Stellar Blade: Blood Rain doesn’t have a confirmed launch date, however an AI-generated music video launched on the developer’s YouTube channel has followers feeling apprehensive.
The music “Wanna be in Love” was launched on July 31, 2026, and options the protagonist of the upcoming sport as a Okay-Pop star singing and dancing round an atmosphere that bears a resemblance to the setting of Blood Rain.
The YouTube AI disclaimer for the music video states that “sounds or visuals had been altered or absolutely generated.”
The disclaimer doubtless isn’t required for many followers, nevertheless, because the visible “type” is unmistakably AI-generated.
The music video predominantly options Evie singing and dancing in opposition to the backdrop of Blood Rain’s setting, with some AI-generated “behind-the-scenes” pictures later within the video that includes a pretend manufacturing crew sporting Shift Up t-shirts.
In a single part of the video, protagonist Evie holds up a keychain which reads “Okay-Pop Demon Hunters,” that includes an image of Derpy the Tiger, additionally from the identical collection. Okay-Pop Demon Hunters isn’t related to Stellar Blade or Shift Up, so it’s unclear why that is featured so prominently.
Followers didn’t hesitate to share their disbelief. “Are we deadass?” is a remark that might be discovered a number of occasions beneath the video.
“They actually thought they had been cooking with this AI slop,” mentioned one other commenter.
Followers from Japan and Korea had been additionally sharing their ideas, with one saying (through machine translation) “So now you’re stirring up hassle on the official YouTube channel as a substitute of Twitter.”
One fan refused to let the music video color their impressions of the sport, saying: “Deleting this from my reminiscence, Summer season Sport Fest trailer was wonderful.”
Not all sentiment was destructive, although. One fan mentioned, “Yeah… I’m in love…”
One other mentioned, “I’m [not gonna lie]. the video is humorous, I’m not even mad.”
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain was introduced at Summer season Video games Fest 2026, with an in-game trailer starring the video games new protagonist.
The unique Stellar Blade is launching on Nintendo Swap 2 later this 12 months, Shift Up just lately introduced.
