Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has pulled back on the censorship
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They fucked themselves doing so already, I honestly don’t see how they’re going to unfuck themselves and not see a dip in sales
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.