Graphical Update: One Major Goal Missed

[eohippus]

male elezen also had pretty big changes to lip shape! the fullest lip options were made thinner (which is unfortunate, there's not many full options to begin with for them at all)

edit: to add on, I feel like male elezen really suffered in the "maintaining the original feel of the characters" department in part because they were such an angular race to begin with. adding more polygons without compensating for that (i.e., adding textures that include suggestions of cheekbones, or avoiding that thin white line nose highlight that homogenizes all nose shapes) really did some damage to what have been recognizable elezen features for a long while.

this goal was definitely missed if I've seen some people voice "if I had started playing in dawntrail, I would probably not pick the same race for my player character because the things that drew me to them to start with are no longer present with this update" ):

[SpiritMuse]

I agree. The spirit and feel of my character has absolutely not been preserved. The charm point of my character, for me, has always been the relaxed, gentle eyes. With the current changes to eyelashes and eye colors, that doesn't exist anymore. And no amount of fantasia can bring it back, because all the eyes are like this now.

[Egggi]

I don't feel that the spirit and feeling of my character were preserved at all. Her serious and capable look is more dead and brainless, with a little bit of doll, none of which I was looking for when I made my character.

I think they should either revert the changes and take them back to the drawing board for 7.XX or 8.0, or add additional char gen options and make some edits so that chars can look more representative of their current look while having the shapes of jaws, eyes, and lips shown in the benchmark if they're particularly intent on keeping them around.