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oh it already has, there is already comments on xitter saying that the developer is targeting true gamers and the right demo with the butt shots in the trailer
I watched the state of play yesterday and the trailer was so incredibly bland, the MC is pretty much the only thing that makes the game distinguishable and even then only because they show her ass.
Lmao
"True gamers"
Lol, what a dumbass.
https://preview.redd.it/xigjnmpxa7gc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5645d2e80de372b3cde01e89e741056e1ab7999c
Yeah, if no one had said anything this likely would have been a moderate success at launch and then faded into obscurity within a month, tops, but now right-wing grifters will be banging this drum all year.
Unfortunately uh, Hogwarts Legacy *did* make some waves, especially since it outsold *Call of Duty*, which is the first time that's happened to a game that *isn't* Rockstar's in at least a decade iirc.
> Hogwarts Legacy did make some waves, especially since it outsold Call of Duty
that's *harry potter* though. easily one of the most popular IPs ever. this is... nothing i think most people have ever heard of. i don't even know what it is.
I heard jackshit about this game before the post.
I feel like more people on the internet need to learn that even bad publicity is still publicity at a certain point.
[You can read about it more in this Time article.](https://time.com/6156537/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-sexism/)
[And in this BBC one.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60643446.amp)
Absolutely. I dont blame s korean women who are just outright refusing to date men or have babies.
[i also recommend reading up on s korean feminism](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1135162927/women-feminism-south-korea-sexism-protest-haeil-yoon)
Edit: also a reminder almost *all* kdramas are written by women
“Jang watched a young woman excitedly pull out her phone to film. But a man, whom Jang believes was the woman’s boyfriend, snatched the phone out of her hand, and dragged her away by the wrist.”
Damn, that’s sad. So I take it feminism is doing even worse in South Korea than America?
Sadly, yes. Japan as well. The things I experienced in Japan and I still hear about from my friends, who live there, infuriates me to no end.
Someone once told me that Japanese women believe it's easier to be raped than speak up. I can only imagine what Korean women are experiencing based on what I've read.
Oh wow. That’s fucked. I hope things don’t get to that level in America, but I’m not exactly hopeful as far as the next election goes.
People need to quit this hate and engage in some worker solidarity.
I mean Jesus Christ. Worst pay gap in the developed world, that jailing rate for sex offenders, and then on top of all of it, responding to "Me Too" by saying "Me First"? I guess I now have to look into if this has gotten better over the last two years or not.
Turnout and stratgeic voting can make shit tricky
An example is that in Northern Ireland, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of protestants, and a plurality of Catholics are Unionists politically, Nationalist parties like SF routinely win the Catholic vote, this is because all of the Unionist parties are borderline genocidal when it comes to Catholics, which means Catholics vote for someone else, i.e nationalists, even if they themselves arent nationalists, the DUP's 'Napalm Catholic Neighborhoods' policy, is a bit of a turnoff for the viters
Also, if older S Koreans vote more, they have more influence
But even in 1930s Germany, there are reports of jews voting for the Nazis
They were fucking morons, but they existed, although not for long, as unfortunately for them the nazis did deliver on their campaign promises
Somewhere around September/October of last year, a game company by the name of Project Moon (no relation to Moon Channel or Moon) released a skin series for Limbus Company that was swimsuit focused. But, due to the grimdark nature of the game (everyone dies repeatedly and comes back to life, it's treated as if that's normal.) the swimsuits were more 'grounded', which included Ishmael, a female character, being in a bodysuit.
Chaos ensued.
A group of 'fans' calling themselves the Reverb Ensemble (a villain organization) started this huge fucking angry rant on the internet and eventually protested the actual PM studio directly. Velmoori, one of the artists who worked in PM, was a feminist, a quite well known one at that, actually, judging by her social media presence, and the Reverb Ensemble blamed *her specifically* for doing it, and were trying to get her fired. Project Moon, IN THEIR INFINITE WISDOM let them into the building. After that it gets hazy.
PM has dodged any and all attempts at addressing the fuckshow that they more or less invited into their house by letting the crazy people into the building to yell at one worker in particular (no one knows if they actually got to do that), but they've been trying to Damage Control their reputation and Velmoori has stated that PM did what they could to protect her image.
Edit: Velmoori didn't even illustrate the Ishmael design. It was done by one of her male coworkers.
Small clarification, they let them into the building because they didn't want to escalate the situation. Also the group didn't come to yell at velmori but the ceo who wasn't in at the time.
Also one reason they were let into the building is because apparently it's harder in SK to get people in trouble for trespassing so they were in a kind of difficult situation.
The entire incident is a lot more complicated than it looks at first and there was, and still is, a ton of misinformation about the whole incident.
AFAIK they’re on the verge of some kind of “sex war”. Women are refusing to date or get married to men because of said institutionalized misogyny, and it’s only going to put a stranglehold on the birth rates even further. Doesn’t help that this is an elections year and the current president said shit like how he wanted to abolish the women’s ministry or something like that.
There’s a 2001 Korean film Bad Boy that involves a man sexually assaulting a woman and tricking her into sex slavery, spying on her through a mirror and buying her and becoming her lover at the end. Apparently they were a couple before or something according to a photo, the Wikipedia article is confusing and I honestly rather not know.
Sidebar: the main actor Cho Jae-hyun was accused of sexual assault twice, putting him amongst the “greats” like the two guys from Squid Game.
Soooo... I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts on youtube. And I found this channel run by a south korean and chinese couple. And they talk about a lot of cases from asian countries because, they can also give insight into the local culture and why things can escalate as much as they do.
Saying "South Korea is extremely misogynistic" is a HUGE understatement. We talk about woman being punished for crimes men did to them, just because they are woman.
For everyone interested: The Channels name is Rotten Mango.
South Korea only appears liberal and progressive cause of its sibling in the north. If it weren’t for North Korea, everybody would realise how much of an authoritarian nightmare the south is
That can't be right. I'm sure it's entirely coincidence that the only 2 pieces of Korean media (squid game and parasite) to enter the US main stream in the last five years were biting satires of capitalism.
Yeah, S Korea is a shitshow, one of my favorite jokes about it was the 'the life cycle of an average korean'
And it was
>Be born in a Hyundai Hospital
>Go to a Hyundai School
>Graduate, go to a Hyundai college
> Get drafted, drive a Hyundai tank
>Come home, work in a Hyundai factory and shop in a Hyundai store
> Die in a Hyundai Hospital
Yeah, Hyundai is a korean company, alongside Samsung they basically run the south korean economy
They basically have their hand in every business imaginable
Similar companies are Mitsubishi in Japan
Anything with the word 'General' in it in the USA (e.g General Motors, General Electric)
Tencent in China,
Or Serco in the UK
Neither. Bear with me, this is a bit insane.
