My favorite example of an otherwise good game being unnecessarily dragged down by a deliberately unappealing protagonist is Returnal. AAA production values, intense shooter gameplay, roguelite difficulty - everything screams target audience of 15-35yo males. So why is the main character a scowling, homely, middle-aged woman?
Well the studio behind Returnal has a new game coming soon. Same genre, same production values, a sequel in all but name. And the protagonist is a gruff masculine dude?
Another modern girl boss game was Control (from Remedy, the makers of the supremely retarded Alan Wake 2, a game that replaced the literal title character with a black female diversity hire). Famously, Remedy deliberately uglified the female protagonist of Control with a manjaw. She looks way worse than real life model.
The direct sequel to Control features a white male protagonist.
Now maybe these characters are gay. I'm sure they'll be thoroughly soy and leftist. But it's interesting to see big new sequel games from obviously woke developers begrudgingly turning to male main characters. As a rule, these swaps generally only go one way.
It wasn't black girls but Wolfenstein turned their protagonists into twin psychopathic twin girls and the inevitable Debra Wilson
The Wolfenstein sequels are a classic case study in feminist subversion. Dudes rebooted the franchise with a great game, injecting the property with newfound relevance and profitability. Cue the feminist parasites, who had zero interest in Wolfenstein when it was a dead IP. Suddenly they wanted control of this violent first person shooter - a genre completely dominated by young men - so that it could be transformed into yet another sassy yass queen girl boss feminist power fantasy. The lesson is always the same: leftists only target established, already-successful IP. Because the goal is to withdraw money and influence for political and cultural movements, not to continue or grow success of the brand.
It's really just communism, when you think about it. When your company or project becomes sufficiently successful, it must then pay out to the leftist mafia in the form of diversity hirings and propaganda. Your prosperous endeavor must become a jobs program and a platform for women and minorities, or else they will use media and government to destroy you.