Recording summary · June 2025
Why i HATE Stellar Blade - PC port review and gameplay
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Overview
Daniel reviews the PC port of Stellar Blade and advises against playing it, citing boring gameplay, repetitive cutscenes, and frustrating keyboard and mouse controls.
Daniel criticizes combat mechanics, repetitive encounters with spider-like foes, character appearance discrepancies, environmental text, and swimming controls, eventually deciding to stop playing.
Themes
Criticisms of default keyboard and mouse controls, including awkward dodge placement on Shift, difficulty blocking mid-jump or during unguardable attacks, and tedious key remapping.
Disagreements over character design claims, noting Daniel's view that the real-life model looks nothing like the in-game character despite online assertions.
Visual aesthetics and environmental text, including a disjointed mix of Russian and Chinese script, comparisons to Death Stranding, and a broader characterization of PlayStation games as visually polished but lacking soul.
Frustrations with swimming mechanics in video games leading to quitting Stellar Blade.
Developments
Daniel encounters a swimming section, navigates underwater, and quits playing the game.
Uncertainties & gaps
Daniel questions whether exploding barrels can blow up before experiencing an explosion.
Daniel does not know how the target lock-on function works or which button controls it.
Daniel questions whether the game world is intended to be set in Russia or China given the presence of both languages.