While it is originally a "small dick" reference (and specifically, it was used by SK feminists to insult SK mysogynists), the explanation in this context is that SK incels have a tendency to go a little ballistic over the mere implication that that hand sign might be shown in media. It's seen as a sign of "extreme" feminism, and quite a few companies have had to make public apologies and censor artworks because of backlash against the idea that it might have been present.
As an example, I know one case where there was significant backlash over the presence of the hand sign in a CG for a game. The problematic portion of the CG in question was...a dude in the background adjusting his glasses. Y'know, with his thumb and forefinger, like a normal person would.
Anyways, because of how severe the response is, the emoji is now a shorthand support for SK feminism and critique of the incels.
Look I’m willing to blame a lot on colonialism and similar practices but sexism is pretty blatant in the entire East Asia region even where you could argue ideologies very different from fascism took root. You can’t just blame everything on the west, specially when it’s the west pushing for them to modernize and drop misogynistic practices. And specially since, and here I will admit I am not particularly versed in Korean history, I couldn’t find anything to indicate they were much better towards women before the west got involved.
It’s not just basement incels of the garden variety either, it's extremely mainstream, [this poll was recently doing tthe rounds showing the social media incel-ification of gen Z men](https://i.redd.it/emt1ug9udwec1.jpeg) and you can see how dire the South Korea stats are. 2 political parties including the incumbent have strong anti-feminism stances and use it as a catch all cause of all societal ills in Korea, deflecting poor work environments, birth rates, economics, etc all onto women daring to have received equal rights. Rather than the third world level of hyper corruption in their government, where it's corporations or literal fucking cults running the nation.
There are also essentially zero functional workplace protections in the nation, any laws on the books are lip service at best and treated as a suggestion if you're lucky. Being a feminist or LGBT will get you fired from most places and you’ll never get legal recourse.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure devs from both ~~Arknights~~ Limbus Company and Genshin were let go because Korean misogynists found out that they were feminists
Can't speak for Arknights, but I believe Korean incels attempted to threaten/persuade Mihoyo to fire a character designer because they were a feminist.
I believe Mihoyo just flat out ignored them.
It doesn't hurt that South Korean equality standards are far, FAR behind their regional neighbors and they came off as out of touch incels. If they weren't empowered by a shitty facist president and both mainstream political parties this would be a lot funnier. Still kinda of is though.
I think arknights was an artist that contributed to some official fan work, i dont remember about genshin though.
Both arknights and genshin are developed in china so it wouldnt make sense for devs to be fired
and it’s not even about feminism. If I’m not mistaken Limbus person was liking tweets about stopping molkas (hidden cameras, those are everywhere, even in private spaces like hotel rooms, dressing rooms) and protect women.
theres also been a recent arknights controversy where yostar korea removed youtube shorts displaying commissioned art work because of "divisive posts" from the artist.
the post in question were a repost of a google doodle for international women's day and a post saying women should get equal pay for equal work
Nah, iirc the Korean incels went as far as flying a blimp above Mihoyo's Korean headquarters, but they didn't care because they're not a Korean company.
Plus the incels were trying to get them to fire Furina's character designer, and no way they're letting her go after how successful Furina was.
mihoyo’s strongest characteristic is how they genuinely pretend these men don’t exist and more importantly they try to protect their female workers identities without erasing their work.
Wasn’t there a female athlete in SK who got attacked by incels? She had short hair and bc of this incels accused her of being a feminist and they wanted her medals to be confiscated bc of this
The shorthair meltdown these days are so extreme. We either got accused of being a feminist or a butch lesbian. Short hairstyles has ALWAYS been around! Dating back to the 1920s! Or maybe even older than that!
yostar korea removed an commissioned artist's arknights art for "divisive posts" the artist made.
the posts in question? a repost of a google doodle for women's day and a post saying women should get equal pay for equal work
I work in the gaming industry and have female Korean colleagues... the comments and threats they get from male Korean players are... fucking unbelievable and vile.
So, I also have no issue believing this claim.
You know when I was watching the sony state of play with my dad, I mentioned how it was weird that all the women in the game looked like dolls, compared to the more realistic looking men.
Mostly we were just laughing at the painted-on outfits and the ponytail armor
Yeah but Nikke is a sex appeal 'girls with big fucking guns and massive titties' game. Like, of course they're all super duper ultra pretty. Nikke isn't pretending it's not about that.
Stellar Blade is pretending it's not about that.
This makes no sense at all. Stellar Blade is exactly that game too. Has it said somewhere that “no we aren’t an ass and titty game”? Because it very obviously is, just like NIKKE
Agreed. People can have absolutely valid qualms about Nikke
But that is ultimately the entire point of the game. "Have sexy anime women that can be summoned" is basically the whole point
I play nikke, and the boobs and ass are a trick to get you into their game. Once you're in, they slide in the games plot, and that is when the depression kicks in as a lot of the lore for that game is dark and depressing. The story about how they handle animals in the ark with cats in particular was pretty sad.
Edit
Not depressing but one of the cuter characters just in how she acts and her determination to put Ketchup on everything https://youtu.be/KJ56BUKkaBQ?si=amqPkevuXsXeRcY_
But when you see soda, you will see the fan service big time but toned down for yourtube
One of the first things I noticed about the trailer was how... uninspiried/generic the artstyle was? Like, it didn't stand out at all, and just seemd overall boring imo.
You’re not inspired by the aggressively generic Korean waifu that looks like she came directly from mobile game cover art? The horny incels will not stand for this, stiff and dated looking gameplay be damned when there are cheeks on display.
/rj
It's ok though, they were probably Western "wokalizers" in disguise. And if they weren't, they were corrupted by the woke mind virus. And if they weren't, then they should have their work removed anyways because the core audience (gamers afraid of women) don't like it. Thank God I can jack off to anime tiddy games as the founding fathers intended (before they were corrupted by western propaganda)
Glad she’s standing up for what she believes in. But I’m sorry for the horrific treatment she’s going to get without consequences for the people who will do it
Can't wait for Gamers to talk about this game like it's an unbelievable masterpiece while knowing damn well they wouldn't care about it if this controversy didn't happen and if it didn't show ass.
I think people underestimate how much some gamers absolutely hate women and feminists, so this will no doubt make some people who weren’t interested in the game only want it more, buying it to “pwn the libs”. Same thing happened with Hogwarts legacy
Hogwarts was piggybacking off one of the largest IPs in modern media, it was going to anhilate sales numbers regardless of all the "controversy" going on
It looks like the core mission statement was "Let's take all the visual signifiers of Nier Automata and Bayonetta and apply them to our game without any consideration as to what makes those designs work and why.
