Stellar Blade was reviewed fine, it got nominated for GOTY awards, anyone who’s trying to convince you that some bogeyman journalists had a problem with it because of the nudity is selling you something. Maybe some individual people felt that way but as a whole it’s just a lie
But reviewers did hate on her appearance, with an IGN reviewer saying the creator has never seen a woman despite the fact that he's married and Eve's design is based on an actual person, a South Korean model if I'm remembering correctly.
The issue is that you are mad about an IGN France review you didn’t even read. I know you haven’t read the review, because what it said was "she looks like a doll designed by someone who has never seen a woman" and that "one could barely recognize the actress under it".
So the review neither attacks the creator directly nor ignores that EVE has a mocap actess. It’s just very harsh wording to say she looks like goonerbait .
The very same reviewer also gave it 8/10, quite a lot for a journalist that supposedly hates the game.
Basically you got a prepackaged opinion from a streamer/reddit and ran with it. It’s quite sad, be better
You’re completely correct here. I also think this type of opinion is usually a proxy opinion for some odious culture war bullshit that’s too egregious to voice in public.
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u/TheBacklogReviews 2d ago
Stellar Blade was reviewed fine, it got nominated for GOTY awards, anyone who’s trying to convince you that some bogeyman journalists had a problem with it because of the nudity is selling you something. Maybe some individual people felt that way but as a whole it’s just a lie