Just a LiS remaster theory (sorta)
So...
Well, I'll take my words back /from one of my previous posts/ about char-s redesign, but only in a case if they did it on purpose ā as an attempt to fix Rachel's face and make her look more like Max than it already was.
(btw, I do not pretend to be right, this is just an assumption)
Since season 1 it was speculated that Rachel and Max has a connection. I would even say a huge connection. Not just because of obvious similarities (height, doe-eyed look, jaw structure, mystery aura, and bond with doe spirit), but also /from what we learned from BtS/ because of the similarities in some little things and actions.
Yes, they are different, they are not clones, but at the same time they are similar too much. And it's not just a coincidence.
/As far as I can judge from the technical factors, the similarity of our girls' faces was a little fucked up due to the difference in engines (first of all, everyone in BtS looked like in anime ā their eyes are really bigger than in first game, ahaha), but even this could not hide their similarity from my eyes/
So let's see, what they did to Rachel and Max in the remaster:
Max is almost didn't change. I only see that her face became a little thinner as Rachel's original face (but probably it's because of changed light and smoothened textures) and they made her makeup more noticeable.
But Rachel has changed much more. They made her eyes a bit more open and changed the arrows in the inner corners of the eyes (as it was done in the eyes of Max). Also they changed her eyebrows, lips (it looks more like Max's), and nose. They changed her facial structure in principle ā her forehead became smaller, and her face became rounded, almost like Max's.
/You can clearly see that her nose, eyebrows, lips, eyes and chin are really changed a bit/
This makes me wonder: was this really done on purpose or is there another reason? Idk, but to be honest, this is the only acceptable reason for me.
So I was having fun with the drawings, trying to use the new face models, and this is what happened:
I always wanted to try changing their hairstyles, and now I had a real incentive. But tbh, what happened blew my brain completely. They are MUCH more than just alike.
/I gave Max the same makeup as on the new Rachel's face model and narrowed her face a little. And on the contrary, I made Rachel's face rounder, changed lips and eyebrows like on a new model, and just did Max's makeup/
A more detailed comparison of Rachel's models. She actually looks almost like two different people.
As a result, I will say that I do not know if I am right or not, but I am looking forward to the 13th to find out if my assumptions are correct.
(Perhaps I will make another post with a more detailed analysis, but I'm not sure yet)
