I don’t consider myself an avid historian of Slavic exchanges historically but at least from everything I know it’s patently absurd to somehow implant a Mali Muslim into the service of a king who was directly involved in the crusades against the Ottoman Empire. From Varva:
6/10 The game takes place in one of the richest cities in Europe which was besieged by a massive foreign army. That´s the reason why the life in such a city is more diverse than the life in villages which were featured in the first game. 7/10 Musa came to Bohemia with an invading army as a member of the royal court of King Sigismund, whom he met thanks to his engagement at the court of Sultan Bayezid. He's an educated noble and renaissance man from the Kingdom of Mali.
So King Sigismund, a Hapsburg and king of Hungary, who was at war with bohemian Hussites (heretics) and was fighting a religious war supposedly hired a black Muslim retainer from an engagement with a sultan… who was already and repeatedly at war with the king and trying to take his claims in Hungary. Not only this but Sigismund was repeatedly engaged in the crusades against the ottomans and was notorious for fighting “heretics” and advancing Catholicism. How is any of that supposed to make sense?
What I don't like is how this is a big shift in direction. Before he said that without proof of black people in Bohemia during early 15 century it makes no sense to have them. Now we're back to you can't prove there wasn't a black guy medic serving King Sigismund that no one recorded bull shit.
Are we suppose to pretend this was an organic change and not one done for diversity?
Everything about the changes scream forced diversity. “There was gay people in the 1400s”, there was rape, pederasty, bestiality, and mass hedonism too. Were literally talking about the exact same time frame as Gille de Rais in France, one of the most notorious serial killers and child rapists in history who also was a icon of the Black Sabbath, occultism, and satanism. This would be far more interesting of a take, but somehow we got “hidden gay lust”. It’s literally the intro to tropic thunder with RDJ as a gay priest.
"But two gay people existed in KCD 1 so this is a non-issue."
That just shows that there must be zero tolerance for faggotry in media.
He sold out. Simple as that.
And now he pretends, either to sooth his own conscience or to salvage this disaster, that it all happened "organically" and not because he wants another sports car.
Hes a juden its looking more like he is shape shifting to redirect the anti woke crowd. Even plays with guns to seal the based™ (((white))) conservative angle.
Good question. What I was wondering. Mansa Musa had a massive amount of slaves. If he shows that I’d be surprised
As far as I can tell that is not Mansa Musa himself but a medic from Mali that was working for Sultan Bayezid at the time and got recruited by King Sigmund.
It stretches a bit the suspension of disbelief but not that much. The problem is that it comes during a time where people are fed up with pushing things for the sake of diversity and always on white cultures. It does not help that the lead dev put himself as based.
Even worse is that the main character used to be straight in KGD 1 with little to no room to doubt it, he checks out women and not boys and can have relations only with women. But now he is apparently bi as you can follow a gay relation . This makes the bromance/ camaraderie from the first one a bit iffy to say the least and changing a characters sexuality for diversity is woke no matter what.
If this was Larian studios it would have been what ever but when the main dev sets himself up as being based is normal for people to feel betrayed.
You nailed that on the head. I can’t blame anyone for being tired of this forced inclusion in every game. I guess at least they give you a choice unlike with something like last of us where you are forced to be gay, but I get what you are saying. I got the first game even though I don’t like first person. Will wait to hear about this one