Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has pulled back on the censorship
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They're going to have a dip in sales regardless. I assume a lot of people felt betrayed by going back on the diversity angle.
There is 0 chance that adding a gay option and black character from Mali was done for anything but diversity points.
Daniel Vavra said no one forced him not that no one asked him to do it.
My guess, someone told him he should add them and he agreed to add them as long as it was done faithful to the times.
It wasn’t though. There’s not one single iota of evidence that a Mali entered Europe even hundreds of years after this timeframe. The stretch is so bad the he used one of the most catholic fervent HRE kings to hire a Muslim “doctor” from a sultan that he was at war with in a time period where there was no single bit of evidence a black Mali doctor existed and the only scholars in Timbuktu at the time were not black.
I mean it will not be a modern take where suddenly black people are a common occurrence in Bohemia 1400. It is definitely forced and out of place and done for diversity points but I think my scenario is plausible where Vavra thought he could pull it off.
It’s not though. There’s fact he made a Muslim Mali doctor a retinue of the HRE’s King is so insanely absurd it is the direct equivalent of Asian lady at the Viking village in England for AC Valhalla. It’s entirely a modern take because it’s so not documented that they’re not evidence of ANY Mali entering Europe, let alone someone given a title by THE KING OF THE HRE. This is actually patently historically worse than Yasuke in AC shadows.
That pissed me off as much as black Heimdal (although I DO like Idris Alba as an actor) and nigs & chinks in Asgard, while Wakanda was blacker than the South African town I grew up in.
Honestly, even if Vavra and his crew found triple-authenticated evidence of Musa being in Bohemia, even if they have a Polaroid picture of him hanging out with the king, it wouldn’t invalidate what’s been said above. It was done for the sake of diversity and inclusion, regardless of whether Vavra was threatened (which he says he wasn’t) or bribed (which I personally think is more likely).
Either way, the players don’t want this shit in our games anymore. We don’t care who’s idea it was or what reasons it was done for or “how it’s handled” (as the more spineless YouTube channels keep repeating to avoid bannings). We don’t want it anymore, period.
I hope these idiots lose a lot of money
Obviously, Vavra felt he could pull it off. It was hubris to feel that way, though.
Doubt, haha
They will try to do it. A black doctor from Mali during the time where "doctors and engineers" are flooding Europe was always going to go bad with the audience but I understand he is not made up to be some common occurrence but an unique event. He will probably not be eating people or talk about the Mali slave trade.
They've also mentioned that Henry taking it up the arse will be done with consideration of the times. What that means, I have no idea.
The problem is not "Europe". It's central, "far away from any sea route" Europe, Bohemia.
Here's the question: How many doctors/engineers are in the game? Lets say 100? Was the number of black engineers/doctors above 1% back then? No? Then it's pandering, cause historically (due to how stats work) there would be 0 representation of them in the game.
Regarding Henry: He was established as straight. Pure pandering, I wouldn't mind if there were two other guys fucking in the game (cause the percentage of that was most likely way higher than the amount of blacks in Bohemia).
It's 100% pandering. There is no way a black Mali doctor at court would not have been part of a historical record.
If tackling closet faggotry was a thing they wanted to do, they could have easily made a quest where you discover two nobles were up to that shit and then give you the choice to expose them, cover for them, or blackmail them. That at least would have been interesting for players.
hey, don't be cynical. we know of at least one refugee thats definitely a doctor. an ophthalmologist, to be specific. somehow, that one got swiped by the Russians.