GBA version is U.G.L.Y!

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

[rubah]

Kishi, I wish you would've shown me these before I said those hateful things about child rydia.

Rosa appears to be a victim of circumstance. most of the others look great, apart from the aforementioned, kain's, edward's, and cid's look great.

paladin cecil and adult rydia also seem to have suffered. Someone needs to learn how to pixel womanly portraits.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The main problem is that, while the original portraits only depicted each character's head, Square got overzealous with the GBA version and tried to show their bodies as well, even though they actually had less pixel space to shoehorn them into. So many of the facial details that were instrinsic to the appeal of the original portraits--Gilbert's conflicted expression, Rosa's caring gaze, Porom's endearing smile, Palom's smarmy half-grin, Cid's gaping piehole, and so on--were obscured beyond recognition.

[Zeromus_X]

They have even better quality while still looking faithful to the originals. Maybe I'm not a pixel expert, but I don't see how they look obscured.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It has nothing to do with being a "pixel expert." Just look at Porom and Palom. If you can't see the degradation there, you're just deluding yourself.

[Zeromus_X]

Then I guess I'll just continue deluding myself.

[rubah]

I think palom and porom look more the sweet yet mischeivous children they are without being in the throes of agony than they did, really.

[Ashley Schovitz]

I see what you all mean, i've only played the PS1 version which I think has the SNES versions that you posted, but they look much clearer on my TV than on this screen. The GBA ones look ugly, why didn't they just re-use the SNES ones?

[Meat Puppet]

Am I the only one who finds Rydia's eyebrows upsetting?

[Xaven]

Am I the only one who finds Rydia's eyebrows upsetting?

No, especially in adult Rydia.

[My_car_is_faster_than_you]

Rydia looks plain weird in those pictures. So does Rosa, as everyone seems to notice. But Kain, Edge, Tellah, and Cid look pretty good. The others, well, they look like they lost something, but not really sure what.

[Paul]

yeah i had never had a problem with the GBA pictures really, but looking at that post it is clear that the SNES ones were better in pretty much every instance.

also lol @ your hidden image title opinions

[Fatal Impurity]

i think adult rydia looks like a transexual guy! and paladin cycil looks like a drug addict drag queen! what is wrong with this world!? why cant they just leave the past well alone!?

[Sefie1999AD]

i think adult rydia looks like a transexual guy!

So I wasn't the only one who noticed that? Even now that I'm looking at the GBA pics, I don't think they were that bad, although the new portraits of Rosa and adult Rydia looked quite bad, IMHO.

[Roto13]

I think the kids look cuter in the newer portraits.