Playing Phantom Pain and was just doodling around looking at Snake and Quiet in the chopper and I noticed something. While the gross features of their faces all match the characters’ fictional ethnicity, the subtler details – the texture of the hair, the exact profile of the nose, the lips, the eye sockets – seem a bit off and can’t help but feel it’s in a Japanese direction

or according to the Japanese 3D sculptor-animators who tweaked them, “human”, presumably. as 3D converges on “realism” it’s the slight artifice where you see the mark of the creator

as far as other Japanese games with a AAA modeling budget, I’ve noticed Final Fantasy Road Trip in a deeper uncanny valley of ethnicity, but it’s hard to say how much of that was deliberate effect – the character design was more stylized and a lot of the background design was “kinked Americana”, after all