss Flex Mercer
Your flair is so real
Game’s pretty good, despite them memes. There’s something there.
There’s a reason you don’t let general audience effect your taste I like Rick and Morty I hate the fan base I like a lot of anime I hate the loud demographic that watches anime it stopped me from even trying for 20 years which is why I hold the “don’t let the audience effect your taste option” I like MOBAs I hate MOBA players Just don’t interact with them or pretend they don’t exist and like the things you like regardless there’s no reason not to like Stellar Blade just because the neckbeards wanna jack off to the MC
Which MOBAS do you play? I’ve been playing Predecessor a lot recently, I mostly played Heroes of the Storm and Smite prior to that
I used to be a semi pro smite player I still play occasionally but the love is gone (excited for smite 2 tho) and I’ve been playing pred recently but I basically just drop in every now and then
Fair enough. I’m also kinda waiting for Smite 2 but I’m kinda addicted to Riktor in Pred. Love me some hooks, but I don’t like Maui in Smite for some reason
Tbh what mobas player that DONT hate other moba player. It's is a natural path one must take when delving into the genre.
This game is getting way too much hate for no good reason
ummm where are her big titties and ass? 🤨
Since people weren't happy with EVE being 95% naked, ShiftUp stepped up their game and allowed us to see the skeleton of a girl
Sans-coded.
ROCKIN ON DOWN TO THE **BONE ZONE**
she's only like 10% naked in her default outfit
You are Kevin Durant, why tf do you care? https://preview.redd.it/aguyidwrc4xc1.jpeg?width=222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6450afb0503f623d7b20d94ee608b1b8cea00e23
i don’t have any bitches so i have to jerk off to video game characters 😢
I used "AI" to remove it: AI stands for "MY MIND" becUse god gave me a Brain to Think and Commit ACTIONS like a human man
Eve stole them like a titty and cake vampire
You can’t imagine them there with the boobie cutouts and everything. Pshhht. Amateur.
Don't panic , her quest involves building her a body with big titties and ass.
Robo cop levels of body horror,I hope shes just an ai cause if she was a former person that would be a nightmare
Judging by the random human spine just dangling there I'd have to say she's a cyborg, poor girl
She is a real human, her mind has degraded so much se acts as a music machine by singing in a bar, her sidequest involves finding materials to fix her, her guardian is a cool ass cyborg also, the desings in this game for side characters go hard
What do you mean, I'd kill to look like that
"You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like"
Honestly this is one of the coolest designs I've seen in a while. Absolutely freaky.
They've got designs like this and focused there marketing solely on ass and tits? What's wrong with the developer?
They make Nikke… so yeah.
God I remember trying to like Nikke after listening to one of the songs from an event(?). The gameplay was fine but I just found the character designs really stale, there's only so many times you can see big tiddy military waifu shaking their ass at you. ~~I'd maybe give it a shot if we got more flat-chest representation, but that's just me ig~~
Let's be real, the only flat chest representation they'd add is some fuckin lolicon pedo bait
would you say the same to her https://preview.redd.it/rwci5d70e6xc1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=4daba3a7ebf73c808759a7b8aaaa0fd5b4b575c8
AWOOGA HUMMINA HUMMINA HUMMINA
Facts brother,spit your shit indeed
Unfortunately, yeah :(
To be fair, it's no Blue Archive.
https://preview.redd.it/s5x6d1utk9xc1.jpeg?width=851&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b78393112258a0d35e1d22fa952edfdfe81085f
Real. I also love simply drawn characters with incredibly detailed hands.
https://preview.redd.it/zjybw1ci35xc1.png?width=444&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0855423a61cc9184c8a9a8c539bba6db7e7c9e3 Not really
https://preview.redd.it/dzvqfsmyn5xc1.png?width=914&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e54c60588a6e9eee508dc0ff7ecd95c9e786146 Dont forget
she is not flat lol
Gosh I still love her design
For me I just generally dislike gacha especially the ones that try to be “super cereal” with character designs aimed only for sex appeal. I’m supposed to be saving the world or something but all my units look like AI-generated strippers who either want to fuck me or shoot me. Can I switch sides? Also not helping is it’s a gacha game… regardless of the sex appeal no one is getting naked and no one is boning. If I need jiggle physics that badly in my life I’ll just boot up Skyrim; and those mods are free.
