“As you can see, such a body exists” | Maxim magazine backed the model from Stellar Blade following criticism by IGN France

The South Korean YouTube channel Maxim magazine published a video in which they supported model Shin Jae-yun, whose body was digitized to create the protagonist of Stellar Blade. The publication did this after a journalist from IGN France wrote that the game’s heroine looks more like “a tasteless doll sexualized by someone who has never seen a woman.”

IGN France analyzed the Stellar Blade demo and wrote that Eva looks tasteless. However, as some of you may know, she was created in the image of Shing Jae-yun, the model on the cover of Maxim magazine.

Is it possible to call a character created on the basis of the body of a living person unrealistic? Does that make sense? This is another question related to political correctness that we have been hearing a lot lately. And in order to convey to our viewers that Shin Jae-yun’s body is realistic and exists in real life, we decided to re-release the video of her photo shoot with subtitles in different languages.

Maxim

The online community criticized IGN France for the last quote, noting that the game director of Stellar Blade has been married for more than a decade, so he has an idea of what women look like.

After the criticism, the authors of the portal changed the wording (“One would think that the heroine was sexualized by someone who had never seen a woman”) for “the French who pretended not to understand what was being said,” as well as “the English-speaking crowd that translated the article through Google Translate.” Then the text of this disclaimer was also changed to the phrase that “the note was corrected after death threats.”

But at the beginning of April, the employees of IGN France removed the scandalous phrase from the text and apologized to the developers of Stellar Blade. The appeal also stressed that the French branch is not related to the main IGN.

IGN France said that they did not intend to disrespect Shift Up, any of the employees or their work. The phrase from the demo review was inappropriate, admitted the journalists who edited the review.

We didn’t mean to be disrespectful to Shift Up, to any of the employees, or to their work. We recognize that the phrase used in a literal sense was inappropriate, and we regret it. We sincerely apologize to everyone on Shift Up who may have been offended by this excerpt.

From IGN France

When creating Stellar Blade, the Shift Up studio wanted the figure of the protagonist to be the most attractive, so the developers collaborated with the model. This was previously told by the company’s CEO Kim Hyun Tae, according to who, when he plays, he wants to see someone who looks better than him.

Stellar Blade will be released on April 26 on PS5