Stellar Blade will be “uncensored” in all regions

Stellar Blade will be “uncensored” in all regions, including Japan.

That's according to the game's official Twitter channel, which announced the news earlier today.

“Stellar Blade offers the same uncensored version in all countries, including the Japanese version,” the tweet said in English and Japanese, and accompanied the message with a pixelated image with a red X emblazoned across it, and the phrase “Uncensored in all countries.”

Stellar Blade won't be released until April 26, but it's already sparked a lot of interest with the developer asking players to “take it easy” in the game's demo, with some players achieving over 50 hours of playtime – and progress will carry over to the main part of the game when it releases later. Later this week. The demo alone peaked at 690,000 daily active users.

Stellar Blade is better than Nier: Automata, according to the latter's respected director Yoko Taro.

“Stellar Blade is a really great game. I would say it's much better than NieR:Automata,” Taro said.

“The graphics are absolutely next-gen quality and the character design direction is amazing. The cool male characters and cute female characters unique to Mr. Kim's style are really attractive. Shops in RPGs often have a close-up of the shopkeeper, which I don't like because I think it looks Unnatural. Stellar Blade has a shot like this too, but the shopkeeper was so nice that I didn't mind that her cuteness was more important than any design choices.”