Okay, so this came out last month but I haven't talked about it yet and I must!
(If you can't or don't want to watch the video, there's a transcript. And there's also a deleted clip.)
I can't judge what they said about Far Cry and Far Cry 2 because I haven't played those games, but it's cool that they interviewed Clint Hocking and that he revealed something about The Jackal's origin story.
Then, we saw Michael Mando talk about his audition for a character in Far Cry 3 that would later become Vaas Montenegro. He had already said in other interviews how Vaas was created but it was great to finally see the audition tape, even if they sadly didn't show the whole video... I loved that he said that Vaas has "an innocent heart". I also loved that Jeffrey Yohalem was there too to talk about the story of the game and re-explain its meaning, which is mostly meta and symbolical (and widely misunderstood).
They didn't talk about Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon but I don't think Sloan was meant to be subtle or "iconic" so it's understandable.
We haven't seen Troy Baker talk about Pagan Min a lot since Far Cry 4 came out so I'm glad he did in the documentary... and that he loved playing him! I agree with him that the term "antagonist" is better than "villain", but I don't know if I would describe Pagan as "caring" and "benevolent" because I'm not even sure Pagan would say that about himself. What Alex Hutchinson said about the relationship between the protagonist/player and the villain is very interesting and true, and it's always worth recalling that Pagan indeed never lied to Ajay... unlike the Golden Path.
They barely mentioned Far Cry Primal because they thought it didn't have "strong, front-of-the-box villains". While they're indeed not on the game's cover, they are, in my opinion, strong villains. Batari is fierce and powerful while Ull's character arc completely took me by surprise. This game and its villains are underrated.
We then saw Drew Holmes explain, again, that Far Cry 5's main antagonist, Joseph Seed, really only became Joseph Seed when the team saw Greg Bryk's audition tape. We had heard a lot about it and we finally saw it! Well, only a few seconds, unfortunately, but it was still cool. I've consumed so many interviews that I already knew pretty much everything the two men said (like "the subway anecdote") but it was still nice to hear. Greg's comment about how Joseph "becomes that six-year-old abandoned (...), beaten, abused child again" after losing his siblings broke my heart.
They talked about Far Cry New Dawn but not about The Twins, Mickey and Lou, despite the fact that they are "front-of-the-box villains". Even though it was sad, I liked Greg's story about his dog because I had never heard it before, but I think that The Twins deserved to be mentioned, at the very least...
Finally, we saw Navid Khavari and Giancarlo Esposito talk about their first meeting and say they were both a bit nervous about it, which was funny. They said that Far Cry 6's story was darker, more realistic, and more serious than its predecessors and, so far, I tend to agree. I haven't reached the end of the game yet but I really liked Giancarlo's analysis of Antón Castillo.
In conclusion, even though it was a bit short and I wish they had talked more about the villains of Primal and New Dawn, I thought the documentary was good. Hearing the actors' and the writers' points of view is always interesting.
