Wow, I can’t believe Dark Void didn’t just fly off the shelves.
Capcom was probably the worst offender, but Hudson made Bomberman dark, gritty and shitty with Act Zero and Namco made Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with QTEs and a NATO bootlicking plot, and gave Ridge Racer to FlatOut developers Bugbear to turn into a Burnout ripoff with Unbounded. Many such cases!
In 2010 the first Nier game came out in two versions, I remember being baffled by it but I suppose in the end they figured out that every culture loves