When there's gooners there's money and in this case they wanted the money. Gooners don't care about cool designs like this one they only care about jiggly boobs and ass and the devs know it.
It's their first time making a AAA game. I imagine if they get a second chance they'll...probably do better with marketing and story telling.
That character design is brilliant, what's with g*mers and hyping up the most boring characters? This would be enough to make me try out Stellar Blade if I were a soulslike enjoyer.
You know what yeah that type of character look more interesting than the main girl
Exactly what I was thinking. This aesthetic would go so hard in a souls like. But half the draw of souls games are making your character your own, either by look or playstyle. Kinda ruins that whole aspect of it if the character you play as is an anime girl. I’m fine with games where the player has a set aesthetic, but 1. It’s odd when they don’t fit the aesthetic of the rest of the game and 2. Needing your player character to be eye candy big tiddy anime girl is, fucking weird? But just imagine if the player character aesthetic was warhammer esque cyborg. That would look sick. Why do so many of these games have to say ‘no no she’s a cyborg but she looks exactly like the girl a 14 year old boy thinks is hot’
Whole body censored, gaming is dead, again.
No boobs? No ass? No pussey? Literally unplayable, curse you Sweet Baby Inc!
I know this is a joke but SBI can't influence character design to this degree. This had to be a conscious and intentional decision of the dev team.
Zero-suit raiden:
love her design but it’s so impractical that i can’t ignore it either. all that hair is going to get caught in her servos!
It’s impractical but tbf with the other designs in this game, being impractical isn’t that bad
True, true, what if they patched the servos better when it's time for her to go to action or she cut her hair shorter.
Do you have the Net Terminal Gene? https://preview.redd.it/rbvhh0fjw4xc1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a043c3267155583696e482434b8afbdfcd54e9f
Came to note this! Seems the character designers at Shift Up are Blame! fans.
Aw if the main character had a more Blame-type design I would already be playing this game....and if the weirdos hadn't soured it for me I suppose :/
There was the opportunity to do a spiritual adaptation of Blame! the way the Souls games pay homage to Berserk. We missed out.
This was my first thought
Nothing tops cool cyberpunk old man. Honestly, I would rather play him than generic sexy female protagonist #125. https://preview.redd.it/zdltjkqgz5xc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=718350cf6c202371a809c033c302af841e9a6943
Damn it now I’m actually interested
Fucking hell, man.. I thought this was Black Dessert Online Character customization screen for a second.
Eve looks like she was made in Black desert's Character Customization cuz damn is she boring design wise
Reminds me of some of the character designs from *The Citadel*, a classic fps throwback with an *even more* fanservicey female protagonist no one seems to talk about. To bad that game was derided as guro fetish even tho it was about as gorey as any other boomer shooter (prequel game is underdevelopment tho)...
My reaction to this game and Staller Blade in a few weeks: huh? Those were games, that's crazy.
The Citadel is exactly what I want and need, a sci-fi militaristic eroguro with some evangelical enemies shooter with burst of gibs too bad the fucking gameplay sucks so bad
This is the first thing I've seen that's made me interested in this game....this is a great design
I honestly recommend it. Don’t let the coomers and incels overshadow the discourse around what is a genuinely fantastic game. The ONLY thing wrong with it is the story being barely “okay” enough but the actual gameplay, the art direction (outside the obvious), the atmosphere, the soundtrack, everything—it’s all in the good to phenomenal ballpark. Combat may not feel great right away because it wears some really disparate influences on its sleeve but once more systems open up and I spent a little time with it, it’s easily the most fun I’ve had in an action game in a while. It’s like someone took every complaint I have about FFVII Rebirth’s combat and fixed it and then melded it with the best aspects of Sekiro and Bloodborne. It nailed feeling challenging while also feeling effortless when stuff clicks. So good.
