Lost Soul Aside has gone gold

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Technically the first Sony published new single player game releasing simultaneously on steam and playstation.

I expect this to sell far more on pc.

And it's not even region blocked anymore, thanks to shiftup.
 
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If it's actually good I feel like it would benefit from a demo.
Stellar Blade was the same, I was interested but it was the demo that sold me on it.

Draugoth said:
It's a single person doing this?
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It started as a single dev project but has since evolved into a small dev team working on it. They still describe the game as AA though,
 
Nice. Now let's hope it's good.

But well, I'm pretty sure a lot of morons will say it sucks because won't consider it was started as a single man project and later got help from a dozen or two guys more, and will compare it to AAA games DMCV games as if they were games made with similar budget/resources.

Danny22 said:
Technically the first Sony published new single player game releasing simultaneously on steam and playstation.
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I'd say Lego Horizon was released day one in PC and Switch too.

Danny22 said:
I expect this to sell far more on pc.
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Very likely yes. This genre normally doesn't have huge sales, and it's going to be very China focused in terms of sales and marketing. And in China PC is way bigger than PS in a bigger proportion than it is in the rest of the world.

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And it's not even region blocked anymore, thanks to shiftup.
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Sony's games aren't region locked. They -including Stellar Blade- aren't sold in some countries, an amount of them that varies per game. As an example none of them is sold in the countries banned by USA. And the ones featuring LGBT or gore aren't sold in countries that don't allow it unless they have a censored version of these countries. In addition to this, the games that had PSN support weren't available in countries not covered by PSN.

It's something Sony always did, it has nothing to do with Shift Up.
 
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I started out hyped for this one but slowly over time began to think of it as a stinker. I think it will be a stinker, but I hope it's good!
 
yurinka said:
Sony's games aren't region locked. They -including Stellar Blade- aren't sold in some countries, an amount of them that varies per game. As an example none of them is sold in the countries banned by USA. And the ones featuring LGBT or gore aren't sold in countries that don't allow it unless they have a censored version of these countries. In addition to this, the games that had PSN support weren't available in countries not covered by PSN.

It's something Sony always did, it has nothing to do with Shift Up.
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Sorry, I can't let this go without being replied to given how much I hated Sony region blocks. They were blocking their games from being sold in 170 countries after Helldivers 2 PSN drama. They removed the PSN requirement from Last of us 2 onwards (and the ports that came after that) and didn't have it in Helldivers 2 as well but those games were still being region blocked. And i believe it caused a lot of lost sales as well as much lower CCU's of their subsequent games.

Stellar blade was similarly being blocked in 170 countries (may I brag I was one of the first ones to tell shiftup on twitter about this, which they seemed unaware of) before they removed the region block and the game did record level CCU. Which I believe played a factor in getting almost all previous sony ports removing their region block as well. This includes Lost soul aside which was similarly being blocked in 170 countries, now its the expected 7-8.
 
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R3TRO said:
It looks bland but I feel like I should buy it anyway.
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It used a nearly identical art style to Final Fantasy XV and no one complained about the art style used or Final Fantasy XV.

Heck, they even got Stellar Blade's art director to look over the style of the game.
 
I dig the graphics but what the hell is going on? I have no idea where to look, they went a little overboard with the particle effects, all over the place, much like Crimson Desert.

 
ElFenomeno said:
I dig the graphics but what the hell is going on? I have no idea where to look, they went a little overboard with the particle effects, all over the place, much like Crimson Desert.

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Best trailer yet, imo. I do wish that the attack sound effects were a bit better though. I don't know how to explain it, but they lack umph.
 
ElFenomeno said:
I dig the graphics but what the hell is going on? I have no idea where to look, they went a little overboard with the particle effects, all over the place, much like Crimson Desert.

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I dig it.

I love me some particle effects and some games just don't go hard enough on them.

I didn't have trouble keeping track of action.
 
Holy shit, I can't believe it's finally going to release. I'll pick it up on PC at some point for sure.
 


Posted today. First bit of decent marketing. Takes us back on the long journey of this game, back to that first trailer the (at the time) solo dev unloaded back in 2016.

I'm ready.
 
Looks like they went way too heavy on the visual effects and particles to be a good action combat puzzle style game. When there's so much crap it fills the screen and makes it hard to see the enemies, that's either going to open you up to getting hit when it's hard to see, or they're going to have to make the AI hang out and wait for the effect to finish before they attack again.

We'll see how it turns out, but it looks like style over substance from that trailer.
 
So we are not getting any reviews before launch. Maybe tomorrow?

I hope it turns out decent, we need more character action games like this. It doesn't need to reach the quality of the best in the genre, it just needs to be good enough.
 
Going by some reddit posts that have the physical edition early im reading great impressions.

Apparently it is more like an action rpg than a straight dmc-like character action game. It even has a world map. Music being compared to FF and Nier.

Which is good for me. ARPGs > CAGs for me.
 
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CosmicComet said:
Going by some reddit posts that have the physical edition early im reading great impressions.

Apparently it is more like an action rpg than a straight dmc-like character action game. It even has a world map. Music being compared to FF and Nier.

Which is good for me. ARPGs > CAGs for me.
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Really looking forward to this one,

Pre-load is up on Steam. Looks like the game unlocks at 8 PM EST on the 28th.
 
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