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DO NOT BUY Stellar Blade - PC Port REVIEW

2025-06-12 · 8 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

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  2. Stellar Blade has finally made its way to

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  3. the PC, and it's kind of boring, bland,

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  4. and disappointing. It is a game full of

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  5. slim hot women who do melee combat

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  6. with aliens, and you might think that

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  7. sounds pretty cool and everything, and

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  8. yeah, the women are pretty hot, but it's

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  9. just like the game has been designed by

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  10. horny teenage boys, and the kind of people

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  11. who enjoy this game are probably horny

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  12. teenage boys who have never seen a real

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  13. woman in their entire lives. So I've been

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  14. dating women for 15 to 16 years, and trust

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  15. me, real women don't look anything like

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  16. this. This is what men wish women look

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  17. like. They really don't look like this. I

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  18. mean, look at the size of the bum and the

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  19. skinniness. Jesus Christ, I have never had

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  20. a girlfriend who looked anything like

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  21. this. So yeah, they've got nice bums, and

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  22. if you're a guy, you'll spend half the

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  23. time zooming up their backsides with the

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  24. camera angles, and then you get kind of

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  25. bored with that, and then you start to

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  26. wonder, okay, what is this game about?

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  27. This game is basically a boring

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  28. hack-and-slash game which is not really

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  29. much different to mobile games like

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  30. Wuthering Waves or

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  31. Genshin Impact. Or you know those games

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  32. like Genshin Impact on mobile which look

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  33. kind of nice, you know, got good graphics,

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  34. good animations and everything, but the

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  35. gameplay is basically just spam 2 attacks

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  36. over and over and over again. Spam light

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  37. attack, charge up a heavy attack, do a bit

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  38. of dodging, some blocking. That's it

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  39. really. That's the whole gameplay. You

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  40. fight against these enemies, these aliens,

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  41. and you just hack and slash at them over

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  42. and over again. You build up some kind of

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  43. boost power or like a guard thing. Now and

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  44. then you maybe get a special attack, but

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  45. the gameplay is extremely linear. The

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  46. gameplay is very dull and tedious and

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  47. repetitive. Repetitive. So the graphics

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  48. are okay, I guess, and it does run pretty

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  49. well even though my laptop is not one of

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  50. the best laptops in the industry, so I was

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  51. quite pleased that it ran smoothly enough,

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  52. but that wasn't enough to make me want to

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  53. keep or buy the game. I got kind of bored

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  54. after a while. The movement mechanics

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  55. aren't great. I don't know why, but it

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  56. just seems like it's not very responsive

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  57. as it could be. The controls also a bit

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  58. fiddly, like with keyboard and mouse. To

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  59. dodge, you've got to press Shift, which

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  60. is— you use it with your little finger,

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  61. which is kind of hard to press. To be

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  62. honest, I don't really like using my

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  63. little finger when I'm trying to do

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  64. complex melee combat with dodging and

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  65. attacks. It's just not my favorite finger

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  66. to use. It doesn't have a lot of power.

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  67. It's not very flexible. I don't know why a

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  68. button as important as dodging should be

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  69. used with the weakest finger on the hand.

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  70. So yeah, I would like to remap it.

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  71. Probably you can. I couldn't be bothered

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  72. because this game's shit. So anyway, you

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  73. just dodge around, maybe do some parries.

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  74. The combat is very dull. There's way too

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  75. many cutscenes of these girls just, I

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  76. don't know, messing around, and I don't

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  77. know why they've got such skin-tight

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  78. armor. I don't know if it's supposed to be

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  79. armor. I guess it's to show off their

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  80. massive booties. The environments kind of

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  81. look nice, I guess, but with the constant

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  82. explosions and rumbling and shaking, it

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  83. gets kind of annoying. I don't know why

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  84. there's so much shaking. It just made me

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  85. feel a bit sick, and it kind of disrupted

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  86. the gameplay in a way. I find the enemy

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  87. models very boring. Like, I don't know

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  88. what they're supposed to be. Are they

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  89. aliens? Are they some kind of zombie?

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  90. They don't look intelligent. They're just

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  91. like these mindless, stupid zombie things,

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  92. I guess, that rush at you. There's no kind

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  93. of, you know, it's not like an intelligent

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  94. alien species that coordinates attacks and

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  95. has some kind of master plan. It's just

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  96. like mindless dumb idiots and then big

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  97. bosses later on. You just get this boring

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  98. sword which just spins around, doesn't

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  99. really do anything. And her hair looks

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  100. like a massive trail of poo floating

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  101. around behind her back. Maybe if I was a

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  102. teenage boy, I would think this game looks

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  103. really cool, but it's the kind of game

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  104. where I would find it really cool and like

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  105. fall in love with the characters because

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  106. I've never experienced a real woman yet.

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  107. And then I'd find it really cool like

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  108. that, but I'd be embarrassed to let my

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  109. friends know that I'm playing this because

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  110. they'll be like, oh, why are you playing

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  111. this girly game where you're a girl?

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  112. Where she's got a massive bum and then

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  113. they'll call me gay, wouldn't they? I want

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  114. to play a game where I'm a tough alpha

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  115. male, like a Chad with muscles ripped,

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  116. grizzly and with a beard. I don't want to

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  117. play a little woman. I'm not a girl. So if

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  118. I was a horny teenage boy, I would feel

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  119. extremely embarrassed to even let people

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  120. know that I was playing this. So then you

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  121. got this boss who has 2 massive red balls

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  122. for hands, which is— I don't know if that

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  123. was a sexual innuendo on purpose or not.

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  124. So you're these little sexy women fighting

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  125. a massive monster with 2 massive red balls

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  126. being used to crush them, which is kind of

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  127. strange, and then it gets crushed by a

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  128. massive ship. Like, everything's just

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  129. constantly exploding all the time and

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  130. blowing up. You'd think Michael Bay was

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  131. behind making this game with all the

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  132. explosions. So unfortunately, I have to

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  133. give this game a 2.5 out of 10. Visuals

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  134. look okay, girls okay, they're pretty hot,

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  135. But it gets boring after a while. It's

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  136. just staring at the girls, and it also

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  137. makes me kind of depressed and horny

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  138. because, you know, I can't get— I don't

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  139. have a girl like this in my bedroom naked

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  140. right now, so what's the point? So yeah,

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  141. the game just makes me feel annoyed and

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  142. frustrated sexually, and the gameplay is

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  143. very boring, hack-and-slash, dull,

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  144. tedious, just like Genshin Impact.

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  145. And yeah, I feel like this should be on a

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  146. mobile, not a £60 PC release or console

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  147. release. Yeah, not really impressed with

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  148. this. Not really interested in just

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  149. gooning at girls all day long, so

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  150. whatever. Boring game.

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