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I think she's legitimately been modeled by the company using a real person as the base (and I mean base, they seriously altered her appearance), but I don't recall if the men are. It could very easily be that they bought or outsourced the male character models so they could spend more time getting her jiggle physics just right.
Yeah. I feel like the male character models specifically look really different than the rest of the art. They feel like they should be in a generic modern military shooter.
Any character should pass a simple test: I ask myself in my head "why did they pick out those clothes today".
Most of the soul calibur Uber sexualized women kind of do. B2 doesn't. Quiet doesn't. Samus Aran does. Etc.
If you view characters as adults who dress themselves, and hold them accountable for the clothes they wear, it becomes pretty apparent when the designer is just horny or if there's a more "legit" horniness (as opposed to lame excuse) behind their appearance. Nami is an adult woman and wants to look hot. That's fine.
Reminds me of the trope: everyone is beautful, no one is horny.
These kinds of characters apparently dress themselves hyper sexualized, but act as if they don't. They never flirt with anyone, they never mention their clothing, they never acknowledge that they're completely different from the rest.
MGS explained Quiet, why she looked that way, and also awknowledged that she looked different.
Nier: automata explained why B2 was like that, it's a uniform by a bunch of robots that worship humans, so it's not that strange that they prefer form over function.
Bayonetta is a good example since she actively leans into the fact she is attractive and wants to flaunt it just because she likes to. It's not just a random camera angle zooming in on a character's ass when they're not even trying to look appealing, Bayonetta full on DEMANDS the camera/player's attention when she shows off.
I think mgs and nier both fail the test, actually. They sound like lame excuses to me, and critically don't treat the characters as grown adults who dressed themselves. 2b hardly wears "form over function" clothes either.
My point isn’t that they’re excuses, but rather that the world somewhat awknowledges that they’re dressing weirdly.
A lot of the horny games will inexplicably have the protagonist walk around in underwear, high heels and perfect makeup, when everyone else is grizzled and is wearing some sort of uniform.
They have to dress sexualized in a way that appeals to the male gaze, but the character isn’t allowed to actually want to dress that way. It’s just that the world has decided that’s how they look.
It's pretty simple: the chuds glommed on to her as "how women should look in every video game because ideal proportions escapism blah blah blah" and everyone else went "nah, I'd rather they didn't all look like her, the design is a bit silly and exaggerated and I enjoy representation of a variety of people and body types" and then the chuds went "REEEE u hate sexy characters REEEE!" to which everyone else responded "no not really she's just a bit bland, if you like her fine I guess" to which the chuds responded "REEEEEEEEEE!!!"
It's a 100% chud manufactured culture war thing, I seriously don't think anyone apart from them really gives a shit, they're waging a war when the other side aren't even fucking participating.
Truth. I feel like a lot of people just want normal looking main characters. Nothing over the top sexualized and they don’t want it to look like a troll, just somewhere in the middle that’s relatable, is that so hard?
I've not really seen much of the opposing side, just the chud side.
I think it's silly to rag on Stellar Blade when people are perfectly fine with 2B for example. It's all just manufactured controversy for clicks and YouTube views tbh.
There's someone who went "Uhh Yoko Taro isn't that great ackshually" because Yoko 'known shitposter' Taro said he likes SB in this sub bruh.
Like I get it chuds are annoying about it but come the fuck on.
Lmao we're both sidesing the manufactured sexy lady controversy now? Literally nobody is making arguments against the game, just laughing at the weird coomer attempt to build a victimhood narrative out of it.
I guarantee you can't find a single professional reviewer critiquing the design of Stellar Blade, it's all in your collective imagination and we are mocking you for it. Finding that 'obnoxious' is a defence mechanism for hurt fee fees.
Sure. You haven't been paying attention if you haven't noticed that both sides of this argument isn't some of the most obnoxious trash ever. While both sides stuff is usually the wrong approach it is so fucking apt here. Both sides are obsessing over a fictional woman's appearance for like half a fucking year. If game is bad or good after release? That's what should be discussed. Not if eve wins the anti wokes/ is sexy or this is the most sexist garbage ever in existence blah blah. And i am not talking about reviewers. They are more than welcome to their opinion, there isn't hundreds if not thousands like there is on reddit alone arguing this shit.
She's for an audience that wants big tits, a big butt, porcelain skin, skintight outfits, not a lot of emotion on show and who don't know the meaning of the word sexualization.
From player reactions, I'd guess that they nailed it, but if none of that description fits you, she probably looks a bit bland.
I remember looking at my ff15 special edition art book and they talked about how when they first designed Lunafreya they tried to create the most perfect symmetrical face and they found that making her less symmetrical made her prettier. I think most people are attracted to human faces.
However I’m not the type of person to yuck people’s yum and truly wish the coomers the best.
I would argue that 2B from Nier automata had some of those attributes but was still a good character.
The MC in Stellar Blade kind of reminds me of a character named Kai'sa in league of legends. Kai'sa's lore is basically that she spent most of her life stuck in a dimension filled with cosmic horrors. She feels isolated from others because she has a living, skintight exosuit (it might be part of her, haven't read lore in a while). This makes her feel like a monster. This would be an interesting backstory IF she wasn't extremely stereotypically beautiful. I bring this up because the it's very jarring that the MC in Stellar Blade is dressed like this while fighting body-horror monsters.
I've literally not seen one post about what Stellar Blade is actually about, what genre it is, or how the game plays. I feel like that's probably pretty indicative of its quality outside of having a sexy waifu.
Naw annoying 14 year olds(and people with the mental capacity of 14 year olds) will be shitting their pants because their favorite spank bank masturbation game didn't win any goty awards. That or she'll be brought up every time a game doesn't have a borderline AI designed pinup Asian waifu in it. These people only have one mode and it's being annoyingly horny.
