Stellar Blade / Project Eve Thread - aka Stellar Ass

RIPRhongoBongo said:
Now that I think about it, we should make this a Nikke/Stellar Blade thread
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Nikke's next collaboration is with Stellar Blade and any Cummander who's been paying attention have already been preparing for it. As four of the ladies will in the collaboration. Instead of the usual three characters, two of them gacha and one freebie.
 
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Fatsuit Shinji said:
Nikke's next collaboration is with Stellar Blade and any Cummander who's been paying attention have already been preparing for it. As four of the ladies will in the collaboration. Instead of the usual three characters, two of them gacha and one freebie.
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It'd be hilarious if Counters got shafted again for Talentum. Poor girls forced to sit out all the fun events
 
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Short Fat Otaku did a video about the controversy.
Bridget said:
Damn, I think Dev was actually right about the Stellar Blade controversy being due to design copyright over the outfits. It seems it's fair to say it's due to retarded Korean law.
An actual decent video. Shame we won't be getting that Trucker Protest video, though.
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Most of the review is a recap of the controversy. Skip to 1:09 or 1:12 for the actual theory.
 
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Nikke summer stream happened. Long story short: Rosanna and Sakura have new alts, Guilty(Pass) and Viper(gacha) are the other new costumes, AND A FUCKING DAVE THE DIVER COLLAB which also has new costumes for Mast and Anchor
 
Silly question but is it worth connecting to the Internet yet? I'm still with the pre-censored outfits and HARD R graffiti. I know they brought back the outfits as an option. Anything else?
 
I don't think it really matters anymore.
I think the ultimate conclusion is while the game may not be "stellar" it's above average for sure.
And if nothing else you can always uninstall, disconnect from the net then reinstall from the disk to go back to 1.0.
 
I finished my new game+ yesterday. I think it’s still pretty good. It’d be nice to be able to skip all cutscenes including dialogue but I’m still interested enough to go through for a third ending.
 
I accidentally posted my thoughts in the Dev thread 🤦 when I meant to post them here.
DocAwe said:
After watching the video what he says makes sense.
I think he might be right.
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I thought so too at first. This seems to make the most sense. The legal team may have made a bigger deal about this after the gold 1.0 copies went to press (and we're talking 100k+ discs per region for opening day). There are still some holes though. They had to know people would cry censorship. Why not just change the bunny suit to a cat suit? Why not just change all the clasps and textures on the bikini? Sure they might have wanted to make sure it didn't look like they were trying to get ahead of a potential trademark issue .. but why go from thong to full bottoms on both of those models?

The v1.003 update with the modified original outfits does seem more like addressing fan blowback than it does a trademark issue, but who knows?

I finished the game disconnected from the Internet on v1.0, but went up to v1.005 because the stupid v1.0 release doesn't have New Game+ (wtf?!). I'll probably just play a little bit. I want to check out the red riding hood outfit and I'm interesting how well the conclusion was foreshadowed. There are still some holes in the story I don't like, but in general I though the story was pretty good. Even before going online to watch the other two endings, I'd still give it a 7/10.
 
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Bonedome said:
Silly question but is it worth connecting to the Internet yet? I'm still with the pre-censored outfits and HARD R graffiti. I know they brought back the outfits as an option. Anything else?
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I could be wrong.

1.0 gets you uncensored outfits. 1.latest gets you new game plus, the ninja outfits (they were on disc but couldn't be unlocked) and boss rush. Not all the outfits were restored, just a couple.
 
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Stellar Blade developer Shift Up officially went public and raised $320 million in its IPO. However, it was also revealed that the company is hiring an employee to publish ESG reports now.

Games Industry reports the IPO is the largest one in South Korea in over 2 years and the first to raise over $50 million since PUBG developer Krafton raised $3.8 billion in 2021.

In fact, it was the second largest IPO in South Korea in 2024 only behind HD Hyundai Marine Solution’s $553 million offering earlier this year.

After the company went public, a job posting on the company’s website was discovered by X user Pandacasual for an IR Representative or Manager. One of the duties of this position is to lead a team in the publication of ESG reports.

ESG stands for Environment, social and governance, and many companies have them in order to obtain money through various ESG funds. However, according to a report in the Harvard Business Review these funds have not performed well.

Sanjai Bhagat explained at the end of March 2022, “To begin with, ESG funds certainly perform poorly in financial terms. In a recent Journal of Finance paper, University of Chicago researchers analyzed the Morningstar sustainability ratings of more than 20,000 mutual funds representing over $8 trillion of investor savings. Although the highest rated funds in terms of sustainability certainly attracted more capital than the lowest rated funds, none of the high sustainability funds outperformed any of the lowest rated funds.”

Not only do they perform poorly, but they don’t actually deliver on what they promise, Bhagat details, “ESG funds don’t seem to deliver better ESG performance either. Researchers at Columbia University and London School of Economics compared the ESG record of U.S. companies in 147 ESG fund portfolios and that of U.S. companies in 2,428 non-ESG portfolios. They found that the companies in the ESG portfolios had worse compliance record for both labor and environmental rules. They also found that companies added to ESG portfolios did not subsequently improve compliance with labor or environmental regulations.”

Bhagat even goes on to note that “ESG targets may actually distort decision making.”

In fact, a report from The Wall Street Journal noted that a branch of ESG, DEI or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is indeed a scam based off of faulty research done by an activist organization called McKinsey.

James Mackintosh reported, “Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity. And the methodology of McKinsey’s early studies, which helped create the widespread belief that diversity is good for profits, is being questioned.”
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Minor update: two new outfits and the Oasis has a limited-time event. Kinda neat. Shame on the Oasis thing. From what I've seen so far, it's pretty cute
 
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