STELLAR BLADE X NIER AUTOMATA INTERVIEW

https://www.ign.com/articles/stellar-blade-x-nier-automata-taro-yoko-hyung-tae-kim

Yoko Taro, Director, Nier: Automata: Stellar Blade is a really amazing game. I’d say that it’s much better than NieR:Automata. I have been acquainted with Mr. Kim’s works since Magna Carta: Tears of Blood. Your illustrations are of a very high quality. Magna Carta: Tears of Blood came out before Drakengard, the first game I directed. So while I’m the older one, to me, in this industry you’re my senior.

Kim: Really? Should I behave a bit more superior then?

Yoko: In Japan, you’re well known by gamers as a legendary developer! When Blade & Soul came out, I remember being amazed by its 3D graphics. I think you directed the game’s art. Not just the illustrations, but also the 3D models were very well done. I was surprised by the quality of Korean games when I saw it.

Kim: I always simply create what I want to create. But without talented staff, I wouldn’t have been able to make games like that. Do I sound modest enough?

Nier collab is all BUTT confirmed

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    marketing thread

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      learn to live a little

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Kys

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          you first

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Ass blasted anon

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Based, pc port when

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It really should be releasing on PC simultaneously, but they probably wouldn't have gotten Sony funding.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      6-12 months, I'd assume

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    How is this homie already connecting with big-wigs like Taro and Kojima? His game isn't even out yet

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Kim is their senior, anon. He inspired THEM.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Taro maybe, but do you know how long Kojima has been making games?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Kim is their senior, anon. He inspired THEM
        Source?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Kim is their senior, anon. He inspired THEM.
        What?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Sony money I suppose. That sai, NIKKE was already pretty popular everywhere especially in JP.
      Also, years ago, Yoko Taro did say he was interested in stellar blade.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Stellar blade's CEO(Hyung Tae Kim) is a popular illustrator before he even start making games and his first game was released almost 24 yeats ago(magna Carta). He is a veteran.

        on the early days of internet, almost everyone I know has a folder of his art along with Falcoon.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          shill

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          He isn't making game you moron, he is an illustrator

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            He's the director of this game you idiot

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              I was talking about Magna carta, learn how to read, wienersucker

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >his first game was released almost 24 yeats ago(magna Carta)
          He is the illustrator, and its not his game, moron

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            character designers are not game dev? then toriyama isn't part of dragon quest and dragon ball games?

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              He's only drawn the art, he isn't designed the game, and the company that make magna carta isn't his company, they hired him to making illustraion. Do you understand, moron?

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            He isn't making game you moron, he is an illustrator

            >character designer are not game dev

            I guess the persona monster designer and Monster Hunter's artist who designed the armos and monsters are not game devs now.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Magna carta is made by Softmax, not huyng tae kim or shift up, and softmax isn't owned by Kim, he is just a hired person, his game my ass.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >zoomer doesn't know Magna Carta

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        magna carta sucked ass

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          The art was great tho

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >zoomer doesn't know Magna Carta
        Yo acted like Magna Carta is the holy grail of video game or something, meanwhile its actually a shit ass FF ripoff

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        1216, ONE AFTER MAGNA CARTA, AS IF I COULD FORGET THAT

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Both Magna Carta and Blade and Soul are trash, I don't get the reverence he has for Kim, I guess it's just horny weebs respecting each other.

        Do koreans even own PS5s?

        No, but that might be why Sony is pushing this so hard. The majority of asiatics game on PC, they have their own exclusive set of games and shit like uncensored Blue Archive. Even back in the day many JP games got Korea specific PC ports for that reason.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Kim has been around in the industry for a very long time.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      That was just fake jap humility. Kim only illustrated the characters while taro is actually directing it and considering the release date they probably were made at the same time anyway.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >That was just fake jap humility
        This. Taro is actually belittling him.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Kojima is a massive coomer, anon

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >big wig
      >yoko taro
      lol
      This is the man that have multiple failed gacha under his belt and a sellout of the highest degree

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      he's getting these connections thanks to sony
      he's probably visiting them and asking "please play my game and give me advices and critiques", so he can polish them out before release

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Did you not read OP's post? It's pretty obvious why.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      they are going after the nier audience so they are catering their advertising to the nier audience

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I'm sure Sony is involved. But we can't ignore the fact that this guy is a legendary artist. Everyone in the digital art, anime/manga and asian game art field knows his work.
      You know very well how Japan idolizes good illustrators.
      Also, I'm pretty sure all jap developers and artists share Kim's feelings when it comes to hot girls in vydia.
      Stelar Blade is not just a coomer game, it's basically the only AAA game that dared to unapologeticaly challenge western homosexualry.

