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Marvel Rivals Director Defends Female Character Skins and Points to "Classic Comic Designs"
Marvel Rivals director Guangyun Chen says skins are inspired by classic comic themes and season storylines, aiming for authenticity despite criticism of sexualized designs.
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Marvel Rivals director defends female character skins and points to "classic comic designs"
Since first gracing our screens at the end of last year, Marvel Rivals has built an impressive audience. But some onlookers have questioned whether its female character designs verge too far into sexualisation.Characters like Psylocke, Emma Frost and the Invisible Woman have all gone viral on social media for their rather revealing skins, earned in-game or bought from the store for real-life money.During a recent Rivals Assembled interview, Marv…
'Marvel Rivals' Director Responds To "Gooner Game" Accusations, Says "Majority Of Players" Like Sexy Skins
Psylocke (Alpha Takahashi) enjoys a day at the beach in Marvel Rivals (2024), NetEase Rather than paying any mind to those more annoyingly puritanical sections of the internet that have written off Marvel Rivals‘ character designs, in particular those belonging to its female roster picks like Psylocke and Squirrel Girl, as nothing more than ‘disgusting pervert gooner bait’, Game Director Guangyun ‘Guangguang’ Chen has instead chosen to focus his…
In Marvel Rivals, in addition to the normal outfits for the superheroes, there are also skins that show more skin. In an interview, the creative director now defends himself against the allegations. What is this game? Marvel Rivals is a 6 vs. 6-hero shooter that reminds of the game principle strongly of overwatch. However, as characters, well-known Marvel superheroes or villains such as the "Hulk" or "Invisible Woman" appear. On Steam, the game …
When Netease, the team behind the clone of Overwatch Marvel Rivals, decided to launch a lot of new skins in which many of the heroine protagonists were barely dressed, the reactions of fans were, as expected, barely mild. Netease has been accused by disgruntled fans of throwing several of the so-called "skins gooner", cosmetics that represent female characters in a very provocative way. This is something that producer Guangyun Chen comments on i…
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