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Stellar Blade Fans Discover Trick To Uncensored New Game+ Suits, Including Bondage Outfit

Stellar Blade fans have found a trick that allows them to use uncensored versions of New Game+ suits, including the Autonetic Bondage outfit.

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Felix_Argyle_Catbro11d ago

Your disc needs to have the 1.00 on it.

Hugodastrevas11d ago

As far as I know all of them have it. Just don't update, stay offline.

Barlos11d ago

Seems a lot of effort to see a bit of digital flesh.

Hugodastrevas11d ago

In an ideal world such gymnastics wouldn't be necessary to play the uncensored version of a 18+ game, but unfortunately this is not an ideal world.
The digital version doesn't even have this option

CobraKai11d ago

In the 90s, these wouldn’t even be an issue. There would probably be even more of them to unlock

Hugodastrevas11d ago

@CobraKai yep, too bad we're not in the 90s

HankHill11d ago

Close your eyes if you don't want to see any skin.

CrimsonWing6911d ago

Look, can they not just reverse the damn changes? How’s their “internal” discussions going?

MrBaskerville11d ago

What if they themselves wanted to make the changes?

CrimsonWing6911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

What if they themselves didn’t and were forced to make the changes?

And let’s think about this, if you’re in the business of making a product for consumers and NOT yourself, wouldn’t it make more sense to try to lean more into what the consumer wants especially when you made it the way they wanted in the beginning? I know, right… crazy concept 🤷‍♂️

shinoff218311d ago

It's one outfit out of how many. Some of which are more revealing.

Redemption-6411d ago

If anything, they should ignore all the crying man babies.

Director: This is the desig we intended

Man babies: Noooooooooooo, you are lying. Censorshiiiiiiip. Sony forced you to add 6 inches of lace, while leaving out far more revealing outfits. Yes, that must be it. You were forced to change it. Now we have justification to keep crying online

Pathetic. Sony/Shift up, should just stay quiet 🤫

CrimsonWing6911d ago

I mean, we wouldn’t say that about the Helldivers 2 situation.

Look, I get that it’s not a big deal or worth anything to you. It’s easy to get ugly about it with each other because of differences in perspective and stances.

For me, if these were the outfits from the get-go and never altered to cover up more, I’d have been absolutely 100% fine. It’s the fact of the matter that bothers me, little or big.

Like I grew up where I’d watch movies on cable television censored for language, violence, nudity and whatever. When you haven’t seen the unedited version who cares right? When you have seen the unedited version and then watch a cable television edit of the movie… it irks me.

It’s no different here. What’s even more baffling is the fact they championed and made a campaign revolving around standing their ground and NOT censoring. The fact that they’re doing “internal” discussions goes to show there’s more to it than “this was our true FINAL design,” which was what to cover up parts in an outfit design to reveal what you covered up? Like you didn’t think this one through very well…

Here’s where we are. We have a disconnect set by what we prioritize in entertainment. We’re all man babies in here arguing over video game bullsh*t on a damn video game aggregate site, people who don’t prioritize or value games think we’re just as pathetic and a bunch of dorks for doing so.

My thing is I want my entertainment never to be censored. That’s not saying I want porn games. It could be language, violence, nudity, revealing outfits, whatever… I just don’t want to be shown one thing and then have it changed after the fact like some cable television edit because viewers might be offended. Plain and simple.

When it comes to something you’re invested in and it gets changed to appeal to someone else I’m not going to call you a man child when you whine and complain about it.

At the end of the day we’re all gamers and dorks playing video games and gushing about how cool fake characters and sh*t is in basically what is a toy. So, let’s not think we’re better than each other here. We’re all in the same boat.

Hugodastrevas11d ago

The designs they intended... Then why is the other design on the unpatched release?

SimpleDad11d ago

Censorship is bad in every form. What is wrong with you.

Redemption-6411d ago

@Hugodastrevas

You might not be smart enough to know this, but the game went gold weeks before the official release date, allowing for the game to be printed on physical disk. That is why the devs said, there will be a day 1 patch. Devs don't stop working on games when it goes gold, they keep working on it, then release the new updates with a day 1 patch. If the released digital only, this wouldn't be a problem with this much fake outrage over fake tits.