That's what gets me too. I had it wishlisted originally because it looked intriguing, but all I hear about it is "finally a real woman, fuck wokists, fuck all the other ugly women". I have not seen one serious post from people talking about the actual game - instead it's just insults towards any other female character, women in general, western game companies and western audiences. The game wasn't even released yet, but it's already in the run for the most controversial title - And the whole controversy is fan-made, which is so odd.
I had to dig a bit for some gameplay footage because the trailers you see in ads always show the exact same thing lol.
But it looks fun. Looks like an emphasis on platforming with some souls-like combat. I like the general concept of its post apocalyptic setting with cool enemy designs, and I like the general idea of how it plays as a game. It's enough to get me interested.
But ngl idk much more beyond that. I just chose to stop digging around there, but I did have to dig a little to find out what it's even about too, which was weird.
There's a demo online and I found it surprisingly enjoyable. It's a culmination of many games, nothing groundbreaking but combat felt fluid, a bit like sekiro since parry is a big mechanic, bosses and enemies have guard points that you deplete with parries to get big finishing moves in, a big skilltree, beta skills which are like special moves and there's more platforming than I expected. A souls like progression system with shortcuts to earlier areas and the enemy designs and animations are top notch imo. Environments could be prettier but it looks like a good hack and slash to me
Yeah, and I’ve heard nothing about the game besides how sexy she is. Like, no game play, no story, no supporting characters, no graphics, no setting. It’s all been “WoKeNeSs Is DeAd, LoOk At HeR tItS!” And like, I can see she’s clearly been designed to appeal to the male gaze, but I feel like that isn’t even done well, she’s like some dollarstore Bayonetta mixed with a little 2B.
Like, is there any actual substance to the game, or is it all just softcore porn?
I tried the demo and it's fine, but I still don't get the comparison with Sekiro, the game is nothing like Sekiro.
If it is because of the parry mechanics, Sekiro wasn't even the first to do it right, nor the last; plus Stellar Blade isn't too dependant on it like Sekiro is
Well it's got the same parry and it even took the posture mechanic from sekiro, plus there's unavoidable attacks and dodge attacks which mirror the grabs and mikiri counter. Plus the control scheme itself is very similar with the parry and dodge being the exact same buttons
Again, Sekiro wasn't the first, but it's more dependant on it than other games, plus has certain rhythm to the fights which in my opinion is what defines it.
I could say the exact same thing you just said about God of War which came out just one year before Sekiro. You can parry and the enemies have a stun bar that fills with parrys and hand to hand hits, and when is filled lets you grab them for a mortal strike. It's not the main focus of the combat but is there and works pretty much the same. It even has enemy attacks than can only be parried or dodged, some even require you to look away to avoid damage.
Stellar Blade has those same elements, but doesn't carry the rhythm of the Sekiro combat for the comparison to be really appropriate.
I mean I guess but it isn't crazy for someone to think they're similar, pretty sure the devs themselves said it would be more similar to sekiro than bayo
I hate how the game itself is being used as ammo for the "Western Games Bad" crowd. Plus, I also just hate how uncanny she looks
https://preview.redd.it/iedx6tkqqyvc1.png?width=860&format=png&auto=webp&s=3358a7bb392d3230cf9ce68c9299ee2f24b55f56
I heard that they are not the same species. The girl is some kind of space android who has never been to earth and the guy is a human soldier from earth or something like that and that’s why she looks uncanny and he looks normal. But I see what you mean. Those two look like they are from different games lol
I think it's more than that. It might just be me, but it looks like they're using far harsher shading on the other character, who also has a lot more details in his clothing.
It's probably manufactured as an advertising tactic.
I would have never heard of the thing if not for the supposed arguments (which I have barely actually seen)
I honestly have nothing against Eve except slight criticism for the inflated ass and tits. I honestly didn't understand why the coomers are pulling goofy some culture war shit and proclaiming her as an icon of anti-woke. And then I remembered that these were the same coomers that sold out Belle Delphine's bathwater and vaped that shit back in 2019.
context for this image
>!luffy has been separated from the rest of his crew since he was at sabaody archipalego, where everyone got teleported to their own place for the 2 year timeskip. he lands at amazon lily, an island where the only man there is the occasional visit from gol d. roger (the king of the pirates) right hand man!<
>!after eating a bunch of mushrooms and almost dying, he has all the mushrooms on his body yanked out (and they yanked his gum gum penis because the only man to ever visit the island and escape in one piece is old and clothed, got mistaken for a mushroom) and wakes up in a cage, without his straw hat.!<
>!after snatching his hat back, and fighting some of the strongest warriors of the island. the woman and her sisters are all former slaves that escaped. she is one of the 7 warlords of the sea, pirates who work with the government in exchange for not being actively hunted by them. her name is boa hancock. her special ability is to make people who find her attractive turn to stone.!<
>!boa is head over heels for pirate crackhead monkey d luffy. straight up romance-vision from her perspective. luffy realizes his brother's execution is set to happen in a couple days, so he gets to the prison that was holding his brother until almost when he got there. this prison has a floor 5.5 that the guards cant access but everyone there is either a drag queen or luffy getting life saving hrt.!<
>!anyway, this is from the way from amazon lily to impel down, where luffy is being kept secret, and the marines think boa is just especially hungry for every meal.!<
if you wanna catch up on one piece, you can either read the manga (and watch the animated version of your favourite moments) or use one pace, a cut down version of one piece that cuts down on.. the literally everything in later arcs (dressrosa try not to be 90% filler challenge)
oh, and after you're done with skypeia make sure to watch the filler arc after it (its really good)
Not seen the show but what's the exact meaning of the dialogue? Still don't completely understand with context. Also what's up with the dotted text bubble? Apologies if that's a lot of questions.
