Musa is unbearable. If you stopped seeing him after Sigismund's camp, I'd be OK with it. Although his preachiness about how great his people are and how bad yours are would have gotten him knocked the F' out. Then they started forcing him in the rest of the way and he got annoying. Him saving Henry was the lowest point of the game.
I did get the mod to change his look before I even played the game (which I sailed the high seas anyway), but it still didn't make him less of a jackass.
The Jews are also forced and having a synagogue (which didn't exist) and no churches is all is a travesty, however, they at least had a semi-decent story reason for being there. I found Musa to be way worse.
It's sad because the game is good overall. I hope that as they release modding tools, someone can truly remove the garbage.
More reason to sail the high seas
The biggest issue of that these companies rip out the guts and start over every time. It feels like Duke Nukem Forever type stuff where everyone feels they need to be on the cutting edge for every release.
The Like A Dragon/Yakuza series devs are the only smart group I've seen that just keeps pumping out games on their current engine with the same maps while concurrently working on upgrades for a future release. It ensures that fans have a consistent steam of games to play and they can have a steam of revenue with games that can release at a lower cost. It's genius.
I cancelled my pre-order when this all started. Seeing Vavra's attitude just confirms I made the right choice. I had figured if it reviewed well enough, maybe with time I'd get it in the bargain bin. At this point, the best Vavra will get out of me is sailing the high seas.
I cancelled my preorder from CDKeys. They wrote back to me saying the following:
Just a quick heads-up— we’re experiencing a big wave of requests at the moment, and rest assured yours is on our radar! We’re working hard to get back to you as soon as we can.
IDK if it's all related to KCD, but what else could it be? Many people are cancelling. If I ever get this game it'll be heavily on discount or maybe even in the high seas. I couldn't care less if on a scale of 1-10 it's only a 1 on the woke meter. They tried to hide it and even when they were found out, they acted like scumbags about it. That's enough for me to not want to look past this.
Vavra is an atheist Jew. In fact, on the Steam forum the community manager said that as far as he knows not a single Christian worked on the game as a writer or in character creation.
Isn't Melania a Catholic (at least to some degree)? Also, JD Vance is a somewhat recent convert. They had a big Catholic gala at Mar-a-Lago recently too with some very traditional leaning speakers and even Benediction. So there are connections there.