      He is setting a good precedent for all developers who are not woke.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >But we can't ignore the fact that this guy is a legendary artist. Everyone in the digital art, anime/manga and asian game art field knows his work.
        homie are you serious? The only well know korean artist is Kim Jung Gi and this guy is dead, meanwhile Hyung ta Kim is just an average video game/anime illustrator and his style is mostly taken from Masamune Shirow (tall woman, thigh, ass, oiled up body), most people don't know him. Stop lying out of your ass

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          kim jung gi is only popular among other artists and normieBlack folk
          everyone who plays asian games knew about hyung tae kim since magna carta and blade&soul

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >Everyone in the digital art, anime/manga and asian game art field knows his work.
            Now it turned to "everyone who plays asian games" huh? More like "yellow weebs who grind MMO", fixx that for you, no need to thank me. Fricking hell, i'm asian myself and only the creppiest of weeb care to search for Hyung tae kim, and 99% asian player doesn't give a shit about him or any developer, company. Whoah skimpy bikini me like. Stop talking out of your ass

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              You are brown

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              you're a Black person nguyen

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              you are not asian pajeet

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Your samegayging is so oblivious, kpoop shitstain. Quite funny how you changed from "everyone" to "everyone who played asian games". In asian the only people who played asian games (mmo) are poor and uneducated since they are all f2p

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                ah yes poorgay asians don't know a single thing about pirating games they don't wanna pay for. no way they've ever heard of that concept
                >everyone who disagrees with me is the same person
                reddit is that way

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                You could literally just asked this shit on any popular Asian tech forum and see if anyone know anything about this Kim guy lol or literal this website lol. This is the first time people ever heard of this Kim

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >poorgay asians don't know a single thing about pirating games
                Its true though, most Asian don't even know how to open torrent or magnet link LMAO

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe for bugs like you but every flip knows about pirating games. In fact nobody owns consoles here because people just sell pirated games burned into dvds or bds at the local mall. Only spoiled children owns consoles.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >Maybe for bugs like you but every flip knows about pirating games. In fact nobody owns consoles here because people just sell pirated games burned into dvds or bds at the local mall
                I mean the majority of people, you could literal just ask your nerbough or your normie friends to see if they know about what is torrent? And most "hardcore gamer" are only played FIFA or LoL lol

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                The vast majority, east or west, don't know about torrents or pirating either, especially today now that most piracy groups are dead.
                >LoL
                Change that to Mobile Legends. Nobody plays mobas on PC anymore in asia.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                That and everybody watches on netflix or disney+

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Kid still played that shit or PUBG at internet cafe, oh and Age of Empire too

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >since magna carta and blade&soul
            homie saying like magna carta is some Holy Grail of video game industry in the legend lmao

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              It is

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                I played it long times ago and it was shit and boring as frick, nonsense stupid story, character models is fricking shitty. The only good thing about its the cover art

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Is it really AAA though? NieR Automata wasn't AAA either but they both still kick ass and I'd rather play 50 hours of NieR getting all the endings and running around the desert than play some battlepass crAAAp.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      He's billionaire

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >all BUTT confirmed
    clever girl

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They won.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      what the hell... Is that a dev team consisting of a single ethnic background? How are they getting their ESG funds?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        ESG wont get involved until the sequel where there's a black main character

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >black mc
          only if she looks like this

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            I'm tired of people saying brown characters are black now.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      How can they become a black ship to console game only with Korean, and without poaching Jap or West devs? Korea have no knowhow on making console game. And Korean censorship is more draconic than West so that they ban bikini. BA,maple, DFO has no bikini. Stellar blade has no bikini. No Korean game have bikini.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't Korea weak at console game spite being strong at Online and gacha?
      They should poach Jap or West devs to compensate this.
      Just like Japan being weak at gacha so that they poached Chinese dev to make Persona gacha, while Japs are strong in steam and console.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      where are the poc (people of color)? i dont see trans folk here. asians are white adjacent

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >The ass gacha saved video games
      Yoko taro game by ShiftUp when?

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I dont think my dick is ready for the inevitable 2b skin for Eve

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    NO NOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOKO LIKES THE GAME! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Absolute chads of gaming, I kneel

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Do koreans even own PS5s?

