Stellar Blade Was inspired By An Iconic '90s Cyberpunk Manga

For those unaware, Stellar Blade’s story begins after Earth was ravaged by mysterious creatures called Naytiba, forcing the human race to flee its motherland. Growing tired of life in space, humans decide to fight Naytiba and send Eve and her squad to take back Earth. She meets the people of Xion, humanity’s last surviving city on Earth, and after “discovering the truth, Eve will be faced with a decision, and what she chooses is in the players’ hands”.

According to developers, designing a post-apocalyptic setting in an original way was a great challenge, since it’s one of the longest-running genres in the industry: