Today's the earliest expected date for the Benchmark re-release

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The new screenshots and examples of the changes look fantastic. The eyes look even more alive now too. I am Yoshi P in today's update told people their characters may look different, so here is a fantasia. You aren't getting a one-to-one folks no matter how they update and tweak the graphics updates, so you either need to get onboard or redo your character. The absolute hell this team has been through addresses everyone's complaints is insane. They are probably working a terrible amount of crunch time for Dawntrail's release 6/28 and Yoshi P is not delaying this expansion after EW. Give them some grace.

In the end, you may just not be 100% satisfied and you need to simply get over it. From what I can see in the new screenshots, character details, lighting, eyes and textures look greatly improved. Lips especially seem to have returned to their illustrious self.

You know that a fantasia will not resolve the issues people had, right? You can't tweak things because all we have is certain presets.

And telling people to "get over it", to ignore the fact that the characters that they looked at, played with, and identified with for years are forcibly changed, thats one hell of a trash take, not gonna lie. That sort of empathy lacking response is just sad, man. Do better.
It would not have been "too much" to recreate the faces we already have with higher polygon count.