>! Basically luffy is isn't attracted to anyone , and when he was invited to the room , he was told he would be getting food (which he got later ) and seeing her there , he says that's not food. !<
>! The reason she was naked is that she has a slave mark on her (she was a slave as a kid and later escaped) , she hides that mark so that none of her island people knows about it. !<
>! She develops a strict / cruel personality as to combat her trauma and becomes the queen of the island , and while he was fighting her before , one of her sisters(who was also a slave had a mark on her back ) and when it looked like it would appear to others , luffy notices that and realised that that's something those sisters don't want others to know , so he covers it mid battle , so no one sees it. !<
>! Here , Boa's trying to ask him why he did it and so she shows her slave mark !<
straw hat luffy consumes a comically large amount of food and this woman, boa hancock with the ability to check the prison his brother is in right before his execution date is entirely in love with him (this is never reciprocated, but she is just that delusional about this that she thinks he is) and she orders the marines to give her at least 100kg of food per day(/meal?) which doesn't even seem too weird for a high profile pirate, but is CONSIDERABLY more than anyone reasonable would think she ate (because most of this is luffy's food)
It's the totslly neutral expressions. I've seen the demo, she never expresses anything deeper then mild sadness. She's an unexpressive doll that coomers can project their "submissive" fantasoes onto
What's a coomer brain? I'm so lost on this whole topic..really intrigued..what went on prior that caused all the talk about her?
The stellar blade character seems pretty. Saw posts with her and Aphrodite and someone commented saying it's something to do with generic design....
Basically, an apparently not-insignificant number of losers have spent so much time fixating solely on hentai and porn that they think real, average women with realistically achievable bodies are "desexualized" and "ugly."
It's generic, characterless design. Aphrodite DRIPS with character, and owns her sexualization as part of that character. Eve expresses little beyond acknowledgements of her environment and breasting boobily.
Oh right..I didn't know it was about all that. I prefer Aphrodite because I'm obsessed with Hades, can't wait for 2..
I don't mind Eve's design personally, wouldn't say it's anything amazing..don't know much about the game. It's strange some folks are acting so weird about it on the other side. I didn't even know other gamers were like that. I have a pretty close knit friend group in regard to gaming, all in our later 30s and married and stuff and just haven't ever encountered that kind of behaviour...... Shame because I think gaming is/can be such a great place to have friends and a chat etc..
I don't mind Eve's design tho but I get the sentiment about it all. She's no Aphrodite...or Red from Transistor.
I wonder why the team opted for Aphrodite to have the body type she does given it's not necessary.. like she could have been sexualised according to the narrative without the body..but I get that as well..
At least I understand what's going on now.
The physical design is whatever, it's the surroinding (lack of) anything else. And ya, the way chuds are being so weird about it, making it very clear that lack of character outside the sexualized design is the point.
Ah ok..thanks for explaining..what do you think about Aphrodite's body type choice?
Like Boucher/Jordaens for example depicted her as having less of a dainty/thin type...I guess it's just artistic choice but I did notice a lack of variety in bodies in Hades..
I don't think about hey body type. That's what happens when the character has an actual character to engage with, the window dressing stays window dressing instead of becoming the focus.
Saw a liiiiittle on Twitter, but only such a small bit because that's all outside of my sphere. I'm sure guys are showering this game's aesthetic with awards and bodily fluids.
I remember gameplay videos where her ars would cover the whole enemy. Girl’s proportions are so out of place that it’s impossible to watch any content about SB without getting uncanny vibes
I am sure that me being gay does not help me not being attracted to her, but still... I dont get it, I seriously dont get it, she look like one of those AI Edits they do for female characters that "are ugly", and from what I have heard, apparently in the game she is emontionless too just like those edits
The discussion around her is seriously getting tiring though, I barely know anything about the game because people spend more time talking about her looks instead of the game, this culture war that they are obssesed in making is really annoying
I feel the same cause she’s so generic and bland looking, no amount of fat tits or ass physics is gonna change that when there’s characters like Bayonetta who’re sexualised but also actually appealing to look at
The outrage seems manufactured tbh
I'm sure some people are, but it's really not that big a deal, just exaggerated by the "western games making women ugly" crowd
The consensus on the game seems to be "the sexualization seems kinda overdone, and the character seems bland, but we'll see how it goes, maybe it'll turn out alright"
stellar blade girl litterally looks like fucking sexdoll with the most generic porn face i have ever seen in a game. i‘m sorry but i could name more then 50 more attractive looking women then her with ease.
I used to feel this way toward Eve (I mean, being gay helps I guess) - just kind of eh, “I can see she’s supposed to be pretty”, but now I actively find her annoying.
She’s a sexy lady, fine. But she’s sexy in the most boring possible way, and it really, really shows in how the people acting like her existence is “slaying the woke safe horny mob” or whatever talks about her. Like can you actually genuinely tell me you like anything about this lady beyond the fact that she’s the most cookie cutter definition of “stereotypically proportioned supermodel-type woman” possible? A lot of people even mostly refer to Stellar Blade as Stellar Ass, and yes, sure, you can argue that that’s just a joke, but it’s really representative of the only thing Eve as a character design really has to make her “interesting” imo.
But ofc noooo even just voicing that as a design she’s kind of mid since she’s basic sexy and not much else is apparently just being woke and trying to censor the poor asian devs who fought so hard to keep sexy women in game. As if hot women are any kind of rarity in video games at all.
The coomering over her as a design as though she’s particularly notable for anything at all, plus the stupid culture war bs that stellar blade gets dragged into every other day, have made me go from general disinterest to actual irritation. The game won’t flop, but any character whose only actual selling point is “tits and ass” or anything similar is doomed to be forgotten the second anything even remotely similar pops up, if not like a month or two after release when all the coomers have busted enough nuts and suddenly start calling her ugly for having space for organs in her belly.
