SiegfriedFM
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Translation:
"Neil Druckman, creative head at Naughty Dog and director/producer of The Last of Us doesn't really like our latest cover. Despite it featuring the latest perfect scored game. The reason is because I removed Ellie from the picture. After a tweet from Naughty Dog a discussion on sexism has flared up, something I would like to close at once. The reason why Ellie was removed was purely aesthetical. A question of design. Anything else is made up.
We removed Ellie because she looked like an after-thought by the illustrator. She was the only part of the image in a separate layer, and she looked pasted in and a bit like a paper doll with a lower resolution face than Joel's. We thought that the cover looked better like this. Better, and we also found a perfect spot for our headline. If Naughty Dog really didn't want a cover without Ellie they of course shouldn't have delivered an image with the option of removing her.
In the end the hysteria around the cover is a bit funny, but also raaaather silly. We printed an Uncharted cover without Sully and didn't see a bit of commotion, we printed a Jak & Daxter cover without Daxter, a Ratchet & Clank cover without Ratchet and a Half-Life 2 cover without Alyx. We've also made a Super Mario Bros cover with only one of the brothers, a Sonic cover without Tails and an Army of Two cover only featuring Rios. It's about design. Only."
"Neil Druckman, creative head at Naughty Dog and director/producer of The Last of Us doesn't really like our latest cover. Despite it featuring the latest perfect scored game. The reason is because I removed Ellie from the picture. After a tweet from Naughty Dog a discussion on sexism has flared up, something I would like to close at once. The reason why Ellie was removed was purely aesthetical. A question of design. Anything else is made up.
We removed Ellie because she looked like an after-thought by the illustrator. She was the only part of the image in a separate layer, and she looked pasted in and a bit like a paper doll with a lower resolution face than Joel's. We thought that the cover looked better like this. Better, and we also found a perfect spot for our headline. If Naughty Dog really didn't want a cover without Ellie they of course shouldn't have delivered an image with the option of removing her.
In the end the hysteria around the cover is a bit funny, but also raaaather silly. We printed an Uncharted cover without Sully and didn't see a bit of commotion, we printed a Jak & Daxter cover without Daxter, a Ratchet & Clank cover without Ratchet and a Half-Life 2 cover without Alyx. We've also made a Super Mario Bros cover with only one of the brothers, a Sonic cover without Tails and an Army of Two cover only featuring Rios. It's about design. Only."