

Unlike previous Far Cry villains, who all seemed to take an immediate, creepy interest in the player character, Anton Castillo doesn’t even deign to look at Dani during this cutscene, ordering death upon them and their childhood friend Lita with a flick of his hand. Far Cry 6 delivers on this scene, which was spoiled in the trailers. The moment when the villain makes their first appearance is always a major Far Cry staple, and it shows you how big of a threat they’re going to be. They play a fairly straitlaced foil to some of the crazier NPCs, but they are not without their moments of levity, my favorite being their interactions with their menagerie of animal companions. They’re initially dragged into the revolution against their will, only to later become attached to their friends and wanting to personally put an end to Castillo’s rule. The player character, Dani Rojas, is a sharp swing from Far Cry 5’s Rook, being fully voiced and having an actual name and personality - and not a bad one, either. Now a number of dissident groups within the country are poised to strike back.

However, under the auspices of Castillo and his platform of “True Yaran” patriotism, the country has devolved into a dictatorship where anyone the regime deems unworthy is forced to be a slave to the state.

Yara’s main claim to worldwide fame is a drug called Viviro, a cancer treatment cultivated from Yaran tobacco. The game takes place in Yara, an island nation ruled by El Presidente Anton Castillo.
