Vainamoinen: Not sure where this opposition to KDC2 is coming from
VausG: From what I could gather:
1. The mere presence of a muslim from Mali, despite the game director's past statements of "no black people in medieval Bohemia, period."
Musa (he's called) having been brought to Bohemia (as a prisoner of war I believe) would make it a plausible and authentic exemption to the rule, but the consensus thinks different apparently.
There also seems to be some lecturing via his dialogue where he claims that women are treated better in Mali, which might have been true in some aspects but certainly not in others.
2. The mere option of a gay relationship between Henry and another, as of yet unknown NPC (rumoured to be Hans) and the corresponding "Henry swings both ways now" retcon.
Which (also imho) is a stupid and completely unnecessary retcon, and definitely comes across as a compromising DEI concession more than anything else. Especially when it turns out in Kingdom Come Deliverance 3, that Henry was never bisexual after all, because the carried over "canon Henry" is likely going to be straight Henry.
3. "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is not a Christian game" is the latest I believe.
I like your moderate yet encompassing view. To the clueless or ignorant, as well to foaming at the mouth, left or right, I won't bother to answer but I like your style.
1.There are a few reasons for which the presence of a black man is problematic in this game. Firstly, the present world environment. Let's be clear, black people have been wronged many times in history. By other races as well as by their own race. But also, just as black people have been treated, so have many other races of people. One can only pick up a history book to realize that. For some reason though, as the black people's suffering is more recent and more thoroughly recorded, people have fixated their guilt release upon this issue. As a result, you have black people culture pushed heavily in today's society, black people featured in commercials, movies, entertainment, video games. The idea that being black is cool etc. Which is fine, I believe everyone should be proud of what they are. The issue here is the quantity. Check any commercial in the US, the black people are setting trends according to their message, while the white male, the husband is nonexistent, or if he is, he has the role of comical relief, dufus, always messing up, powerless, inapt etc.
As a result, and according to Newton's law of motion, there is an excessive resistance to this trend, where people won't accept any of this in their entertainment.
Another reason is the fact that Daniel Vavra emphasized in the first game that this game is supposed to be historically accurate. I am not saying that the presence of one black man in a medium sized town in the Middle Ages is impossible. But when you say you are going after accuracy, you are not focusing on the improbable exceptions to the rule, unless you are trying to tangentially check off a mark from a list. I will let you draw the conclusion on your own as to what that list is.
Daniel Vavra said he put a black man in the game because it made an interesting story, but again there are many ways to make an interesting story. Have the town experience a rain of frogs, a plague, or the people in the town spontaneously start to dance , all real things that happened btw. But again, there seems to be a different motivation for the presence of a black man.
Also, the people of Bohemia, didn't have anything to do with black people, nor any contacts or interaction with African culture. The missed opportunity here is to engage with the people that were most feared in those times, the Ottoman Empire.
Instead of a black man, have a turk there and make it really interesting, maybe the turk is a feared fighter that you have to defeat in an arena or have bets involved etc, so many possible plots to make it more plausible and more historically accurate.
2. The problem with Henry having the opportunity to sleep with men is that in the first game Daniel Vavra also said that Henry is an established character, not a customizable one,we don't get to change his face, his physical appearance, that we get to experience his story. The interjection of the gay romance opportunity is meant to also touch another mark on some list. Simple as that.
I don't object to the presence of gay relations in the game as long as they are made in accordance with the period mentality, and the game is not a gay parade pushed in our faces all the way to the end. But leave Henry alone, don't betray him like that and change his mind for your own interests. Once you have released a character upon the world, he is alive for many people, he doesn't belong just to you anymore, you have a responsibility towards him. Show respect, to him and to your own vision.
3. The game is clearly not christian. It depicts a christian society, but also its duplicity and lack of substance on different occasions. Not everyone in this game is a saint. It is clearly trying to be an objective view of those times. It does not present christian religions values as being superior to any other. There are no comparisons here. The fact that npc characters proclaim "Jesus Christ be praised" it's not meant to show the game from a christian perspective, but actually I find it quite ironic. It feels like they did a disservice to Christianity by including that phrase in that way in the game.
