History YMMV / FarCry6

** Ubisoft and the development team, as a result of the criticism & controversies from the previous games, pre-emptively released a statement that 6 "is political" and discusses "democracy, LGBTQ+ rights, forced labor, and imperialism". The game proper has a note in the startup warning screen (where they warn you about epilepsy risks and other health issues) stating that the game deals in "content that some players may find disturbing".
*** However, the game doesn't directly touch on comparisons to modern day Cuba & American intervention in Latin America: the one foreign imperialist character is actually Canadian. Anton does make a reference to American slavery and incarceration, but only to justify his own slave labor programs, and the idea that Yara/Cuba is in such a difficult position in part because of the embargo placed on the country by the US is never really touched on, though several comments throughout the game imply that ''Anton'' is the one who is restricting trade with the United States, which is actually chomping at the bit to get their hands on his Viviro wonder-drug, which adds a whole new level of twists to the overall geopolitical situation.
*** [[https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/jzZzBMLk8k4XAWgNpXfju/the-politics-of-far-cry-6 Creator Navid Khavari said, “I am from a family that has endured the consequences of revolution. I have debated revolution over the dinner table my entire life. I can only speak for myself, but it is a complex subject that should never be boiled down to one quote."]]
** Anton Castillo draws some interesting comparisons to dictators (Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease) who attempt to institute large scale programs of industrialization & modernisation, in real life often following post-colonial independence succession. These individuals have a history of the "Ends Justifies the Means" mentalities as well as blaming colonialism for their pasts. Yara also has the additional twist of Anton having recaptured the nation after a communist regime fell and having been ''elected'' into power before he became a dictator, all while attempting to cope with a capitalist, American led blockade due to his refusal to sell them Viviro.
** Some have accused the game of being pro-communist. Despite (or perhaps because of) depicting a CaptainErsatz of Cuba, its handling of Soviet-era socialism is a bit LighterAndSofter than it is in reality. One of Libertad's allies are the "Legends of '67", former Communist fighters who overthrew the regime of Anton Castillo's father. The only negatives of the Communist regime are shown to being a naval blockade and an economic crash caused by the political instability that the regime never quite managed to recover, and the implication that many supporters of the old Castillo regime, such as Anton himself, were MadeASlave by the communists as punishment, which ended up shaping him into the dictator he would become in the current day. That being said, the game doesn't exactly go out of its way to sing praises of Communism from the rooftops, and even the Legends of '67 seem uninterested in re-installing a communist regime, instead only wanting to get rid of Anton Castillo's regime (which itself seems to carry some communist trappings as well as fascism). Clara herself is even opposed to repeating what the Legends did, outright saying that she wishes to break the cycle of revolution and violence in Yara and work towards establishing a democracy un-hindered by dictators and tyrannical leaders seeking to control it, even if she does not believe she will survive to see it.

** Vaas' line about asking God to step away from his light is a reference to Creator/{{Diogenes}} and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat.

** Vaas' line about asking God to step away from his light is a reference to Creator/Diogenes and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat.

** Vaas' line about asking God to step away from his light is a reference to Diogenes and Alexander the Great.

** Is Juan the GoodIsNotNice PragmaticHero that is the only reason (aside from Dani) Libertad isn't utterly crushed? A BloodKnight out to fight WarForFunAndProfit? Or is he a much more cold and calculating figure [[spoiler: whose primary reason to overthrow Anton Castillo is to make a fortune smuggling vivero with Vaas? The ending indicates he's making a ''significant'' profit on the side.]]
*** In the "Dead Drop" mission, did Dani and Juan's plan actually get burned by the CIA or informers or was it Juan selling Dani out to Castillo? After all, Juan is one of the only individuals who knows about the mission and Dani walks right into Castillo's trap.

* MagnificentBastard: [[HiddenVillain Juan Cortez]] is an affably alcoholic guerilla fighter for Libertad, who uses his CIA connections to both help Libertad and personally profit. A rebel and spy for decades who has written his own book on warfare with tips that he supplies [[PlayerCharacter Dani Rojas]] throughout their quest, Juan orchestrates a great many of Dani's victories with his tactical mind. Going behind Libertad's backs, Juan makes deals with enemies and sells off Viviro to smugglers to amass riches for the rebellion and himself. Scheming the downfall of the Castillo regime by all means--including [[WouldHurtAChild murdering teenage Diego]] before he can become a dictator like his father--Juan is regarded as a dangerous and ruthless, but nonetheless [[NecessaryEvil necessary]], leader of Libertad alongside his more moral allies.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Going off of the relation between the heroes and antagonists of previous ''Far Cry'' games, it's odd to see Dani and Anton barely interact with each other in the story, especially since Dani is the driving force behind Libertad's various victories and someone who Anton would be interested in. They only have four scenes across the entire game where they are both in the same scene and only in three of them do they speak to each other, two of which occurring near the end of the game.

