Eve Set To Trade In Her Sword For A Rifle As Shift Up Announces Upcoming Crossover Between ‘Stellar Blade’ And ‘Goddess Of Victory: Nikke’
In a move that will ensure alien threats think twice before invading Earth, developer Shif tUp has announced that Eve, the sword-slinging protagonist of their action-adventure hit Stellar Blade, sword-slinging protagonist Eve will soon be joining forces with Goddess of Victory: Nikke titular, gun-wielding heroines in their fight against the Rapture.
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This upcoming crossover between the Korea-based studio’s two biggest titles was first revealed on December 23rd by way of a rather short teaser trailer wherein Eve, as clad in her standard green-and-white Nano suit, is shown literally crashing into the world of Goddess of Victory: Nikke, in the process driving her Blood Edge sword through the head of a Crawler-type Rapture unit and disabling it, only to find herself face-to-face with its back-up, a Striker and Salver unit.
Unfortunately while the trailer was heavy on hype, it was void of any specific details regarding the collaboration’s start date or its event structure.
As such, fans will sadly have to wait until a later to find out just what the crossover – and more importantly, Eve’s in-game model – will specifically look like.
For those unfamiliar, Goddess of Victory: Nikke is a sci-fi mobile shooter in which players control a squad of female android soldiers known as ‘Nikkes’, each of whom possess their own unique firearms, combat skills, and abilities, as they take to the battlefields of a post-apocalyptic Earth to defend the last surviving vestiges of humanity against a force of mechanical alien invaders known as Raptures.
At its core, Nikke is a gacha game, requiring players to engage with the mechanic in order to obtain new Nikkes to add to their army.
Naturally, said gacha system uses in-game currency, which can be earned through gameplay or purchased via microtransactions. However, Nikke notably differentiates itself from other gacha titles by dropping the usual ‘pity’ mechanic – wherein a game will guarantee that a player gets a random high-level pull after a certain amount of unsuccessful pulls – and replacing it with a ticket system, wherein players are given ‘Mileage Tickets’ based on the amount of pulls they make, which they can then redeem for the specific pull of their choosing.
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Of course, gacha games hosting collaborations with other media, such as anime or video games, is nothing new.
Nikke itself has previously hosted events with the anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga Chainsaw Man, Yoko Taro’s popular character action game NieR: Automata, the popular mecha anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, and even the indie management game Dave the Diver.
Yet, what makes this collaboration more natural than others is the fact that both Stellar Blade and Nikke not only belong to ShiftUp, but also feature detailed sci-fi worlds wherein attractive female cyborgs (human consciousnesses in mechanical bodies) fight to protect humanity from going extinct at the hands of an invading alien force.
The two games even share similar aesthetics and RPG mechanics, meaning Eve won’t feel out of place in (and arguably will blend in rather nicely into) the world of Nikke.
And in a further boon to Eve’s profile, her upcoming appearance in the mobile game is set to help her popularity grow as it will mark her first appearance outside of the PlayStation 5, with Nikke available on the Android, iOS, and Windows operating systems.
That is, of course, if the collaboration manages to release before Eve is finished readying up for her previously announced PC release, which is set to hit digital shelves on an as-of-yet-unannounced date in 2025.
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