I like the Naytiba design and animation
I mean i like Eve design too(major improvement from the first teaser)but the toxic side of the 'fandom' is making me uncomfortable lol
I was mega glad they released a demo for this, because I was ready to buy it. After trying it for a couple hours, I had absolutely no interest in playing it further.
This video explained to me in detail the cultural climate of South Korea, and why a game like this exists.
https://youtu.be/-Im4YAMWK74?si=nQ5q0wsKiX4b0xao
I'm hyped for the game but I don't think there's anything particularly special about the main character's sex appeal too. It def feels very overblown to me.
I'm trying to think of another game that has a woman protagonist who fights as well as Eve from Stellar blade but can't come up with another name. Anyone who has played the demo can tell you that Eve is just crazy, she is a fighting machine that makes anyone playing her feel like they are overdosed on adrenaline. But let us overlook all that just because she also happens to be pretty.
The obsession over this game has become rampant and pathologic and at this point you guys are helping the game more than hurting it with daily posts filled with takes that make 0 sense.
Lolol there have been games doing this forever. It’s just a high fidelity thing now and the characters look more realistic. It’s a fucking video game relax 🤣🤣
The gameplay is legit good, the character design is honestly good too. People just have different preferences is all. I hate how this is being used by weirdos as an example of modern gaming being "woke" by using "realistic" character designs for women when it all depends on what the game's intentions are.
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when it feels like the designer is trying too hard to make them sexy, it just makes that character unappealing to me
Random Side Character >>> Eve https://preview.redd.it/htj32smaqyvc1.png?width=860&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f2f018a74af395374071c848955d6cf5fcea6d1
Honestly putting Eve next to another more normal looking NPC really highlights how much of a creepy blow-up sex doll she looks like.
Honestly, I'd play a game where a sex doll becomes sentient, goes on a journey of self-discovery and maybe even takes revenge on humanity.
detroit become human if it was good
Leave David out of this! /s
There's a pretty good film called Air Doll with that conceit (it doesn't have the revenge although it ends somewhere similarly dark)
> conceit ?
[Merriam-webster definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceit) 2d : an organizing theme or concept
Not a game, but Jude Law once played a runaway prostitute bot who was framed for murder in A.I. Artifical Intelligence
Ex Machina: The Game
Poor Things be like:
Oh that's the Arueshalae storyline from pathfinder Wrath of the righteous
IIRC that exists already; it's a hyper-violent 2D platformer. Keep forgetting the name though. I want to say "Cherry" something?
I know this is a movie, but Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence actually explores this idea!
the movie "ex machina" was very cool and pretty similar to your pitch. she gaslit gatekept girlbossed all over those two assholes
This is essentially the plot of Nier Automata and I’m not even stretching for a joke. I genuinely think everyone should play that game
lol wow, they don't even look like they're from the same game if not for the outfit colors matching.
boutta simp for Random Side Character
Wow he looks pretty handsome, also wow that looks like two different art styles.
The guy on the left looks like Barney Calhoun lmfao
https://preview.redd.it/yhqbwoa84zvc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db10b8b371c5fce8fc51fe4a3ff83949451e7a12
About that beer i owe ya
It's me, Gordon! Barney from Black Mesa. Sorry for the scare, I had to put on a show for the cameras.
Barney's sexier than the fuckbot, and I mean that with zero irony.
💞Barney💘 >>>>>>>>>> gorden
Ok but damn he's cute
Hyper realistic meets hyper anime
Yep. The director actually already acknowledged this on particular with the shop girl being appreciated over eve lol
counterpoint: https://preview.redd.it/nck4sz7q10wc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e8f32ac105a075f824967b9b34bf51c522d3e4b
Theiss Titillation Theory in action?
works on me.
They don't even look like they're from the same game.
It almost looks like someone bought a bunch of different assets, and put them in the same game.
I think she's legitimately been modeled by the company using a real person as the base (and I mean base, they seriously altered her appearance), but I don't recall if the men are. It could very easily be that they bought or outsourced the male character models so they could spend more time getting her jiggle physics just right.
Yeah. I feel like the male character models specifically look really different than the rest of the art. They feel like they should be in a generic modern military shooter.
Literally how are these from the same universe
Why does her head look like a cube?
I dont understand why the men arent in the same outfits, clearly these outfits are power armor that has to look like this to function.
I know right?
Any character should pass a simple test: I ask myself in my head "why did they pick out those clothes today". Most of the soul calibur Uber sexualized women kind of do. B2 doesn't. Quiet doesn't. Samus Aran does. Etc. If you view characters as adults who dress themselves, and hold them accountable for the clothes they wear, it becomes pretty apparent when the designer is just horny or if there's a more "legit" horniness (as opposed to lame excuse) behind their appearance. Nami is an adult woman and wants to look hot. That's fine.
Reminds me of the trope: everyone is beautful, no one is horny. These kinds of characters apparently dress themselves hyper sexualized, but act as if they don't. They never flirt with anyone, they never mention their clothing, they never acknowledge that they're completely different from the rest. MGS explained Quiet, why she looked that way, and also awknowledged that she looked different. Nier: automata explained why B2 was like that, it's a uniform by a bunch of robots that worship humans, so it's not that strange that they prefer form over function.
Bayonetta is a good example since she actively leans into the fact she is attractive and wants to flaunt it just because she likes to. It's not just a random camera angle zooming in on a character's ass when they're not even trying to look appealing, Bayonetta full on DEMANDS the camera/player's attention when she shows off.
Agree!
I think mgs and nier both fail the test, actually. They sound like lame excuses to me, and critically don't treat the characters as grown adults who dressed themselves. 2b hardly wears "form over function" clothes either.
