Because every Far Cry game, either directly or subtly, has a major pro-America bent to it. In the early games, basically every protagonist was a white American who was ready to kick some local ass for varying personal reasons. Then, we moved into culturally appropriate protagonists, but they all still heavily represent an American view of positive values, often surrounding democracy, equality, and/or self determination.

This isn’t necessarily a negative, it’s just the genre. Like 80’s action movies, it’s about making a western audience feel badass rather than representing any sort of reality. I’d hazard a guess that Far Cry isn’t a bestseller in Cuba.

They want the aesthetics of Che and Castro fighting oppressors but they don't want the USA to be the oppressors, and they want the ideology to be compatible Western Liberal values, which aligns on the most superficial levels but can't be allowed to be examined at the foundations.

Exactly the same shit with Black Panther™️ and Wakanda™️

My question is… why? Why do all this? Why not just let me liberate Yara from Yanquis and their stooges which would be far less confusing?

Because it's the yanquis who made this game; they can't be opposed without their spinning a 'good reason' to oppose the regime, too. tl;dr Ubisoft eating from the same propaganda trough that Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer, and Treyarch do

Because it was done by US liberals with zero understanding of anything they tried to portray.

Play Spec Ops: The Line, it's the best shooter video game you can find that questions itself and is very critical of the US foreign policy.

that is a problem in general with western (or westernized) works, taking out the political core of revolutionary movements so they don't accidentally boost the morale of said groups in real life, be it they anarchists, communists or any kind of left nationalism, or at least instigate a little critical thinking on their consumers, so they focus mostly on aesthetics or just portraying then as bandits.

on FC6 u have a revolutionary group clearly aesthetically inspired by caribbean revolutionary groups like the sandinists and m-26-7, and that is it... during the game it is not discussed what kind of society they are trying to build next, for whom and how, just some liberal democracy lango throw around of free elections as if that is what democracy is all about and shooting big bad totalitarian government, not to mention that spanglish language that is fucking plain racism imo

i've been watching The Expanse recently, in the show there is a group that based on the symbol i assume they are from anarchist orientation, but the whole revolutionary core is taken out, and it is reduced to a shadowy organization that turns to piracy and sort of a death cult after following the charismatic yet megalomaniac leader

another example i can think rn is the Scoiatel from The Witcher, they are supposed to be a anti-racism organization with elfs, dwarfs and halflings as militants, but they are portrayed as common bandits or elf supremacists

edit: another paragraph

of said groups mentioned earlier, the number one threat in real life that no work of fiction even dares to portray even in the gray area, only as absolute evil, is the communists. i respect the anarchist comrades but truth be told, they aren't much a threat to status quo on real life, so they pop up here and there (like OPA from the expanse, and the anarchist spider man), the communists are mostly not mentioned at all, and when to so, as the absolute evil, like the game Homefront Revolution, where the one and only DRPK takes over the world or something like that

Ironically enough, Cuba exists in the game as a separate entity and Yara is essentially where Jamaica is on the map.

Anton Castillo wasn't the guy in charge after the revolution, he was elected later under the promise of modernizing and changing the country for the better and ended up being Batista essentially. I spent a lot of time looking into the life of this game to figure out if it was a cool story or not, it's like the most liberal revolutionary game I've ever played lol I do enjoy the cool gear and explosions lol

Does Yanqui == Yankee?

All the far cry games have these stories where when you think about it, the true winning move was to not even play going back to FC2.

Far cry 3 was cool but I barely remember it, Far cry 4 kinda sucked bc I think it was just the same map as 3 but changed textures and stuff to look Nepalese. Far cry 5 is amazing and a beautiful game to play, really cool environment to interact with, crazy amounts of animals that are trying to kill you. It always felt a lil weird having animals as enemies in a 1st person shooter tho, I can’t say that they started that trend or that animals in video games as enemies is even uncommon, some of the earliest games had animal enemies but it sorta rubs me the wrong way, idk maybe its a bad take

Ubisoft would never bite the hand that feeds