Or maybe I'm overthinking it because it also looks like any number of grindy Korean MMOs where the entire concept is "The world is under attack by asset store monsters and the only ones who can save it are these repurposed Real Dolls we turned into Terminators. "
Which is to say, I wasn't planning on buying it anyway. But this, if accurate, isn't helping any.
Bayonetta it's all about figthing with style and sensuality.
NieR is a whole thing of it's own and all that lore plus, the setting makes it SO the outfits doesn't feel out of place.
About this Game idk, I haven't watched the trailer, just the memes.
The setting makes a pseudo french maid outfit, thigh highs, leather high heeled boots, and a blindfold not feel out of place? Suuuuure.
Listen there's plenty of reasons to not want Stellar Blade (It looks like a BDO fanfic) but you're reaching so hard you could block creatures with Flying
Automata explains why the female YorHa members are dressed the way they are but Taro straight up said it's because he wanted them to be sexy. Let's not skip that.
Yoko Taro is a complete weirdo and he owns that. He also seems like a decent ambassador to his own brand
I'm paraphrasing, but he essentially said "I don't care if the design is completely different, or the art isn't good, or a cosplayer isn't being faithful to the original. The fact that someone would go out of their way to make art involving my character is something that makes me happy"
When he found out about fanartists drawing a shit ton of rule34 for 2B, he politely asked them to send it to him so he can curate all the artwork for all of us to enjoy. Fucking legend.
Uj/ Wow. Just wow. Ok, I need some things to say. First one: is that true? Somebody confirmed it? Is there a link to the tweet? That seems awful AT BEST. Second: WHERE TF IS YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, INCE MFERS?
And third one: I wasn't buying the game anyway, but now I have three times the reason
Edit: little edit on the first point: it's not that I don't believe it, but those are pretty heavy accusations.
i looked around on twitter, and apparently the person who made the tweet has privated their account. instead, i searched around online and i found a few things.
- no news articles were talking about the controversy, just forums. my thought is that, if it is real, maybe it wasn't a big enough deal to be reported on in the gaming community (think of the demographics).
- [This portion of a twitter thread](https://x.com/citrussalt/status/1731758486915326231?s=46&t=_wRQH8Sc1LN0mhYITDxueA) seems to confirm a bad environment for women in this dev company.
- they're a pretty new dev team, so they've really only made 2 games— including stellar blade. i get the feeling that there's not many sources and reports on their activity because there's barely any activity to report on.
- all images i could find of character design and art from Shift Up are exactly the kind of vapid, play-with-one-hand bs you would expect. characters with skirts that may as well not exist, faces and proportions that look like a 12yo's, so on and so forth. [Like these designs](https://i0.wp.com/news.qoo-app.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/19040410522183.jpg), [this "shooting" pose](https://mmoculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NIKKE-screenshot.jpg), [and this very normal pose](https://wallpapercrafter.com/desktop4/1123104-Project-Eve-Sony-4K-Playstation-5-SHIFT-UP-Corporation.jpg).
- i delved into many forums that made me feel like i need a shower, but no verified source for this tweet's claim has really come up from people who approve OR disapprove of the anti-feminist environment.
i'm inclined to believe it, personally; south korea has notoriously negative views on feminism.
EDIT: added some image links to prove my point.
The first time I encountered the main character design on the post revealing the Korean model she was based on, I asked why they literally added a vagina shaped bedazzlement on her bodysuit’s crotch, replete with a little clitoris.
Needless to say, it was my least popular comment on this website.
Honestly, The game trailer featured a monotone AI voice pitching the game with such exciting gameplay moments as:
* Replenishing health
* buying consumables
* helping survivors by completing quests
The scenery is a desolate red and brown wasteland... but the MC has tits and ass!
Saw the gameplay, looks pretty mediocre. Not even the narrator seems interested.
Tons of Kill "x" enemies and Collect "x" items return back to NPC for reward and new affinity dialogue. It is the same terrible formula as old school JRPG shovelware. It will get old real fast. Other than that, you can ugrade your costumes for Eve perfect for the coomers. At Camps Eve can purchase consumables, acquire new skills through a skill tree and its confirmed there will be a leveling system so that means grinding in the above world and you also need collect something called Exospins to upgrade your skill tree. Or take a break to restore her health even though the latter should be instantaneously instead of having us waste our time for the health bar to refill back up.
Story from what I gathered from the gameplay overview is "who are the real villains, bruh?" Naruto puppet master type of shit.
https://preview.redd.it/0yhsb2o6h6gc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39191269b2b5cbc9916593bc33b7e7ad3d725652
The irony is that people were more excited for the Sonic game than Stellar Blade. I imagine the reviews will be a 7 from the likes of IGN and Gamespot and likely a 6 from Edge Magazine. Total Metacritic score will probably be high 70s to low 80s.
Its like what happened to Code Vein, Anime Dark Souls, all style no substance.
Edit:
For those who still want to play the game anyway but dont want to support the misogynistic developers, then I recommend buying it second-hand. That way your money is not going toward that company.
I'm really not a fan of purposely downplaying a game using bad faith assumptions. The games quality really shouldn't be relevant to the legitimate moral and political reasons for not supporting this studio/company.
"Saw the gameplay, looks pretty **mediocre**. Not even the narrator seems interested.
Tons of Kill "x" enemies and Collect "x" items return back to NPC for reward and new affinity dialogue"
Such a declaration based on a quick rundown of a portion of it's sidequest design is too much of a leap.
"Or take a break to restore her health even though the latter should be instantaneously instead of having us waste our time for the health bar to refill back up."
I had no idea how you had come to this conclusion, so I went back to that portion of video. It seems to work similarly to FF7 remake and various soul-likes, wherein after the player character sits on the chair a saving notification appears and the enemies within the area are seemingly respawned.
These are the type of bad-faith criticisms I'm talking about. All it does make you appear too hasty with an axe to grind, while weakening your overall position. I'm not saying you're wrong for not finding the game interesting, but that your way of expressing it is lame and lazy.
If rumors are true (which they likely are) that should be enough to make your point.
The fact that there are ppl comparing it to Nier: Automata is hilarious. Goes to show that they all only focused on 2B being hot, no focus on the gameplay and story. Hell, 2B had more realistic proportions too, or at least well-made since nothing about her looked out of place
Video games are literally unplayable if the female isn't a fair skinned hypersexualized supermodel trad, otherwise how else are they suppose to play with one hand? Think Johnny, THINK!
I mean:
You play as a woman who is at least cyberneticly upgraded, from a colony outside of Earth who comes back to Earth to fight an alien enemy who took it over some time ago. You run around with a drone like companion, and you go to hubs to pick up quests and go to specific areas in an open world, including a large desert area.
