New game for the PS5 accidentally launches a demo: Now everyone is talking about a daring outfit

The new game for the PlayStation 5, Stellar Blade, has made headlines primarily with its heroine Eve, based on a body scan of a South Korean model. After a demo that started accidentally, Eve is once again the center of attention: This time it is about one of her outfits in the demo, a Skin-Suit, which reveals very little.

This is the discussion about Stellar Blade:

• Stellar Blade is an action-adventure scheduled to be released on April 26 for the PS5. The main theme of the game is the heroine Eve: She was created based on a body scan of a South Korean model.
• The images of the heroine have sparked a discussion that games from Asia rely on attractive, perhaps unrealistic, beautiful figures, while in the West such models have been recognized and criticized as “unrealistic beauty ideals” and studios are striving to portray heroines more realistically – for example, with the heroine Aloy.
• However, the developers of Stellar Blade take a clear counterposition and say, they wanted to play characters that are prettier than themselves.

A demo accidentally launched in the PS store

This is the new topic: A demo for Stellar Blade briefly went live in the PS5 store on March 9. This was apparently just a mistake, and Sony quickly removed the demo, but some users managed to download and play the demo for Stellar Blade from the PlayStation Store.

The short time the demo was online was enough for players to get a glimpse at skins from Stellar Blade, which were spread over social media.

In particular, the “Skin Suit” is being discussed. A video about the skin received 9,415 likes and 562 comments on Twitter.

As the US site Dexerto reports, the outfit leaves “very little to the player’s imagination.”

So, in other words: The character is nearly naked.

Other outfits from the demo showing Eve in black or a diving suit elicit far less reaction.

Apparently, Stellar Blade has found a way to attract attention.

We have already reported on the debate about beauty standards: New PS5 game uses 3D scan of a model as a template for heroine – critics sneer: “In the West, she would be ugly”