YMMV / Far Cry 6

• Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Anton Castillo was told by his father that a ruler should be both a lion and a lamb. Anton's mother believed this was a stupid philosophy and beat it into him that there were rulers and the ruled, lions and lambs. However, a lion and a lamb is a very good description of Dani.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is Dani Rojas a Blood Knight or Reluctant Warrior? Unlike Jason Brody or Ajay Ghale, Dani never seems to actually enjoy the combat around them. Despite stating that being a guerilla is "fun", they mostly handle everything with a resigned apathy. They also have have a code against killing unarmed or disabled soldiers as you find out if you kill soldiers in the infirmary. Their desire to leave the war behind is also accompanied by a need to help their friends escape. On the other hand, they do choose to join Libertad when they have a chance to leave and engage in multiple bizarre missions for oddballs as long as there's a chance for bloodshed (like using a painted tank to destroy propaganda billboards). Similarly, how motivated is Dani by the revolution versus their own guilt for accidentally getting their friends killed trying to get them to leave the island? They turns down the Presidency at the end but by that point, she's also witnessed Libertad try to kill a child as well as failed to prevent his father murdering him.
  • Is Anton Castillo a Smug Snake with Delusions of Eloquence, a Broken Bird and Iron Woobie, or a I Did What I Had to Do Necessarily Evil dictator? Yara is trapped with 1950s cars, obsolete farming equipment, and mass poverty. His attempt to rapidly industrialize the country fits the goals of many real-life populist dictators and his actions, while drastic, seemed to be bearing fruits. Also, how much is his desire to export the cancer-drug motivated by Greed since he will not live to see its fruits versus benefiting the country?
    • Speaking of which, what sort of father is Anton Castillo to his son, Diego? He is horribly abusive in terms of trying to make his son into A Real Man Is a Killer but his own past makes it clear that being the son of Yara's previous dictator was nightmarish. Does he really believe Libertad will kill his son if he's not around to protect him/instituting some tough love to make him strong? The ending of the game indicates it is Better to Die than Be Killed and Mercy Kill for both. Plus, Libertad did try to kill Diego.
    • On that note, did Diego know that his father was going to kill him when he hugged him? While he seems shocked at getting shot (which could be due to pain), he replies "Death" to his father's question on what is certain is life and would likely have felt the gun being pressed to his chest.
  • Is Clara Garcia a Nice Girl Wide-Eyed Idealist or actually a Knight Templar Well-Intentioned Extremist? 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 just illustrates that she could be as rotten as Castillo underneath her florid speech about bringing freedom to Yara. On the other hand, it's hard to say Castillo doesn't need to be overthrown given he's re-instituted slavery, but who’s to say if Clara’s blood-soaked revolution will make anything better in the end for the enslaved?
  • Is Juan the Good is Not Nice Pragmatic Hero that is the only reason (aside from Dani) Libertad isn't utterly crushed? A Blood Knight out to fight War for Fun and Profit? Or is he a much more cold and calculating figure whose primary reason to overthrow Anton Castillo is to make a fortune smuggling viviro 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 and/or their informers or did Juan sell 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.
  • Is Admiral Benetiz a Stupid Evil General Failure promoted by Anton Castillo for Political Overcorrectness? 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.
  • In the Insanity DLC, is Vaas actually an Unreliable Narrator or is he actually showing a Perspective Flip of events? One of his memories is starting a revolt against Hoyt when he tried to take the land from the natives. However, Hoyt and Vaas discuss Jason Brody in-game so that must have happened right during the events of Far Cry 3 or is how Vaas wishes events had gone. He also heavily blames Citra for their Brother–Sister Incest as well as being The Corruptor.
    • The DLC, in turn, throws back to Citra herself, given Vaas' perspective of her. Was she a Well-Intentioned Extremist who was not afraid of using harsh, sometimes fatal means to secure a future for her native tribe? Or was she just a Manipulative Bitch who was using both Vaas and later Brody to get what she wanted and cement her position as leader of the native Rakyat for her own ambitions, even going so far as to corrupt her own brother into an Axe-Crazy Blood Knight as long as it suits her goals?
  • With the Control DLC comes the revelation that 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.
