Stellar Blade deserves to be nominated for Game Of The Year

[Leynos]

BraLoD said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Perhaps I am just insane. 8/10 user reviews on Opencritic also... naaaah, it's everyone else that is wrong. Yoko Taro even said this game does some things better than Neir Automata. 

Sekiro suffers the same issues with the English dub yet gets 10's across the board and while I still rate Sekiro higher than this, it's confusing to see people not allow the game to be held up on what it excels at and instead on where it falters. 

What does it do better than Nier Automata, fanservice? Nier Automata was also good at that but Stellar Blade is something else haha.

Combat it doesn't for what I played, and I completely doubt it can even come close of Nier Automata's story. Also doubt the music comes close to Nier Automata.

It's not a Nier clone or a clone of anything. The OST is mostly from the same composer as NA and it's an excellent OST. It also does music that's unique to this game and not just sounding like Nier. You cannot compare combat between the two games. They're aiming for something entirely different. They're not aiming for similar things. SB is more block/parry focused and NA is more offensive/combo and dodge. Which is how PG generally does things. Story no but that's not fair either as NA has one of the best stories ever in gaming. SB is not aiming for that. It's more straightforward. So no robot orgies and suicides. No heavy philosophy.

Also, the demo is by no means representative of the full game.