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Stellar Blade review: Stunning visuals and exhilarating action - who knew saving the planet could be this much fun? writes PETER HOSKIN

PETER HOSKIN: Want a crash course on video gaming in the 2020s? Then play Stellar Blade. It's a mishmash of some of the best games of the past decade or so.

There's no evading the fact that Stellar Blade's main character - a super-soldier called Eve who's trying to reclaim Earth from terrible monsters - is treated as something of a doll. The concept had originally been inspired by the moon landings: you, the player, controlled an unwieldy spacecraft, using thrusters to propel and stabilise it, in the hope of making a safe descent onto some extraterrestrial surface. Within the levels, there are new abilities, challenges and threats, including the possibility that your bashed-about pilot might go mad and start seeing pink elephants and other enjoyable distortions

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