• Awesome Music:
  • "El Bella Ciao de Libertad". Continuing the Far Cry tradition of burning a large field of drugs, this song accompanies Dani and Julio's furious attack on a Viviro tobacco plantation. Even better, Julio explains that he and Lita would sing a song as a pre-mission ritual to psyche themselves up, singing a snippet of this song to you before the attack.
  • "Libertad Rises", a booming orchestral track filled with the game's main leitmotif that plays if you go loud during the boat blockade assault in the mission of the same name. It also makes a triumphant return during the finale of the game.
  • On the jukebox side of things, Gloria Estefan's "Conga" is the theme for Danni's Secret Ending. "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin and "La Rubia" by Charity Daw are also banging hits.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Philly is a Bunny-Ears Lawyer whose Establishing Character Moment is tricking Dani into putting their hand on a dead man's switch then blowing them up (harmlessly).
  • El Tigre is a Cool Old Guy who is eager to start another revolution with Dani and calls them Baby Tiger.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The entire Elvis quest chain. Horrid blood and offal-filled haunted caverns filled with murderous monsters that killed a local man? Terrible. The murderous monsters being roosters? Hilarious.
  • Cockfighting is held up as animal abuse by many gamers and a Dude, Not Funny! in game. But have the game explicitly play like Tekken, including a chicken dressed up like Ryu? Hilarious.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Before people even knew his name, Philly Barzaga had accumulated a small fanbase solely for how memorable he was in his first trailer appearance and his companionship with Precious Puppy Chorizo. His fanbase only increased upon the game's release due to his entertaining personality.
• Epileptic Trees: The first major fan theory from the reveals is that Anton's son Diego is actually the young Vaas from Far Cry 3. However, the theory then hit a wall once it was confirmed the game takes place in 2020^note The presence of modern technology in the trailer hints at this, and an in-universe newspaper on the official site is dated 2020. The theory became outright destroyed when the full game and the DLCs were released, not only does Diego die, but the ending to the main game and the DLC involving Vaas would reveal that he's actually alive and well.
• Evil Is Cool: Anton Castillo is a horrible dictator but he is also a stone-cold badass who never shows any fear of the revolution or Dani in particular. Being played by Giancarlo Esposito certainly helps.
• Game-Breaker:
  • The weapons in Far Cry 6 have a quite heavy recoil. While the recoil can be mitigated with modification, it isn't nearly as effective when you turn the Camera shake in the setting to minimum. If you did it, then congratulations. You've basically turned all the weapons (especially LMGs) into Buzzsaw from Far Cry 4 in terms of accuracy and recoil control.
  • As usual in Far Cry games, a helicopter or a wingsuit. These two make getting around the map a lot easier. Having a helicopter makes doing the supply drop missions a breeze since the game assumes you will be using another way to get to the destination and usually gives you more then enough time.
    • The Angelito FW Turbo in particular is especially powerful, as it can transform from a speedy all-terrain buggy into a makeshift flying vehicle at the push of a button. It makes escaping from swarms of FND a non-issue, aside from the need to reach a certain speed threshold before you can switch to flying mode. With some knowledge, enough materials, and a bit of patience it can be easy to nab one not long after entering the main island.
  • The "Perception Grenade" tags enemies in a big radius, and you can get enough of them to cover an entire mission area. Although the game already gives you a "heat radius" on the mini-map for enemies, the perception grenade shows them outlined in the game world even if they are behind cover and out of line of sight. It helps you plan perfect stealth approaches in missions & taking outposts. There is also a piece of clothing that highlights all enemies, but only at night.
  • Combining armor piercing ammo with the "Trigger Discipline" (aimed weapon damage increase) and "Gut-Wrencher" (increase body shot damage) mods. Sniper rifles and semi-auto rifles with a silencer can quickly headshot groups of enemies, adding them to a machine gun or automatic rifle can mow down enemy attacks in defensive situations and shotguns and pistols can blast enemies from point blank range inside buildings.
  • A deliberately overpowered combination that is promoted by the game instructions when you get them is the special weapon "La Varita" & the "Triador" supremo. Triador will let you see through walls. La Varita shoots through walls, with enough power to headshot kill enemy infantry without them having a clue where you are.
