Far Cry 5 Review: Destruction and horrible story ruins an enjoyable world chaotic blast through USA
0There is the same subtlety in Far cry 5 that the one shown by Sir Ridley Scott in Black Hawk shot down. That is, none. At the start of the British war film, one of the most celebrated of the genre for its harshness and viscerality despite its fascist stance, we see reduced to evil to a ridiculous as iconic image: a black with a mortarboard, thick glasses of sun and a huge cigar on the lips. In Far cry 5, evil is a preacher with the air of Jared Leto who has his body completely tattooed by biblical icons and threatening messages. He also wears thick sunglasses.
In both cases, pretending that an explosive situation like the one the two works deal with - specifically, the violence in Somalia and the violence of the far-right American factions - can be reduced to such a simple image insults the intelligence. But the fact is that the intelligence is not the one appealed neither by one work nor by the other. Black hawk knocked down and Far cry 5 appeal to the viscus, to the turn in the stomach, to the vertigo. It is no coincidence that in both of them, all fuses are started and the first peak of emotion is reached with the downing of a combat helicopter. And it is not either that any attempt to reflect on what is told is deafened by the roar of shots and explosions. Because we are not in the field of intellectuality, but of the pulp.
The problem of both works is also common. That it is hard for them to recognize what they are, to come out of the closet and affirm unambiguously that they are a pulp work, that they lack discourse and that the spectator / player should forget about the apparent seriousness of what has been treated and be carried away by the bestial enjoyment offered by the carousel. But no. Both Scott and Ubisoft have wanted to sell that there is "something more" behind their works. And that makes the pretensions make live scenes that do not fit well in works that, if they were analyzed from a pulp optic, would be nothing short of perfect.
"I think we envision the world to the limit where we live now." Far cry 5 wants moments as different as those described below to coexist in the same plot. On the side of the ring, a chilling confession, admirably interpreted and directed, of a parricide. To the other, a collection of criadillas, that is, testicles, of bull torn from their owners while they mate with their congeners, the cows. It is obvious that something makes crack by putting those extreme flavors in the stew. As much as separately both scenes work for very different reasons.
They have run rivers of ink in the last 24 hours on Far cry 5. The best summary as a bird's eye to understand the crux of the matter is given by Ben Kuchera in Polygon, underlining that this Far cry is admirable for its playable experience, but that He has sinned of cowardice, or even worse of falsehood, when selling himself to the press in successive promotional events. I have to admit that in this particular title I did not go to any, but the description of serious seriousness reminds me strongly to what I felt playing Ghost recon. Widlands, title similar to Far cry 5 in the satisfaction that its visceral action provides, but with the same thick-line treatment of all the supposedly profound themes it deals with.
However, in the press event we attended, its creators insisted on the seriousness of the research after the game. A documentary, admirable, on the other hand, about the world of drug trafficking filmed as a parallel to the title, made us think that we really wanted to address the issue with a closeness to that seriousness and realism of this long golden age of television. But the final game showed flagrantly that we were closer to a G.I comic. Joe that of a Narcos. And nothing happens, if we were not sold that we were going to eat a marinated salmon when what arrives on the plate is a greasy (and delicious) burger 2018. Or what is the same, the effort to call every graphic novel when some works what you feel best is to be comics.
In short, the player who decides to spend their money in Far cry 5 will hardly leave disappointed. Except that it was really believed a priori that this title was going to deal with a more hardcore and rigorous HBO or Netflix, a hot topic like extremism in the American far right communities. If that was the reason for buying this new installment in the long saga, the disappointment would be huge. But if you know what you're going for, you'll end up wearing bulls with a smile, no matter how much, as it is my case, animal and anti-bullfighting. Because the pulp's escape valve, and it's not a trivial purpose, is to open the spout of the subconscious and let all that red fury that accumulates in our veins flow. In that role, Far cry 5 is an admirable and benign drug.
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