Yoshida gives update on the benchmark/character creator

[SannaR]

When it comes to facial features, minor changes can make a huge difference in how the overall face looks. Take a look at real plastic surgery. A lot of people get very subtle procedures vs. going for something extreme, and yet even those minor tweaks make a difference. Try pulling your nose down just a tiny bit. Lift your brows at your hairline a smidge. Purse your lips, or maybe suck in your upper lip (RIP LALA)...see how that looks to you. Point being, when it comes to facial features, even small, delicate changes can have an impact.

So going back to the game now, we have characters whose eyeshapes/lash lines have changed, lips have changed shape, jawlines are puffier/softer, eyebrows are taking on new lines all together, etc. A lot of characters are getting hit with several of these changes in one go. Maybe the updated benchmark will "fix" things, maybe not. Will we all survive? Of course. But to be so blatantly dismissive of people pointing out and discussing actual changes...well, that's not a good look.

To the person whose character it is who has looked at them for days on end and sometimes very up close the smallest of changes will be very noticeable. But to most others those changes will not be as pronounced. So when they show people a current game and current benchmark and go I don't know how you can't see the minuscular changes that have been made. My Character looks as bad as that one lady's retouch of that painting of Jesus. If not more hideous than the inside of the mouth of a roundworm larvae. they should try to take a few breathes before reacting on high emotions when someone else replies basically with that one Office meme. Where only in one picture does the character look like they went and had a session at a high end photoshoot. When the person who doesn't see the infinitesimal changes is made to feel as they are failing very bad at a spot the 15 changes to this picture in a child's copy of Highlight Magazine (yes I know I'm showing my age with thar reference.)

It can feel as the person who is making the complaints are being a bit over dramatic if not overly emotional. Which sure it's fine to be emotional about your own character. But sometimes replying while having a "in the heat of the moment." well moment might not be the best thing. And many people's reactions to others who were either just trying to help troubleshoot or give encouraging words were well as bad if not worse than that grandma who was very distraught with worry about the well-being of her grandson who lived in Pelika Stand.

Course now there are two groups and who should the devs listen to? As neither group holds more weight than the other. Even if they think they might. They're both paying customers. Both care about how their characters look. I don't envy the dev team.