As usual, in Far Cry games, you play as a One-Man Army who can either use stealth or guns or both to take on an entire army in order to destroy your enemies. Here, Dani Rojas goes against Anton Castillo's 300K strong army of soldiers in order to bring about regime change.
The secret ending ranks up there with Far Cry 4's own where Dani decides Not in This for Your Revolution and goes to Miami. Contrary to Clara Garcia's predictions, they end up enjoying themselves on a beach rather than a minimum wage job. Yes, Clara's revolution fails but arguably it will save the country's stability. All to Gloria Estefan's "Conga."
Dani's absolute refusal to even think about killing Castillo's son, even if it means turning against Libertad. They go full Mama Bear or Papa Wolf on them over it in one of the few times that a Far Cry protagonist draws a clear moral line in the sand and refuses to cross it.
Dani has significantly more energy than most of the other protagonists. This includes running around Yara with a rocket launcher strapped to their back, stealing tanks to go on joyrides, and admitting being a guerilla is "fun."
Dani takes down Jose Castillo in a fight with the former in an airport control tower and the latter in an attack helicopter. Unlike the other helicopters in the game, Jose is not a Glass Cannon but something that can endure a lot of punishment before being taken down. It is the only proper boss fight in the game.
Dani stealing Antón Castillo's car after their failed attempt at assassinating him early in the game. It is a pretty sweet ride. Notably, by this point, Libertad already trusts Dani enough to carry out the most important mission for the revolution.
Dani being offered the Presidency of Yara and then telling the revolution to shove it, they're not interested.
Antón Castillo
Antón, for all of his flaws, has successfully started a massive program of industrialization and economic growth for Yara. He's a real scumbag but compared to Pagan Min is motivated by Evil Virtues that believes it will actually pull Yara out of a extremely repressed economy.
Antón having Diego shoot Jose in the ass as punishment for killing Carlos Montero and making him a martyr. You feel he wouldn't have minded shooting him directly.
Antón prerecorded his speech knowing the rebels would jump at a chance to assassinate him but, instead, uses it to lure them out.
Antón manages to kill Clara Garcia on his own and avenges his mistress as well as the damage she's done to him personally.
If Dani leaves for Miami at any point in the game, Antón will win against the rebels.
Clara Garcia
Clara has her issues but she is The Chessmaster and able to figure out the groups they need to recruit in order to bring down Antón Castillo.
Clara's statement after the blockade that she's aware that killing Castillo won't save Yara by itself and she expects to spend the rest of her life fighting. Sadly, she's right.
Clara, unlike virtually every other character in Far Cry history, lives up to her promises and gives Dani her boat after she helps them escape the southernmost island.
Her Rousing Speech, played on many Libertad laptops, is really good. It attacks Castillo's legitimacy and undermines all of the Blatant Lies he tells.
"He is not my President. He is not yours."
Juan Cortez
Juan has a Shrouded in Myth past that includes working for the CIA and the KGB, as well as being involved in nonstop revolutions since The '60s.
Juan's Establishing Character Moment is killing a guard with his pet crocodile, recognizing a bartender informed on him, and then kills him with a gun using a book as a makeshift silencer.
Juan wrote the book on guerilla tactics. Literally, he has a book about guerilla tactics that was published and everything.
Juan uses a helicopter and rocket launcher to attack the blockade around the first island.
Juan reveals himself to be the one man who is better off after the Civil War with his Viviro smuggling business flourishing after Castillo's death. Who is his business partner? Vaas.
The Monteros
Carlos Montero gets one when he sees that his son is rigged with an explosive device while on horseback. Knowing that he cannot save both himself and his son, he makes a Heroic Sacrifice and cuts him loose. This act notably makes him an Inspirational Martyr to all of Yara and turns the Montero resistance from a single clan into a legitimate uprising.
Alejandro Montero sends Dani to retrieve his father's machete from the guards who confiscated it. The rebels hate him as a traitor but he wants to bring some measure of peace back to his family.
Philly is full of energy and his Establishing Character Moment is tricking Dani into putting their hand on a deadman's switch and then lying about disarming it.
Camila "Espada" Montero's Establishing Character Moment where you follow a trail of bodies she's left behind in one of Jose Castillo's military bases. And when you finally get to her, she notices you within seconds and throws a knife at your face.
Camila Montero stands up to her fellow guerillas, explains she once believed in Antón Castillo, and gets them to stop their Mark of Shame branding of her brother.
Espada getting her You Killed My Father moment with Jose and finally killing him by stuffing a grenade in his mouth.
Despite the above near-branding, Alejandro comes up with the strategy that causes all of Jose's men to spread out across the countryside and leave him vulnerable to attack.
Legends of '67 and La Moral
The Legends of '67 managed to overthrow Gabriel Castillo despite being severely outnumbered and possessing little in the way of military equipment.
The Legends chose to live in the mountains of El Este rather than return to regular society, essentially choosing to become permanent guerillas.
La Moral is a homegrown revolution that has, by the time Dani reaches them, become a powerful rival for Libertad as the primary resistance against Antón Castillo.
La Moral's farmer allies built a military attack helicopter out of the parts of other ones they've shot down.
El Tigre's crazy plan to steal an antique tank from a museum that was used in the revolution.
Yelena’s impromptu speech to the members of La Moral. She grabs a pistol and describes how, on the last day of school, Admiral Benitez came into the classroom and personally executed students who had expressed dissent. Said “dissent” is things such as liking a social media post by Clara. As Yelena lists off the names of her murdered friends, she punctuates each name by shooting the wall with her pistol. She concludes the speech by pointing the gun at her own head and pulling the trigger. (She’s unscathed, as the pistol’s cylinder had been emptied by that point.)
It’s no less effective In Universe. Multiple idle chatter lines mention how ballsy the pistol thing was.
Máximas Matanzas
Talia and Paolo playing their new anti-Castillo song defiantly on a livestream while you defend them from several waves of enemies.
After Dani and Talia sneak into a private tour with Maria Marquessa they corner her on a live TV interview and call her out for her actions and Maria coldly mocks Talia and gloats about her numerous evil actions as Minister of Culture and then to top it off cruelly misgenders Paolo (who is trans female-to-male), all this finally makes Talia snap and murder Maria in a fit of rage.
Vaas (Insanity)
Vaas successfully recovers from his knife wound at Jason Brody's hands and manages to fight his way back to sanity. So much so that he apparently lives until, at least, middle age. The fact he has to do it all in one run or he'll be forced to repeat it is another reason he's awesome.
Vaas has to turn down going into the light and confront all of his demons multiple times in order to get the Secret Ending. It is a sign that he will not leave until he's vanquished them all.
Vaas reveals that he became a Dragon Ascendant and turned against Hoyt when he found out his boss wanted to take the land from the natives. He kills the guard in charge and recruits all the others in minutes.
Vaas proves to be Wicked Cultured or just apeing the philosopher Diogenes when he said, if he talked to God, he would ask him to step away as he was blocking his light.
