South Korean video game director Kim Hyun-tae has been criticized for placing too much emphasis on the design of female characters in his latest project, Stellar Blade.
This role-playing style video game focuses on the main female character, Eve, who is one of the few humans left to protect Earth after it is taken over by aliens.
But it’s the character designs that have some game critics outraged by their obvious sexism.
“I’m playing Stella Blade for the story” account rain of pride he quipped to his 287,000 followers by attaching a photo of the character.
video game journalist Karim Jovian said, “Stellablade has a great ass, that’s enough.” Of course, the game wasn’t released yet.
the game’s developer said game radar And said that his character design actually “made it somewhat brave to try and try.”
“Personally, I think I’m especially strict about games compared to movies, anime, manga, etc. Games contain all the opinions of the people who play them.” [which are] “I’m not necessarily positive about unrealistically beautiful characters,” Kim continued.
“Honestly, when I play games, I want to see people who are cooler than me. That’s what I want. I don’t want to see something normal, I want to see something more ideal. “I think that’s a very good thing.” “This is important as a form of entertainment. At the end of the day, this is entertainment aimed at adults,” he added.
The aforementioned critic Jovian said, new york cityscape Question residents about a character’s potential sexism and ask if she is a she. it looked like Real-life opponent.
“She looks like a 14-year-old,” the green-haired woman told reporters. Another woman said it “failed” because the developers focused on the physics of “how the characters move.”
Two other respondents claimed that the game “oversexualized” the characters.
Despite critics’ disdain, the protagonist is actually rendered from a real woman, a Korean model Shin Jae Eun. The collaboration between Shift Up games’ developers and models is quite publicIn fact, the production team has also released motion capture footage.body scan 32 years old.
Shift Up Games has also recently faced allegations of clashes with feminist employees. In August 2023, the company was sued by an individual. Claim to be a former employee — about firing them for being feminist.
“The company that made the game (SHIFT UP) deleted the work of two women because they were feminists. I am the victim and a former employee of this game company,” the now-deleted account said. wrote in X.
Developer Kim is known for creating over-the-top anime-style content.his X account It is full of age-restricted content and sexual images.
“In terms of design, we paid special attention to the character’s back view, since players always play with their backs facing the character,” Kim explained.
“We thought this was really important because that’s what they see the most.”
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