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Final Fantasy 7 remake: some Japanese fans complain about Aerith's new design
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I think both her and Cloud's faces look sort of plasticy. Weird because I think Square is usually good at that sort of thing.
To be honest, all the new footage made everyone look more anime than I imagined. The dubs specially sounds really like the ones I hear in most animes.
Edit: I also think the PS3 demo had a better aerith design.
Edit: I also think the PS3 demo had a better aerith design.
It's not the eyes actually. In OP's shot, her hairline appears too low and gives the illusion that her eyes are placed too high.
But it's not the best reference. Camera shifts and facial expressions can obscure the proportions a bit. The ideal shot is one with a low FOV and with her making a neutral expression but that's asking too much. So take my post with a grain of salt.
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The fan version looks way younger and the proportions are weird. Don't see how anyone could prefer it. The original looks great.
The changed version just looks like generic Asian female doll character model #43252342. You can find #123442534, #254342432 and #980890 by looking at any DoA female character. The developer version of Aerith looks good to me.
Overall I feel game developers should spend more time on adding subtle "flaws" to character faces because we all have them if you look close enough. Especially female characters should have less of the full on makeup and perfect doll face look in a lot of game contexts. That doesn't mean they would be ugly but would look more like actual humans.
Overall I feel game developers should spend more time on adding subtle "flaws" to character faces because we all have them if you look close enough. Especially female characters should have less of the full on makeup and perfect doll face look in a lot of game contexts. That doesn't mean they would be ugly but would look more like actual humans.
The thing to me is, if they wanna have their own weird aesthetic tastes they're welcome to it, but this sort of... possessiveness of other fictional characters; it just strikes me as unhealthy.
I'm a have your cake and eat it too kind of guy, but people being shitty about a piece of media having different aesthetic priorities than their personal taste always strikes me as petty.
My issue with her face is that it hits the uncanny valley pretty hard for me because of the eyes and nose. If you move the eyes down a tiny bit and make her nose a little bigger she looks a lot better to me.
This.
How dare she look more or less age-appropriate and have some slight deviations from conventional beauty canons (while still looking super cute), am I right?
Her face never looked less human than other characters in any of the games she's been in, I don't see why it should now.
FFVII R should have this art style don't @ me
ahh yes. a mix of 4 different games artstyles
The edit in the OP makes her look like a weird gremlin. I'm not a fan of her face in the game, but that edit is so much worse.
Then again my issues with her face are completely different from these weirdos who want her to be their waifu.
Then again my issues with her face are completely different from these weirdos who want her to be their waifu.
i swear the images were identical except the artificial light to make her whiter but staring at it for forever i noticed the random cheek puff
So they want her to look less like an individual person and more like a generic cartoon doll
Shades of DOA5's announcement here
And weep.
Shades of DOA5's announcement here
It's not just the cheek puff. They reduced her jaw considerably while also inverting the slightly convex slope of her nose into a more typical post-op nose.
See: The most popular Dead or Alive 5/6 characters in Japan.
And weep.
I agree with you but with the remake, I guess they can show a little more her mixed blood so it's okay for me. But even if I'm wrong with my speculation, I will still like this design ahah.
they literally moved her chin and made her look like an anime character
keep on being japan...............japan
keep on being japan...............japan
Once again, literally every face morph of Aerith makes her look less like Aerith.
Keep on keep on, Square. You're doin' great.
Keep on keep on, Square. You're doin' great.
I just googled italian model green eyes and got this
Aerith's proportions look fine to me and I always thought she looked Italian.
Aerith's proportions look fine to me and I always thought she looked Italian.
