Seeing all those combat screenshots in sequence... the motif of KH's attack animation really was "things swirl around everywhere" wasn't it?

The only thing that's really standing out to me on those comparison screens are the extra details in hairstyles. The fish faces do look better, and these seem to be taken from actual gameplay rather than a trailer, so I don't see Squeenix pulling fake footage like they sometimes do in their trailers. Looking good anyway!

No its the fast action combos, man.

I noticed quite clearly with the Barbosa comparisons that he had teeth in the HD shot. Good to see that Square Enix has gone to the trouble to get rid of gummy mouths XD I just hope they payed as much attention to the characters' facial expressions rather than always giving them those horrible "set" faces. Eww. From what I've seen so far, they have got rid of most of them...most...

they almost definitely haven't reanimated a single face for this collection

Sprite faces are still present and not a single one has changed. They would need to add new animation. They are not remaking anything.

Really? I thought that they had fixed a few up. I don't know, I mean from what I've seen in some of the sneak-peaks they seem to have changed some of the faces in cutscenes, but maybe that was just for show.

No. In KH2 there was less sprite faces. Most of them are 3D.