Stellar Blade

It would appear I was misinformed then... But to be honest now I understand his opinion a little less, as that much time should have been more than enough for him to see that the combat is much closer to his tastes than he initially gave it credit for, even if the skill ceiling is lower than previous TN games (and that's coming from me having played pre-1.04 at that, as I understand it it's even tighter now) 

And I can't even say it's because the open world and other niggles turned him off, because he was much more positive and open with Dragon's Dogma 2 around the same time, and even those that love that game admit it has even more jank than RotR

Just feels like a surprisingly odd reaction to me, all in all...

We've now gone from predicting journalists will thrash the game and so it needs defending, to cherry picking criticisms of Eve's sexualisation from reviews taken from game sites so obscure Google can't find them and sharing it around projecting that this is the opinion of all reviewers, to now being angry at the devs because there seems to be one outfit out of 30 that was previously shown to show a bit of cleavage but has now been covered up based off a blurry screenshot from someone who has the game, so let's just scream censorship at them and issue statements that were not buying the game now.

Perpetual victims.

We've said this multiple times before, but it's still unbelievable to me that this is the hill the people making this an issue have chosen to die on... These people either need to be introduced to porn to bang a couple out and calm down, or have their access to it locked for warping their worldview, I'm not sure which

It's fanservice, pure and simple, and optional fanservice at that (there's plenty of outfits that won't get you any odd looks AFAIK), and that's fine! There's been hundreds of examples of such over the years (hell, the previous, gacha game from these very same developers, Nikke, would blow up these poor people's heads... Both of them ), it's ridiculous to start such shitstorms over it in the year of our Lord 2024 (that goes for both anyone condemning it and anyone championing it, btw. It's very much a "live and let live" issue IMO). Put some of that effort towards an actual problem FFS, we have enough of those without inventing new ones...

Outside of a deranged french IGN editor and the usual suspects Kotaku, there is only the "incel" youtube reddit machine farming content on this topic. It seems to me that it is a storm in a cup kind of thing and that people should not fuel this kind of negative content.

JonFE Or a crap one, in this case

Storm in a D cup morelike BOOOOMMMMN

You're doing it wrong.

Wut?

Jambowayoh Seems weird, right?

It did seem like it had to be deliberate. The delay was incredibly noticeable that there was no way they would have left it like that if it wasn't intentional. To be honest, I can't think of another time when input lag has actually bothered me, but here it instantly registered with me as being completely off.

No idea why they would actually want it like this though. Yes, a game like Dark Souls requires you to press the parry button a little early, but the actual animation plays as soon as you press the button. Here though, nothing happens for .5 seconds and it does feel like the game is broken.

Hearing that the reviewed copies are still like that, I'm not really seeing how it can lauded for the combat. The upgrade to increase the timing window helped make it a bit easier, but it still felt wrong (plus, parrying and to a lesser extent dodging just weren't very satisfying). Will be good to hear people's thoughts who had similar qualms about the demo whether that carries through to final game.

It always felt intentional, I was surprised when they put out that statement suggesting you enable game mode as if that'd fix an intentional design decision. I get why people might not like it and for me it gives it a unique feel, but people Reddit claiming it wasn't there struck me as bizarre.

They say in the article that they'll monitor players' reactions and might make changes if there's enough demand, but if the guy's being honest when he says that the delay "can't be reduced any further", it might be here to stay.

I had started to wonder why none of the reviews I'd read (or watched) made any reference to improvements being made from the demo - turns out it was a feature, not a bug.

I noticed this but I would have struggled to ever articulate quite what was going on. The effect happened as soon as you hit the button but the on-screen feedback is delayed because they are so in love with their sex dolls animations that they don’t want to interrupt it, so it’s initially really hard to tell if you’ve done it.

The day one patch notes say it has been improved and I would bet that by this time next year it acts like any other game, but I did get used to it in the boss battle mode so I’m sure it’s, eventually fine in the game itself if very, very sub-optimal.

Totally normal behaviour