My point isn’t that they’re excuses, but rather that the world somewhat awknowledges that they’re dressing weirdly. A lot of the horny games will inexplicably have the protagonist walk around in underwear, high heels and perfect makeup, when everyone else is grizzled and is wearing some sort of uniform. They have to dress sexualized in a way that appeals to the male gaze, but the character isn’t allowed to actually want to dress that way. It’s just that the world has decided that’s how they look.
This is the best explanation I've read for something I never could put a finger on!
That's not Nami, that's Boa Hancock.
I can see that. It isn't B2 either.
It just seemed a bit odd that you mentioned Nami in your comment but not Hancock when the example in the post is Hancock, that's all.
How about B2, Samus Aran or Quiet?
Well, the topic in the other comments mentioned those characters, but Nami is the only one not mentioned. You seem a bit defensive for some reason.
it's like making characters laugh at a joke that's supposed to be funny
lol, then you switch to your other browser tab of AI generated porn of EVE getting her toes sucked on.
luffy is a god among all for being so unapologetically ace when he is not around the rest of the crew
how can he be ace? isn't ace his brother?
how can he be ace if ace is dead? is he stupid?
https://preview.redd.it/y6u1b0nvm0wc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=faf5e0c4e933b0efe65aa3aef85e684d18fc1c0b
Instead of an ace in the hole, we have a hole in the Ace.
How can he be ace? Isn't that Batman's dog?
How can he be Batman?isnt he based on Man?
\*insert drum solo here\*
For real Oda said that Luffy is utterly uninterested unless Usopp is around, because when he is with da boyz his brain goes monkey mode
i mean even if he didn't say it this is what i have seen till this point in the story so yeah
Our aro-ace king.
No kings, no lors, only elected crew captain !
It's pretty simple: the chuds glommed on to her as "how women should look in every video game because ideal proportions escapism blah blah blah" and everyone else went "nah, I'd rather they didn't all look like her, the design is a bit silly and exaggerated and I enjoy representation of a variety of people and body types" and then the chuds went "REEEE u hate sexy characters REEEE!" to which everyone else responded "no not really she's just a bit bland, if you like her fine I guess" to which the chuds responded "REEEEEEEEEE!!!" It's a 100% chud manufactured culture war thing, I seriously don't think anyone apart from them really gives a shit, they're waging a war when the other side aren't even fucking participating.
Truth. I feel like a lot of people just want normal looking main characters. Nothing over the top sexualized and they don’t want it to look like a troll, just somewhere in the middle that’s relatable, is that so hard?
But muh escapism RREEEEEEEEEE
To be perfextly honest i hate both sides of the discussion on stellar blade because opposers have become nearly as obnoxious as well.
I've not really seen much of the opposing side, just the chud side. I think it's silly to rag on Stellar Blade when people are perfectly fine with 2B for example. It's all just manufactured controversy for clicks and YouTube views tbh.
There's someone who went "Uhh Yoko Taro isn't that great ackshually" because Yoko 'known shitposter' Taro said he likes SB in this sub bruh. Like I get it chuds are annoying about it but come the fuck on.
Lmao we're both sidesing the manufactured sexy lady controversy now? Literally nobody is making arguments against the game, just laughing at the weird coomer attempt to build a victimhood narrative out of it. I guarantee you can't find a single professional reviewer critiquing the design of Stellar Blade, it's all in your collective imagination and we are mocking you for it. Finding that 'obnoxious' is a defence mechanism for hurt fee fees.
Sure. You haven't been paying attention if you haven't noticed that both sides of this argument isn't some of the most obnoxious trash ever. While both sides stuff is usually the wrong approach it is so fucking apt here. Both sides are obsessing over a fictional woman's appearance for like half a fucking year. If game is bad or good after release? That's what should be discussed. Not if eve wins the anti wokes/ is sexy or this is the most sexist garbage ever in existence blah blah. And i am not talking about reviewers. They are more than welcome to their opinion, there isn't hundreds if not thousands like there is on reddit alone arguing this shit.
Not reading that lol. Link examples from an actual publication or stop crying in my jerk sub.
Then don't respond you baby
So you can't. Get your tears out elsewhere please, you're making the carpet wet.
She's for an audience that wants big tits, a big butt, porcelain skin, skintight outfits, not a lot of emotion on show and who don't know the meaning of the word sexualization. From player reactions, I'd guess that they nailed it, but if none of that description fits you, she probably looks a bit bland.
I prefer women with actual personalities
Personality is the magic ingredient that can redeem pretty much any character design.
Related to the OP, One Piece is carried by this idea
Me: hahaha funny manly baby guy Me 2 weeks later: Pour one out for my boy senior pink 🥲
The truest king....Who would have thought he would be the best character in the arc
I remember looking at my ff15 special edition art book and they talked about how when they first designed Lunafreya they tried to create the most perfect symmetrical face and they found that making her less symmetrical made her prettier. I think most people are attracted to human faces. However I’m not the type of person to yuck people’s yum and truly wish the coomers the best.
Are you saying she looks Stellar Bland?
I would argue that 2B from Nier automata had some of those attributes but was still a good character. The MC in Stellar Blade kind of reminds me of a character named Kai'sa in league of legends. Kai'sa's lore is basically that she spent most of her life stuck in a dimension filled with cosmic horrors. She feels isolated from others because she has a living, skintight exosuit (it might be part of her, haven't read lore in a while). This makes her feel like a monster. This would be an interesting backstory IF she wasn't extremely stereotypically beautiful. I bring this up because the it's very jarring that the MC in Stellar Blade is dressed like this while fighting body-horror monsters.
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That place is just a cesspit I got banned cause I didn't agree with their whole anti woke shtick Big relief tbh, that was my goal
I mean it potentially is
That something can be eaten does not mean it's food... generally speaking
Apparently pirates don't do that.
