Stellar Blade has been delayed until an undisclosed date set sometime in 2024, Sony Interactive Entertainment formally announced during a recent PlayStation blog entry covering anticipated games to be available on Sony’s PlayStation 5 over next year.
Initially unveiled as Project Eve during a Sony State of Play event in September 2021, Stellar Blade has become one of the most eagerly awaited PC games.
This was no doubt attributed to the fact that Project Eve, now Stellar Blade looked like a rather decent hack-and-slash action game, although its main alure without question would be the fact that its developers, Shift Up clearly haven’t adhered to the protocols of ESG much like every single Western development studio alongside practically every single large Japanese corporation.
Project Eve was a breath of fresh air, as consumers have been mercilessly forced fed ugly so called “realistic” depictions of women in video games for several years up until this point, with Project Eve featuring a highly attractive female protagonist it was bound for financial success.
At least it had so much potential until Sony interjected, I always held bad thoughts about Project Eve from its initial announcement, which again was made during a Sony State of Play presentation, for such a provocative game to align itself in partnership with Sony would almost certainly ensure censorship.
My worst fears were realized when Project Eve rebranded itself as “Stellar Blade”, a name change is practically meaningless however with its new name came a heightened partnership between its Korean developers, Shift Up and Sony as plans for a PC launch have been ultimately scrapped in favor of a (limited time) PlayStation 5 exclusivity.
Although a release date for 2023 was disclosed last year, there has been minimal information provided about the specific launch date thus far, there has hardly been any trailers or publicity regarding Project Eve / Stellar Blade since this forged partnership between Shift Up and Sony.
The game has seemingly been delayed well over an entire year from initially promised deadlines, especially when such occurrences are involved with Sony the first thought any respectful human being would have is that they simply need additional time to censor the game, to wash away the feminine charm of its main protagonist and ultimately redesign her so that Western game publications won’t slander the game as being “misogynistic” or “sexist” for featuring an attractive female character with a visible ass.
I especially cannot help but recall the time where dogshit publications, such as Euro Gamer / Digital Foundry specifically slandered Stellar Blade as being “from a bygone era” with Alexander Battaglia getting butthurt over the sheer amount of sex appeal present within Stellar Blade.
Quite obviously, Alex Battaglia is a homosexual, as evident by the fact that he himself modeled for some weird kinky bondage material for Studio Obectra.
Sony’s corporate policies don’t allow for horrific “eye candy”, the word “Censorship” has practically been the motto for PlayStation since the introduction of the PlayStation 4 console, with Sony Interactive Entertainment bending over for BlackRock, bending over for diversity, inclusivity, tolerance and allegiance towards sensitive western audiences by relocating their main headquarters away from Japan to the humble abode of California.
With this relocation the crackdown on fan service and “problematic” content began almost immediately, with Sony outright targeting Japanese developers and imposing censorship of CG artwork if not large scale changes to the games themselves, this ultimately resulted in the death of the Senran Kagura franchise as their in-development installment, 7EVEN was butchered beyond repair.
Due to Sony’s interjections to adhere to modern snowflake guidelines, 7EVEN’s development fell into disarray, resulting in the series creator outright leaving Marvelous, Sony’s censorship policies are such invasive cancer that even Nintendo’s Switch console, typically viewed as being a product marketed towards children and casuals has far less demands when it comes to censorship for Japanese games.
I have very little expectations for Stellar Blade, especially given Sony’s recent history when it comes to attractive depictions of female characters or said female characters wearing revealing and provocative clothing, despite being rated appropriately, Sony seemingly wishes to align the PlayStation brand as a collaborative entity between themselves and Fischer Price.
Excluding the graphic gay sex scene inside of The Last of Us Part 2 of course, because that’s “empowering”.
