Thats right, evil bad dictator man blocks medicine to his own island because he hates freedom or something. Otherr than that its an okay game I guess

  • JackalopeEnthusiast [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I saw my roommate destroy a slave plantation and drive off with a pet alligator named Guapo while a salsa version of Bella Ciao played. That was pretty cool.

    Yara is like Cuba if Batista's son succeeded in a counterrevolution or something, yeah? I haven't been following the story.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I interpreted the entire game as a liberal fever dream where they recognize the appeal of communist/anarchist aesthetics, but endorse none of the political implications of that. Pre-revolution Yara is explicitly called liberal a few times.

      Yara is more like if Batista was a good guy and a liberal but some ill defined evil revolutionaries took control with communist aesthetics but they instead tricked everyone and made a monarchy dictatorship and now it's up to the good socialists to defeat them.

      It's like the game devs looked at all the instances of America installing dictators in Latin America and are blaming it on Latin Americans themselves.

      The game's kinda fun though. Guns are loud and pow pow. You get a little doggy buddy. It's a very Ubisoft game, go destroy outpost A, do tailing mission B, blow up thing at C, repeat. Nice gunfights and stealth too

      • NotARobot [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I haven't played the game but you make it sound like they were worried about being seen as "political" and therefore made it so contradictory and confusing that no coherent politics can even be represented let alone endorsed by the game.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          That has indeed been the case with the last few Far Cry games. Surface level political struggles with incoherent motivations and presented ideologies.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            The bad guys are only communists because the bad guys need to be red and communists wear red

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              and the good guys are...also communists but they like to spray paint graffiti and throw molotov cocktails, or something? Their goals aren't well defined other than overthrowing the government. Also the good guys are working with the CIA.

              • Piqued_Pirates [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Where is it implied/said that the bad guys are communists? From what I gathered, communists overthrew Antons father but the communist government was incompetently run and led Yara into an economic disaster that led to the country voting for Anton Castillo that was promising to restore Yara to a "paradise". It sounds more like he was trying to revert the country back to what it was before the communists took over.