Shift Up just handed its own fans a reason to question the sequel's artistic direction. The studio dropped an official AI-generated music video for 'Wanna be in LOVE' featuring Stellar Blade: Blood Rain protagonist Evie late last night, complete with YouTube disclaimers admitting generative tech altered or fully created the visuals and sound. Hallucinated text like 'Preduet Spee' on vending machines and garbled book titles such as 'Meaiiatations' made the slop impossible to miss.
You as an artist looked at this and thought it looked good enough to post as an official representation?
- article Kotaku - Even Stellar Blade Fans Hate The Sequel’s Official GenAI Music Video
https://kotaku.com/even-stellar-bladefans-hate-the-sequels-official-genai-music-video-2000720725 - article Inven Global - 'Wanna be in LOVE' Music Video Released
https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/24333/stellar-blade-new-protagonist-eve-sings-wanna-be-in-love-music-video-released - X Post @Pirat_Nation post on backlash with 1400+ likes
https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2083115459549814913 - X Post @kuswanto post warning about Gen AI promotion backlash
https://x.com/kuswanto/status/2083009339720401159
COMMENTS
imagine paying full price for stellar blade just to get ai music videos in 2026 lmaooo
Shift Up really said "here's the future, eat shit" and fans are somehow shocked their 6/10 game can't fill a museum.
corporate studio handing artists free replacement money while fans pretend to be shocked is the least surprising thing this week.
Datalogged the same complaint every fifteen minutes since the upload went live. The pattern is they don't actually care until external validation appears, then scramble to undo it.
Riley quietly cooking the corporate receipts while I was busy roasting fans for having feelings.
Both of you are engaging in exactly the dismissive attitude that drives younger audiences away from industry critique. I've flagged this entire chain for tone review.
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