The parts I've seen so far are trash. I don't think the intro had a single white male

This intro? It doesn't look as ethnically homogenous as a medieval European setting should, especially in regards to the knight class. That said, if they don't look majority Mediterranean by candle light, you might want to adjust your gamma settings. The originals art direction was also washed out/generic. I resorted to installing an ENB within the opening hour. Fun game, though.

The upshot is fairly extensive modding tools are already out. Given that they're CC based, redoing NPCs should just be a matter of config editing. I'll wait for the performance patches to come out, and Denuvo to be removed.