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She looks like a pretty-ish redheaded woman (without makeup, she'd be conventionally hot with it because redheads tend to need mascara and more defined brows to be conventionally sexy, plus lipstick would go a long way for her). Just earlier someone was lamenting that media had been systematically avoiding the depiction of redheads, Aloy is a relatively 'feminine' portrayal, she doesn't come off as hugely masculine in the games, her face model is pretty etc.
She got subtly uglied between game 1 and 2. She also ditched all her (masculine) friends and allies from game 1 and replaced them with PoC simps.
And after going through the effort of making a post-racial future with new societies to be the cast of heroes and antagonists (the 1st game bad guys were Carja political extremists being manipulated by an AI) , in the 2nd game they brought in DBZ floating space hwite people to be the villains, complete with a floating crew-cut southern-accent straight white male goon. Everything about 2 just fucking bugged me.
Also, how many spunky oseram wrench-wenches who are way better at engineering than the men but are fighting against patriarchy do you need? I'd say two, three max, because I like wrech wenches. You dont need 8.
"Uglier" is not the fitting word in the vast majority of such cases. It's loaded and implies the end result is below average. Going from 8 to 7, or even from 7 to 6 is hardly "uglification".
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it's uglyer, if the word was ugly you would have a point.
she now looks like a wester Muk Bang Youtuber
Yes, I've seen this cherry-picked frame before. An actual comparison doesn't quite fit that narrative.
interesting that they gave her rosacea, or at least it is more pronounced in your link. At 3:21 she still looks like Nicado, at 3:23 not so much, so lighting may be a contributing factor to the imitation.
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