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The sequel for Stellar Blade may very well be coming to your Xbox Collection or PC
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Shift Up, the bombastic character motion recreation Stellar Blade’s developer, has posted a job itemizing that factors to the potential multiplatform way forward for the sequel.
The corporate has quietly confirmed what many followers have been clamoring for: the sequel is formally in growth, and the studio is aiming for a wider attain this time round.
A brand new recruitment name, posted on the corporate’s web site, describes the following installment as a “AAA multiplatform motion recreation” that “goals for launch on numerous platforms, together with consoles and PC,” whereas increasing the world of the primary recreation. The itemizing additionally explicitly talks about “consoles” within the plural, which is a shift from the unique, which launched as a PlayStation 5 unique in April 2024 earlier than finally discovering its strategy to PC in June 2025.
The identical itemizing mentions the success of the PC port, which garnered over 200,000 concurrent gamers at launch. So, Stellar Blade 2 being a multiplatform launch is equally potential because it being a PlayStation 5 timed unique once more.
It’s price mentioning that Stellar Blade was one of many first PlayStation-published PC ports that was accessible for buy in nations with out PlayStation Community entry. And it’s nonetheless unclear if PlayStation would be the writer for the sequel within the first place.
What we really find out about Stellar Blade 2
Shift Up has been fairly open and clear in its communication concerning the potential follow-up to Stellar Blade. CEO and Sport Director Kim Hyung-tae has acknowledged that the unique recreation had points with its story and narrative, and that is one thing they aimed to handle within the sequel. He named cutscene prices and a scarcity of in-house expertise with AAA and narrative-driven video games as the principle culprits of this.
Many character-focused scenes and world-building moments have been minimize to ship on time and funds, together with explanations for issues so simple as Eve’s limitless wardrobe and deeper side-character arcs. This, together with all the things that was initially deliberate for a giant DLC, is being rolled into the sequel that guarantees to be “narratively richer.”
On the similar time, Shift Up did make some post-release adjustments to the sport’s narrative, specifically including three new epilogues that increase the aftermath for Eve and the individuals of Xion after one of many recreation’s three endings. This might very properly be the groundwork being laid down for the inevitable sequel.
The place the story may go subsequent
(Minor spoilers for the primary recreation under.)
Stellar Blade ends in a really “select your individual future” manner, with three completely different endings depending on Eve’s decisions round Adam, Mom Sphere, and the destiny of Xion. A direct sequel must determine what’s really canon: these endings are too completely different of their outcomes to presumably construct on in equal measure.
Given Kim Hyung-tae’s feedback about together with minimize lore and canceled DLC developments into this new, extra cohesive narrative, the most secure guess is that Stellar Blade 2 will:
Select one of many authentic endings as canon, whereas utilizing the epilogues as a bridge. Maintain Eve because the lead, however develop her as a personality as an alternative of getting her as considerably of a clean slate tremendous soldier that dodges properly. Truly push Xion and its politics to the forefront, exploring the opportunity of Mom Sphere’s retaliation after the occasions of the unique recreation. Dive deeper into Mom Sphere, Adam/Raphael Marks, and pose the query of who’s going to inherit humanity’s future.
Contemplating that the Nier sequence is among the main inspirations for the studio, and provided that we have already got established a post-apocalyptic Earth, a free-for-all of former people, androids, failed “new people,” and rogue AI, Stellar Blade 2 may very properly go into the existentialist drama with philosophical undertones whereas nonetheless being as flashy and fan-servicy as the primary one.
We anticipate time within the comparatively peaceable hubs to be extra significant, and never only a location to seize the following mission. Cutscenes which have the characters really digest and sit with penalties. A battle system that expands on the state Eve reached on the finish of Stellar Blade: please, no extra zeroing of the character’s energy within the sequel. It’s tiring and narratively incoherent.
However a very powerful reply we’re on the lookout for is the one Stellar Blade consciously dodged: what sort of future is Eve really preventing for?
Proper now, all we all know is that Shift Up is actively hiring competent individuals to convey their enhanced imaginative and prescient of the sequel to life. Whether or not because of this we’ll get Stellar Blade 2 on PS5, Xbox Collection, PC, and presumably even Change 2 on launch, will come all the way down to how assured the studio is, having offered greater than 3 million copies, and the way persuasive Sony is with their console exclusivity.
