After the announcement of God of War: Laufey on social media, Reddit, and other platforms, heated debates flared up about Faye’s look. A chunk of players voiced displeasure with the redesign, often measuring the in-game face against the mocap/voice performer Deborah Ann Woll. The loudest threads are on X and Reddit, where people pick apart how the character compares to her real-life counterpart.
She looks fucking awful.
They scanned her face and somehow made it worse. Why even do that? Deborah Ann Woll is beautiful…
Maybe it’s the face-scan tech. They should stop using it — it often produces creepy results.
How come scans in Death Stranding 2 make women look attractive, but here she looks like they added 10–15 years on purpose?
Some posters accused the studio of deliberately dialing down the heroine’s attractiveness; others jumped in to defend Santa Monica Studio, arguing that folks are judging the entire game from a single portrait and there’s almost no plot or gameplay info yet, e.g., nothing concrete to support sweeping claims.
Not everyone hated it. Plenty urged patience — wait for a fuller reveal. Faye’s still a central figure in the Norse saga, and a teaser or two (i.e., the brief footage we’ve seen) isn’t enough to call the whole game one way or the other.