I am still waiting for you incels to explain why they never censored more revealing outfits? Did they miss those. Sony/Shift Up, let's censor this game, by adding 6 inches of lace, so these incels can't beat off to it, and leave the more revealing outfits. That is so high level censorship right there 👏.

Redemption-6411d ago

@SimpleDad

There was no censorship, just a dev updating their game with a day 1 patch to the intended design. Honestly speaking, this whole thing has been as entertaining to watch. I hope Sony/Shift up keeps ignoring these fools

Christopher10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

***I mean, we wouldn’t say that about the Helldivers 2 situation. ***

Not even comparable. If PSN becomes required, it's obvious the owner of PSN made that decision. People are just running with theories on Stellar Blade.

*** Look, I get that it’s not a big deal or worth anything to you. It’s easy to get ugly about it with each other because of differences in perspective and stances. ***

It wouldn't be such a big deal if people who felt the other way weren't blaming people without proof and claiming censorship at every step. You're asking the others to be level-headed while not being as such yourself.

***When you haven’t seen the unedited version who cares right? When you have seen the unedited version and then watch a cable television edit of the movie… it irks me. ***

How many people would have known anything was even edited if people looking for censorship hadn't blasted it on the Internet? They didn't even know, they were told to be outraged.

***Censorship is bad in every form. What is wrong with you. ***

This is a dangerous statement to make. I think you might want to think about what such a generalized statement truly means in the world today.

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rocky04758610d ago

Did you ever stop to think that it's VERY possible that they had to make those changes because the outfits were too close to their real life versions? They can get sued for copyright if they didn't get permission to use those designs by those artists. These are very particular outfits that have real life counterparts to them. So it's completely plausible that Sony approved the original 1.0 content, if they wanted to censor it why would they approve it in the first place?

Then Shift Up recognized the issue with copyright infringement on some of the suits, then changed them accordingly. It takes about 4-6 weeks, minimum, to get a patch ready so it's not like it was patched in the day before. This was ready for quite some time before the release. Also, no one goes into business for OTHERS, they do it for themselves and to give others an opportunity to purchase a service they are providing. They don't owe others anything more than what they produced. It's also amazing to me how people can say "Sony forced them" and say that they had no other choice but to change it because Sony would've been mad at them for going against them. Yet, the HD2 team went directly against Sony's requirement for PC on Twitter and nothing happened. So do they pick and choose who to go after when the devs don't agree w/their changes? HD2 team also directly blamed Sony for the issue as well, well partly blamed but nevertheless.

Why is it so impossible that the devs made these changes on their own? Especially when they came out and said so? So we don't believe people now? We believe what we want to believe to fit the narrative we're trying to project. It's like the fight people are going for is actually going directly against the dev team here. You're fighting for the dev team to be able to have freedom of expression, yet, when they express that, you want them to change it to what YOU want them to change it to, even when they tell you that they wanted the change. So you're forcing them to bend to your will basically, that's not fighting against censorship, that's browbeating in an attempt to get what you think you're owed. Anyway, that's all.

rocky04758610d ago

"It’s no different here. What’s even more baffling is the fact they championed and made a campaign revolving around standing their ground and NOT censoring. The fact that they’re doing “internal” discussions goes to show there’s more to it than “this was our true FINAL design,” which was what to cover up parts in an outfit design to reveal what you covered up? Like you didn’t think this one through very well…"

Also, just to address this part specifically. Can you please tell me what was censored in one or two countries that wasn't in any other country please? What, in Stellar Blade, was censored in some countries and not others? If you cannot answer that, then that means that they didn't go back on their promise. NOTHING was censored for one country and not for others. Everything is the same, the patch covered every country. THATS what they meant by "uncensored". If they wanted to make an AO game then that's what they would've made then it wouldn't have sold anywhere. Y'all need to understand, design changes happen all the time, the internal discussion was that not everyone agreed w/the changes, and that happens on every dev team when a design or something is changed up. I get that you don't want "censored" content in your entertainment, but you are acting like they are making it ONLY for you. That movie example you gave? That's not a very good one, those movies are cut like that to be able to be played for TV, that's the ratings board issue and it is intended to give everyone an opportunity to enjoy the movie without feeling offended by something. Is that perfect? No. But you cannot just be selfish and think only of yourself when talking about entertainment. It just doesn't work that way. EVERYTHING you watch has some form of changes to it from the original intended version. EVERYTHING. Even porn has some changes to it that you cannot always get unless it's online and mostly amateur. I respect your opinion on this and you do make some good points, I just think they come from a selfish place. Everyone should be able to find a version of something that we all like.

