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lol @ gene park calling out kyuji and messy
https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-review-thread.852417/page-19

They linked a Ree page that has the tweet deleted

Messy

It would just have been nice if we got to hear from your perspective on what you thought about the male gaze criticism and after playing the game, how it shaked out. I'm sure you can understand why the female developers who alleged the cases of harassment, the deleting of their work, and getting fired would delete their tweets. It just becomes a second wave of harassment when bringing this up in the public.

There are also quotes from Hyung Tae Kim that speak to the contradictions in the developer's intentions with the game. He was influenced by the political context of taxi drivers in South Korea potentially losing their jobs to AI in the future (which is brought up in their developer diary video), but then when it comes to the politics of depicting women and objectification, he just considers it a fun action game even though the Korean men in the game aren't sexualised or objectified (whereas they can and are in real life just like the first part of your review alludes to with Korean beauty standards).

"I know that in the West, game characters have to be realistic in many ways and that there are numerous issues involved, such as there are numerous issues involved such as gender, race, diversity etc.

But Stellar Blade is only an entertainment and cultural work. I hope people will look at it as just another fun action game that has been released."
https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-59?post=121317633#post-121317633
Stellar Blade - Previews & Demo Thread [Staff Post Threadmarked] Sony


"When it comes to the design, we put special attention on the back of the character because the player is always facing the back of the character when they're playing. That's what they see the most of, so we thought this was pretty important."

https://www.gamesradar.com/stellar-blade-dev-also-known-for-butt-jiggling-game-nikke-says-he-put-special-attention-into-the-female-leads-back-because-thats-what-players-see-most-of-the-time/

I had hoped if you were interviewing the developer, then as a critic you could have brought up the criticisms and examine their own statements from a critical lens.

It’s a miracle of nature. Messy is somehow the only male to ever exist that has a “wife” and two biological children, yet somehow still remain a virgin.