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Journalists attack Stellar Blade again by using Hades 2 characters

Draugoth

Draugoth

Gold Member
Hades 2 Technical Test has revealed various characters from the game, journalists for some reason decided to point this up while attacking Stellar Blade:

Examples below:

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On Hades 2 Charactersvia PC Gamer:

During the technical test, you can encounter and flirt with a few of the gods in the first major area of the game. These include the goddess of love, Aphrodite, the moon incarnate, Selene, the veteran tactician Odysseus and, my personal favourite, Nemesis.

Meanwhile, people on Twitter have all had incredibly normal reactions to all these characters. So far, I've seen players saying that "Nyx's entire family can step on me, tbh," and one person's measured response of "crying, sobbing, weeping, frothing at the mouth."

Some of the tamer reactions include players reveling in how amazing the art looks, with some noting, "It is a fantastic day for sapphics," in reference to the power quartet of Nemesis, Aphrodite, Selene, and Hecate. These four goddesses are beautifully illustrated, with the vibrant and detailed art style I loved from the original Hades. It's honestly pretty hard not to fall in love with these characters when every image looks like this.
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Punished Miku

Punished Miku

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There's hot people all over the world. I don't think anyone has ever denied this. Weirdly racist to even imply that this had to be proven by Hades 2. And by the way, I'm reminded of Dragon's Crown which was definitely going for atypical character design with the Amazon. They hated that too, despite making her ridiculously muscular and with an usual body type. Or Bayonetta, they hated that too for a long time before trying to retroactively claim it as some kind of camp pro-drag thing.

Idiots just posting clickbait. These sites can't die soon enough.

For the record, I'm sure Hades 2 will almost surely have better character designs than Stella Blade. I don't think Eve is really that great, and her suit is stupid. They have the advantage of just posting the 2D art though. Stella Blade's 2D art looks better than the model they landed on, even though the model is fine. Hades 2 characters in 3D would be different for sure.
 
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LordOfChaos

LordOfChaos

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Wait...Isn't the character Korean? A Korean woman? Or at least fictional-world Asian featured?

Don't such entries increase diversity of protagonists?

This is just ever more proof for my theory that if you lean too far to one side, you end up looking a lot like the far fringe of the other. Extreme liberals suddenly being against interracial marriage type shit when that's what liberalism (rightly) made acceptable.
 
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Cyberpunkd

Cyberpunkd

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I don't understand this article (especially the one from Kotaku) - all goddesses featured in Hades 2 are hot, the difference is what is hot, as mentioned in the article:
to the muscle momminess of Hecate and Nemesis.
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The issue becomes when journalists reach out and try to make claims like that:
there is a variety of sexiness on display here, from the burly bearness of Hephaestus (whose presence here suggests a more inclusive approach to body types than seen in the first game)
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Hephaestus is not sexy. Dad bod is not sexy to anyone except 20-year old escorts that want a golden ticket for live. Hades is exactly the same as Stellar Blade: slim waist for you ; perfectly shaped tits for you ; great muscles and those rock hard abs for you.
 
M

MagnesD3

Member
It's thing's like this that are the reason many have lost faith in academia, the fact this kind of mentality is common and gets a pass is poison for actual progression, I dont get how some people dont see the writing on the wall for our country lol. Anyway I just want Stellar Blade to be a good game, good for you if your buying it because she's hot (kinda of a waste of money when you have porn but w/e) but it honestly matter's so incredibly little. I feel like I see an article similar to this every day.
 
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Kazdane

Kazdane

Member
GIF by Futurithmic


I mean, the moment you start comparing the artwork of Hades II (with goddesses which have historically been depicted as hot women) with Stellar Blade's main character (which is based on an actual human being, not mythology), you know that there isn't really anything interesting to read in those articles (they're comparing different types of games and secondary characters versus a main character). And I can't help but wonder if they'd say the same if those characters they're praising in Hades II were fully 3D rendered models in the game...
 
MonkeyClaw36

MonkeyClaw36

Banned
Journalists please tell me you are doing free exposure for this game without saying you're doing free exposure.....
Hot damn even my keister is smarter than that and it isn't even sentient......
 
DonkeyPunchJr

DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
Feminine, fit, conventionally beautiful cis gendered woman who appeals to heterosexual men: problematic and “just bad character design”

Literally any other type of sexualized character: “the kind of hot we need right now”


These people are mentally ill. Sorry dipshits, no amount of shrieking and scolding is going to make guys start lusting after tubby hairy chicks with septum piercings en masse.
 
DonkeyPunchJr

DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
Attention soy dudes: the activist gaming press has finished deliberating and announced their judgment, you are allowed to masturbate to Hades 2 guilt-free, provided you include some body diversity and gender diversity in your masturbatory fantasies.

Stellar Blade however is off limits. Tools for our targeted harassment campaign against Stellar Blade streamers will be released shortly. You know what you have to do!
 
rm082e

rm082e

Member
Ah, more of the leftist "Asians and Jews should be counted as white people" trope. Unless they're LGBTQIA+. But not normal looking LGBTQIA+; they have to be visibly signaling their identity as a LGBTQIA+ to count as "diverse".
 
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