Stellar Blade Director Addresses Controversy About Its Portrayal Of Female Characters

The Stellar Blade director Hyung-Tae Kim has recently talked about the female character design controversy surrounding the game's characters.

[shadowhaxor]

I think people are blowing this way out of proportion, yet this happens every time there's a super sexy character in a video game. Chun-Li, R-Mika, Bayonetta, Mai Shiranui, Cammy, 2B, Taki, Ivy Valentine (Soul Calibur). Nothing really new to see here.

[-Foxtrot]

Journalists make a mountain out of a mole hill because they want to stir the pot so they have something to be outraged over and can write about to make themselves look high and mighty on twitter.

Kotaku will call this but certain other things are fine

https://ibb.co/3S655Pv

[H9]

This, it's hilarious also how Journalists praise Bayo and 2B to downplay Eve when they were the ones that lost their minds over them when their games released, remember them rallying people calling Bayonetta Fighting F Toy

[bloop]

The same people complaining about attractive female characters in a game are probably the same people that don't see the problem with grown men identifying as women and getting naked in female changing rooms in front of minors. What an absolute shit show Western society has become.

[Tacoboto]

Kotaku's been praising Stellar Blade though

[Cacabunga]

This world is full of double standards… ads are all sexualizing women, even for ads do it.
When it comes to a game it’s a problem.. makes me sick.

[MrBaskerville]

Gamers make a mountain out of a molehile. I remember Bayonetta, 1 journalist was critical and gave the game a 7 because of it. And then months of whining commenced.

Same with Stellar Blade. Two people, one DF guy in a podcast who started the thing and one journalist on Ign France. This is a nothing burger if there ever was one.

[Angyobangyo]

@Tacoboto
Kotaku's senior editor Alyssa Mercante has been doing nothing but trashing the game and the Shift Up devs.

[shadowhaxor]

Hey.... I'm a journalist. Not all of us are like those causing issues about it all. I couldn't be happier about Eve, and not because of her assets. A strong female character who is the star of the game, who kicks lots of ass? Yes, please.

And I couldn't stop singing the praises of 2B when Nier: Automata dropped.

[qalpha]

Can you say who you write for? Because it is hard to find a site that is solidly 'pro-gamer', and not just activists posing as journalists.

[Sadist3]

I think it’s concerning that you find a video game character sexy…get a real woman you freak

[shadowhaxor]

1. I have a real woman and have for 24 years.
2. Eve is 3d modeled from a Korean model.
3. Eve was designed by a female, just like Bayonetta. It's as if history is repeating itself.

[MrDead]

This entire thing is just promoting the game, no one really cares. It's all just advertising.

[Skuletor]

There are some game jurinalists and a loud minority online, body shaming a character that was made by 3D scanning a real woman, with claims such as, she's a sex doll and has an unrealistic body type.

[StormSnooper]

Hahaha thank you for this!
What pervs!

[Crows90]

Right!
Isn't it interesting that they're pointing the finger at the character design all the while being the ones with the perverted ideas about her made up body.

[RNTody]

What the heck are people carrying on about this for? Bayonetta, Tomb Raider, Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, Eve from Metal Gear Solid 3, God of War, Devil May Cry...the list goes on. When did sexuality become a crime? I guess it's only fine when HBO does it.

[Psychonaut85]

Bro we’ve made such legit strides in representation in media. It’s not gunna kill people to let us have some eye candy everyone once in a while. When that’s all there was I get complaining about it, but now it’s the exception not the norm. So throw us a bone every once in a while, Jesus. Not to mention, the actress Eve is based on ACTUALLY looks like that. So at that point you just don’t want hot people in the game cuz you’re jealous and won’t admit it.

[rlow1]

What sad is you shouldn’t have to beg for something like that.

[Futureshark]

We're just not allowed to enjoy sexy women anymore.

[RNTody]

No, gamers aren't. For Hollywood, the fashion industry and literally everywhere else, it continues.

[Crows90]

Honestly those industries have branched out....but I'll say no more.

[Demetrius]

Exactly

[victorMaje]

Let devs make the games they want to make. If it resonates with people they’ll buy it, otherwise they won’t.
Now this game has beautiful features but it should not be the point.
Afaic what I care about is gameplay, story, graphics, sounds & if it all comes together in one…complete…package ah hell there’s no escaping the sexual connotation is there :)

But seriously, if the game is fun, who cares about the rest.

[Bronbron92]

I’m still getting this game lol

[Crows90]

What controversy? Who decided this was a controversy?

If there is a controversy it isn't about the character. It's about individuals in media having a problem. They have the controversial issues. The journos have the controversial opinions.

[Demetrius]

Worrying about a virtual fictional character when there's real problems in the world lmao 🤣 folks is funny af, I was hoping they weren't trying to sale a bad game with a pretty protagonist but turns out it's worth to buy, I don't understand most people on earth fr yo so in their feelings about VIDEO GAMES smh there's real world problems going on that's way way more crucial

[anast]

There is no actual controversy. In this case, it's amateur game bloggers creating issues so they make money. It's how it works. Not one blogger cares enough about the supposed controversy to do anything actual about it. They create a mess make money and latch on to the next thing. It's parasitic behavior in practice.

[ZwVw]

All this so-called "controversy" is just free problicity for the game, that'll blow over two weeks after it launches.

[Ninver]

Who gives a f#ck. People need to mind their own business and let the devs create what they want. If it offends you don't buy it. Really that simple.

These people have it so good they need something to complain about.

[rlow1]

Back in the 70s,80, 90s no one in the mainstream cared about gaming. Hell people looked at you as though you were weird for being a hardcore player. Women were far a few apart. Now all this political crap is ruining games.

Honestly need to start a revolution among us gamers and start boycotting games that support the liberal and woke ideas. Hurt them in the sales department, because this has gotten out of hand.

[gold_drake]

godforbid women look good in anything.

[FernDiggidy]

"Controversy" hahaha. Fucking bozos.

[CobraKai]

What’s the controversy exactly?

[Good-Smurf]

Some westerners should visit my country for a week as EVE is not over-the-top sexy character at all we actually have women that are as voluptuously beautiful as EVE same can be said of in China and South Korea.
You don't have to look far just google for the 1st runner-up of Miss Universe 2023.

[RiseNShine]

And yet the game has record pre-orders and getting tons of praise for the demo, which basically tells that people love great games and beautiful women, that this surprises anyone is what's really surprising.

[Tankbusta40]

People get offended by everything...if the girl character is too sexy....or Donut Drake was making fun of fat people...this whole world is warped

[SoloGamer1]

People can be so ridiculous. Curvy women actually EXIST! People always talk about 'Fat Shaming", what about Curvy shaming???! They act like its wrong for a curvy woman to be portrayed in media... isn't that curvy shaming? its Hypocritical! The character is based off of an actual person.. the feminists hating on the game are just pissed that they cant get a man to look at them like that lol The game is breaking pre-order records and the demo is amazing.. so obviously nobody cares what these people have to say lol.