* AcceptableTargets:
** While not outright malicious, the game is not shy on poking fun at Americans at every turn and nearly every character in the game, from the protagonists to the antagonists have little love for the "Yanquis". At the list of Viviro exports, the US will receive their shipments last which upsets a reporter because her father is at stage four cancer. The Yaran Story "Tanks for the Likes" involves filming a crazy man from America while he crosses a military ground being shot by tanks.
** Imperialists. The resident foreigner CEO Sean [=McKay=], who is often mistaken for a "Yanqui" but is actually [[CanadaEh Canadian]], is a smug, unrepentant, inappropriate, and immature piece of crap with the disposition of a trust-fund douchebag to match, blows his top at the ''slightest'' inconvenience to his operations in Yara, completely disrespects the locals, and is implied to be a pedophile. His purpose on Yara is ostensibly to bring the country into the First World, but Anton is the only one who actually seems to approve of his presence on the island, and only then because Anton needs [=McKay=] Global's ships to ship his Viviro out into the world.
** Fascists are always a favorite target and this game is no exception. The game takes numerous shots at authoritarian strongmen dictators as well as the people who would follow them. The LaResistance frequently takes potshots at them and call the philosophy stupid as well as self-defeating. The word is also used to describe Castillo and his men repeatedly.

%% Do not add Base Breaking Character, Broken Base, or Overshadowed By Controversy examples until 6 months after the work's release.

** With the ''Control'' DLC comes the revelation that [[spoiler:Pagan Min had stashed a huge arsenal of ''nukes'' in Kyrat, pointed at the United States for snooping around in the country. He had specifically left this for Ajay when he takes control of Kyrat. The base game implies that the infamous "Resist" ending of ''5'' never happened but this tape raises a few questions; namely, was it ''just'' Montana that was nuked? Because ''New Dawn'' has most of the world destroyed by a nuclear war, and Thomas Rush's team was specifically dedicated to rebuilding America at large, not just Montana. Alternatively, what would Ajay's motivation for nuking America be? Pagan's reasoning for purchasing the nukes was out of retaliation for the CIA's intervention. Perhaps he wants some revenge on Willis for screwing him over? Willis ''was'' in Montana at the time.. Then again, Ajay isn't a psychopath, and nuking a whole state just to kill one man is an ''extreme'' overreaction. Alternatively, what if either Amita or Sabal got word of the nukes and decided to use them? Both make Kyrat into a horrible place upon assuming power, so it would be reasonable to assume they would fire the nukes.]]
* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** The overly dark endings of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', in particular the "Resist/Nuke" ending which caught a ''heavy'' amount of flak from the players, are being outright retconned for this game. There's no mention of countries threatening one another with nukes: the main conflict is between Castillo's supporters and the revolutionaries. [[spoiler:Also, in the secret ending, Miami is perfectly fine, which indicates no nuclear war ever took place at all. In the [=DLCs=], the possibility is presented that maybe it ''did'' happen after all, leading fans to theorize that maybe only Montana was affected even though it'd contradict New Dawn itself. As of right now, it's still unclear.]]
** Also from ''5'' and ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'', while fans liked the customizable feature for the Deputy and Captain, they didn’t like how they were both a HeroicMime. Compared to them, Dani has a personality and the ability to speak. And where some players felt that [[VideoGame/FarCry3 Jason Brody]] and [[VideoGame/FarCry4 Ajay Ghale]] were respectively [[JerkAss unlikable]] and [[DullSurprise bland]], Dani is a very [[NiceGuy kind]], [[{{Adorkable}} charming]] person who still has a dangerous edge.
** Unique healing animations are finally back after ''5'' only had one generic "wrapping up wounds" animation ([[OlderThanTheyThink though New Dawn did add new unique animations in response prior]]).
** After the divergence to the heartland of America for ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', many fans were happy to return to a tropical island.
** A later patch allows one to change the ammunition types in regular guns in the weapon wheel, after complaints that having to set them in a menu was clunky and flow breaking.
** [[spoiler: Rather than having yet another DownerEnding in a franchise suffering from them, the game has a BittersweetEnding. Anton Castillo is defeated and his regime destroyed, but with the death of his son, there is no one to succeed him, so Yara is left without a leader until someone steps up to take the role.]]

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Paolo is portrayed as being in the wrong for wanting to run away to America just like Dani and Talia calls him out on it but Talia's point is undercut due to the fact she's a black woman talking to a transman about very different issues. America has its own troubled and sordid history for people of color, but Yaran LGBT soldiers are being ''executed'' by the regime and the common folk are implied to despise them as well. America, at least parts of it, will be more accepting of Paolo.

