stellar blade might be a little too souls-aligned for me to enjoy it, but it's just teetering on that edge. the autosaves and fast combat helps but there is still so much waiting around for enemies to do stuff and missing parries/dodges is still pretty punishing with those long combo strings you can't break out of. something i don't like in games much is when the enemies don't seem to react to you hitting them as much as the inverse and i can definitely feel that here. there are even enemies that lurk behind walls you can't see who pop up and get cheap shots on you. i'll keep playing for now, but i feel an impending doom that i'll reach a point where it gets to be a little too much.

also holy FUCK is there a lot of yellow paint. i don't think i've seen anybody mention this. is everyone really so distracted by eve's ass that they don't see it? this is normally a huge criticism for games and it's so annoyingly garish i can't help but notice it. to make matters worse they even have a scan button that will highlight these parts even more, as if you couldn't tell already.

GEE I WONDER WHERE I GO? this is all within like a 5 minute stretch btw, there is soooo much more.