Upcoming PlayStation 5 unique Stellar Blade seems to have an age-rating in Korea — and it gained’t come as a shock to anybody who’s seen gameplay.
Stellar Blade is developed by Korean studio Shift Up and revealed by Sony Interactive Leisure as a PS5 unique. It’s an motion recreation closely impressed by the likes of Nier Automata, Bayonetta, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and stars a badass anime-inspired feminine protagonist known as Eve, who many are evaluating to 2B and Bayonetta.
In an interview with GamesRadar, Stellar Blade recreation director Hyung-Tae Kim stated Shift Up had “put particular consideration” into Eve’s again, as a result of that is what gamers see for the overwhelming majority of their time in-game.
With that in thoughts, Stellar Blade’s adults-only age ranking in Korea makes plenty of sense. Korean web site This Is Game reported Eve seems to be bare whereas carrying sure costumes, and the violence entails mutilation with loads of blood.
Whereas PEGI and ESRB are but to publish their Stellar Blade rankings, it appears doubtless the sport will likely be rated alongside related traces in the West forward of its launch on April 26.
Stellar Blade was first introduced again in 2019, then recognized underneath the codename Challenge Eve, and was initially introduced for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The sport would then seem two years later at a September 2021 State of Play presentation, the place it was introduced as a PS5 unique. Roughly a yr later, Shift Up revealed the sport’s official title and a 2023 launch window. Then, after lacking its 2023 launch window, Stellar Blade appeared in January’s State of Play 2024.
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