Review: Stellar Blade: Complete Edition (Switch 2) - Perfectly Playable, Despite Drawbacks

Razor sharp, but a little unrefined. Though the genre has evolved and deepened over time, gacha games have historically not been praised for their depth and complexity, often being criticised for being thinly veiled gambling machines. People were understandably incredulous, then, when Shift Up — the studio behind Goddess of Victory: Nikke — announced in 2019 that it would pursue a AAA passion project called Stellar Blade . Even more were then shocked a few years later when this wildly different, ambitious project turned out to be a pretty solidly made action game. Stellar Blade has now been po

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