Still unreleased and eagerly awaited by genre fans Stellar Bladewhich is scheduled to be released next Friday, an in-game graphic has appeared that can easily be seen as a reference to one in particular racist insult can be understood.
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Specifically, it's about the combination of graffiti, which can often be seen on the walls of Stellar Blades' locations, and the logo of Roxanne's shop. Now Sony is reacting and promises to address the unintentional misstep as quickly as possible.
Racist reference in Stellar Blade unintentional according to Sony – Should be removed with Day One patch
As the PlayStation manufacturer now explains, the wording, which can be understood as an aggressive allusion to an extremely racist insult, is one that only unintentionally found its way into Stellar Blade, according to reports, among others IGN. With a first patch For the action-adventure, which will be released in a few days on April 26th, they want to take it on and take it straight from the brand new title to ban.
Specifically, this is the recurring, pink one “HARD” graffitiwhich appears at a certain point in the game right in front of the Roxanne's R Shop logo big, neon colored R – was placed. When put together, this results in the formulation “Hard R”, which is mainly used in the USA represents an extremely discriminatory and hurtful insult. If this isn't enough of an explanation for you, we recommend exploring the topic further using your favorite search engine.
In one Sony's statement it states: “The placement of two graphics side by side in Stellar Blade resulted in unintentional offensive language,” and continues: “Shift Up had no intention of creating offensive graphics and will replace the graffiti with the Day 1 patch.” According to a PlayStation representative, that would remain Disc version not spared by Stellar Blade.
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