Shift Up is finally starting to lift the curtains on Stellar Blade, the highly anticipated action-adventure game coming exclusively to PlayStation 5. The upcoming hack-and-slash title was originally announced in 2019 under a different name, Project Eve. But in 2021, the developers confirmed two things: its new name and its exclusivity to the PS5. Fast forward to today, and the game's director is starting to let us in on many details surrounding the game, including the official confirmation of the identity of the protagonist's body model.

, it was speculated that Shift Up had scanned the Korean model Shin Jae-eun and used her body's likeness for better and more realistic in-game models.

Now, Kim Hyung Tae is revealing the reason why Shift Up specifically chose Shin Jae-eun.

According to an interview with Pushsquare, Shift Up chose Shin Jae-eun because the studio "wanted to come up with the most attractive looking body for the user, so this is why we made the decision to work with her."