Far Cry 5's villains were thinly-veiled white American chuds/fascists.

Far Cry 6's villains are thinly-veiled brown "totally-not-Cuban you guys" leftists/communists.

  • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I'm like an hour into it because it came with a CPU I bought last year. It is hilarious. It is so hamfisted that I think a liberal with any historical knowledge of Cuba would think it is ridiculous.

    Light spoilers from the first ~1hr of the game ahead.

    spoiler

    I thought it was hilarious that the cancer cure is in tobacco. Tobacco of all things to have a cancer cure in it. Also the evil medicine producing man is evil because he uses slavery to force people to grow the cancer cure tobacco. One of the first missions is to burn down a field of the cure to cancer with a flamethrower, as the good guys do.

    The evil man's name is literally Castillo lol so not only half way to Castro but also the name of the recent Peru socialist president.

    Also apparently there was a revolution on the Islands in 67' that plunged the Island into poverty and the cancer cure guy is a counterrevolutionary force against this prior vague poverty-inducing revolution. So Ubisoft made sure to make it so that you can roleplay as both sides. I would not be shocked if this 67' revolution was never mentioned again.

    Honestly I think this game is tolerable if you retcon it in your mind that you are the bad guy and all of the absurd levels of propagandized stuff is just how the bad guys see the communist government. Or you read heavily into the vague parts of the story and see the villain as a batistiano type-guy that loves curing cancer for some reason (which is bad) you can pretend to be a communist that hates curing cancer.

    Regardless I love my slop.