honestly, samus is a bad example because she has no character, the same way doomguy has no character. the only interactions samus has is shooting aliens. there's no other cast. part of the "joke" with samus' reveal as a female is why would it matter? she has no dialogue, other than maybe a line of text? honestly i can't remember... but she could have been an android, an alien, etc.
the "amorphic bodies and hairstyles" is an art choice, and while there ARE plenty of times it is used specifically to desexualize characters, i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. i'm not necessarily talking about the active choice to make ugly characters in certain games or whatever. i think God of War 2018 is a great example of doing that right, and for the right reasons. in previous iterations freya would have been portrayed very differently.
a cast being of all shades and colors with no good background as to why.
personally, i have NO problem with a diverse cast if it makes sense for the source material. when clint eastwood was making that war movie and people were like "why aren't there any black people in your movie!" he had the best response... "because this movie is historically accurate." Aliens on the other hand... the marines were fairly diverse and not a single person had a problem with it. there was no explanation to why the team had a black guy, why the team had a latino female (who may or may not have been a lesbian). and there SHOULDN'T have been, because it had NOTHING to do with the story itself. as the audience, all we needed to know is that these are colonial marines and they are all badasses.
i WILL admit that a HUGE focus on the PR for girlbusters and girl oceans 11 etc was the "girl" part. but that's basically what i already said just in different terms. we don't LIKE the SJW stuff because it's incredibly superficial. we could all tell from the trailers that the characters were paper thin because ALL they focused on was that they were girls. when was the last time you saw a movie trailer that described the male characters solely by their gender? it was exceedingly easy to tell how terrible the movie was going to be based on "it's like this other movie you saw... BUT WITH WOMEN"
but that's what brings us back to the trailer for this game. i'll admit i don't really like the art style at all. i don't think it matches xcom, which makes me worried about the overall tone of the game. but the trailer itself didn't focus at all on "this girl is a girl. also she's black. this is going to be a great story because the character is black and identifies as female"
it'd be like saying the last of us was SJW because one of the main characters is female. sometimes character's race, gender, sexual preference can be plot points WITHOUT being socio-political commentary
