Much like how Eve inexplicably loves to collect soda cans as an homage to humanity's forgotten era, the experience that Shift Up's Stellar Blade provides taps into something that I think many of us forgot about and now yearn for. The unmistakable, nostalgic glint of Stellar Blade resonates strongly, and from the moment I first got the demo, I knew this game felt familiar in all the best ways.
While previously only having a handful of mobile game releases under their belt, South Korean studio Shift Up definitely hit a creative sweet spot when thinking up their first-ever AAA console IP. First marketed to the world under the title 'Project Eve', Stellar Blade revealed itself as a unique action RPG experience that frankly we haven't had in quite a while.