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    2 goats in 1 room saving gaming

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Thank you ShiftUp for saving videogames!

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >feminism in korea is worse than in the west, but their feminists are beautiful
      it should've been us

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        If we still had hot girls in vidya/movies i wouldn't give two shits about whatever women screech about.

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Yoko Taro, Director, Nier: Automata: Stellar Blade is a really amazing game. I’d say that it’s much better than NieR:Automata.
    >better than NieR:Automata.
    WTF IS THIS BROS?! HOW MUCH MONEY WAS HE PAID???!!! HE GOT PAID!

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      You people need to understand that Yoko Taro has always been jokingly dismissive about his works. He was like this with Nier Automata too. When people asked if people should play Nier 1 before Nier Automata to understand it, he said that they shouldn't bother because he said Nier wasn't a good game.
      He always makes jokes like this.

      Nier 1 IS a bad game and Automata is very mediocre save for its presentation.
      Both of them are only so highly praised for their character designs, music and writing. If Stellar Blade ends up being decent on the gameplay front, I don't think it will be a reach, or modesty, or anything at all to stay Stellar Blade is better than Automata.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Mechanics wise I suppose that would be correct. SB already has more focus put into its melee combat than Nier A ever was. I honestly blame the decision to put 2/3rds of the game into hacking. Therefore, Taro isn't wrong in that SB is better than Nier A as a "game", but presentation and narrative wise, which is something that could be arguable per person, Nier A is better. Hyun Tae Kim himself said that Taro is an exceptional writer and he would never be able to match him in this regard.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/1780008764336459963

      HOLY BASED

      >nier automata director
      stop saying this shit you fricking troons he directed way more games than that forgettable coomer shit

      >Stellar Blade has made him jealous
      Hopefully this actually gets him to go to someone at Squeenix and demand to be in charge of an actual game with a budget for the first time since Automata

      Reminder this game is nothing but a gay troony allegory

      >Robot "gendering" themselves
      >A "male" robot named Pascal with a feminine voice
      >Robots before Adam boss fight pretending to be other genders while simulating sex
      >Adam and Eve have a homoerotic incest undertones
      >9S ripping off 2B's arm and attaching on to himself is a genital mutilation metaphor which made him go fully insane after A2 tried to reason with him
      >A literal suicide button
      >Director's obsessed with ass fetishes and people with ass fetishes are tend to be homosexuals
      >Homosexuals known to be attracted to younger boys (i.e 9S)

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        True. I don't like niergays. All the more reason to gatekeep SB

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        There is also a short story about Kaine raping a man

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >A "male" robot named Pascal with a feminine voice
        you are OBSESSED, females voice innocent kiddy characters all the god damn time you idiot, pascal is not a female its meant to sound frail and naive

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    KR-KINO next week bros....

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I still don't know how to buy it. I kind of want Japanese voices, but I don't know if I want to spend the extra money to import a Japanese physical copy.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        it's a korean game, use korean voices you stupid weeb

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/1780008764336459963

    HOLY BASED

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Status: Circle-jerk
      Hopes: Relevancy

      That's all it is.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >nier automata director
      stop saying this shit you fricking troons he directed way more games than that forgettable coomer shit

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        you had never heard of yoko taro before nier automata
        larp all you like, we're just laughing @ u

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          first off
          >we're
          kys
          and second I played drakengard when you were still sperm in your dad's scrotum so eat my fat ass and suck a donkey dong Black person

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I played Drakengard 3 on PS3 at 11 FPS actually

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >all these yokotaro dicksucker tourists praising 2B for being I C O N I C, while disrespecting Eve have to witness how their recent gaming king is praising Kim

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    https://twitter.com/Genki_JPN/status/1780007192906846599?t=z9AQMJECmLHPFsUFT8CT6g&s=19

    NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOO

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?????? THE NARRATIVE XISTERS THE SCRIPT WHAT DO WE DO!?!?

      Humiliation ritual

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        You people need to understand that Yoko Taro has always been jokingly dismissive about his works. He was like this with Nier Automata too. When people asked if people should play Nier 1 before Nier Automata to understand it, he said that they shouldn't bother because he said Nier wasn't a good game.
        He always makes jokes like this.

        its just japanese culture to be humble you wouldn't get what they're really saying unless you're in the know

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I thought Japs are super patriot and nationalist zealots as Hollywood shows.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous
          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            People like itagaki and atlus' kaneko is an exception

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?????? THE NARRATIVE XISTERS THE SCRIPT WHAT DO WE DO!?!?