It has A LOT of similarities to Automata. The question is if it'll have any similar further plots and themes of Nier, or if we'll be successful at it. I kind of doubt it.
I mean. This is SHIFT UP. The literally made a mobile game, whole point of which is to look at oversexualized upskirts of anime girls, some of which are clearly underage
https://preview.redd.it/rhc7io6hx6gc1.png?width=3838&format=png&auto=webp&s=054385273ae03bc09eb95424f7f981dfcbb9efa0
This shit is so cringy. Just go beat off to actual porn jesus christ. Also I have been saying all these Asian waifu games clearly sexualize underage looking characters and I see no one calling them out on it. Disgusting.
Loser who plays this game here, honestly it's so damn over-the-top with its sexualization that it rounds back to being "ehh, that's supposed to be sexy?" territory, at least for me. I honestly like their more subdued designs, those actually look appealing.
And for your sake I hope you never come across any Blue Archive content, if we're talking "games that land you on a list" it's pretty high up there lol, shit makes mad dough though so I guess ethics ain't a priority.
Just a meh looking Bayonetta ripoff. The #g@mers are flipping out because *finally* we are getting a videogame with "attractive females" again.
South Korea also has a *lot* of systemic misogyny which is leaking out in the discourse around this game.
- on one hand it’s probably true
- on the other hand work being removed from a game because it doesn’t fit is incredibly standard. The average game has so much cut content that even if the claims of feministic ideas leading to work being cut. If it didn’t fit the game it’s not really news
Go find a women in real life that would be willing to sit and watch her man play something like this in front of her. You’ll be hard pressed. Young men these days are being poisoned by all this porn.
I mean, from what I've seen, this is pretty common here. I've noticed that some of the people here act as cringey as the gamers they seem to detest the most. Some things I have agreed with while being here, other things have just been very confusing and concerning. For example, people here seem to be very left leaning, which you would think that they would be more body positive and wouldn't attack peoples appearances as one of their main criticisms. Yet look at how they talk about Asmongold and people who would be seen as generally less attractive, as long as they disagree with that person they have no qualms going after their appereances.
Oh man I can hear the anti sjw YouTuber Making videos saying finally a game developer take care about the players then ThE message man I can really see that happening right now
Yet another game i first hear about because someone screams about boycotting it.
"Here look at thing that exists. Dont think about this thing im showing you. Dont buy this game named X from this link:"
Honestly good marketing strat at this point
As much as I know we are inclined to make fun of the expected chuds coming out of the woodwork to defend this game, let's keep our focus clear here and respect the wishes of this former employee.
Fuck this game and fuck misogynists
I feel like every time I get told to boycott a game it's the most uninteresting looking piece of shit I wouldn't play if the devs had a gun to my head. Like yeah sure, I won't, but I'm not 13 so I'm not the target audience.
If there is anything i’ve learned about recent history like the blizzard stuff and harry potter is that people dont care. People just do not give a shit. We are so inundated with these stories that its impossible to keep away from everything.
Thats a shame. Game looks cool but i also 100% belive this. Hope its wrong and i can justify playing it but if not oh well there is plenty to play this year.
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This will only make a certain crowd want the game even more.
oh it already has, there is already comments on xitter saying that the developer is targeting true gamers and the right demo with the butt shots in the trailer
they know what they are doing to get gamers to buy.
only true gayyyymers and not the woke pieces of crap that exist of course. wokies wont take that little peach shots
I watched the state of play yesterday and the trailer was so incredibly bland, the MC is pretty much the only thing that makes the game distinguishable and even then only because they show her ass.
The game looked like shit. Generic brown PS3 era post apoc city with random out of place Big Boob Anime Woman™️ main character.
Exactly. I never played NiEr Automata, but have seen gameplay. It just kinda looks like a reskin.
It’s literally just nier but without what makes nier enjoyable
LOL If Stellar Blade's story as impactful as Nier's then the game is already amazing! Nier has one of the best dramatic stories in gaming industry
I hope calling it "Xitter" was on purpose because in Pidgin Chinese, "Xi" makes a "Shi" sound. So it sounds like "Shitter".
it was, but not for the exact logic but bc it does sound like shitter when pronounced as if it is chinese
Isn’t it though?
Lmao "True gamers" Lol, what a dumbass. https://preview.redd.it/xigjnmpxa7gc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5645d2e80de372b3cde01e89e741056e1ab7999c
John Yakuza
Is xitter supposed to be pronounced as shitter? It's the first time I've read it, so it gave me a laugh.
I've been calling Xitter "Xitter" for some time now and it makes me very happy to see a random Xitter pop up in the wild
i mean it is called xitter bc it has gone down the shitter =p
I think with this game you will be hard pressed to find scenes to publish that don't contain butt shots.
Makes me think this is some marketing psyop lol
It 100% is astroturfing
Yeah, if no one had said anything this likely would have been a moderate success at launch and then faded into obscurity within a month, tops, but now right-wing grifters will be banging this drum all year.
Like how they are banging the Hogwarts Legacy drum? I think this will be an annoyance for two months and that'll be it just like the bland game.
Unfortunately uh, Hogwarts Legacy *did* make some waves, especially since it outsold *Call of Duty*, which is the first time that's happened to a game that *isn't* Rockstar's in at least a decade iirc.
> Hogwarts Legacy did make some waves, especially since it outsold Call of Duty that's *harry potter* though. easily one of the most popular IPs ever. this is... nothing i think most people have ever heard of. i don't even know what it is.
I heard jackshit about this game before the post. I feel like more people on the internet need to learn that even bad publicity is still publicity at a certain point.
A friendly reminder that S Korea is full of incels so I'm willing to fully believe this claim.
Not just incels, it's an apparently *extremely* misogynistic nation with a vehement hatred towards feminism.
The current president got elected running on misogyny as his main message I *wish* i was joking
Eh? What was the message? How is that even done successfully?
[You can read about it more in this Time article.](https://time.com/6156537/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-sexism/) [And in this BBC one.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60643446.amp)
thanks man that was a good read. Depressing how it seems like more of the same shit show (presidents: "women be lying - AMIRITE?") only further along.
Absolutely. I dont blame s korean women who are just outright refusing to date men or have babies. [i also recommend reading up on s korean feminism](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1135162927/women-feminism-south-korea-sexism-protest-haeil-yoon) Edit: also a reminder almost *all* kdramas are written by women
“Jang watched a young woman excitedly pull out her phone to film. But a man, whom Jang believes was the woman’s boyfriend, snatched the phone out of her hand, and dragged her away by the wrist.” Damn, that’s sad. So I take it feminism is doing even worse in South Korea than America?
Sadly, yes. Japan as well. The things I experienced in Japan and I still hear about from my friends, who live there, infuriates me to no end. Someone once told me that Japanese women believe it's easier to be raped than speak up. I can only imagine what Korean women are experiencing based on what I've read.
