Stellar Blade was a terrific first attempt made by Shift Up in the modern console gaming platform. The South Korean game developers struck gold with the ambitious scope, scale, and fun combat system, and fans are hoping for more content soon.
The gaming community has grown to appreciate other aspects of the video game world. Not just the visuals, scenery, gameplay, and other appealing things, but one character caught the attention of the fans, and they didn’t mind seeing her progression and descent to madness.
Shift Up came from humble beginnings, having only worked on mobile games before partnering with Sony and PlayStation to make a massive triple-A quality video game that is now loved by the entire gaming community.
Director of Stellar Blade, Hyung-Tae Kim, was reportedly overwhelmed with the positive feedback and was immediately pestered with the same question that usually comes after a successful project, the director was coy and did not rule out the possibility of a Stellar Blade sequel but hinted at more content on the horizon.
While the developers sent more post-launch support through updates and patches like new cosmetic items and customization features, the fans suggested what the expansion should feature.
The gaming community would love to see how Raven ended up where she is in the main story through a brief DLC, perhaps similar in length and style to what Naughty Dog did with Left Behind for The Last of Us. The short yet emotional chapter added another layer of depth to the campaign and made the players feel a certain emotion.
Director Hyung-Tae Kim achieved an unexpected accolade when the game received the highest Metacritic user score on the PlayStation 5 console. Despite being fairly new and going up against much more popular and well-established games, the gaming community was enamored with what Shift Up had to offer.
Shift Up prioritized the combat and gameplay over the narrative which was an unusual method for a game developer. Regardless, it all paid off in the end and Kim knew how to appeal to the gaming community and was heavily inspired by the intense combat of the Soulslike genre.
This expansion could have compensated for the story that was not given the same amount of attention and made it better. DLCs could benefit from the lore expand upon it and open more doors of opportunities to explore in the future.
It would be interesting to see how the game developers handle mature themes like mental illness and apply that to the character growth of Raven. Perhaps Shift Up should heavily consider putting the spotlight on other characters and see where it goes from there.
The in-game shopkeeper received her 10 minutes of fame, but the gaming community is not ready to move on. Kim jokingly stated that the shopkeeper could be the lead of the following project and the appeal is there for the taking.
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