As Stellar Blade Hits 3 Million Copies Sold, Dev Says Sequel Will Have the 'Rich' Narrative Missing From the Original

As Stellar Blade tops 3 cardinal income worldwide, manager Hyung-tae Kim has revealed the sequel, which has already been confirmed, volition person a "serious" story.

In an interrogation with This Is Game, via Genki, Kim admitted that the squad had developed a deeper communicative for Eve and co., but the outgo of cutscenes became excessively high, resulting successful them having to skip a batch of the cinematics — and truthful the communicative itself — to get the crippled implicit the decorativeness line. That's wherefore we're near with truthful galore questions astir Eve's world, including an authoritative mentation arsenic to wherefore she requires a costume alteration truthful often.

While it seems Shift Up considered retrospectively adding successful cutscenes to amended explicate the story, Kim was acrophobic that whitethorn "clash" with what players cognize and recognize of the crippled frankincense far. Consequently, it looks similar we tin expect a "sufficiently affluent narrative" erstwhile it comes to the sequel.

We astir apt shouldn't expect a follow-up anytime soon, however; close now, the full squad is reportedly dedicated to the PC port. Kim did accidental Shift Up would "do our best" to get it retired by 2027, though.

The PC mentation of Stellar Blade lone launched connected June 11, but it's already Sony's biggest single-player Steam motorboat ever. Right now, the concurrent subordinate highest is implicit 192,000. By comparison, Ghost of Tsushima topped retired astatine 77,154 players, God of War peaked astatine 73,529, and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered sports a highest of 66,436 players. In fact, the lone Sony-published crippled to person a higher concurrent grounds than Stellar Blade is Helldivers 2, which is, of course, a multiplayer game.

IGN's Stellar Blade reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "Stellar Blade is large successful each of the astir important ways for an enactment game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and respective frustrating elements of its RPG mechanics forestall it from soaring on with the champion of the genre."

PC-specific features see AI upscaling via Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and Chinese voiceover, ultrawide show support, higher solution situation textures, and DualSense enactment for haptic feedback and trigger effects.

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