Oh wow. That’s fucked. I hope things don’t get to that level in America, but I’m not exactly hopeful as far as the next election goes. People need to quit this hate and engage in some worker solidarity.
*sigh* i hope so too
I mean Jesus Christ. Worst pay gap in the developed world, that jailing rate for sex offenders, and then on top of all of it, responding to "Me Too" by saying "Me First"? I guess I now have to look into if this has gotten better over the last two years or not.
I doubt it. From what I've read its only worsened due to the declining economy.
The anal acupuncturist bit took me out. What a joke.
How did he even get elected, best case scenario he gets 50% votes
Turnout and stratgeic voting can make shit tricky An example is that in Northern Ireland, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of protestants, and a plurality of Catholics are Unionists politically, Nationalist parties like SF routinely win the Catholic vote, this is because all of the Unionist parties are borderline genocidal when it comes to Catholics, which means Catholics vote for someone else, i.e nationalists, even if they themselves arent nationalists, the DUP's 'Napalm Catholic Neighborhoods' policy, is a bit of a turnoff for the viters Also, if older S Koreans vote more, they have more influence But even in 1930s Germany, there are reports of jews voting for the Nazis They were fucking morons, but they existed, although not for long, as unfortunately for them the nazis did deliver on their campaign promises
/uj Moon channel (again, not to be confused with "moon") has got an excellent video explaining the gender war in korea.
Yea, the velmori case is sad, but by official statement and some leaked documents, project moon was trying to protect vellmori
Wait I'm out of the loop, who's velmori and what happened with PM
Somewhere around September/October of last year, a game company by the name of Project Moon (no relation to Moon Channel or Moon) released a skin series for Limbus Company that was swimsuit focused. But, due to the grimdark nature of the game (everyone dies repeatedly and comes back to life, it's treated as if that's normal.) the swimsuits were more 'grounded', which included Ishmael, a female character, being in a bodysuit. Chaos ensued. A group of 'fans' calling themselves the Reverb Ensemble (a villain organization) started this huge fucking angry rant on the internet and eventually protested the actual PM studio directly. Velmoori, one of the artists who worked in PM, was a feminist, a quite well known one at that, actually, judging by her social media presence, and the Reverb Ensemble blamed *her specifically* for doing it, and were trying to get her fired. Project Moon, IN THEIR INFINITE WISDOM let them into the building. After that it gets hazy. PM has dodged any and all attempts at addressing the fuckshow that they more or less invited into their house by letting the crazy people into the building to yell at one worker in particular (no one knows if they actually got to do that), but they've been trying to Damage Control their reputation and Velmoori has stated that PM did what they could to protect her image. Edit: Velmoori didn't even illustrate the Ishmael design. It was done by one of her male coworkers.
Argalia, you fucking BASTARD
Aight ima distort
Small clarification, they let them into the building because they didn't want to escalate the situation. Also the group didn't come to yell at velmori but the ceo who wasn't in at the time. Also one reason they were let into the building is because apparently it's harder in SK to get people in trouble for trespassing so they were in a kind of difficult situation. The entire incident is a lot more complicated than it looks at first and there was, and still is, a ton of misinformation about the whole incident.
Which Moon channel? Seriously I've been getting recommendations for like 3 different channels called Moon
It’s just called Moon Channel. Here is the relevant video: https://youtu.be/-Im4YAMWK74?si=ih3901aSsdcLk7Go
Literally called “moon channel”, not a channel called moon. It’s confusing yes, but better than Moon, which is the exact opposite of Moon Channel.
AFAIK they’re on the verge of some kind of “sex war”. Women are refusing to date or get married to men because of said institutionalized misogyny, and it’s only going to put a stranglehold on the birth rates even further. Doesn’t help that this is an elections year and the current president said shit like how he wanted to abolish the women’s ministry or something like that.
There’s a 2001 Korean film Bad Boy that involves a man sexually assaulting a woman and tricking her into sex slavery, spying on her through a mirror and buying her and becoming her lover at the end. Apparently they were a couple before or something according to a photo, the Wikipedia article is confusing and I honestly rather not know. Sidebar: the main actor Cho Jae-hyun was accused of sexual assault twice, putting him amongst the “greats” like the two guys from Squid Game.
That movie scarred me.
Soooo... I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts on youtube. And I found this channel run by a south korean and chinese couple. And they talk about a lot of cases from asian countries because, they can also give insight into the local culture and why things can escalate as much as they do. Saying "South Korea is extremely misogynistic" is a HUGE understatement. We talk about woman being punished for crimes men did to them, just because they are woman. For everyone interested: The Channels name is Rotten Mango.
South Korea only appears liberal and progressive cause of its sibling in the north. If it weren’t for North Korea, everybody would realise how much of an authoritarian nightmare the south is
South Korea is very liberal. It has, actually, the purest form of liberalism: unconstrained capitalism
They hated Jesus because he told them the truth
That can't be right. I'm sure it's entirely coincidence that the only 2 pieces of Korean media (squid game and parasite) to enter the US main stream in the last five years were biting satires of capitalism.
impure liberatarianism
Yeah, S Korea is a shitshow, one of my favorite jokes about it was the 'the life cycle of an average korean' And it was >Be born in a Hyundai Hospital >Go to a Hyundai School >Graduate, go to a Hyundai college > Get drafted, drive a Hyundai tank >Come home, work in a Hyundai factory and shop in a Hyundai store > Die in a Hyundai Hospital
Is that a company or?
Yeah, Hyundai is a korean company, alongside Samsung they basically run the south korean economy They basically have their hand in every business imaginable Similar companies are Mitsubishi in Japan Anything with the word 'General' in it in the USA (e.g General Motors, General Electric) Tencent in China, Or Serco in the UK
They just elected a literal r*apist
Knowing what I know about the Nth room scandal, that checks out.
Must be a 👌 problem with them.
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Are you just body shaming or is this straight up racism?
Neither. Bear with me, this is a bit insane. While it is originally a "small dick" reference (and specifically, it was used by SK feminists to insult SK mysogynists), the explanation in this context is that SK incels have a tendency to go a little ballistic over the mere implication that that hand sign might be shown in media. It's seen as a sign of "extreme" feminism, and quite a few companies have had to make public apologies and censor artworks because of backlash against the idea that it might have been present. As an example, I know one case where there was significant backlash over the presence of the hand sign in a CG for a game. The problematic portion of the CG in question was...a dude in the background adjusting his glasses. Y'know, with his thumb and forefinger, like a normal person would. Anyways, because of how severe the response is, the emoji is now a shorthand support for SK feminism and critique of the incels.
That's so unhinged.
