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Why i HATE Stellar Blade - PC port review and gameplay

2025-06-13 · 8 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new video.

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  2. So today we're going to talk about why I

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  3. hate Stellar Blade.

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  4. The PC port is finally here and people who

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  5. don't have a PS5 can finally play the

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  6. game, and I don't really recommend playing

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  7. it to be honest.

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  8. It's a little bit boring.

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  9. So we've got these really irritating

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  10. spider-like enemies, and for some reason I

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  11. don't know why, but it's so dark here.

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  12. I don't know why there's so many shadows.

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  13. I don't know if I can blow this up or not.

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  14. So the combat is a little bit tedious,

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  15. isn't it?

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  16. And these barrels— oh, they do blow up, I

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  17. think.

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  18. Oh, they blew up in my face.

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  19. So it's— I mean, I can't even move,

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  20. and now I'm locked onto this enemy for

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  21. some reason, even though I didn't choose

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  22. that one.

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  23. I don't even know what the lock-on button

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  24. is.

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  25. So the combat is just hack and slash.

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  26. You got some combos like this where you

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  27. just go right, left, right, left, right,

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  28. left.

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  29. So yeah, and then there's just too many

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  30. cutscenes and you can't skip the

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  31. cutscenes.

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  32. I'm pressing all the buttons and nothing's

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  33. happening.

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  34. So this enemy looks kind of interesting.

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  35. The dodge button's really annoying as

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  36. well.

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  37. I don't know why they put the dodge on the

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  38. Shift key.

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  39. It's very awkward to press.

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  40. And I've got no health potions.

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  41. And now I'm dead.

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  42. So the controls are really irritating if

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  43. you're playing keyboard and mouse, and

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  44. you'd have to go into the system settings

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  45. and remap them, which is kind of fiddly

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  46. and annoying to do.

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  47. So what do I do now?

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  48. Oh, now I've got to rewatch this stupid

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  49. little cutscene animation of the enemies.

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  50. I can skip this bit and I've got to kill

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  51. these things again.

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  52. Oh my god,

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  53. I don't know why they— I think dodge

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  54. should be the F button, it would feel

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  55. better.

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  56. Shift should never be used for emergency

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  57. situations, which dodging is basically.

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  58. I have no idea what happened.

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  59. Oh,

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  60. so yeah,

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  61. I guess there's like a little mini-boss

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  62. thingy here.

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  63. At least I can skip the cutscene now.

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  64. Whoa, so now it's like wannabe Elden Ring

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  65. with the lock-on

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  66. and the dodging.

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  67. I keep pressing space to dodge and it

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  68. jumps.

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  69. And also you can't block when you've

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  70. jumped like that.

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  71. Say— oh my God, what?

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  72. If I jump and then press the block button,

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  73. it should block mid-air or cancel the

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  74. jump.

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  75. But now I've got to kill those stupid

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  76. spider things again every time.

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  77. Why'd you make me kill the easy stuff over

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  78. and over and over again and then play a

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  79. stupid cutscene?

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  80. When all I want to do is fight the

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  81. challenging ones.

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  82. I don't want to keep killing these over

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  83. and over again.

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  84. This is really annoying.

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  85. What?

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  86. I really got to change the buttons.

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  87. Dodge is spacebar.

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  88. It also takes too long to heal.

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  89. I don't like watching that animation.

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  90. And also block doesn't seem to work ever.

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  91. Like, I'm pressing block and nothing

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  92. happens.

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  93. Now I've used all my potions on these

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  94. things.

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  95. Probably gonna die again.

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  96. They just attack at night.

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  97. Oh my God, I think it's

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  98. easier to

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  99. block than dodge.

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  100. Oh, it cannot be guarded.

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  101. What?

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  102. I blocked it!

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  103. Oh my God, this game is so annoying.

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  104. This is so annoying.

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  105. I have to kill the stupid little spider

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  106. things over and over again.

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  107. I don't know why they made it like this.

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  108. Yeah, also I looked up the, the model that

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  109. they used to make this game— I mean, make

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  110. the character— and she looks nothing like

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  111. the in-game character.

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  112. Well, the idiots in the comments were

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  113. saying, well, actually, women do look like

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  114. this in real life.

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  115. The game's character was modeled after

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  116. some woman.

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  117. Yeah, she doesn't look anything like the

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  118. model in the game.

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  119. She just looks like a normal Korean woman

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  120. who's had too much plastic surgery.

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  121. She looks nothing like that in real life.

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  122. Oh, what?

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  123. Oh, I got it.

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  124. Easy,

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  125. easy.

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  126. She can climb up stuff.

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  127. Is that Russian?

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  128. Why is it Russian?

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  129. Are we in Russia?

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  130. Well, it's like a fantasy world.

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  131. Did I just die?

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  132. Yeah, are we in Russia or what?

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  133. Why are we Asian but we're in Russia?

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  134. It's kind of weird.

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  135. And then that's Chinese.

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  136. What?

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  137. Doesn't make any sense.

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  138. That's Chinese.

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  139. Why are they just like random languages

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  140. everywhere?

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  141. So we're in China or in Russia?

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  142. PlayStation games always have this look,

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  143. don't they?

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  144. Like blue, cold, very

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  145. clean-looking interface, which is also a

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  146. bit boring.

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  147. Kind of like Death Stranding vibes I'm

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  148. getting from this game.

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  149. You have to cross here.

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  150. They always make the games look kind of

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  151. the same.

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  152. The ladder behind me.

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  153. So I'm not really a fan of PlayStation, to

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  154. be honest.

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  155. The games look good, but they have no soul

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  156. or character.

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  157. Oh God, swimming levels.

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  158. Great.

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  159. I hate swimming in video games because the

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  160. controls are so irritating all the time.

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  161. Look, what am I supposed to do?

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  162. Why does she keep going under?

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  163. Now I can't get back up.

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  164. What am I supposed to do now?

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  165. Can't you just climb over?

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  166. I guess I gotta dive and go through a

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  167. hole.

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  168. Yeah, there.

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  169. Okay, Ctrl to descend.

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  170. Such pointless gameplay, isn't it?

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  171. It's not fun, it's not hard.

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  172. What is the point?

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  173. Can I climb this?

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  174. Oh God, swimming, it just killed it for

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  175. me.

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  176. I'm done.

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