>>49575015Anon you aren't even on the same page. We are talking about characters that the players hated, it has nothing to do with whether they were liked by other characters in universe or were "bad" people.
>>49575035Name a game that people universally thought of as fun but also universally hated the main character.
If you can't, then having a not hated main character is the actual prerequisite for a game, and literally nothing else matters.
There are more well received games that weren't fun, that had likeable characters, than games that were fun with hated characters (being zero games).
Case in point is visual novels, there is literally no gameplay yet they are better received than YIIK. Being fun isn't a prerequisite.