Last month, Stellar Blade studio Shift Up released an AI-generated video, designed to show off the title's in-development sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The video was a mess and received the vitriol it deserved from the gaming community, both inside and outside Stellar Blade's fandom.
At this year's Gamescom, we got to sit down with DongKi Lee, CTO and Stellar Blade Technical Director at Shift Up. While the majority of our chat centered on the original game's Switch 2 port, I asked Lee if he would like to address the situation. He confirmed that there were "concerns" and that the studio was taking measures to separate its different types of content.
The Blood Rain music video didn't look good. Evie's face changed between shots, the environment was uncanny, the frame rates were choppy, and the music itself was just plain bad. Naturally, it bombed with fans, so at this Gamescom, I asked the studio's chief technical officer what they were thinking.
"The reason we revealed that music video was to show more of the beauty of Stellar Blade Blood Rain," Lee tells me. "We wanted to show the world view and the character Evie. We just wanted to...