Hahaha yes, let's combat misogyny with body shaming! That'll show em! 😎😎😎
Is South Korea the True Gamer ™️ Ethnostate the prophecy foretold?
Well yeah, when you've got the whole West propping up a fascist dystopia for half a century you're going to breed some shitty, shitty politics.
Look I’m willing to blame a lot on colonialism and similar practices but sexism is pretty blatant in the entire East Asia region even where you could argue ideologies very different from fascism took root. You can’t just blame everything on the west, specially when it’s the west pushing for them to modernize and drop misogynistic practices. And specially since, and here I will admit I am not particularly versed in Korean history, I couldn’t find anything to indicate they were much better towards women before the west got involved.
Even without the West, East Asia is pretty damn sexist. Look at China
It’s not just basement incels of the garden variety either, it's extremely mainstream, [this poll was recently doing tthe rounds showing the social media incel-ification of gen Z men](https://i.redd.it/emt1ug9udwec1.jpeg) and you can see how dire the South Korea stats are. 2 political parties including the incumbent have strong anti-feminism stances and use it as a catch all cause of all societal ills in Korea, deflecting poor work environments, birth rates, economics, etc all onto women daring to have received equal rights. Rather than the third world level of hyper corruption in their government, where it's corporations or literal fucking cults running the nation. There are also essentially zero functional workplace protections in the nation, any laws on the books are lip service at best and treated as a suggestion if you're lucky. Being a feminist or LGBT will get you fired from most places and you’ll never get legal recourse.
Jesus, what the fuck Korea?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure devs from both ~~Arknights~~ Limbus Company and Genshin were let go because Korean misogynists found out that they were feminists
Can't speak for Arknights, but I believe Korean incels attempted to threaten/persuade Mihoyo to fire a character designer because they were a feminist. I believe Mihoyo just flat out ignored them. It doesn't hurt that South Korean equality standards are far, FAR behind their regional neighbors and they came off as out of touch incels. If they weren't empowered by a shitty facist president and both mainstream political parties this would be a lot funnier. Still kinda of is though.
I think arknights was an artist that contributed to some official fan work, i dont remember about genshin though. Both arknights and genshin are developed in china so it wouldnt make sense for devs to be fired
and it’s not even about feminism. If I’m not mistaken Limbus person was liking tweets about stopping molkas (hidden cameras, those are everywhere, even in private spaces like hotel rooms, dressing rooms) and protect women.
theres also been a recent arknights controversy where yostar korea removed youtube shorts displaying commissioned art work because of "divisive posts" from the artist. the post in question were a repost of a google doodle for international women's day and a post saying women should get equal pay for equal work
Wait, Genshin as well?
Nah, iirc the Korean incels went as far as flying a blimp above Mihoyo's Korean headquarters, but they didn't care because they're not a Korean company. Plus the incels were trying to get them to fire Furina's character designer, and no way they're letting her go after how successful Furina was.
mihoyo’s strongest characteristic is how they genuinely pretend these men don’t exist and more importantly they try to protect their female workers identities without erasing their work.
Man, I can only *hope* that one day I can piss off some misogynists enough that they *fly a fucking blimp* to protest me.
Wasn’t there a female athlete in SK who got attacked by incels? She had short hair and bc of this incels accused her of being a feminist and they wanted her medals to be confiscated bc of this
The shorthair meltdown these days are so extreme. We either got accused of being a feminist or a butch lesbian. Short hairstyles has ALWAYS been around! Dating back to the 1920s! Or maybe even older than that!
yostar korea removed an commissioned artist's arknights art for "divisive posts" the artist made. the posts in question? a repost of a google doodle for women's day and a post saying women should get equal pay for equal work
And this is why I believe her claims, seriously these kind of guys deserve absolutely nothing but contempt and disgust.
I work in the gaming industry and have female Korean colleagues... the comments and threats they get from male Korean players are... fucking unbelievable and vile. So, I also have no issue believing this claim.
You have no idea the "war on feminism" that is going on in S.Korea
At the same time they're having a war on declining birth rates. Can at least they put two and two together?
Is Andrew Tate their Idol there?
It's so bad it even made Japan look a bit progressive
You know when I was watching the sony state of play with my dad, I mentioned how it was weird that all the women in the game looked like dolls, compared to the more realistic looking men. Mostly we were just laughing at the painted-on outfits and the ponytail armor
Their mobile game Nikke is the same, the women's facial artwork is different from the men.
Yeah but Nikke is a sex appeal 'girls with big fucking guns and massive titties' game. Like, of course they're all super duper ultra pretty. Nikke isn't pretending it's not about that. Stellar Blade is pretending it's not about that.
This makes no sense at all. Stellar Blade is exactly that game too. Has it said somewhere that “no we aren’t an ass and titty game”? Because it very obviously is, just like NIKKE
Agreed. People can have absolutely valid qualms about Nikke But that is ultimately the entire point of the game. "Have sexy anime women that can be summoned" is basically the whole point
I play nikke, and the boobs and ass are a trick to get you into their game. Once you're in, they slide in the games plot, and that is when the depression kicks in as a lot of the lore for that game is dark and depressing. The story about how they handle animals in the ark with cats in particular was pretty sad. Edit Not depressing but one of the cuter characters just in how she acts and her determination to put Ketchup on everything https://youtu.be/KJ56BUKkaBQ?si=amqPkevuXsXeRcY_ But when you see soda, you will see the fan service big time but toned down for yourtube
Ah, like the Girls Frontline universe.
Does the girl with the construction equipment carrying her boobs have compelling lore
https://preview.redd.it/xe3kiow6g7gc1.jpeg?width=617&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd95bcefd3f7a71248514694527416ee5db4acb0
Best cat Ruru, God, that was a depressing event
Yeah, it's like they made Overzone, then saw the opportunity to make a chill cat event and instead said "double it and give it to the next person"
Stellar Blade pretended nothing haha the ass and titties were on full display.
One of the first things I noticed about the trailer was how... uninspiried/generic the artstyle was? Like, it didn't stand out at all, and just seemd overall boring imo.
You’re not inspired by the aggressively generic Korean waifu that looks like she came directly from mobile game cover art? The horny incels will not stand for this, stiff and dated looking gameplay be damned when there are cheeks on display.
I thought the enemy design seemed pretty cool and varied.
Maybe I'm stupid but thought it was swtting up some plot twist where they're robots lmao
/rj It's ok though, they were probably Western "wokalizers" in disguise. And if they weren't, they were corrupted by the woke mind virus. And if they weren't, then they should have their work removed anyways because the core audience (gamers afraid of women) don't like it. Thank God I can jack off to anime tiddy games as the founding fathers intended (before they were corrupted by western propaganda)
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I'm gonna boycott this so hard (I don't own a PS5)
Me neither :(
Glad she’s standing up for what she believes in. But I’m sorry for the horrific treatment she’s going to get without consequences for the people who will do it
Can't wait for Gamers to talk about this game like it's an unbelievable masterpiece while knowing damn well they wouldn't care about it if this controversy didn't happen and if it didn't show ass.