      Niersisters...

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      based humble taro

      [...]
      Humiliation ritual

      humbliation* ritual

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The male character in stellar blade should be smaller. Like say, a shota who wants to get choke fricked.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Nah adam is fine. A bit refreshing to have an asian male lead that isn't a shota or a boyband member. He isn't downright ugly either so I can self insert better. He looks like korean version of the late 2000s brunette white male MC.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >I’m here to kill aliens. That’s my mission.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          He's a pretty generic "hot guy" by western, rather than Korean, standards.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            He looks like a jet line with a tan and a moustache. It's fine by me. Him looking like a Kpop idol would probably be off putting and I know the devs are trying to market this game to a primarily male audience.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Jet Li*

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              For me, he looks like Asian Barney from HL2.

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?????? THE NARRATIVE XISTERS THE SCRIPT WHAT DO WE DO!?!?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Game of the year
      Game of the decade
      Game of the century
      Dare I say, game of the millennium

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Yoko Taro, Director, Nier: Automata: Stellar Blade is a really amazing game. I’d say that it’s much better than NieR:Automata.
      >better than NieR:Automata.
      WTF IS THIS BROS?! HOW MUCH MONEY WAS HE PAID???!!! HE GOT PAID!

      You people need to understand that Yoko Taro has always been jokingly dismissive about his works. He was like this with Nier Automata too. When people asked if people should play Nier 1 before Nier Automata to understand it, he said that they shouldn't bother because he said Nier wasn't a good game.
      He always makes jokes like this.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        NEW COPE ALERT
        >NEW COPE ALERT
        NEW COPE ALERT
        >NEW COPE ALERT

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, this is the same guy who outright talks shit about his bosses on camera and rather eat tacos in mexico than fly to america to receive his award for nier automata winning best music.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >modesty is a cope now
          yeesh

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Since Korea bans bikini. Costume like pic rel is danger horny in Korea. BA, maple, DFO and Stellar blade has no bikini.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        its just japanese culture to be humble you wouldn't get what they're really saying unless you're in the know

        It's partly Japanese culture and he's partly joking, but Yoko Taro is also absolutely plagued with pessimism and imposter syndrome. He's a legitimately smart, thoughtful guy; it's common of his type.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Taro has always been big on self-deprecation, which he plays as humorous but which is likely also a mask for self-doubt.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        wow dude you're right, i'm just a dumb westerner and this god jap has a 500 IQ and I can't understand anything!

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Considering how much context is lost between JP -> EN in JRPGs and other japanese media, then you are probably right.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        i just wish Eve had a butt or anything sexual at all, but shes pretty much flat if she doesnt break her back to look like the worms in Men in Black. Funnily enough Lily actually has amazing details and style, while Eve looks like shit.

        he isnt wrong about nier 1 being a bad game though kek. He made it purposefully a boring slog to go through with no real action per interviews. Least in Automata 2Bs design and music saves it.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Eve has the biggest and most beautiful bush you've ever seen. Goes up to her tummy and down to her asscrack. And just gorgeous amazing smelling pit hair too. She's fantastic.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        yoko taro is honest, thats about it. weeb schizos who read too much into it are deranged. most 2b coomers havent even played the fricking game, taro admitted to making nier automata based off 2bs ass and he plainly states the games trash because it caters to coomers fisrt and foremost. all the lore bullshit is an afterthought and weebs fell for it.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, we all know that. He wouldn't seriously shit on a game he barely touched outside the narrative and some character design direction. He owes his life to Platinum Games. But the thing is, he doesn't praise jokingly either.
        So you can be sure he really liked Stellar Blade

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You guys have to now act like SB is actually le heckin subversive and actually super duper woke now. I know you GCJgays are coping but it’s okay. You were always gonna bend the knee 🙂

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Taro is entitled to his opinion, his opinion isn't your opinion. I've pre ordered stellar blade but at the moment still like nier automata more.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Did you homies seriously expect he will shit talking other games in an interview or what? That's a fast way to ruin your reputation

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry but Korea bans bikini.
    But West don't ban bikini for Korea bans bikini. BA having no bikini in 2023 and having long sleeved burka shirt as swimsuits only is a proof. No one faps over ugly shirt. Arius will have burka swimsuit in 2024 too, no bikini.
    Maplestory, DFO, Stellar blade has no bikini as well. No one faps over ugly skintight. P3 reload has bikini for 16-17 humans and therefore more based than stellar blade.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      you are very dedicated to this shitpost and i'm starting to think you are mentally not all there

  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Copying andrew tate makes you a fricking loser, a npc that cant think for himself

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >https://twitter.com/Genki_JPN/status/1780009657182179520
    Bros....Anno wrote the script...

