Recently, the French IGN website caused an uproar due to improper wording in the review of “Stellar Blade” (Stellar Blade) Demo. After the topic was discussed for many days, the original review was updated today (4th) with an apology statement, saying that the review’s wording was to Shift Up. All employees apologize.
The cause of the matter isFrance IGN In the “Sword Star” report on March 31, it was said that Eve in “Sword Star” was created by a developer who “has never seen a woman”, which caused dissatisfaction among the player community. After that, IGN also published the French version below Please indicate in English that this article received “death threats” as a reminder to make editorial changes.
Now, in this articleOriginal review articleAt the beginning, IGN France published an apology, admitting that their review contained an offensive text description, which has now been revised, and formally apologized to the Shift Up Corporation developer. At the same time, it was emphasized that IGN France is only an independent division of IGN, and IGN headquarters has nothing to do with this incident.
In view of the fact that Europe and the United States have promoted political correctness and gender equality in games in recent years, Kim Hyung Tae and Shift Up’s works such as “Nikki” have been criticized for “sexualization”. As the French IGN comments spread, “Sword Star” ” has become a work supported by many player communities who oppose excessive political correctness.
Now IGN’s original comments have deleted offensive words such as “the developers have not seen women” and “the heroine is a sexualized doll”, and added a public apology in the hope that this controversy can be stopped.In any case, these have created a new wave of topics for the yet-to-be-released “Sword Star”. Pre-orders for the digital version of “Sword Star” are currently available on the PS Store.Kitami、U.K.Ranked 1st and 2nd among the best-selling games in many countries around the world.
How the discussion of video games and political correctness develops will ultimately be determined by market demand on the commercial side. The action-adventure “Sword Star” created by Shift Up is expected to be released exclusively on PS5 on April 26.