Review: Stellar Blade: Complete Edition (Switch 2) - Perfectly Playable, Despite Drawbacks
Razor sharp, but a little unrefined. Though the genre has evolved and deepened over time, gacha games have historically not been praised for their…
Why am I seeing this Ranked on recency
It is here mostly because it is new. Freshness is the largest single contributor to its score, which means nothing about the story except that it is recent.
Single-sourced. No second organisation has confirmed it yet.
Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 27% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.70 | +0.175 35% | Nintendo Life is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshnessleads | 0.20 | 0.98 | +0.196 39% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.
What happened
Though the genre has evolved and deepened over time, gacha games have historically not been praised for their depth and complexity, often being criticised for being thinly veiled gambling machines. People were understandably incredulous, then, when Shift Up — the studio behind Goddess of Victory: Nikke — announced in 2019 that it would pursue a AAA passion project called Stellar Blade. Even more were then shocked a few years later when this wildly different, ambitious project turned out to be a pretty solidly made action game. Stellar Blade has now been ported to Switch 2 (along with some cheeky new cosmetic Bayonetta DLC), bringing this titillating and gripping action experience to the Nintendo audience.
How this story arrived
Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.
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