They actually are making a great point. A real good story would address those issues.
I haven't seen a single good point, as to why the game needed to get political. From the setting, to how it apparently presented itself. I never got any of that. Yeah it's set in a Trump state. So what? The entire series has always been about emergent chaos and absurdity. I mean 5 has goddamn
murder turkeys. This is on par for the course for Far Cry. and no it didn't need to set it's foot down on the apparent political climate of the US.
I mean quite frankly, a lot of the "disappointment" over the story legitimately reads like the critics literally expected murderous racist Trump voters as the main enemy force. Off to shoot the deplorables we go! It was sold as being about a Doomsday cult in Montana. That's what they promised, that's what was delivered. I mean seriously expecting gravitas from a series that once had you ride a mechanical dragon to the OST of Rocky IV is totally off the mark.
"Far Cry 5 makes fun of everyone on the political spectrum, without ever taking a clear stand " says Polygon. It's a completely bullshit line, in a review that's extremely unconvincing about the points it's trying to raise. What would be good?
"Conservatives are assholes and they are wrong! Go Hilary!" Complains about drug addicted enemies, and how the game should have tackled the drug epidemic. That's just complete dumbassery, and a massive reach to justify the score to a game, he calls one of the best games in the series otherwise. You can literally follow the train of thought.
"They said libtard! Fuck this game, it's insulting to me!"
Look Trump and the GOP can get bent IRL for all I care (actually as far as I am concerned, they really should). But all of the critics trying to pretend that the Far Cry series of all things, needed to explore politics in depth is just....oooff. They complain about tonal backlash, yet willingly ignore how their perfect politicized Far Cry 5 would offer whiplash so hard your head would fall off instantly. Far Cry isn't about talking about political divide in the US. It's about failing a mission, because a friendly NPC shot a rocket launcher into the damn truck you were trying to steal. It's about talking with a rescued hostage, only to see her get dragged off into the freaking woods by a cougar in a totally unscripted way. No matter if it's set in Montana or not, no it does not need to tackle politics or the drug epidemic. It needed to tell a story about a crazy murderous doomsday cult. It does that. And it does that well.
And the potential future Far Cry 6 in....Japan (let's say). If it doesn't talk about the horror of WW2 Japanese imperialism, and the effects of violence against Korean comfort women (Korea's new status as the new hip East Asian nation, and the K-wave means it's a current issue!)... Bad story. BAD!