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Not that much of a hot take. I agree with it. The elephant in the room is that ugly characters go hand in hand with ugly writing. If you were mentally ill enough to think you can gaslight people into buying ugly characters then you're too retarded to write anything not-shit too.

However it's not just about "woke writing" (referencing/virtue signaling about modern American/Californian/Western European identity politics about LGBTQ, BLM, immigrants, gross sex liberation and whatnot) but also about "Joss Whedon" writing which utterly raped every western medium.

So even if the game doesn't have American political agenda if it's still written with quips, sarcasm, misanthropy, irreverence and sardonic tone then that's also a massive problem.

However you're right. Ugly characters are a much bigger problem.
If the game was completely void of shit writing or was at least ignorable it would still be bad if the art style/character design was disgusting and unappealing. These are VISUALS and they really matter in VIDEO games.

The deal starts to break when they start demanding full prices for their slop. This is when visuals and writing, if prominent, become truly intolerable. Because the modern/western devs think gameplay isn't the main selling point and spend half of the budget on visuals and story BUT they also make it ugly - shrinking the gameplay focus at a detriment to the whole package.
So the $90 games would in theory have $30 worth of the actual game, $30 of excruciatingly scanned Hollywood actors and $30 of elaborate writing and narrative. And if just one of these things is gross, it becomes a bad deal that only cucks would buy.

I'm not buying that shit lmao. Never. Not even at deep discounts. I don't even pirate Snoy and westacuck shit that gets ported.
And if these poorly managed games don't sell well in the first few weeks they flop anyway.