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      don't say that, morons will take it literally

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Yoko Taro, Director, Nier: Automata: Stellar Blade is a really amazing game. I’d say that it’s much better than NieR:Automata.
    Damn.

  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Japanese industry vets basically never say shit about other company's games in interviews unless there's super bad blood between them, lol.
    Kamiya is probably one of the few that ever did and even he would just shut up and not say anything
    >IGN
    rofflewaffle

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's japanese culture in general. Just like how the chinese keep up face to protect public image, they would never say anything damaging against another public entity because it could forge a useful alliance in the future.
      If shit did hit the fan, the people responsible would just make a public apology hence the whole "please understand" meme.

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Hyung-Tae Kim, Director, Stellar Blade: I have been inspired by NieR: Automata in so many ways that it’s hard to point out one specific thing. The game has so many fascinating elements. The image of a strong female warrior in a devastated world left by its inhabitants struck me. I was also impressed by the quality of the story. I enjoyed playing the game so much and of course I saw all the endings. However, since Mr. Yoko’s talent as a storyteller is exceptional I can’t do anything similar.
    Interesting and pretty humble, I wonder what the story's going to shake out to be.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      While the game may have been inspired by nier A, the whole feel and theme of Stellar Blade imo seems more inspired by MuvLuv with some christian themes thrown around. In Nier A, the war was already long over and the androids are just fighting the last dregs and remnants of the enemy, that was also long since dead.
      In Stellar Blade, you are actively fighting an ongoing alien infestation that is threatening to wipe out mankind and your soldiers, which are primarily female, are all dying very brutal and graphic deaths at the hands of the aliens.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah the intro was very MuvLuv. Perked my interest however we need a real MuvLuv game with mechas.

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    like tony stark and iron man teaming up to fight the avengers

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    biggest red flag you could have for a game
    pass (you never will)

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That's fun. Cool.

  27. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Speaking of which, Mr. Kim, I wanted to ask you if there were any fights with Sony Interactive Enteratainment (SIE), since they are publishing Stellar Blade.

    >Kim: (Glances at SIE staff members in the room and laughs.) The people at SIE are… very, very nice!

    >Yoko: SIE’s staff members are pulling faces I’ve never seen before. I wish the readers of this article could see it!

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous
  28. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      They're attacking Jared now? I've seen it all.

  29. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I'd like to give this game a try, but I don't have any plans of getting a PS5 anytime soon.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      same

  30. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Yoko's just returning the favor for Nikke giving 2B a fatter ass.

  31. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I thought the Korean and Japanese hated each other.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      That is not how business work ultimately. Money speaks a universal language.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Only Korea hates Japan
      As you can see japanese love Korea and they will flight straight to SK to tell the world Korea make better games than Japan

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >As you can see japanese love Korea and they will flight straight to SK to tell the world Korea make better games than Japan
        lol that's the other way around, asiatic
        https://www.hankyung.com/article/202310069864i

  32. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Flew his ass all the way to South Korea just to say his game was ASS

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Huh . He said the opposite. He thought it was better than nier automata

  33. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Your illustrations are of a very high quality.
    Lol. Lmao even. Everyone's spine is 50% too long and also broken.

  34. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    If you just remove the leftists from any hobby or society, everything will simply improve tenfold

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You're aware that both of these guys are pretty left leaning, yes? They just also happen to be very horny.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think you know what left leaning is.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          He's talking about their penises.

  35. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      If you just remove the leftists from any hobby or society, everything will simply improve tenfold

      But West don't ban bikini for Korea bans bikini. BA having no bikini in 2023 and having long sleeved burka shirt as swimsuits only is a proof. No one faps over ugly shirt. Arius will have burka swimsuit in 2024 too, no bikini.
      Maplestory, DFO, Stellar blade has no bikini as well. No one faps over ugly skintight. P3 reload has bikini for 16-17 humans and therefore more based than stellar blade. Only Jap game can have bikini. Aside from BG3 and GTA6.
      Nation without freedom of expression is "anti-woke" and "based"? What a joke.
      개조센은 비키니 금지하고 표현의 자유 없는게 무슨 반폴리콜레? 웃기고 있네요. 검열 중국보다 서양보다 심한게? 메이플 던파 블루아카이브 그리고 이것도 비키니 금지인데요?
      クソ朝鮮人供はビキニ禁止し、表現の自由の無いくせに何が反ポリコレ云々するの?メイプルもアラド戦記もブルアカもこれもビキニ無いのに?