  • Tier 4 special weapons with the "Overclocked" additional damage mod can be bought from the in-game Black Market or the real money "Far Cry Credits" store, bypassing usual game progression. The "White Lotus" sniper rifle and the "Hammer Of The Gods" machine gun are the standout choices. Players can buy one with the default Far Cry credits every player is given. Hammer Of The Gods with the overclock mod, a compensator, laser pointer, armour piercing ammo, aimed damage & body shot mods is so accurate and powerful that one 100 round belt of ammo could kill several dozen of the hardest infantry units in the game, which is far more than the game ever sends against you at one time. They are available immediately upon leaving the tutorial island.
    • 2 weeks after the game launched an overclocked grenade launcher with EMP rounds was added to the game. It can knock helicopters out of the sky with one hit and disable tanks leaving them open to hijacking.
  • Oluso, the mystical panther Stealth Amigo has the ability to instantly kill units from stealth and will vanish the body in a cloud of smoke, making lone infantry units dead meat. When upgraded these takedowns work even in an active combat situation.
  • Averted with tanks. Players might expect them to be incredibly overpowered, but their machine guns are less effective against infantry than modified mid-tier guns, the main cannon is useful against vehicles but slow to reload, and the lack of speed for the tank means you get swarmed by infantry throwing grenades or shooting rockets at you, it becomes hard to leave combat and when a battle lasts long enough, enemy tanks will show up to take you down.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Canada, unlike the United States, is allowed to trade with Cuba. Therefore, McCay Industries being Canadian is not as weird as it is seems.
  • Vaas' line about asking God to step away from his light is a reference a famous anecdote concerning a meeting between Diogenes and Alexander the Great, in which the philosopher demanded that the emperor stand out of the way of the former's sunlight, after the latter offered the former one wish after coming across them sunbathing - a request that the all-powerful emperor openly granted the philosopher without trouble.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Stealth Prequel theories were not completely faulty after all, since the game's DLC supposedly gives backstory to not only Vaas, but also Pagan Min and Joseph Seed as well.
  • The theory of Diego being Vaas is shot down even harder by the game itself when not only does Diego die... but Vaas then proceeds to show up in the ending talking about Diego's death.
  • The report that a Thailand start-up is planning to use tobacco as a base for COVID vaccine makes the Viviro in game eerily prescient.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A common complaint in reviews is that it's more or less the same gameplay loop as prior Far Cry games, with minor changes and a new story. If you haven't gotten tired of the well-trodden Ubisoft open-world formula by now, or if this is your first game of that sort, it'll suit you fine, but you'll be sorely disappointed if you go in expecting something revolutionary. The vast majority of critical reviews are in the 70 to 85 range, coming down mostly to how much the reviewer dislikes the skill changes and how tired they are with the formula.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • A large number of players have admitted that they purchased the game solely for Chorizo.
  • Giancarlo Esposito is a selling point to many fans who aren't necessarily fans of the Far Cry franchise.
  • For some fans of the franchise, the biggest selling point is the DLC which involves you being able to play the antagonists of Far Cry 3, 4 and 5. Hell, for a few it's just the fact of being able to play and hear Vaas again.
• Magnificent Bastard: 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 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 murdering teenage Diego before he can become a dictator like his father—Juan is regarded as a dangerous and ruthless, but nonetheless necessary, leader of Libertad alongside his more moral allies.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The "Diego is Vaas" epileptic trees which was based mostly on a small scar on both characters right eyebrow became a meme as people started calling 'any' character with a similar scar or their brow being cut as being either Diego or Vaas. These include Harry Potter, Ellie, Vanilla Ice, Mufasa, and Jason Momoa. This ended up becoming Hilarious in Hindsight when Vaas was announced as a playable DLC character.
  • The reveal that Anton is played by Giancarlo Esposito has led to a veritable avalanche of jokes and references from both Breaking Bad (his most influential role in TV), and PAYDAY 2 (his first videogame appearance, with which he shares a similar "planning is everything" attitude).
  • The reveal trailer prompted a number of jokes on Antón or Diego clumsily setting off the grenade in the middle of the latter's lecture.
  • Given Far Cry's running penchant for having a secret ending right at the beginning of the game, many fans have joked that the Golden Ending for 6 will be unlocked by somehow prompting Diego to hold the grenade for three minutes straight.
  • Several Ted Lasso fans jokes about the protagonist sharing the same name as the series' own Dani Rojas.
