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Stellar Blade: Blood Rain CEO addresses concerns over Evie’s youthful design, but ends up causing even more of them

Shift Up's chief executive responded to criticisms over Evie's youthful design, reassuring us that we'll get a different impression once the game comes out.

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"There is a limit to progress based on price": In today's AI hardware disaster, Stellar Blade Blood Rain devs prioritize "making the game playable" for as many people as possible

Blood Rain will see effects "we couldn't fully achieve in the previous game"

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Stellar Blade boss admits he "struggled" with its boring main character, but going into Blood Rain "realized that players can fully immerse themselves even in a character with a strong, distinct personality"

Evie will hopefully be more memorable than Eve

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Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's Evie is more than just "physical attractiveness," Shift Up insists, but devs are taking notes from infamously horny Goddess of Victory: Nikke regardless

You know, their borderline NSFW gacha game?

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Stellar Blade 2 won't be revealed until it's good enough to be revealed, ShiftUp CEO says, which is probably something more devs should try

Wink wink Bethesda

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Shinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best

You can't keep a good man down.

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Stellar Blade's director says AI can see 'one person can perform the work of 100 people' but that won't wind up in job losses, somehow

Strong as ten regular men, definitely*.

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Stellar Blade lead believes AI is essential for South Korea to compete with studios in the US and China, with the government to provide financial backing to support the use of the tech

Shift Up just doesn't have the same level of staff

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Stellar Blade boss receives presidential commendation for his contributions to the Korean videogame industry

Shift Up CEO Hyung-tae Kim earned the award for his work on both Stellar Blade and its 2022 predecessor, Goddess of Victory: Nikke.

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Stellar Blade director receives Presidential Commendation for contributions to South Korean game industry, though he thanks the action RPG's fans: "We will continue to do our utmost"

Hyung-tae Kim and his studio, Shift Up, are honored

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director has "deep and inspiring conversations from all angles" with Stellar Blade head, notoriously horny fans trip over themselves asking for Tifa x Eve crossover

Easy now...

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NSFW Stellar Blade mods have well over 1 million downloads, but the director's favorite mod is actually a surprisingly wholesome one

Now excuse me while I scrub my eyes

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Stellar Blade's director says that Shift Up is positive about the game's modding scene, but he's looking forward to mods that meaningfully expand the action RPG instead of… y'know

The director also hopes that players won't sell mods, and trusts them to steer clear of "anti-social" and "sentsitive" mods

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Stellar Blade's director throws down the gauntlet at modders, whose 'firepower is still weak'—all the sexy costumes are cool, he just also wants mods that 'expand the user’s play experience'

Also, a quiet ask to "act within the bounds of common sense".

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Stellar Blade director says there are no plans for DLC just yet, but Shift Up is currently working on a Boss Challenge mode

Stellar Blade will get a Boss Challenge mode in a future update.

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Stellar Blade's director is unsurprisingly a big fan of 2B and Tifa, but his inspirations also include some of Tekken's leading ladies and a GameCube cult classic

Listen, we all love Final Fantasy 7 and Nier

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NieR creator insists that his decisions are based on what he thinks will sell, while also quipping that 'at first I listen to what the publisher wants from me, but later I don't'

The famously easily marketable and consumer-friendly NieR and Drakengard games.

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Nier Automata's Yoko Taro thinks Japanese devs have struggled to embrace Western tech, but Stellar Blade's director says "Japanese content is completely back on top"

It could be down to Japan's falling English proficiency level

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Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro says Stellar Blade is "much better" than the beloved RPG: "Stellar Blade actually makes me quite jealous"

Stellar Blade director Hyung-Tae Kim isn't having it

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Nier: Automata's Yoko Taro says the beloved RPG was "most inspired" by Neon Genesis Evangelion: "It's pretty much just a retelling of Evangelion, so there's not much originality to it"

Yoko Taro, are you okay?

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Stellar Blade director vows to buck industry advice for single-player games as "what our industry needs more than anything is variety"

Hyung-Tae Kim speaks on advice to chase higher profits

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Stellar Blade won't charge for post-launch DLC like New Game+, director says the action RPG "will not require any additional expenses that gamers are not aware of"

That might change if we get a crossover event, but ignore that for now

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Stellar Blade director recommends players make Eve wear actual clothes "as much as possible" in the action-RPG, instead of the NSFW 'Skin Suit'

Wrap up warm

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Action-RPG standout Stellar Blade might get a sequel if there's demand, director teases

A sequel could potentially reveal more about Eve and her allies

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As Stellar Blade's demo gets action RPG fans unglued, director says there isn't a photo mode but you can ask for one, which folks will surely be normal about

Expect a lot of demands

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