Quote Originally Posted by Aurumis View Post
So I did a gif using Endwalker and Dawntrail benchmarks.
To everyone who said they didn't change faces.... you are fucking blind.

I want my old face... what they did to my WoL... they just ruined him. Look at his eyes... and the mouth.... the eyebrows are thinner... the chin is rounder than before... I just want to cry...

Male miqo'te face 4 eyes 3 mouth 1, nose 1
I can see it. The jaw does look more angular in Endwalker, and more like a smooth curve in Dawntrail. The new lips + the new shading and shape of the eye create a really different resting expression. It even seems like the eye might be positioned lower in relation to the eyebrow than it was before. The eyebrows, in addition to being thinner, are also a bit grayer/darker, so they no longer match the color of the hair and contrast differently with the skin than they did originally. This specific change has happened to other faces, too, to varying degrees. I’ve pointed out a similar change on one of my characters (female miqo’te face 4), who has been given very unnatural-looking gray eyebrows.

One of the most notable issues is probably the fact that the catchlights in your character’s eyes are hidden under his now-droopier eyelids. This could contribute a lot to the appearance of dull eyes, especially when other characters in the game have a visible shine to their eyes. It’s even a visual trope in anime/manga to draw eyes without catchlights to make a character look zoned-out, hopeless, or just “off”, so this seems like a particularly strange choice.

You have good reason to complain. Male miqo’te face 4 seems to be one of the most altered faces after the update.