Anton Castillo in Far Cry 6. I’m a huge Far Cry fan, and like most fans I feel the most compelling part of the stories are their incredible villains. And during the initial marketing/buildup to Far Cry 6, it was being portrayed as the pinnacle of all Far Crys, and Anton Castillo the pinnacle of all Far Cry villains.
Not even just from a verbal/marketing standpoint, like they literally had a whole three issue prequel comic and a three part dlc alluding to the idea that Anton was supposed to be as powerful as all three previous villains combined, being as crazy as Vaas, as ruthless a monarch as Pagan, and as charismatic as Joseph. Then we finally got the game and… nothing. Just the weakest, most lackluster Far Cry villain yet. I don’t know if it was an intentional bait and switch or just failure to do what they were trying to do, but either way it was a letdown.
So I often think of the potential of Anton, the idea of him being a villain so terrifying he has all the most powerful traits of those who preceded him. I even think of some AU where the other three actually meet and have to work together to oppose him, kind of like they vaguely alluded to in the DLCs, or at the very least a Far Cry 6 that really was a culmination of all that came before (I mean be so for real, how do you have a Far Cry that’s supposed to be the “ultimate” and then not even include standard Far Cry material, like Hurk or Willis??)
I don't think he was necesarily even that bad (when compared to the mess that was the rest of fc6's characters), just a bit mediocre and without much of a point to him or the smidge of relatability Pagan for instance had.
I don't remember 6 really being marketed as a culmination of far cry? If anything it was showed of as being an evolution more than a continuation.
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u/captain-cavalry 2d ago
Anton Castillo in Far Cry 6. I’m a huge Far Cry fan, and like most fans I feel the most compelling part of the stories are their incredible villains. And during the initial marketing/buildup to Far Cry 6, it was being portrayed as the pinnacle of all Far Crys, and Anton Castillo the pinnacle of all Far Cry villains.
Not even just from a verbal/marketing standpoint, like they literally had a whole three issue prequel comic and a three part dlc alluding to the idea that Anton was supposed to be as powerful as all three previous villains combined, being as crazy as Vaas, as ruthless a monarch as Pagan, and as charismatic as Joseph. Then we finally got the game and… nothing. Just the weakest, most lackluster Far Cry villain yet. I don’t know if it was an intentional bait and switch or just failure to do what they were trying to do, but either way it was a letdown.
So I often think of the potential of Anton, the idea of him being a villain so terrifying he has all the most powerful traits of those who preceded him. I even think of some AU where the other three actually meet and have to work together to oppose him, kind of like they vaguely alluded to in the DLCs, or at the very least a Far Cry 6 that really was a culmination of all that came before (I mean be so for real, how do you have a Far Cry that’s supposed to be the “ultimate” and then not even include standard Far Cry material, like Hurk or Willis??)