The Stellarblade Drama Appears to be Coming to an End, Here's The Summary.
Stage1:
Recently, Twitter user PeterOvo5 criticized Sweet Baby Inc. for promoting "political correctness" in games and accused them of despicable behavior, such as making the beautiful female model in "Fables of the Gods 4" deliberately unattractive. However, this is just one small step in the backlash against the organization.
Sweet Baby Inc. is an organization that provides "politically correct" or LGBTQ-related services to various companies. They have been involved in games like "Mind Killer 2" and "Marvel's Spider-Man 2," among others.
At the end of February this year, player Kabrutusrambo created a curator page on Steam called "Sweet Baby Inc detected." This page lists games that involve the organization and advises players not to play them. However, this action was met with opposition from members of the organization, who directly called on their fans to attack Kabrutusrambo on Twitter and even provided his Steam personal account.
Stage2:
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is online, and its beautiful heroine has attracted praise from players around the world. Some players have compared the differences between female protagonists in Asian games and Western games, and conflicts have further intensified around the world.
Stage3:
A few days ago, Ben Ossola of IGN France wrote an article about Stellar Blade. This article severely criticized the character design of "Starblade" and believed that the heroine Eve was too sexy. But it seems that saying it's too sexy doesn't have the effect of being a curse. As a result, the author of the manuscript poured fire on the producers of "Star Blade", saying that the character was "a sex doll imagined by a person who has never seen a woman." He just scolded the producer for being so horny, as if he had never seen a woman before.
Interestingly, the game producer not only got married early and has a beautiful wife. Moreover, the heroine of the game is sampled and motion captured based on a real model...
Stage4:
IGN headquarters issued a statement on April 4 regarding IGN France's article on "Stellarblade"
"Recently, IGN France produced and published a preview of Sword Stars, which contained an offensive passage that should not have been retained. We have now revised the text and officially expressed our gratitude to Shift Up Corporation and its work The staff apologized.
Please also note that IGN France is an independent branch of IGN and the IGN editorial staff has nothing to do with this incident.
The preview content of "Sword Star" does contain inappropriate comments. While this was not our original intention, as we have no intention of disrespecting the people at Shift Up and their work, we recognize that it is inappropriate to take this sentence literally, and we are sorry for that.
We deeply regret and sincerely apologize to everyone at Shift Up Corporation who felt personally attacked and insulted by this passage. "
Stage5:
The director of "Stellarblade" responded to the dissatisfaction of Western media: This is just a game
In an interview with foreign media, Kim Hyung-tai, the director of "#Starblade#", was asked about the dissatisfaction of the Western media due to the portrayal of female characters. Kim Hyung Tae responded: "I know that in the West, many aspects of game characters must reflect reality, involving issues of gender and diversity. But "Star Blade" is just an entertainment product, and I hope you only treat it as an interesting action game.