  36. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Wait so this Stellar Blade guy was behind BnS artstyle?
    That's pretty rad

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      everything up until like 2016 was him

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. Just goes to show you can spend a decades long career never learning to draw anatomy and still succeed.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Rob Liefeld and Raita says hi.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          He's much better than them, but yes.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Stay mad you seething leftist Black person

  37. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    This homie is way too based

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Man, they should have really used this cover for the game. I really hate 3d render covers so much.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I bet its a reversible cover

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        absolutely delicious looking armpit.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Whos the girl on the right? I love her thick eyebrows

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            That's Tachy anon.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              no its not why would she be twice in the poster?

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                You sure?

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Because Tachy is the only character with a permanent resting b***h face in the game.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous
      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        This one is so much better it's unreal. I'll probably just print out a custom boxart with this

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It's better but this one just looks really generic like a avengers movie cover

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Male cast is pratically made up of old men so incel coomers don't have to fear about getting cucked
        everytime

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          bottom right man looks young, masculine and handsome

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            There could have been 3 gigachads, one for each female but of course they don't do that because they need waifugays to buy their game

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              if it's gigachad then one took them all

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              they don't do that because romance is gay and only women do shit like shipping

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                all men around you are having sex with women

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                it works in mass effect because male fantasy and most video game players are male. also the girls are great.
                if they can pull off the male fantasy without overdoing that's fine. otherwise i agree it's better to leave romance out of vidya

                all men around you are having sex with women

                less and less men are having sex, lol

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      why would you want something inspired by pn03

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Are they really pretending their game isn't just a sexy reskin of Battle Angel Alita?

  38. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Are you guys gonna play in english or korean? I still don't know

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Korean probably. The dub just isn't that good to me.

  39. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >I have been acquainted with Mr. Kim’s works since Magna Carta: Tears of Blood.
    Oh it's made by the guy who made magna carta? Neat, I'm more interested now, I liked that game. Blade and soul dogshit though.

  40. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They sent this game out to fricking die
    Joan of Arc style

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      What nonsense is this? It's had nonstop marketing by Sony for the last month.

  41. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    How does this affect Nikke?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It doesn't. Mobile game development is handled by one team while their high end game development is being handled by another. Nikke should be more concerned about that new Urban game that they announced since that sounds like it will be another mobile game, but probably more like a GI/SR so it probably has its own team.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      SEX SEX SEX1! MY FAVORITE NIKKE GIVE THIS OUTFIT TO TACHY PLEASE

  42. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >ass unites the world
    turns out the melanin men were right all along

  43. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Better than Nier Automata? Well if Yoko Taro says so then who am I to disagree.

  44. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Tachy is so cool

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >create eve for waifugays
      >create lily for hebegays
      >create tachy for potential yuri and waifugays and gurogays
      It's a win win scenario

  45. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    LILY IS THE NEXT PROTAGONIST LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

  46. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    nier automata is coomerbait trash his opinion is worthless

  47. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Should Eve and Tachy kiss?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      yes but my dick in between their lips

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >penguin_screaming.png

  48. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I can't believe that Sony is shilling this game

  49. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  50. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    ?Yoko: Shops in RPGs often have a close-up shot of the shopkeeper, which I don’t like because I think it feels unnatural. Stellar Blade has a shot like that too, but the shopkeeper was so cute that I didn’t mind! Her cuteness felt more important than any design choices.

    >Kim: Actually, this has been a problem for us. Many users say that the girl at that shop is cuter than the main character… I guess we need to make her the main character in our next game.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      So that's the shop girl.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I will literally buy 5 copies if this hebe is the MC of a theoretical SB2. We really need more hebe MCs in vidya.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I wonder if HTK speaks Japanese. He seems to be the type who does.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I want them to make a huntan a la monster hunter

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      What do you think Microsoft/Xbox thinks when they see Stellar Blade after they made rules regarding how women should look and act in their games?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        When they see this game succeeds and Fable bombs they may change their minds. We'll see how Joana Dark looks like.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It do be like that.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Stellar Atelier
      Would play.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      NOOOOO NOT LIKE THIS LILYBROSSSS!!! WE WERE ROBBED BY A FRICKING SHOPKEEPER

