I think it's melinenials who have a problem with attractive game characters, Gen Z seems to love T&A. 

Eh, that's a broad brush. It's more just a minority of loud people. It's not a generation thing.

Oh I don't mean all melenials but that one's in game dev who hate attractive or sexualized characters are kostly melenial. 

Stellar Blade is the game I've enjoyed the most this year. It's a weird situation for me, it's my GOTY right now and don't see that changing at this point. However, purely on a number scale. Unicorn Overload is the game I'd rate the highest this year. For me Stellar Blade is an 8.5 and Unicorn Overload is a 9. I rarely ever platinum games. Trophies aren't improtant to me, but I platinumed Stellar Blade. Which required me to finish the game three times. It's highly unusual, at this point, for me to put so much time into a playing an action game. Usually it's only RPGs that put this kind of time into. I've put more hours into Stellar Blade this year than Street Fighter 6 despite it being my current favorite fighting game.

It's crazy that a game with an alleged budget of 32 million dollars is so polished and well done. Similar to Black Myth Wukong, these mobile developers are putting traditional AAA studios to shame with their first big traditional game projects. The biggest negative for me on Stellar Blade was the narrative, but not so much after doing three complete playthroughs. Stellar Blade's story telling reminds me of the Metroid Prime series. You learn a lot from the information you find in the environment. At this point I've found everything and the narrative is lot more interesting to me now that I know the data. Learning how the world came to be the way it was or even the connection between why Eve and her sword make so unique amonst the other "Angels". It's interesting stuff. The universe and lore taps into my speculative nature.

Side note: Yes I've finished FFVII Rebirth and that game overstays it welcome IMO. As an RPG fan, typically, I don't want a game to end when I get near the end. With Rebirth the game started to drag so much that I ditched the side quests near the end of the game just to finish it. I don't do that in RPGs. Unicorn Overlord left me wanting more for example.

I played the demo, didn't feel anything special. I'll give it a shot when it goes to the bargain bin, and if i manage to catch up on the backlog.

Got data on that?

It's so beautiful at times which is odd given that it's a post apocalypse and the areas have undergone desertification but they managed to make sand and rocks look beautiful with minimal greenery and water. The further you get into the game the better it looks. Starting off in Eidos 7 was a mistake, having the demo set in eidos 7 was a mistake. Hell, Eidos 7 is a mistake in itself, if they can make the wasteland and The Great desert look so good they could have added in the sand and lighting and less dark ruins and first impressions would be greatly enhanced.

Nope, just group photos from the devs teams that produce the games that uglify characters. 

Something tells me Wu Kong is gonna be a real let down after this, I can't see anything else beating it for game of the year either. God I hope this doesn't get snubbed, it deserves more praise and a big PC launch. Seems good word of mouth though, I seen the majority people choosing it for GOTY on a twitter thread when given the option against, WoKong, FF7 Rebirth and Astrobot. I bought this game thinking I'd be starting at the lower end of the scale and working my way up with the other games but seems I've spoiled myself now.

Its nominated for Best Score & Music, Best Action Game....