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Well, if it makes sense for the story, so why not? This is the case of mythology (the temptations). What I mean is in many cases, especially in video games, female heroes are a lot sex-related, as to fulfill fantasies of (straight) men players: just see in MMORPGs how the best female armor is a bikini. In JKA, it is possible to make Twi'lek Jaden almost naked (seriously...) And often they have big boobs, of course.

The problem is that in many cases, female heroes are represented first by their body (and the sex-appeal which comes with) at the cost of background (and by this, people say "Meh, females have no stories, they are not interesting). I find the work of new SW owners good on this point of view: women who exist for their skills, not their body or any love story

And to add onto what Noodle said in response to you thinking it's typically catered towards straight males (which is only a part of it), what about the WOMEN who like oversexualized women in games? What about the MEN who like the typical male designs who are in shape? And what about the female characters from the EU who actually had interesting stories that came before? <-(That's my own addon.) Mythology and story is also a huge part of it.