She actually underwent a significant character change during development that I really didn't agree with:
They changed her to look a bit more mature and and a better example of a "strong female", which I understand but it was (and still is) harder for me to accept given how familiar and welcome the original design was. It doesn't jive with her cartoony hairdo:
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I like the original design of Meryl much more. But she probably looked too young, probably how she would look like in MGS1.
When they change the design during development it's usually not for the better.
In RE:Revelations they should have used Jill from RE5 as the base model, because Jill from RE5 was more or less the same design as Jill from RERemake.
Also Luka from Lost Planet. She used to look so much better when the game was first announced and MGS4 Raiden, he looked so badass when he was unveiled, but in the final game they made him more feminine again, by giving him huge eyelashes and changes the overall design...:
Original design -> Final design
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