Summary
Stellar Bladeis a fairly straightforward game for the first few hours. It’s like a 3D Metroidvania with its exploration habits and it has Soulslike combat elements too. Once players leave Eidos 7, the starting area, and get to the last city on Earth, Xion, they will unlock so many new features.
This includes unlocking side quests inStellar Bladethrough a bulletin board and NPCs. A lot of them are fairly basic in design from fetch quests to fighting enemies. As basic as they are, a few of the early ones can be quite useful thanks to lucrative rewards. Players should try to do them all as they appear, but if they’re not feeling the completionist mentality, then they should at least prioritize these seven side quests.
7The Scavenger’s Story
Location: Wasteland
The first shop that players can technically unlock inStellar Bladeis via vending machines at camps. The first human-guided experience will be through Kaya at her junk shop in Xion. She will also ask players to help find her sister in the Wasteland in a side quest called The Scavenger’s Story.
It’s an easy enough side quest to complete as players have to fight through a few robots and then they can collect a part from Kaya’s sister’s, Kara’s, motorcycle. The rewards are basic between the Gold and the upgrade materials. However, the reason why players should complete The Scavenger’s Story early though is that it will lead to a more lucrative side quest for Kaya later called Encounter.
6Simple Puzzle
Location: Xion
Stellar Blade’sSimple Puzzle side questcan be completed within Xion and it’s one of the few requests that will pop up on the bulletin board initially. All players have to do is go down to the lower levels of Xion where they will find a chest. It will be locked by a riddle and players have to solve this equation: 5@6@7 = ?.
All players have to do is multiply the first two numbers which will get them 30, and then they have to multiply the the middle and third numbers to get 42. Adding those two up will get 72 in a sequence that will form the password: 304272. It’s a fun brain teaser and the reward will get players 1,000 Gold and 2 Vitcoins which can help unlock costumes for Eve in Stellar Blade.
5Reboot
Reboot is technically a side quest although not completing it in the Wasteland would be like playingStellar Bladeon hard mode. When Eve tries to activate the first camp she sees in the Wasteland, Adam informs her that the power is out. Players then need to take Eve to a satellite tower to do some light platforming to complete the side quest.
At the top, they can rescue a service robot to complete the quest and bring power back to the Wasteland. Doing so will unlock checkpoints, fast travel, and vending machines. Players will have to do this again in a later area, the Great Desert, which is a bit harder to accomplish but also well worth it.
4First Customer
First Customer can be activated in Xion by talking to a barber outside of his establishment, Gwen’s Hair Salon. This NPC, Kasim, has lost his tools in the Wasteland, so players have to do a very basic fetch quest around the same area as The Scavenger’s Story side quest.
By completing First Customer, players will unlock a method to customizeEve’s hair inStellar Blade. From different styles to different colors, they can make Eve look drastically different. It won’t help during combat, but it’s still a nice feature to have that many players will likely want to unlock quickly,
3Angel Of Death
Angel of Death is without a doubt the most useful side quest to unlock as soon as possible other than Reboot. Players can find a random NPC hurt around a back alley in Xion. When players go to investigate this NPC’s claims, they will be attacked by Scavengers resulting in a cutscene and Eve passing out.
Eve wakes up on an operating table to find Lily staring at her. To Eve’s surprise, she was stabbed in the back and was almost harvested for parts before Adam stepped in to save her. The reconstructive surgery Lily performed gave Eve a new ability. With it, players can nowdouble jump inStellar Bladewhich will make platforming a lot easier.
2Plan to Clean the Earth
Plan to Clean the Earth is a quest that will automatically pop up while players explore the southern region of the Wasteland. Eve and Adam will hear a distress signal which will lead them to a scrap yard. Here they will find a robot about to be crushed named Digger which is stylized as D1G-g2r.
SavingD1G-g2r inStellar Bladewill unlock its shop and it has a lot of useful upgrade parts. Players can get materials to upgrade their sword, consumable capacity, and so much more. It’s one of the easiest ways to beef up Eve’s capabilities early on without having to find these rare materials in chests or by completing other side quests.
1Stolen Treasure
Stolen Treasure is the final early side quest worth mentioning. Toward the edge of town, there is a shop run by a man named Lyle. His daughter Arin stole a statue from the store and he wants it back. Players can track her down in the Wasteland, coincidentally also within the same region as The Scavenger’s Story.
After fighting a few monsters, players can find Arin and send her back home with the statue. Doing so will unlock another store which will then lead to morecostumes for Eve inStellar Bladelike the very stylish Junk Mechanic outfit.
