Even though Ubisoft brought back Michael Mando for Vaas in his DLC, it still wasn’t easy breathing new life into a Villain NPC fans have adored for years. That DLC did well by Vaas, as well as Jason Brody. The same can be said of Pagan Min and Ajay Ghale, even if those relationships are fundamentally different. But Far Cry 6’s Joseph Seed: Collapse DLC drops the ball when it comes to perhaps the most unique villain-protagonist relationship in the franchise: Joseph Seed and The Judge.

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Far Cry 6 DLC: Vaas and Jason Brody, Pagan Min and Ajay Ghale

First, it’s worth looking at how the former two Far Cry 6 DLCs did well by their characters. In Vaas’ DLC, not only does the roguelike formula work best for his particular mindset, but it adds depth to his character, to Jason Brody, and to Citra. In Far Cry 3, Jason Brody’s perspective is that he’s the hero—either for his friends or for the Rakyat. Either choice fundamentally changes him—he either dies a villain in his own way or is scarred for life by the choices he made in the Rook Islands.

Because Vaas manages to survive the events of Far Cry 3, it shows how Vaas dealt with his past abuses by his sister and overcome his rivalry with Jason. Vaas’ DLC proves that, in the end, it’s Vaas who walks away from Far Cry 3 truly victorious—not Jason Brody.

Meanwhile, the relationship between Pagan Min and Ajay wasn’t exactly fully antagonistic; Pagan Min spoke of Ajay endearingly, if in his own eccentric way, of Ajay. But, in Far Cry 4, players do not get to fully understand the type of future and relationship Pagan Min envisioned; they see that in his DLC. This allows players to see the life Pagan Min wanted with Ajay, with Ajay’s mother, and with Pagan Min’s daughter (who Ajay’s father killed).

Pagan Min struggles with this vision and dream, questioning if he only used his daughter’s death as an excuse to go on his rampage, but it’s clear that Pagan Min wanted something beautiful, lost it, and became the dictator he was in Far Cry 4.

Far Cry 6 DLC: Joseph and The Judge

Whereas the new context in each of these relationships builds on them, Far Cry 6’s Joseph Seed DLC drops the ball. There is no new, real context added to the Judge that players don’t know come Far Cry: New Dawn or fundamentally improve/change it. As players may recall, Far Cry 5’s Deputy Sheriff gets trapped in the Bunker with Joseph Seed after The Collapse. Joseph Seed is dealing with his own demons during this time, reflected in this DLC by putting players in the shoes of Joseph’s disgusting actions. Nonetheless, during this time, the Deputy Sheriff changes, comes to believe God speaks to Joseph, and becomes his “Judge.”

Far Cry: New Dawn NPCs will comment how the Deputy has changed, while some believe he was brainwashed. Some believe that the Judge changes Joseph Seed as much as Seed changed the Judge, but the entire character dynamic is already there. In the Joseph Seed DLC, the Judge is not important—likely because he doesn’t exist yet, not in this form, but this visions of this character still come straight from the Voice. Players will have to fight the Judge, who according to the Voice, is the one to judge Joseph, explaining where the name comes from, but that’s it.

There’s a scene where Joseph and the Judge interact within the bunker, but it adds nothing players didn’t already know. And then, after getting all the cross pieces, the Far Cry 6: Joseph Seed DLC comes to an end. Whereas the other endings really build up the world of Far Cry, just like its treatment of the Judge, Joseph Seed’s DLC doesn’t end with any major nuance or change.

Far Cry 6 is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

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