* EightPointEight: The game's review scores roughly average out to acceptable high 70's, slightly higher the ''New Dawn'' but slightly less than ''5''. Most of the faults revolving around Ubisoft's inability to present something "new" to the ''Far Cry'' premise, or having issue with the "millennial" characters but gaining praise for not having an overly bleak end like ''5'' did.

** "Hahahaha, I was acting...or was I?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A scene/line taken from the ''Giancarlo Will Face You Now'' preview video.[[/labelnote]]

%% Do not add Base Breaking Character, Broken Base, or Overshadowed By Controversy examples until 6 months after the works release.

* EightPointEight: The game's review scores roughly average out to acceptable high 70's, slightly higher the ''New Dawn'' but slightly less than ''5''. Most of the faults revolving around Ubisoft's inability to present something "new" to the Far Cry premise, or having issue with the "millennial" characters but gaining praise for not having an overly bleak end like ''5'' did.

** [[spoiler:Rather than having yet another DownerEnding in a franchise suffering from them, the game ends on a BittersweetEnding. Castillo is defeated and his regime destroyed, but with the death of his son, there is no one to succeed him, so Yara is left without a leader until someone steps up to take the role.]]

** With the ''Control'' DLC comes the revelation that [[spoiler:Pagan Min had stashed a huge arsenal of ''nukes'' in Kyrat, pointed at the United States for snooping around in the country. He had specifically left this for Ajay when he takes control of Kyrat. The base game implies that the infamous "Resist" ending of ''5'' never happened but this tape raises a few questions; namely, was it ''just'' Montana that was nuked? Because ''New Dawn'' has most of the world destroyed by a nuclear war, and Thomas Rush's team was specifically dedicated to rebuilding America at large, not just Montana. Alternatively, what would Ajay's motivation for nuking America be? Pagan's reasoning for purchasing the nukes was out of retaliation for the CIA's intervention. Perhaps he wants some revenge on Willis for screwing him over? Willis ''was'' in Montana at the time.. Then again, Ajay isn't a psychopath, and nuking a whole state just to kill one man is a ''bit'' of an overreaction. Alternatively, what if either Amita or Sabal got word of the nukes and decided to use them? Both make Kyrat into a horrible place upon assuming power, so it would be reasonable to assume they would fire the nukes.]]

** News site [=VG24/7=] thought that ''Far Cry 6'' was the first time Giancarlo had done videogame work, seemingly forgetting about ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'', in which he was a contractor and, [[WalkingSpoiler for reasons too spoileriffic to go into here]], turned into an in-game model in 2018, beating ''Far Cry 6'' by seven years. In fairness to the editors, they did remove this article that contained this misinformation.

** Cockfighting is held up as animal abuse by many gamers and a DudeNotFunny in game. But have the game explicitly play like ''Franchise/{{Streetfighter}}'' up to and including fighters who look like Ryu? Hilarious.

** Is Admiral Benetiz a StupidEvil GeneralFailure promoted by Anton Castillo for PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad? Or is Anton Castillo striking at her mentally by suggesting that she was only promoted because of her gender? She was the first to graduate in her class and an experienced veteran of the military as well as someone who was a true believer in Castillo's regime beforehand. We also see that she's hamstrung by [=McCray=]'s general idiocy and undermining her at every turn.