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MrDead11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

...why not just use the more revealing outfits if you want to see more?

Seeing the Stellar Blade reaction from some of the more sensitive parts of the internet has made me understand the term "turbovirgin". Lots of desperate crazies moaning about pixilated mesh covering cleavage in a game that's crammed full of tits and arse.

I'm sure they'll move on to something else when they're told to.

gigoran811d ago

Pretty sure the argument is about censorship and the studio bowing to peer pressure from a minority of clout chasing critics. But sure, you can stick with their antigamer turbovirgins explanation if you want.

MrDead11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

So why didn't they censor the more revealing outfits if this is censorship?

Christopher10d ago

***bowing to peer pressure from a minority of clout chasing critics***

But this didn't happen. No one complained about one specific outfit, but in general the skimpiness of the outfits overall. But they censored just one outfit and not the others that showed even more skin?

Hugodastrevas11d ago

@MrDead why not just give customers what they paid and keep their promise?
Insults aren't and argument and neither is appealing to triviality.

MrDead11d ago

"@MrDead why not just give customers what they paid and keep their promise?"

They added some cloth to cleavage, if this hurts you so much just play wearing the skin suit or the other outfits that have her boobs or cleavage on display.

"Insults aren't and argument"

Sorry if you are in that camp and if you feel insulted.

"appealing to triviality."

Much like these articles.

Hugodastrevas11d ago

@MrDead again appeal to triviality, nothing more.
If it's a small change they should have no trouble changing it back, changing to an uncensored suit does not change the fact other suits are censored.

CrimsonWing6911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

What are the “more revealing” outfits?

The censorship seems to follow a pattern of frontal breast exposure.

Censorship hasn’t made sense in the past. I think back at like something like Ocarina of Time where they change the blood from red to green… like make that make sense, it’s still blood 🤷‍♂️. There is a pattern with the Stellar stuff though.

MrDead11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Blue Monsoon
Prototype Planet Diving Suit
Skin Suit
Black Pearl Nano Suit

That took about 3 seconds on google, there could be more but after seeing them I think the censorship argument is stupid... not to mention some of the NPC's in the game such as Shael.

CrimsonWing6911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Blue Monsoon is censored 🤷‍♂️ literally patch covered breast portion within gold ring and the ass part has been expanded to cover more… like why in the f*ck is this so hard to understand censorship in forms little or large?

https://youtu.be/AEx9PrsppM...

Prototype Planet Diving Suit = frontal covering

Skin Suit = has literally no exposure… it’s just skin colored toned…

Black Pearl Nano Suit = No breast exposure

See this is what I mean. People have NO clue what they’re talking about.

I explained the pattern. Go ahead and google the rest and let me know what you find. Should only take you 3 seconds 😜.

MrDead11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Oh no a ring and a bit of cloth!..but you can still see everything you want in those outfits listed and they are more revealing than the bunny suit.

"Prototype Planet Diving Suit = frontal covering

Skin Suit = has literally no exposure… it’s just skin colored toned…

Black Pearl Nano Suit = No breast exposure"

All you're just arguing for now in that list is she isn't naked. Why are you so desperate to see more than the Skin Suit which if you want to view in google you need to turn safe search off? Google literally has to censor the image of the outfit.

https://static0.gamerantima... = not naked enough apparently.

CrimsonWing6911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

@MrDead

Are you familiar with the narcissist’s prayer?

So, now we won’t acknowledge that it’s censorship because it’s a little bit of censorship?

Oh let’s ignore the censorship pattern of covering the front of the exposed breasts in outfits because now it’s just “I want to see her naked.” 🙄

Great discussion. Let’s just ignore everything I explained about why it irks me and let’s incinuate desperation…

How about this since we’re this far, can you acknowledge that you’re seeing changes to “cover” shit up?

And yea, for the record a skin toned body suit isn’t nudity… maybe you need to turn off the safe search in Google to see the difference 🙄

MrDead11d ago

Yes it's censorship look how they hide cleavage https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j5D3...

