[STEAM] Stellar Blade: Blood Rain CEO addresses concerns over Evie’s youthful design, but ends up causing even more of them

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Here we go again. In a new interview, developer Shift Up’s chief executive discussed Evie’s design, about which I had previously voiced some concerns, and this whole conversation only helped cause even more worry over how Evie will be portrayed in this upcoming game.

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, he acknowledged that Evie is, indeed, much younger, shorter, and smaller than Eve, but that players won’t get the “wrong” impression once they actually play the game.

“She has a stronger personality and engages in much tougher battles. And she’s actually part of a special squad that chases after a group of terrorists who cause terror attacks here and there in the city,” Kim explained, trying to point out how Evie is, in many ways, more mature and adult than her predecessor, Eve, despite the looks.

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Evie looks extremely young, based on the first trailer for Blood Rain. Image via Shift Up Eve was known for her sexualized looks, which was completely fine in my book, given that this was an adult character marketed toward an adult target audience. Actually, having recently played the game, it’s pretty graphic in nature overall, so you wouldn’t even expect anyone younger to engage with it.

However, where Kim’s explanation seems to fail utterly is when IGN asked him about outfits, which are notoriously very revealing and ******* in nature in the original Stellar Blade. They’re so out there that I actively avoided equipping them since putting one on immediately breaks the otherwise great NieR-esque sci-fi setting for the sake of, well, you know what.

“It will be even more appealing,” Kim said in response to IGN’s inquiry about toning the ******* side down for the sequel and left it at that.

I can tell you right now that I fully expect the same type of outfit in Blood Rain as was in Stellar Blade. Which would be fine if the protagonist didn’t have the appearance of a child, though

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(to the chagrin of just about everyone, it seems).

Kim’s whole argument here seems to boil down to Evie being “mature for her age” and that her looks aren’t a defining quality, a sentiment I must disagree with.

She looks extremely young in almost every shot of the game, but let’s say I trust the executive. I’m willing to give Shift Up the benefit of the doubt, as I was previously, and think the scans or whatever technology they used just came out that way in the trailer, with the final product differing significantly from these first shots.

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