What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Rosenstrauch]

Fair warning, nothing I am about to say has any bearing on any arguments about whether or not characters qualify as "pretty boys", "brats", "masculine", or any other "let's shove a human-shaped body into a tiny box and make it fit" terminology.

FF6 character design

I mean, if we're going to pick nits:

Setzer, Edgar, Cyan, and Locke all have different eyebrow shapes and colors. They also have different nose shapes—Cyan's is an eagle/aquiline nose, Edgar's is hooked/Roman, Setzer's is straight and sharp with a flat glabella, and Locke's is still straight but has a softer tip and concave glabella. Edgar's nose has a reddened tip, while Cyan's nostrils are a deeper shade than the rest of his nose. And lest you somehow mistake Locke and Setzer for the same person, Setzer's face is covered in scars. Their chins are different shapes, too, though this is obscured by clothing and hair in Edgar and Setzer's case.

The point I'm trying to make is that these faces are unique. If you cropped out everything but their faces, it would still be clear that they look like different people, and someone who knew about the cast of FF6 could reasonably identify without having seen Amano's artwork before.

Of course, none of this is relevant to the game itself, which uses 16-bit sprites designed to fit within a 16x24 grid. Notable victims of the process of converting these designs to sprite format are everyone's noses, everyone's eyebrows being distinguishable from their eyelashes, any variation in skin color since they have a limited palette to work with (making everyone vaguely beige), and Sabin's beard.

It shouldn't be surprising that when every defining facial feature except Cyan's moustache is removed, people will tell the characters apart by their clothing.

EDIT: Also, I have no idea why I'm here right now.