Far Cry 4 decided that neither the rebels or government would be the "good guy." The protagonist's involvement does have personal stakes, but internal struggle isn't the real focus.

Far Cry 5.... wow. Spoilers if you care, but man caring was a mistake here. Unlike every other antagonist, Joseph lacks any kind of charm. Every member of the Seed family is some abused "Woe is me, I gotta kill people for God." And the absolute cherry on this bland empty sundae? Joseph is right. The shirtless guy howling about God's plan and the end of the world, who had had followers torture, kidnap and dope innocent people is right. Vindicating Joseph is just... disappointing beyond belief. Some people trying to make sense of it simply fixed this by saying Joseph controlled the first nukes, and set them flying when he had no escape. But make the guy an actual prophet of God, and you're punished for playing the game trying to stop the Seeds.

New Dawn is somehow even more disappointing. Again spoilers if you still care about em'. Set a scant two-ish decades after the nukes, life's looking up for the survivors. Except box art villain girls go all Mad Max despite there being an apparent abundance of clean, safe land with tons of resources. Skip ahead and the game wants you to pity the twins who've tortured and executed people in front of you multiple times. Oh but their dad was a monster and their mom didn't stand up to him. Jump ahead again and the true antagonist is Joseph's son, he's a whiny and entitled white boy who turns into a demon looking sombitch because fruit from God and daddy issues. It's OK to kill him though, and he doesn't even get a shit sympathy flashback unlike the twins. Ater vindicating Joseph as the guy who heard from God himself the writers 180 and tell him, "Nah, you're wrong, ha ha ha, now die because God or something."

GREAT characters and character designs

Totally aesthetic magic and guns

That same humorous attitude that Borderlands had

BUT

I don’t like the lives system. While the stakes are more intense it makes it really hard to play on your own unless you’re really, really good, which I am not. If you lose all your lives the mission ends and you have to redo the ENTIRE THING again.

I’ve only played a mission and a half so far (because it’s so damn difficult LOL) so I really hope the story comes to play further in cause I saw some reviews about it lacking story and lore?? So idk yet.

The gameplay is a tad overcomplicated in a sense there’s so much your character can do there’s no buttons left to zoom in scope to shoot enemies. And the level up system is kinda weird.

Personally, the DPRK has the right to be angry, especially if the dumb americans brought their bombers. The yankees are on to provoking them again.

And fuck the "DPRK has bad human rights/DPRK has lack of muh freedumbz" argument, or the "DPRK is a bad place" argument, it's getting tiring to hear that argument. At least the argument of "hwang jang yop inventing juche" or other arguments are better.

And stop claiming the DPRK was a communist state, it's nationalist.