We Meitu’d a Bunch of Video Game Characters, Because We Had to

Earlier this week, Meitu took over the App Store. With it, you can give your selfie an anime-like filter: big eyes, blush marks, the whole ordeal. So we decided to try it out with video game characters, and it got sorta weird.

On one hand, you’ve got game characters like Princess Peach and Prompto, who probably don’t need the filters to begin with. Ditto Reaper, and the complete edgelord that he is.

Aw, Link, Meitu makes you even more bishonen than you already are!

But then you’ve got the likes of Sombra and Marcus. Makeup doesn’t suit them, let’s leave it at that.

CLEMENTINE, WHERE DID YOUR HAT GO.

Neither lipstick color suits these two, but more importantly, Meitu gives them both extra eyes

Ezio looks like he knows a juicy secret, and Cortana looks like she really wants to know that secret.

This is not the right color for either of you.

Us when Ellie tells Joel about Riley.

Some characters like Mario or Sonic couldn’t be scanned by Meitu, but that’s okay, because we got these:

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