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      She definitely needs correction

  51. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >yoko taro appears
    >slips you a piece of paper with a new bit of Nier lore to drop in to your game
    >vanishes without a trace

  52. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Japanese and Koreans
    >Working together
    Nani dafug?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Through coom, unity.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Taro doesn't believe in the cultural and media lies that push nations and people apart from each other. He believes in a fundamental goodness and cooperative spirit in humanity beneath all of that. He's right

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Solo Levelling was adapted by nips strangely enough

  53. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Her name is either Su or Kaya

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        actually her name is My Wife

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          My Wife looks pretty good

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      sephiroth?

  54. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine ripping her shirt off and immediately rubbing her flat chest.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit. This makes me wish they would make a Persona clone with this aesthetics. I want to date this girl

  55. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  56. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  57. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  58. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  59. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Perfect example of a shapely woman with nice assets. She's the best. God bless Korea

  60. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  61. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  62. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Stellar Blade has made him jealous
    Hopefully this actually gets him to go to someone at Squeenix and demand to be in charge of an actual game with a budget for the first time since Automata

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Guy hasn't been in charge of a proper console game for over 7 years. He'd be jealous too that others have free rein on making cute girls with nice butts and boobs.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine if he gets hired by Kim to write or direct the sequel to Stellar Blade or do a spin-off.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Might be cool as long as taro stops with his femboy fetish

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        They can give him his own studio, they got Tencent money.

  63. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  64. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  65. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    we are all brought together thanks to cute anime girls

  66. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  67. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  68. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      was the random hologram of a skull really necessary on that helmet?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        its kino

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yes.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        100%

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        we death stranding now
        what if kim meeting taro and kojima is just teasing that the game was co-produced by them and it's the real mgs5 (not v)? the ruse is still alive baby

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        The helmet stays on during sex

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It's cool

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I forgot that she was in this trailer, but i think most people figured she wasn't dead anyway

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe she's a clone or some alternate version of her. That would explain her appearing on the poster twice, too. I wonder what the game's story's gonna be like.

  69. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
  71. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    drakengard 5 or frick off

  72. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  73. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  74. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why didn't he comment how the west lo r asses so much to the point stellar blade was made?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >west lo r asses
      moron

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      GOOD MORNING SAAR

  75. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
    Neat. One more to the backlog

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Is the game good. I'm getting sold on the breasts

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Art direction is superb. Game is mid at best

  76. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Good interview

  77. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I want to see Eve and Tachy drinking each other's pee...

  78. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    If Eve gets Quiet's outfit

  79. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Sexy is back on the menu.

  80. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >guy who made a mediocre game with a sexy female mc likes a mediocre game with a sexy mc from another guy
    Woah, didn't see that coming!

  81. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Japanese man kneels in front of Korean man and tells the world Korea make better games than his own games
    It's fricking over for Japan it isn't?

  82. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.gematsu.com/2024/04/stellar-blade-japanese-version-special-trailer

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >bought the Japanese version because it was $10 cheaper
      nice

  83. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    has taro always been a fatty

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      We have seen his face. He looks dumpy so yes he's a chubby guy

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      he likes pizza

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        mmm ... donimos

        marketing thread

        a good one at least. can't wait for the pc release

  84. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    This is the equivalent of Nintendo going to china for an interview with genshin impact and Nintendo saying how much better genshin is

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      so what?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I cant imagine how pathetic would be if nintendo came out and say genshin is a way better game than zelda

  85. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's over

  86. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >When Blade & Soul came out, I remember being amazed by its 3D graphics. I think you directed the game’s art. Not just the illustrations, but also the 3D models were very well done
    >the 3D models were very well done
    >the 3D models were very well done
    >the 3D models were very well done
    wahahahahahahahahaha

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      They were back in 2009 when it was announced. At the time, I thought kmmos were never gonna beat it when it came to sexy characters.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        im laughing at the way it's worded
        everyone knows he means
        BOOOOOOOOOOBAAAAAAAAA

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      i definitely jerked it to my blade and soul characters when i was younger

  87. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    This one pic alone increased the suicide rate of a certain group by 10%

  88. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  89. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Nier collab is all BUTT confirmed
    Nikke already did a Nier collab, buddy. You're very late

  90. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    2B costume is almost confirmed then

