IGN takes issue with white male lead in Days Gone.

[DonFerrari]

Jumpin said:

DonFerrari said:

Nope he wasn't presented an uninspired premise, he assumed it.

So you think they're lying about their own opinion? Can you prove that?

His very paragraphs proves it, as he says few words later that ...

While I’ll admit that I initially rolled my eyes at yet another Gruff White Male Protagonist™ in a grim world - especially one with such a Gruff White Male Protagonist™-ey name as Deacon St. John - I ended up getting far more invested than I’d initially expected. I shouldn’t be surprised, I suppose - this is a first-party Sony title, and Bend is no stranger to writing around well-developed characters and games with a strong narrative focus, either

Basically he assumed something bad because he is a gruff white male protagonist, with a name that aggravates it. Then he confess the chars is well developed and have a strong narrative.

 

It would be very different situation if he had something like "the char have no development besides being a gruff white male" and criticizing the lack of development. And even in this case being a white male is inconsequential as that have nothing to do with development of char. He would basically be complaining that the char have a single trait that is being gruff.