** The overly dark endings of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', in particular the "Resist/Nuke" ending which caught a ''heavy'' amount of flak from the players, are being outright retconned for this game. There's no mention of countries threatening one another with nukes: the main conflict is between Castillo's supporters and the revolutionaries. [[spoiler:Also, in the secret ending, Miami is perfectly fine, which indicates no nuclear war ever took place at all. In the DLCs, the possibility is presented that maybe it ''did'' happen after all, leading fans to theorize that maybe only Montana was affected even though it'd contradict New Dawn itself. As of right now, it's still unclear.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo Antón Castillo]] is among the evilest villains in the entire franchise, but possesses [[DarkAndTroubledPast a tragic backstory]] and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes redeeming features]]. Several members of his horrible regime, however, have no such scruples or complexity to them:
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sean [=McKay=]]] is the closest thing Antón has to a business partner in his dictatorship, [=McKay=] using his vast corporate connections and ownership of [=McKay=] Global to fund and endorse the Castillo dictatorship. [=McKay=] pays for everything, from the slave driving to the vile experiments that go on in Yara, the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain sleazy racist]] basking in all the pain he's causing to an "underdeveloped" country. Weaponizing PG-240 into a chemical warhead, [=McKay=] tests his new toy on a rebel base and horribly kills dozens of people--notably El Tigre and Jonrón--before mass-producing the warheads. [=McKay=] plans to [[ArmsDealer sell his "PG-240X" WMDs]] on the BlackMarket to terrorists and warlords galore, and rubs his apparent immunity from justice in Dani Rojas's face by bragging not only of the kinds of death his weapons will bring, but also the fact that he is [[WouldHurtAChild a sex trafficker of children]], and plans to send a batch of "fine young treats" to his buyers alongside his [=WMDs=]. [=McKay=]'s own proclivities heavily imply he himself is a pedophile, one former employee of his outright accusing [=McKay=] of having raped and impregnated the man's teenage daughter. [=McKay=] has no real loyalty to Castillo and the moment he thinks Castillo is doomed, he immediately cuts a deal to ensure his own survival.
** [[PsychopathicManchild General José Castillo]] is the {{sadist}}ic, impulsive nephew of Antón who [[RoyalBrat uses his position to satisfy his every basic whim]]. A brutal slave driver of thousands who overworks and beats those under his heel, José also exposes his slaves to PG-240 fumigations on a daily basis, killing hundreds and giving countless others cancer from the exposure. José is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] by stabbing one of his own men through the skull, and later hosts a particularly cruel public hanging of rebels; when the rebels are nearly rescued, José prompts to just stab them all to death. In his free time, José tortures "Fake Yarans" to death and records their screams for his amusement, having done so to well over a hundred people. When rebels Dani and Espada confront him, José promises to turn the former into his torture slave and [[ForcedToWatch force them to watch]] as he kills their loved ones, while taunting the latter over his murder of her father.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Edgar Reyes]] is the creator of the PG-240 chemical, who seeks to [[ForScience further perfect his work]] no matter the cost. To create PG-240, Reyes subjected thousands of people to lethal, agonizing experiments, creating entire "Outcast camps" to cover up the mass murders performed on his watch. Reyes then supplies the chemical to [=McKay=] and José, uncaring of the thousands more who are exposed to its wicked effects. Capturing [[PlayerCharacter Dani Rojas]], Reyes performs a sadistic experiment on them involving PG-240 and sewing a cell phone inside their body, and brags that his favorite test subjects are [[WouldHurtAChild young orphans]] who he specifically has his men round up after murdering their parents. Reyes's main lab is littered with dozens of corpses and screaming victims, the madman gleefully bragging that his favorite thing in the world is [[AndIMustScream carving into people's skin while they're still awake]].

** Is Clara Garcia a NiceGirl WideEyedIdealist or actually a KnightTemplar WellIntentionedExtremist? When she has her conversation with Dani after the blockade mission, she openly admits that the economic problems plaguing Yara will not be resolved by overthrowing Castillo and the country will likely be plunged into a generations-long civil war. She seems to think this is a defense but it actually might illustrate her profound callousness. On the other hand, it's hard to say Castillo doesn't need to be overthrown given he's re-instituted slavery.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

** The overly dark endings of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', in particular the "Resist/Nuke" ending which caught a ''heavy'' amount of flak from the players, are being outright retconned for this game. There's no mention of countries threatening one another with nukes: the main conflict is between Castillo's supporters and the revolutionaries. [[spoiler:Also, in the secret ending, Miami is perfectly fine, which indicates no nuclear war ever took place at all. It is later revealed that, in fact, the "Resist" ending did happen, but ''only'' Montana was nuked and nowhere else.]]

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Paolo is portrayed as being in the wrong for wanting to run away to America just like Dani and Talia calls him out on it but Talia's point is undercut due to the fact she's a black woman talking to a transman about very different issues. America is historically a bad place to be for people of color but Yaran LGBT soldiers are being ''executed'' by the regime and the common folk are implied to despise them as well. America, at least parts of it, will be more accepting of Paolo.

** For some fans of the franchise, the biggest selling point is the DLC which involves you being able to play the antagonists of [[VideoGame/FarCry3 Far Cry 3]] , [[VideoGame/FarCry4 4]] and [[VideoGame/FarCry5 5]]. Hell for a few it's just the fact of being able to play and hear Vaas again.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** Libertad with its scorched Earth policy toward Anton Castillo's regime and its primary source of money: viviro. The problem being vivero is a ''cancer drug'' and depriving millions of medicine is a questionable use of their resources.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that while Viviro is a miracle drug, it is not a ''cure'' for cancer, but rather just a ''treatment''; at best, it merely delays its spread and eventually, such as in the case of Castillo himself, it will stop being effective. Adding onto this is that a one of the major chemical components used to make Viviro is toxic and carcinogenic, and usable as a WMD, making it debatable if the reward ultimately outweighs the cost.
** Running in parallel to Paolo being UnintentionallySympathetic above, Talia ends up on the other side in this trope. While it wouldn't be a picnic, America, at least, would still be a moderately safer place than Yara for Paolo, but Talia ridicules his wishes, to the point of ''questioning Paolo's masculinity'' herself when he makes it clear he doesn't want to stick around in Yara much longer. On top of all of this is her own prickly disposition and political views that she has no problem sharing, which can make her come across as prioritizing fighting the revolution over ensuring the safety of her own lover.