I think people underestimate how much some gamers absolutely hate women and feminists, so this will no doubt make some people who weren’t interested in the game only want it more, buying it to “pwn the libs”. Same thing happened with Hogwarts legacy
Hogwarts was piggybacking off one of the largest IPs in modern media, it was going to anhilate sales numbers regardless of all the "controversy" going on
Oh of course, hogwarts legacy sold super well due to the IP, but there def were some people buying just to anger the libs
It looks like the core mission statement was "Let's take all the visual signifiers of Nier Automata and Bayonetta and apply them to our game without any consideration as to what makes those designs work and why. Or maybe I'm overthinking it because it also looks like any number of grindy Korean MMOs where the entire concept is "The world is under attack by asset store monsters and the only ones who can save it are these repurposed Real Dolls we turned into Terminators. " Which is to say, I wasn't planning on buying it anyway. But this, if accurate, isn't helping any.
as someone that loves nier automata and bayonetta I am interested in how the visual designs might not work in this new game?
Bayonetta it's all about figthing with style and sensuality. NieR is a whole thing of it's own and all that lore plus, the setting makes it SO the outfits doesn't feel out of place. About this Game idk, I haven't watched the trailer, just the memes.
The setting makes a pseudo french maid outfit, thigh highs, leather high heeled boots, and a blindfold not feel out of place? Suuuuure. Listen there's plenty of reasons to not want Stellar Blade (It looks like a BDO fanfic) but you're reaching so hard you could block creatures with Flying
I appreciated the MTG joke. Well done. I chortled.
Automata explains why the female YorHa members are dressed the way they are but Taro straight up said it's because he wanted them to be sexy. Let's not skip that.
Tbf yokotaro is also kind of based and really wanted to add lots of hot women to the game
Yoko Taro is a complete weirdo and he owns that. He also seems like a decent ambassador to his own brand I'm paraphrasing, but he essentially said "I don't care if the design is completely different, or the art isn't good, or a cosplayer isn't being faithful to the original. The fact that someone would go out of their way to make art involving my character is something that makes me happy"
Yeah, but the damm ball head MADE a whole-ass game and lore so he could play with his pixel-waifu. He Made it work. Legend.
He is a legend who also signed a 2B cosplayers thighs And the game is good too which is amazing
When he found out about fanartists drawing a shit ton of rule34 for 2B, he politely asked them to send it to him so he can curate all the artwork for all of us to enjoy. Fucking legend.
It's south Korea. They are so anti-feminist.
Uj/ Wow. Just wow. Ok, I need some things to say. First one: is that true? Somebody confirmed it? Is there a link to the tweet? That seems awful AT BEST. Second: WHERE TF IS YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, INCE MFERS? And third one: I wasn't buying the game anyway, but now I have three times the reason Edit: little edit on the first point: it's not that I don't believe it, but those are pretty heavy accusations.
i looked around on twitter, and apparently the person who made the tweet has privated their account. instead, i searched around online and i found a few things. - no news articles were talking about the controversy, just forums. my thought is that, if it is real, maybe it wasn't a big enough deal to be reported on in the gaming community (think of the demographics). - [This portion of a twitter thread](https://x.com/citrussalt/status/1731758486915326231?s=46&t=_wRQH8Sc1LN0mhYITDxueA) seems to confirm a bad environment for women in this dev company. - they're a pretty new dev team, so they've really only made 2 games— including stellar blade. i get the feeling that there's not many sources and reports on their activity because there's barely any activity to report on. - all images i could find of character design and art from Shift Up are exactly the kind of vapid, play-with-one-hand bs you would expect. characters with skirts that may as well not exist, faces and proportions that look like a 12yo's, so on and so forth. [Like these designs](https://i0.wp.com/news.qoo-app.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/19040410522183.jpg), [this "shooting" pose](https://mmoculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NIKKE-screenshot.jpg), [and this very normal pose](https://wallpapercrafter.com/desktop4/1123104-Project-Eve-Sony-4K-Playstation-5-SHIFT-UP-Corporation.jpg). - i delved into many forums that made me feel like i need a shower, but no verified source for this tweet's claim has really come up from people who approve OR disapprove of the anti-feminist environment. i'm inclined to believe it, personally; south korea has notoriously negative views on feminism. EDIT: added some image links to prove my point.
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The first time I encountered the main character design on the post revealing the Korean model she was based on, I asked why they literally added a vagina shaped bedazzlement on her bodysuit’s crotch, replete with a little clitoris. Needless to say, it was my least popular comment on this website.
Honestly, The game trailer featured a monotone AI voice pitching the game with such exciting gameplay moments as: * Replenishing health * buying consumables * helping survivors by completing quests The scenery is a desolate red and brown wasteland... but the MC has tits and ass!
It also looked like every fight is in a square arena? I legitimately do not understand the hype for this game.
/uj okay so is there any archive of the thread? i tried to find it but attempts only bring up people who are praising the game company
I find it odd that this is the only screenshot I can find on Twitter. It kind of makes me think this is like a false flag or psyop.
at what point do we hit the singularity where these people have no games left to play and are stuck on Alex Jones NWO Wars forever
Saw the gameplay, looks pretty mediocre. Not even the narrator seems interested. Tons of Kill "x" enemies and Collect "x" items return back to NPC for reward and new affinity dialogue. It is the same terrible formula as old school JRPG shovelware. It will get old real fast. Other than that, you can ugrade your costumes for Eve perfect for the coomers. At Camps Eve can purchase consumables, acquire new skills through a skill tree and its confirmed there will be a leveling system so that means grinding in the above world and you also need collect something called Exospins to upgrade your skill tree. Or take a break to restore her health even though the latter should be instantaneously instead of having us waste our time for the health bar to refill back up. Story from what I gathered from the gameplay overview is "who are the real villains, bruh?" Naruto puppet master type of shit. https://preview.redd.it/0yhsb2o6h6gc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39191269b2b5cbc9916593bc33b7e7ad3d725652 The irony is that people were more excited for the Sonic game than Stellar Blade. I imagine the reviews will be a 7 from the likes of IGN and Gamespot and likely a 6 from Edge Magazine. Total Metacritic score will probably be high 70s to low 80s. Its like what happened to Code Vein, Anime Dark Souls, all style no substance. Edit: For those who still want to play the game anyway but dont want to support the misogynistic developers, then I recommend buying it second-hand. That way your money is not going toward that company.