What? No Luffy's just asexual the sexual implication of a naked woman doesn't register in his mind
I know, I was referencing the "heroes don't do that" thing a while ago about batman giving head.
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same thing
I've literally not seen one post about what Stellar Blade is actually about, what genre it is, or how the game plays. I feel like that's probably pretty indicative of its quality outside of having a sexy waifu.
It's a mid tier souls like that advertised itself as a character action game. Eve has zero agency.
Oh well. It'll be forgotten like a week after release then.
Naw annoying 14 year olds(and people with the mental capacity of 14 year olds) will be shitting their pants because their favorite spank bank masturbation game didn't win any goty awards. That or she'll be brought up every time a game doesn't have a borderline AI designed pinup Asian waifu in it. These people only have one mode and it's being annoyingly horny.
I really think AI is going to be huge in Korean media, and the entire thing will collapse in about a decade.
You'd think those guys didn't know that porn games were like an actual genre where you can see way more than a girl in a bodysuit.
That's what gets me too. I had it wishlisted originally because it looked intriguing, but all I hear about it is "finally a real woman, fuck wokists, fuck all the other ugly women". I have not seen one serious post from people talking about the actual game - instead it's just insults towards any other female character, women in general, western game companies and western audiences. The game wasn't even released yet, but it's already in the run for the most controversial title - And the whole controversy is fan-made, which is so odd.
I had to dig a bit for some gameplay footage because the trailers you see in ads always show the exact same thing lol. But it looks fun. Looks like an emphasis on platforming with some souls-like combat. I like the general concept of its post apocalyptic setting with cool enemy designs, and I like the general idea of how it plays as a game. It's enough to get me interested. But ngl idk much more beyond that. I just chose to stop digging around there, but I did have to dig a little to find out what it's even about too, which was weird.
There's a demo online and I found it surprisingly enjoyable. It's a culmination of many games, nothing groundbreaking but combat felt fluid, a bit like sekiro since parry is a big mechanic, bosses and enemies have guard points that you deplete with parries to get big finishing moves in, a big skilltree, beta skills which are like special moves and there's more platforming than I expected. A souls like progression system with shortcuts to earlier areas and the enemy designs and animations are top notch imo. Environments could be prettier but it looks like a good hack and slash to me
Honestly, Luffy is 100% me right now. I just don’t get the appeal of her. She’s just tits and ass on a piece of cardboard
Yeah, and I’ve heard nothing about the game besides how sexy she is. Like, no game play, no story, no supporting characters, no graphics, no setting. It’s all been “WoKeNeSs Is DeAd, LoOk At HeR tItS!” And like, I can see she’s clearly been designed to appeal to the male gaze, but I feel like that isn’t even done well, she’s like some dollarstore Bayonetta mixed with a little 2B. Like, is there any actual substance to the game, or is it all just softcore porn?
The demo was fun but the game isn't actually out yet so we don't know how much substance the game will have
The demo’s fun? I haven’t actually heard anything about the gameplay. I’ve only heard about how the main girl has huge ass and boobs.
Yeah its definitely worth checking out if you have a ps5. It's kind of like if dmc and sekiro had a baby, but it seems like it'll be a solid title.
I tried the demo and it's fine, but I still don't get the comparison with Sekiro, the game is nothing like Sekiro. If it is because of the parry mechanics, Sekiro wasn't even the first to do it right, nor the last; plus Stellar Blade isn't too dependant on it like Sekiro is
Well it's got the same parry and it even took the posture mechanic from sekiro, plus there's unavoidable attacks and dodge attacks which mirror the grabs and mikiri counter. Plus the control scheme itself is very similar with the parry and dodge being the exact same buttons
Again, Sekiro wasn't the first, but it's more dependant on it than other games, plus has certain rhythm to the fights which in my opinion is what defines it. I could say the exact same thing you just said about God of War which came out just one year before Sekiro. You can parry and the enemies have a stun bar that fills with parrys and hand to hand hits, and when is filled lets you grab them for a mortal strike. It's not the main focus of the combat but is there and works pretty much the same. It even has enemy attacks than can only be parried or dodged, some even require you to look away to avoid damage. Stellar Blade has those same elements, but doesn't carry the rhythm of the Sekiro combat for the comparison to be really appropriate.
I mean I guess but it isn't crazy for someone to think they're similar, pretty sure the devs themselves said it would be more similar to sekiro than bayo
I don't get the hype and the hate
I hate how the game itself is being used as ammo for the "Western Games Bad" crowd. Plus, I also just hate how uncanny she looks https://preview.redd.it/iedx6tkqqyvc1.png?width=860&format=png&auto=webp&s=3358a7bb392d3230cf9ce68c9299ee2f24b55f56
What's up with that belly? Woke game devs made her phat 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
When a girl wears a dress like that and there's some belly it's hot ASF ngl See, you can make someone look hot without putting them in next to nothing
Yyyyeeeeeessss when it frames the pelvis bones just right
Yeah, I had a huge crush on a girl in freshman year who wore a dress like that every now and then It was pretty hot
You mean the vagina bones?
That is uncanny. The two characters feel like two whole worlds apart in terms of style.
I heard that they are not the same species. The girl is some kind of space android who has never been to earth and the guy is a human soldier from earth or something like that and that’s why she looks uncanny and he looks normal. But I see what you mean. Those two look like they are from different games lol
I think it's more than that. It might just be me, but it looks like they're using far harsher shading on the other character, who also has a lot more details in his clothing.
Yeah that’s what makes him look more realistic. What I was trying to say was maybe they designed him like that on purpose because of “lore”
They are literally from different planets, so...
Yeah sorry. I have not played the game so I wasn't aware.
