Quote Originally Posted by Gember View Post
I might be the oddball here, but some people's characters in the benchmark actually looks so much better compared to what we have currently. However, I get the sentimental value of the "identity" of our characters.
I would say that identity is more or less 70% of what fuels or arguments. Some characters look good, some might even say better, but they don't look like the players' characters. And that is extremely important, as Yoshi P himself said. Their stated philosophy for this change is to maintain the identity of the characters.

That is why I feel so upset when they change the actual structure of eyebrows and eyelashes, which in turn changes the entire feel of the eyes. I expected fundamental changes to graphics affect the way characters look, and was somewhat ready for it, but I was not ready for actual assets being seemingly deliberately made different for no discernable reason.