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Also a face 4 male miqo here and I hate hate HATE the dark shadow they added to the top of the eyes. It makes all of the miqo'te boys but especially face 4 look heavily-lidded and half asleep where they were once previously bright-eyed and alert looking. It's not even part of the eye texture itself, it's a separate file that adds a shadow from the top lid over the eyes. It looks okay on some faces, especially the big-eyed female miqo'te models, but it looks AWFUL on the males because it's not scaled to fit the actual size of the eye. So while the shadow covers only, say, 10% of a female miqo'te's eyes, the shadow covers more like 40% of male face 4's eyes. It totally changes the look and feel of their eyes to have a shadow that prominent and dark, and I am baffled on how any character designer or artist could look at that and say, "yeah looks great."

It's a stupid change for no reason. We didn't need this. The old models didn't have that extra shadow there, and I don't know why anyone thought we wanted it. The characters with big eyes can't see it much and the characters with small eyes now have a significant portion of their eyes hidden by it.
It's very strange because some of the old models DID have that shadow and they lessened it on some of those. It's the same thing with eye makeup too, it seems like they randomly decided to add or remove it instead of following what the original models had.