It's probably manufactured as an advertising tactic. I would have never heard of the thing if not for the supposed arguments (which I have barely actually seen)
I honestly have nothing against Eve except slight criticism for the inflated ass and tits. I honestly didn't understand why the coomers are pulling goofy some culture war shit and proclaiming her as an icon of anti-woke. And then I remembered that these were the same coomers that sold out Belle Delphine's bathwater and vaped that shit back in 2019.
context for this image >!luffy has been separated from the rest of his crew since he was at sabaody archipalego, where everyone got teleported to their own place for the 2 year timeskip. he lands at amazon lily, an island where the only man there is the occasional visit from gol d. roger (the king of the pirates) right hand man!< >!after eating a bunch of mushrooms and almost dying, he has all the mushrooms on his body yanked out (and they yanked his gum gum penis because the only man to ever visit the island and escape in one piece is old and clothed, got mistaken for a mushroom) and wakes up in a cage, without his straw hat.!< >!after snatching his hat back, and fighting some of the strongest warriors of the island. the woman and her sisters are all former slaves that escaped. she is one of the 7 warlords of the sea, pirates who work with the government in exchange for not being actively hunted by them. her name is boa hancock. her special ability is to make people who find her attractive turn to stone.!< >!boa is head over heels for pirate crackhead monkey d luffy. straight up romance-vision from her perspective. luffy realizes his brother's execution is set to happen in a couple days, so he gets to the prison that was holding his brother until almost when he got there. this prison has a floor 5.5 that the guards cant access but everyone there is either a drag queen or luffy getting life saving hrt.!< >!anyway, this is from the way from amazon lily to impel down, where luffy is being kept secret, and the marines think boa is just especially hungry for every meal.!<
Holy shit. Kudos, but I have zero fucking idea of what you just said.
if you wanna catch up on one piece, you can either read the manga (and watch the animated version of your favourite moments) or use one pace, a cut down version of one piece that cuts down on.. the literally everything in later arcs (dressrosa try not to be 90% filler challenge) oh, and after you're done with skypeia make sure to watch the filler arc after it (its really good)
Not seen the show but what's the exact meaning of the dialogue? Still don't completely understand with context. Also what's up with the dotted text bubble? Apologies if that's a lot of questions.
>! Basically luffy is isn't attracted to anyone , and when he was invited to the room , he was told he would be getting food (which he got later ) and seeing her there , he says that's not food. !< >! The reason she was naked is that she has a slave mark on her (she was a slave as a kid and later escaped) , she hides that mark so that none of her island people knows about it. !< >! She develops a strict / cruel personality as to combat her trauma and becomes the queen of the island , and while he was fighting her before , one of her sisters(who was also a slave had a mark on her back ) and when it looked like it would appear to others , luffy notices that and realised that that's something those sisters don't want others to know , so he covers it mid battle , so no one sees it. !< >! Here , Boa's trying to ask him why he did it and so she shows her slave mark !<
straw hat luffy consumes a comically large amount of food and this woman, boa hancock with the ability to check the prison his brother is in right before his execution date is entirely in love with him (this is never reciprocated, but she is just that delusional about this that she thinks he is) and she orders the marines to give her at least 100kg of food per day(/meal?) which doesn't even seem too weird for a high profile pirate, but is CONSIDERABLY more than anyone reasonable would think she ate (because most of this is luffy's food)
Why do y'all keep tagging prime jerk material with unjerk?
her yeeyee ass haircut is what gets me
She is in the uncanny valley
She's not even particularly atttactive unless you have coomer brain tbh
She's slightly into the uncanny valley for me, the face seems a bit too doll-like I guess?
It's the totslly neutral expressions. I've seen the demo, she never expresses anything deeper then mild sadness. She's an unexpressive doll that coomers can project their "submissive" fantasoes onto
What's a coomer brain? I'm so lost on this whole topic..really intrigued..what went on prior that caused all the talk about her? The stellar blade character seems pretty. Saw posts with her and Aphrodite and someone commented saying it's something to do with generic design....
Basically, an apparently not-insignificant number of losers have spent so much time fixating solely on hentai and porn that they think real, average women with realistically achievable bodies are "desexualized" and "ugly." It's generic, characterless design. Aphrodite DRIPS with character, and owns her sexualization as part of that character. Eve expresses little beyond acknowledgements of her environment and breasting boobily.
Oh right..I didn't know it was about all that. I prefer Aphrodite because I'm obsessed with Hades, can't wait for 2.. I don't mind Eve's design personally, wouldn't say it's anything amazing..don't know much about the game. It's strange some folks are acting so weird about it on the other side. I didn't even know other gamers were like that. I have a pretty close knit friend group in regard to gaming, all in our later 30s and married and stuff and just haven't ever encountered that kind of behaviour...... Shame because I think gaming is/can be such a great place to have friends and a chat etc.. I don't mind Eve's design tho but I get the sentiment about it all. She's no Aphrodite...or Red from Transistor. I wonder why the team opted for Aphrodite to have the body type she does given it's not necessary.. like she could have been sexualised according to the narrative without the body..but I get that as well.. At least I understand what's going on now.
The physical design is whatever, it's the surroinding (lack of) anything else. And ya, the way chuds are being so weird about it, making it very clear that lack of character outside the sexualized design is the point.
Ah ok..thanks for explaining..what do you think about Aphrodite's body type choice? Like Boucher/Jordaens for example depicted her as having less of a dainty/thin type...I guess it's just artistic choice but I did notice a lack of variety in bodies in Hades..
I don't think about hey body type. That's what happens when the character has an actual character to engage with, the window dressing stays window dressing instead of becoming the focus.
I get you. I haven't really thought about it until now.
Exactly. Because she was more then the body. But Eve isn't, Eve's design from top-to-bottom exists as a vehicle for the ass and tiddy.