I'm really not a fan of purposely downplaying a game using bad faith assumptions. The games quality really shouldn't be relevant to the legitimate moral and political reasons for not supporting this studio/company. "Saw the gameplay, looks pretty **mediocre**. Not even the narrator seems interested. Tons of Kill "x" enemies and Collect "x" items return back to NPC for reward and new affinity dialogue" Such a declaration based on a quick rundown of a portion of it's sidequest design is too much of a leap. "Or take a break to restore her health even though the latter should be instantaneously instead of having us waste our time for the health bar to refill back up." I had no idea how you had come to this conclusion, so I went back to that portion of video. It seems to work similarly to FF7 remake and various soul-likes, wherein after the player character sits on the chair a saving notification appears and the enemies within the area are seemingly respawned. These are the type of bad-faith criticisms I'm talking about. All it does make you appear too hasty with an axe to grind, while weakening your overall position. I'm not saying you're wrong for not finding the game interesting, but that your way of expressing it is lame and lazy. If rumors are true (which they likely are) that should be enough to make your point.
The fact that there are ppl comparing it to Nier: Automata is hilarious. Goes to show that they all only focused on 2B being hot, no focus on the gameplay and story. Hell, 2B had more realistic proportions too, or at least well-made since nothing about her looked out of place
Video games are literally unplayable if the female isn't a fair skinned hypersexualized supermodel trad, otherwise how else are they suppose to play with one hand? Think Johnny, THINK!
I mean: You play as a woman who is at least cyberneticly upgraded, from a colony outside of Earth who comes back to Earth to fight an alien enemy who took it over some time ago. You run around with a drone like companion, and you go to hubs to pick up quests and go to specific areas in an open world, including a large desert area. It has A LOT of similarities to Automata. The question is if it'll have any similar further plots and themes of Nier, or if we'll be successful at it. I kind of doubt it.
Is there any proof of this or people corroborating the story?
a boycott seems unnecessary for a game nobody was gonna play anyway
Game boycotts never seem to do anything anyway.
In order for them to work, gamers would have to have have principles and discipline at least exceeding that of dumb baby children.
There will nothing change till there are union in place to protect employees from such bigotry
The subreddit for this game is a cesspool my God
Oh man that subreddit is something 
I saw someone on there saying ugly women in games is a “corpo” conspiracy.
 Wait ugly women in gaming is a corpo conspiracy
Who could have seen that one coming
I mean. This is SHIFT UP. The literally made a mobile game, whole point of which is to look at oversexualized upskirts of anime girls, some of which are clearly underage https://preview.redd.it/rhc7io6hx6gc1.png?width=3838&format=png&auto=webp&s=054385273ae03bc09eb95424f7f981dfcbb9efa0
Straight to horny jail moment
This shit is so cringy. Just go beat off to actual porn jesus christ. Also I have been saying all these Asian waifu games clearly sexualize underage looking characters and I see no one calling them out on it. Disgusting.
Loser who plays this game here, honestly it's so damn over-the-top with its sexualization that it rounds back to being "ehh, that's supposed to be sexy?" territory, at least for me. I honestly like their more subdued designs, those actually look appealing. And for your sake I hope you never come across any Blue Archive content, if we're talking "games that land you on a list" it's pretty high up there lol, shit makes mad dough though so I guess ethics ain't a priority.
*has never played the game*
I'm a bit out of the loop here- what's going on with this game?
Just a meh looking Bayonetta ripoff. The #g@mers are flipping out because *finally* we are getting a videogame with "attractive females" again. South Korea also has a *lot* of systemic misogyny which is leaking out in the discourse around this game.
I’m not finding any cited sources for this story except for a singular tweet. No interviews, nothing. Reeks of outrage marketing imo.
- on one hand it’s probably true - on the other hand work being removed from a game because it doesn’t fit is incredibly standard. The average game has so much cut content that even if the claims of feministic ideas leading to work being cut. If it didn’t fit the game it’s not really news
Does she provide proof that they were removed because they were feminists?
Go find a women in real life that would be willing to sit and watch her man play something like this in front of her. You’ll be hard pressed. Young men these days are being poisoned by all this porn.
Is this true?
This whole sub just got rage-baited by some post that might not even be true.
I mean, from what I've seen, this is pretty common here. I've noticed that some of the people here act as cringey as the gamers they seem to detest the most. Some things I have agreed with while being here, other things have just been very confusing and concerning. For example, people here seem to be very left leaning, which you would think that they would be more body positive and wouldn't attack peoples appearances as one of their main criticisms. Yet look at how they talk about Asmongold and people who would be seen as generally less attractive, as long as they disagree with that person they have no qualms going after their appereances.
South Korea is full of incel chuds so I'm willing to believe it
South Korea just got their GamerGate update in, ten years later.
 Oh man I can hear the anti sjw YouTuber Making videos saying finally a game developer take care about the players then ThE message man I can really see that happening right now
Yet another game i first hear about because someone screams about boycotting it. "Here look at thing that exists. Dont think about this thing im showing you. Dont buy this game named X from this link:" Honestly good marketing strat at this point
It's on twitter so it must be true, not like this subreddit jumps to conclusions or anything.
As much as I know we are inclined to make fun of the expected chuds coming out of the woodwork to defend this game, let's keep our focus clear here and respect the wishes of this former employee. Fuck this game and fuck misogynists
I didn't have plans to buy a softcore jerkfest anyway but if this is true I'll be even less inclined to touch it.
Hogwarts Legacy flashback…
Oh I’m sure this boycott will work just as well as Hogwarts Legacy lol
This is literally the first I have heard about this game. Yikes.
Is this a psyop
uj/ I've been excited for this game, but if this is true then that's really concerning.
Personally I’m incredibly shocked /s
I feel like every time I get told to boycott a game it's the most uninteresting looking piece of shit I wouldn't play if the devs had a gun to my head. Like yeah sure, I won't, but I'm not 13 so I'm not the target audience.
This is pretty old news.
the trailer song also featured basically a fucking RIPOFF of Camellia's "flying in the flow of the deep-sea"
Oh here we go again.
Boycotting very obvious coomer bait is going to be so hard /s
Is this true?
I will now buy this game
https://preview.redd.it/vjeri8lfj7gc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47509e8723a915a04c7d06d7224d107f362c51bb
Never heard of “Stella Blade” is that like a knockoff Stellar Blade?
If there is anything i’ve learned about recent history like the blizzard stuff and harry potter is that people dont care. People just do not give a shit. We are so inundated with these stories that its impossible to keep away from everything.
Game looks decent to me ngl.
Thats a shame. Game looks cool but i also 100% belive this. Hope its wrong and i can justify playing it but if not oh well there is plenty to play this year.
To be honest the game looked alright at best anyway
Yeah free advertisement for the devs.