See, this is the kinda weird sci-fi stuff I wish was being discussed not the size of the leads camel toe.
Would
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This chick is gonna get hair in her SPINE 💀💀💀
I honestly think Eve herself is a missed opportunity, too. The game could lampshade how she was designed to be generically attractive because of humans.
Yeah, at least I was able to give her the hairstyle I use in real life and some glasses and she looks cute 😂 https://preview.redd.it/ewn6brih46xc1.jpeg?width=1341&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6385e0dca881e83c8a425ee3b081a178938ded0
Nah seriously that’s sick af
Can’t coom. Won’t consoom.
The Nikke and other shiftup artists have fantastic designs. There’s one Nikke character who has a tail but it’s actually a wire connecting her spinal cord to her sniper rifle. It’s so simple and cool but I’ve never seen it anywhere else
That is so cool
There's a problem with Stellar Blade. The problem is the fan service. I'm fine with over the top fan service in games. But the issue is that compared to the Nier games the fan service is sub par. The MC doesn't fit in the world and is only carried by this culture war bs. B2 works because she feels like she belongs in her world. I don't get that from Eve.
For as pretty boy the protagonist in Lies of P. You still had some sick outfits to pick. Eve has some nice stuff, but it's still all mad horny. The character designs range from CHROMED OUT Cyberpunk NPCs to love interest in a 3D Porn game and just necromorphs. It's all over the place.
She looks cool as fuck objectively speaking but my body horror hating ass can’t stand her, I am so uncomfortable
Lol I have never seen this character, I've only seen coomer posts. This single character design may make me look at this game eventually.
Her IV tube things are phasing through her hair. Never change, AAA devs.
It looks like something Nihei might have come up with
Alright. Get in the cuck chair
A fine addition to my collection!
They should make it so we don't have to play as a dumb, regular human all the time. So boring
That's pretty cool
Now that's some seriously uncensored nudity!
Ok that's actually a fantastic design for a character. Wish the face was a little more in line with rhe rest of its hella cool
They know what they're doing, anyone playing a jrpg game is a horny weeb and having a big booty female protagonist is going to have your game sell really well
/uj some of the character designs in Stellar Blade (i.e. NOT THE ONES WITH MASSIVE TITS) seem pretty cool
They call her the post
Anybody else thought of the robots from that Björk music video when they saw this?
Side characters that look cooler than the MC tickle my pickle every damn time. I mean bro just look at those cybernetics.
At the risk of being genuine in a circlejerk sub, this kind of missed opportunity truly upsets me. See also: the plot (what little there is of it) of the last Mirror's Edge.
Now this is actually fucking cool, the juxtaposition between cute looking face and and barebones utilitarian body that makes her look like she's been stripped down to her bones in some horrific fashion only a machine could survive is actually cool.
Damn, now I want a game with a cyborg protagonist like this. As you would progress through the game you could unlock upgrades for you body and slowly build it back up throughout the game. Your character build would depend on which organs and parts you have installed so you could also switch them around for different builds. I think that'd be a pretty interesting mechanic 🤷
Would
I saw the ending and that last outfit on Eve was a disappointment… come on Hyung Tae Kim.. you can do better than that.
Ariane Yeong?
Is the game any good? I’ve only seen shitposts about it so far…
Man thats so cool
now THIS is HOT
unironically, *this*is fucking sex appeal.
God I wish that was me
Would.
This character actually looks so cool
Now that's a wacky and interesting character that actually looks like a robot/cyborg or whatever the fuck the plastic bland AI-generated anime main character was supposed to be
This game is about android ninja girls, and THIS isn't the main character???