  91. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >you’re well known by gamers as a legendary developer! When Blade & Soul came out, I remember being amazed by its 3D graphics. I think you directed the game’s art
    huh?
    Blade & Soul Developer: Team Bloodlust (NCsoft Developer Division) (PC)
    Netmarble Neo (Mobile)
    NC Interactive (console)

    What is this Yoko dude talking about? This Kim dude didn't even know how to rendering the 3D model.
    https://www.mobygames.com/game/82243/blade-soul/credits/windows/

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >legendary developer
      lol wut, Hyung Tae Kim only designed B&S character art and half way through the game around season 3 something he got fired by NCsoft and replaced by other artists. What the frick did he mean by legendary developer?

      he went uncredited moron

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >legendary developer
      lol wut, Hyung Tae Kim only designed B&S character art and half way through the game around season 3 something he got fired by NCsoft and replaced by other artists. What the frick did he mean by legendary developer?

      [...]
      he went uncredited moron

      Kim was the art director for Blade & Soul but he left before the global release which made him only credited as one of the illustrators there

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        We're all knew he is the art director of B&S, fricktard. But he didn't developed any game, he is drawn art and told people to rendered his art into 3D and he got fired halfway through the game. How the hell he's THE LEGENDARY DEVELOPER in the legend when his job is literally just drawn character designs?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          He also got buckbroken by ai art and gave up drawing his own stuff tbh

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >dude he drawning boob and ass so sịck he is dat Legendary Developer
          >meanwhile the actual developer: Directing, Writing baseline, Choosing character designs, cutscene editing, programing, implementing game features and so on
          homie, Yoko is full of himself if he think his LN writting skill make him a Legendary Developer too

          There is vast difference between art director and character designer. The Art Director oversees everything related to game aesthetics, from the background, UI design, color composition, and of course that includes 3D models too.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Do you even look at the horrible UI of BnS, or the shit ass blurry texture on everything except character model. Even the singleplayer game Magna Carta look like a cluster frick of UI with mediocre mmo fantasy asthetic. How the frick is this make him the Legendary developer when he's only designed art for 2 mediocre game: a FF ripoff and a MMO grindfest?

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            And he didn't get fired. He had already created his own game studio before leaving NCSoft and immediately directed a game there.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              >directed a game
              Yeah a fricking auto mobile game. The Legendary Director

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Ganker like to circlejerk that old games look better when the old games that still look good is thank to art director and yet they don't even consider them as dev

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Thing is Magna Carta and B&S art direction is shit. Especially B&S art direction from fanatasy kungfu shit turned into cash shop rainbow bikini and some stupid steampunk laser beam lightsaber crap

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >dude he drawning boob and ass so sịck he is dat Legendary Developer
        >meanwhile the actual developer: Directing, Writing baseline, Choosing character designs, cutscene editing, programing, implementing game features and so on
        homie, Yoko is full of himself if he think his LN writting skill make him a Legendary Developer too

  92. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >legendary developer
    lol wut, Hyung Tae Kim only designed B&S character art and half way through the game around season 3 something he got fired by NCsoft and replaced by other artists. What the frick did he mean by legendary developer?

  93. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Legendary developer
    >Never making or developing any game before, his actual first game is not out yet
    Goddamn, did Sony forced yoko to smoke weed or some shit lol

  94. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Your illustrations
    >I directed
    >Directed the game’s art mean you're Legendary developer
    Oh i see, the stereotype Japanese fake humble, i suck your dick you suck mine

  95. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    is tachy my friend or not

  96. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Wow that sounds fricking awful.

  97. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  98. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Dude is trying real hard to hate the game

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You mean he's trying real hard to hate the literal very first video game of the literally LEGENDARY DEVELOPER ACCORDING TO ANOTHER LEGENDARY DEVELOPER WHO ONLY MAKE LITERAL LITERALLY A SERIES OF SHIT GAMES? Whoah man, this is my first time posting on 4chin so i must be the LEGENDARY SHITPOSTER TOO!

  99. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >In Japan, you’re well known by gamers as a legendary developer!
    >hmm let check this legendary developer profile
    >artist for magna carta some no name obscured FF ripoff
    >artist for BnS dead mmo
    >artist for Destiny child auto mobile gacha
    >artist for Nikke auto mobile gacha
    Am i supposed to be impressed with the mediocre porfolio of this forgettable Legendary Developer?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      How many times do you need to samegay? SBI lost, Stellar Blade won. Deal with it.

  100. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Best girl Miyeon!

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