It's censorship... but they just forgot to censor the most exposing outfits... almost like its a dev choice rather than censorship "Shift Up denies this---with the game’s director claiming that the costumes in the day-one patch are how the final versions were always intended to look"

CrimsonWing6911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

@MrDead

It wasn’t a Day 1 Patch, it was a 2nd patch and you don’t think there’s corporate speak for “damage control” with companies?

You don’t make an outfit like these in development for years. Release a game in a form that it can played WITHOUT a patch, because Y’know, there’s regions without great internet I hear on here all the time when something goes digital only… but back to the point, a game released is the game that’s intended to be played by the public, patch or not, it’s generally when there’s technical issues that they quickly try to cover that up in Day 1, but for the most part these devs/distributors release a game as intended Day 1 without a patch or not.

The outfits you say are “more revealing” aren’t… that’s sort of my point. Again, frontal exposure is the name of the game here and every single one of your examples of “more revealing” aren’t. Even the ONE swimsuit one was altered or “censored” and your response was atypical as in, “well it’s such a SMALL change who really cares?”

It’s THE change that’s the issue not the outfit itself. It’s what I wish most people understood here in the argument against this.

We can do an endless waltz here but let’s break down just the facts:

1) The devs know when they release a game not everyone can download the patch. Knowing that they make the decision that once the game goes gold that is the game intended for RELEASE patch or not.

2) They advertised unaltered outfits in trailers. If you’re selling something you’re aware of what you’re marketing. That’s just one of those things.

3) Each change is literally a design decision to quickly alter and cover up exposed areas after not 1 patch, but 2 patches… which let’s be real, who is their distributor? Have they ever had a firm stance on censorship in the past? Can you throw your new business partner and distributor under the bus or do you take the hit and make a statement you hope gullible people will fall for?

Again, the intended look is what was released regardless of a patch. That’s the plain hard truth. They know before release not everyone can patch, so when you release a game, aside from technical issues, in terms of visuals, narrative, and everything else surface level is THE intended release for the public.

I think this is just one of those situations where we have to agree to disagree because we’re not going anywhere with this.

It went from “it’s not censorship,” to it’s barely “censorship,” to “it’s censorship, but they forgot to censor other outfits,” to which I again Told you the pattern of the censorship… but Y’know, we both believe what we do. It’s just is what it is, I guess.

MrDead11d ago

But yet the revelling pictures and the devs contradict your paragraphs of text but some sites told you censorship so its censorship.

CrimsonWing6911d ago

@MrDead

“But yet the revelling pictures and the devs contradict your paragraphs of text but some sites told you censorship so its censorship.”

No they aren’t more revealing, I know how PR works for damage control, and no I can decipher what censorship is from seeing it so much.

Great talk though… just ignoring things I say, again. Do you see the pattern for the censorship I mentioned a bajillion times? Also, what game has ever changed an existing design after the game is released to say, “This was our intended design,” like how can you not see PR speak when it slaps you in the face?

Hey do you believe all the things Phil Spencer says, too? Sorry… Xbox fanboys, just trying to get a point across.

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Famitsu: Stellar Blade Shines At #1 For Second Week

Another week, another Famitsu chart, as Stellar Blade manages to keep the top spot for a second week, crossing over 80,000 units sold.

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Cacabunga1d 4h ago

Good numbers! I'm wondering what Platinum Games are doing

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Famitsu Sales: 5/6/24 – 5/12/24

Stellar Blade for PlayStation 5 was the highest selling title last week, moving an additional 13,033 retail copies. It was followed by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Switch, which moved an additional 9,652 units.

H93d ago

I love how Ring Fit Adventure pops it's head back in the top 10 telling us that people ate too much during golden week!

Sonic18813d ago

Stellar Blade was awesome! I hope they make a sequel in the future

ZeekQuattro3d ago

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

Switch OLED Model – 35,575 (7,231,271)
PlayStation 5 – 18,166 (4,827,074)
Switch Lite – 7,604 (5,841,449)
Switch – 3,885 (19,790,275)
Xbox Series X – 3,466 (274,587)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,352 (770,755)
Xbox Series S – 982 (311,834)
PlayStation 4 – 80 (7,925,861)

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Edge Issue #398 Review Scores: Stellar Blade, Eiyuden Chronicle, and More

Edge Magazine's latest issue is out now and they have shared reviews on some of the recent games including Stellar Blade.