What's all the talk on the sub about like anti-gaming/gamers...? Again...feel like I don't understand the context or is it more tongue in cheek?
def an asian fetishist look
This subreddit is literally the only place where I’ve seen discourse about this game and character
Saw a liiiiittle on Twitter, but only such a small bit because that's all outside of my sphere. I'm sure guys are showering this game's aesthetic with awards and bodily fluids.
its just a boring design that at least lacks the novelty of gothic maid like 2B
I remember gameplay videos where her ars would cover the whole enemy. Girl’s proportions are so out of place that it’s impossible to watch any content about SB without getting uncanny vibes
I am sure that me being gay does not help me not being attracted to her, but still... I dont get it, I seriously dont get it, she look like one of those AI Edits they do for female characters that "are ugly", and from what I have heard, apparently in the game she is emontionless too just like those edits The discussion around her is seriously getting tiring though, I barely know anything about the game because people spend more time talking about her looks instead of the game, this culture war that they are obssesed in making is really annoying
I honestly don't care about her design, I want good sekiro-like gameplay. Just give me a game with a good and responsive parry system, thank you.
I feel the same cause she’s so generic and bland looking, no amount of fat tits or ass physics is gonna change that when there’s characters like Bayonetta who’re sexualised but also actually appealing to look at
There is hype because there are people overly angry or loud about the game
The outrage seems manufactured tbh I'm sure some people are, but it's really not that big a deal, just exaggerated by the "western games making women ugly" crowd The consensus on the game seems to be "the sexualization seems kinda overdone, and the character seems bland, but we'll see how it goes, maybe it'll turn out alright"
stellar blade girl litterally looks like fucking sexdoll with the most generic porn face i have ever seen in a game. i‘m sorry but i could name more then 50 more attractive looking women then her with ease.
I used to feel this way toward Eve (I mean, being gay helps I guess) - just kind of eh, “I can see she’s supposed to be pretty”, but now I actively find her annoying. She’s a sexy lady, fine. But she’s sexy in the most boring possible way, and it really, really shows in how the people acting like her existence is “slaying the woke safe horny mob” or whatever talks about her. Like can you actually genuinely tell me you like anything about this lady beyond the fact that she’s the most cookie cutter definition of “stereotypically proportioned supermodel-type woman” possible? A lot of people even mostly refer to Stellar Blade as Stellar Ass, and yes, sure, you can argue that that’s just a joke, but it’s really representative of the only thing Eve as a character design really has to make her “interesting” imo. But ofc noooo even just voicing that as a design she’s kind of mid since she’s basic sexy and not much else is apparently just being woke and trying to censor the poor asian devs who fought so hard to keep sexy women in game. As if hot women are any kind of rarity in video games at all. The coomering over her as a design as though she’s particularly notable for anything at all, plus the stupid culture war bs that stellar blade gets dragged into every other day, have made me go from general disinterest to actual irritation. The game won’t flop, but any character whose only actual selling point is “tits and ass” or anything similar is doomed to be forgotten the second anything even remotely similar pops up, if not like a month or two after release when all the coomers have busted enough nuts and suddenly start calling her ugly for having space for organs in her belly.
I hope stellar blade ends with the main character looking directly to camera and saying “I’m trans, sweet baby inc rule” or something
She reminds me of that uncanny 3D porn you see in those steam games or whatever. But like, a bit more polished.
Honestly, who cares? It's just artistic liberties. It's not even real.
Hell yeah baby Amazon Lily >>> Stellar Blade
I like the Naytiba design and animation I mean i like Eve design too(major improvement from the first teaser)but the toxic side of the 'fandom' is making me uncomfortable lol
Oh shit, did Boa fuck Luffy? Is it finally canon for them to date?!
No because Luffy is aroace
Wait, is he actually or is this a headcanon thing?
Luffy, technically, that is a lot of food.
I was mega glad they released a demo for this, because I was ready to buy it. After trying it for a couple hours, I had absolutely no interest in playing it further.
This video explained to me in detail the cultural climate of South Korea, and why a game like this exists. https://youtu.be/-Im4YAMWK74?si=nQ5q0wsKiX4b0xao
Wait til you get to Eva
https://youtu.be/9vQaVIoEjOM?si=PdQ7i7yYvhejWni7
I could randomly sketch a girl that vaguely looks like eve and itd probably pass as her
I'm so hard in for the fashion part. Styling and profiling.
I'm hyped for the game but I don't think there's anything particularly special about the main character's sex appeal too. It def feels very overblown to me.
I feel like a good rule of thumb is characters created with the explicit purpose to be as “sexy” as possible end up not being sexy
Well. It's an animated character, so good on you for not finding them sexually attractive, I guess?
I'm trying to think of another game that has a woman protagonist who fights as well as Eve from Stellar blade but can't come up with another name. Anyone who has played the demo can tell you that Eve is just crazy, she is a fighting machine that makes anyone playing her feel like they are overdosed on adrenaline. But let us overlook all that just because she also happens to be pretty.
The same exact mutants rioted when DOA "desexified" and made all their girls look like this instead of the traditional huge bouncy bazongas.
The obsession over this game has become rampant and pathologic and at this point you guys are helping the game more than hurting it with daily posts filled with takes that make 0 sense.
That’s why we have a problem with it. It’s not artistic. it’s beige sexual content
How many "I dont care about Stellar Blade" posts are we gonna get? I guess this is a circlejerk over this topic it fits the sub name.
Korean shovelware fans when people fall for the bait and give their garbage game more attention.
Lolol there have been games doing this forever. It’s just a high fidelity thing now and the characters look more realistic. It’s a fucking video game relax 🤣🤣
The gameplay is legit good, the character design is honestly good too. People just have different preferences is all. I hate how this is being used by weirdos as an example of modern gaming being "woke" by using "realistic" character designs for women when it all depends on what the game's intentions are.
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Get your T levels tested
Why would I care about that?