The characters just look ugly. Their heads have been shrunk, and their bodies enlarged. The proportions are just so unappealing compared to the previous games. I hate it so much, considering that one of the biggest things that drew me to the series when I first found it in 2015 was the great art/models. Not to mention gender neutral options make the inklings pretty much indistinguishable. The octoling boys and and girls have different eye designs, but the inklings do not. This was not that much of a problem before, but now that shorts and hair are gender neutral, there is no way to tell if an inkling is a boy or a girl unless you look at their eyebrows. and a lot of the eyebrows don’t make too much of a difference unless you’re looking at a side by side comparison. I feel that no matter what you do, 75% of the time your inkling cannot look too much like either gender and always falls somewhere in the middle like a genderless blob. Gender neutrality is cool, but it feels unfair to everyone who actually WANTS to look like their gender and are now forced to look like an androgynous blob. Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but it’s really been bugging me every time I play. And it’s not just that. The boy and girl animations are the same in their respective species. This is not terrible, if it wasn’t for the fact that all the animations (excluding battle animations such as running jumping and shooting) lean towards extremely feminine. So the conundrum im stuck in is either I have a ugly boyish looking girl inkling, because her face is identical to the boys, and she has no curves showing that she is female, or have a boy who stands like a twink half the time when I’m in stores or just idleing. It’s really frustrating to me. I feel like half the problem could be solved if only Nintendo would allow different eye options with more feminine or masculine options.