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Levii_923d ago

I laughed my ass of at the score.

coolbeans2d ago

Yeah. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and read what they have to say, but it's suspicious in the face of other recent indies that've been praised.

Levii_923d ago

I bet Edge is gonna give Breath of the Wild 3.0 a 10 again.

Tacoboto3d ago

Anyone else playing Stellar Blade and made it to the Great Desert?

I felt the story barely had us do anything here but there are a lot of side quests taking us back and the framerate is kind of all over the place. Curious if anyone else is noticing the same?

It's the only blemish so far in what's surprisingly become my current GOTY.

Levii_923d ago

I don't see how can the framerate be all over place? It's litteraly one of the most stable games released, unless maybe you have it on Balanced mode, put it on Resolution or Framerate mode.

And yes the Great Desert is almost exclusively just a gorgeous big zone for side quests and fun.

Tacoboto3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Yeah that's what's surprising me - the rest of the game even on Balanced feels like a solid 60fps (and my display is 120hz VRR).

But even on Prioritize Performance it feels like it struggles in certain spots only in the Great Desert. The Buried Ruins section felt like the roughest area but another one was more into the desert near a statue with scaffolding wrapped around (and a dozen or so enemies including the tentacles).

All the side quests I had there are done now so I may only return now to fish again. But framerate aside I agree - it's one of the more beautiful gaming deserts and this game's side quests have been way more nice and varied than I thought they'd be.

Levii_923d ago

I have to say i haven't explored the Great Desert 100% maybe just 40%, i plan on exploring everything there on NG+ so i don't know how Buried Ruins feel yet and also i'm running the game unpatched so maybe that's it i don't know but for me the Great Desert is perfect framerate wise if it's not on Balanced mode.

I absolutely agree man, the game is much more than i thought it would be in terms of content, exploration, collectables, secrets and side quests. Classic video game stuff! None of the modern BS. It's my GOTY as well so far.

VersusDMC3d ago

From what i remember the 2 open world hubs only have 1 story mission each. The gun missons. Most of the open world sections are for side missions, upgrades, cans,costumes, etc. Still fun to run around and discover some wierd puzzles there.

I feel like there are some fps dips but not all over the place.

And for people who don't do enough of the side missions...know that you will be locked out of a section of the game if you don't do enough. Fill that lily bar to 100%.

Elda3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Stellar Blade a 6? That score is blasphemy. Score should be a 9, no lower than an 8. It's GOTY.

badz1492d ago

It's EDGE! The only games they are generously rating are Nintendo games.

Michiel19892d ago

so the 10 they gave to Last of Us, LBP and Bayonetta also were rigged? or only if you don't agree with it?

badz1492d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@Michiel1989

TLoU and LBP are GoTY winning games highly regarded throughout the industry, what's your point? and what does Bayonetta has anything to do with this argument or even Sony?

The Meta for Stellar Blade is 81 after 130 reviews and a user score of 91. EDGE is giving it 21 points lower. Rise of Ronin? EDGE 60 vs Meta 76, Spider-man 2, EDGE 80 vs 90 Meta, R&C Rift Apart, EDGE 70 vs 88 Meta, Astro's Playroom, EDGE 70 vs Meta 83, Sackboy Big Adventure, EDGE 60 vs Meta 79, FFXVI EDGE 70 vs Meta 87 and remember Ghost of Tsushima? EDGE gave it 60 vs Meta 83...like WTF was THAT?? I can go on dude. It's an established trend for EDGE to be harsh when it comes to most PS games but they are very generous with Nintendo's games.

GhostMirror2d ago

Such a good game! I’ve put about 55 hours into it. I don’t regret buying a PS5 to play it.

buffig2d ago

Stellar Blade deserves more than 6 for the Raven boss fight alone!

robtion2d ago

Finished it 3 times and just got the platinum. Amazing game.

buffig1d 22h ago

I chose to take Adams hand. Beat the boss, started NG+ instantly. I was excited for the game, but it was still more than I hoped it would be. There HAS to be a sequel

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