Stellar Blade Review - All About Eve

Stellar Blade is confused about the sort of game it wants to be. Protagonist Eve has the stylings and special moves of a character action heroine (back in the day we called 'em hack-'n'-slash), but moves too slowly and with too little grace outside of battle to pull this slick persona off. Then the wave of giant, powerful, and often difficult bosses that ask you to parry with expert timing make it seem more like a Soulsborne, but if so its one of the more simplistic of the genre and the inspiration only extends to the bosses, not the skirmishes or the wider world.