We need to compromise as a player base

[Fuyume]

Here you go, I plugged into photoshop and boosted the brightness by 50% and sharpened the picture to mimic more HDness feel free to recreate if you need to verify this.



While the changes are there and subtle the mouth mainly, I see the same softness come out in the photoshopped picture than the graphics update, her cheeks, because they are brighter now, seem more puffed out too. The original picture is just darker so it gives it a more edgy vibe/makes the face look slimmer.

Even more brightness = more puffed cheeks

And as I've said in several places now, I could maybe live with the weirdly round face (it is in fact more round which is shown when she looks over her shoulder on the chocobo in the original comparisons), maybe even the super pout (yes I am in fact attached to her current mouth shape considering I've had it since HW launch), but the dimples are honestly too far. It makes her feel like an entirely different character. And I've already hamfisted an excuse for her to change races once for her lore, I can't do it again without invalidating everything I've ever written for her, so a free fantasia isn't going to help me. They changed the entire vibe of the face just by changing the mouth.

Edit because I hit the post limit and can't reply, her face does not look round and puffy like that in ANY of the hairstyles I actually use; I haven't used this hair since HW but I had to use a base hair to get a comparable shot or else not being exactly the same would be used as the excuse. I've used Early to Rise, Styles for Hire, this one in my profile picture (my friends call it the Duran-Duran hair because Durante so I don't actually remember its name), and Gyr Abanian Plait. And in none of them did her face look this extremely round.