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?
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