Stellar Blade PC review - a slick but hollow action RPG

Stellar Blade opens with a pod hurtling through the atmosphere before crashing to Earth. A woman, our protagonist Eve, is released from the pod and emerges in a slow-motion flourish, long ponytail streaming down her arched back and her improbable, techno-supermodel figure framed by the explosions of flying battleships in the distance. Soon enough, Eve is thrown into the action. You learn to dodge around insectile creatures, parrying blows from their outstretched limbs and chopping into them with the agility of a fencing master. Everything is technicolor and hyperreal.