Quote Originally Posted by Astronis View Post
I haven't heard anyone complaining about Alisaie and Alphinaud despite the fact that they have new models.
Alisaie used to have a slightly opened mouth (similar to one of the M'iqote F faces, which was also arbitrarily modified post graphical update), which was enough to give her character and differentiate her from Alphinaud.
You can see it in the renders here:



And I also have these old screenshots of her in gpose, idle animation (the colors are not accurate)



That difference has disappeared in 7.0 and her mouth is now fully closed.
Apart from the changes to my character it's the first thing I noticed when I started MSQ.

The reason I haven't "complained" about it is because I'm willing to compromise on it.
It's not my character, and I have much bigger issues with the graphical update than this.
I'm also willing to interpret it as "character growth" (the twins have to grow up at some point).

Just like with the M'iqote F mouth I'm sure some people are happy to say "well *I* am glad for this change because it looked wrong/ugly/like a bug" or whatever, but when it's one of the distinctive features of a character it's still a little questionable that it would be erased entirely.
But again, not a player character, so I'd rather have the M'iqote F mouth being restored over this one.

I also have 2 gifs of Alisaie and Alphinaud before and post graphical update, which definitely shows that they have changed, especially around the eyes:




I wasn't planning on sharing these but this "no one has complained about this so it's probably going to be fine" argument kind of forced my hand.