User blog comment:Bluegear93/Tali's face./@comment-3062992-20120726015441

From a guy who ALMOST became a Talimancer, but instead became a... Shadow Bro? (What are Liara fan-boys called? I missed that one.)

If you can get past the fact that there's another alien species that bears a similarity to humanity (something I'm not all that butt-hurt about, personally) I think her face works. In ME2, she calls you "dashing" if a certain response is selected (I think) so that, in my mind, was an implication that there were similarities between the two species. (And you could also just barely make out her face under her visor, so they had limitations about how alien to make her, even then.)

I suppose I'm not one to really pass negative judgment on her design because personally since I couldn't even come up with my own mental image of what she looked like under that helmet...

They took a gamble on her face, I don't have a problem with it. What I DO have a problem with is that you only see her face in a photo. I know for a fact I'm not the only one who was disappointed when she removed her mask and nothing was shown. So in my opinion, the ball was dropped in that regard.

In short...

Design: fair enough.

Execution: not enough.