  • "Hahahaha, I was acting...or was I?" ^ExplanationA scene/line taken from the Giancarlo Will Face You Now preview video. His sudden shift from laughing to having a serious look on his face◊ is used to either sharply contrast two different statements or actions, or to show that they didn't actually mean what they said.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Admiral Benetiz crosses it before we formally meet her when Yelena explains that she went into a school and started executing children who had done things as innocous as liking social media posts.
  • If Pagan Min hasn't crossed it with the things he did throughout 4, then he sure did in Control where the secret ending reveals that he has a stockpile of nuclear weapons beneath his palace and plans to use it against the United States for their meddling in Kyrat, meaning he is the Greater-Scope Villain to 5.
• Older Than They Think:
  • News site VG24/7 thought that Far Cry 6 was the first time Giancarlo had done videogame work, seemingly forgetting about PAYDAY 2, in which he had been a contractor in-game since 2014, and, for reasons too spoileriffic to go into here, he was turned into an in-game model in 2018, beating Far Cry 6 by six years. In fairness to the editors, they did remove this article that contained this misinformation mere hours after publishing it.
  • The game cockfighting drew criticism from activists and some people despite not at all taken seriously. They might forget that Sleeping Dogs (2012) portray cockfighting completely straight, although it's a completely skippable side activity. Also, the cartoony take of cockfighting in the game was done first by Chikken, a mod for Counter-Strike Global Offensive.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus has been positive about the game's story and characters but lukewarm about its gameplay as well as the changes made to leveling up.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The opening of the game is a non-combat stealth tutorial that is arguably redundant in this genre & franchise. After the opening section it is still slower paced than all the previous games, New Dawn, and Primal, with only a handful of minutes of combat in the first hour. It will take 2 to 3 hours to get into the full open world. Then once you are into the open world, the game pushes you towards the Montero family in Madrugada as the first area to liberate. The family isn't as interesting as the Legends of 67, La Moral or, Maximas Mantanzas, Jose Castillo is the least interesting of the 7 antagonists, and the Madrugada missions also involve air vehicles that many players don't enjoy being forced to use.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The tropical island setting takes the franchise back to pre-Ubisoft roots from when Crytek were the developer, sharing this setting with Far Cry and Crysis. The setting and revolutionary theme has some viewing it as the Just Cause 5 that never was as that series went to mobile gaming due to the negative reception of the fourth game.
• That One Level: "Flyball" and later "Justicia Montero" due to being forced to use the extremely difficult to use plane controls. "Flyball" requires you to land the plane at a very specific air strip and into a hanger while "Justicia Montero" needs you to bomb a bunch of viviro fields. The ending of the mission also has you meant to evacuate the plane to go inside the airport control tower without indicating you aren't supposed to bomb it as well.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • The game received some fan criticism for removing human characters from the "Amigo" list, changing the roster to solely animal "Fangs For Hire" and reducing the amount who could be with you from two to just a single one, though it might be necessary for balancing, as in the previous game, a sniper companion is almost a total Game-Breaker.
  • The removal of the perk system and replacing it with upgrading equipment means that to some, leveling up feels far less progressive and your build no longer matters.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Going off of the relation between the protagonists and antagonists of previous Far Cry games, it's odd to see Dani and Antón barely interact with each other in the story, especially since Dani is the driving force behind Libertad's various victories and someone who Antón would be interested in well before the former confronted the latter at their own dinner table. 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.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: 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 as 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's 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.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Talia to some. 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.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
  • 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 Canadian. Anton does refer to American slavery and incarceration, but only to justify his own slave labor programs. 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. However, several comments throughout the game imply that Anton is the one who is restricting trade with the United States, which is chomping at the bit to get its hands on his Viviro wonder drug, which adds a whole new level of twists to the overall geopolitical situation.
  • Anton Castillo draws some interesting comparisons to dictators who attempt to institute large-scale programs of industrialization & modernization in real life, often following post-colonial independence succession. These individuals have a history of the "Ends Justifies the Means" mentalities and blame 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 Captain Ersatz of Cuba, its handling of Soviet-era socialism is Lighter and Softer than it is in reality. One of Libertad's allies is 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 from, and the implication that many supporters of the old Castillo regime, such as Anton himself, were Made a Slave 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.
  • The cockfighting minigame has been criticized by PETA and other organizations for glorifying animal cruelty. Others state that it is something that is culturally appropriate. Others claim it is treated so ridiculous that it should be divorced from reality.

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