I guess it depends on the player's opinion and to me Viera's (normal) run is not "dainty" as you'd say and I would love it if the dev team changed that to a "cute" animation I liked so that my experience playing that race would be enjoyable.

From a third point of view Viera's run might look normal but from the character's point of view (in my opinion) is not delicate at all.

The dev team doesn't necessarily have to waste resources to change the running animation of one race and in doing so they could create a new system to allow players to choose the one (running animation) they want to use, I don't see why a race must be limited to certain animations only, it only makes characters lack personality.

I've tried other races before but their run is not acceptable to me, Hyur Highlander, Elezen and Au Ra females all have ugly normal running animations and now Viera joins them!...


The easy solution to fix more than one race's issues is to give them at least a second running animation, player chooses the one they want to use and everyone's happy!...