reviews are out, and it seems the game is even gayer 
than initially thought. /v/ discusses.
Minor spoilers, but if you want a list of things that indicate to me that KCD2 is not an "anti-woke" game: * Multiple gay romances, including with a major story character * There are multiple major characters who are Roma * Major ally who is sub-Saharan African * Major ally who is Jewish
— Len (@len.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T18:03:17.150Z
The reviews for the new medieval gay romance game are up, some sites like Guardian and IGN are giving it praises, with scores like 10/10 and 9/10 respectively. This is already suspicious to /v/ users, who comment on it on the review thread:
https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/702003948
However, one review in particular brings attention, written by IGN, where the author further confirms on Bluesky that the game indeed got the big gay:
Not only is the "gay romance" in, there are multiple gay romances, multiple gay characters, multiple ethnicities, a whole jew pogrom questline and the major romance is with Hans, a deuteragonist from the first game, who was 15 in it 
The character is a confirmed strag and game gives us choice to respond to his advances.
Bonus: Resetera user says that apparently Vavra is totes a big lefty and woke and non-chud and is pro abortion and gay rights! We were all fooled!
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The first game sucked but was interesting because of its apparent adherence to historical accuracy
This is the sequel to a game that sucked but without the interesting bit
Why buy
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"Omg liek y would there be jews, foreigners or homos in a major city with the only university in the country and that sees tons of trade?"
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foreign students / teachers is not a thing from back then
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That is just hilariously wrong. In fact, the whole system of universities as a whole arose from largely foreign students bandying together in guilds to protect themselves against locals and to hire teachers.
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I didn't contest that part
I just told you which part of your argument was bad.
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Well too bad I assumed you rdidn't read it so you're wrong
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You know prague is not constantinople and merchants from yemen aren't going there on a regular basis and goods travel from hub to hub right?
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I have no clue lol I'm just really hoping the game is as good as the first one
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DAE 15th century hungry just like San franciso??????
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DAE big cities just like my backwoods farm town????
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Wait until you find out how cities in the 15th century felt about gypsies and gays
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The fact that they didn't like them is proof they weren't that fricking rare. No one in 15 century bohemia were salty about the Thai for example
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This is a common type of historical arguments and it's always entertaining
for exemple byzantium priests kept seething over rural cryptopagan rituals so historians suspect that some folk religion elements were not 100% in line with orthodox practice
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Saw some freak on Twitter crying about why there would be any Jews at all given that they're less than 1% of the population in modern Europe, gosh I wonder if there's a reason that might have been different before the 20th century.
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Snappy pull up the census numbers of Jews before the holo…. Hey, wait a minute!
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Yes we know and they did it because the numbers of those minorities were growing
hence they existed in big cities
this second game happens in one
only normal to have such npcs
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for no reason whatsoever
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Yes there were a lot of Jews and Roma in 15th century eastern and central Europe
And foreign merchants did exist in 2nd biggest city of medieval Bohemia
If you want to cry you can about the gay romance
But otherwise it's unironically historically correct
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Depends on the characters' attitudes. If every single npc doesn't treat the bantu like he's some circus freak/get handsy like present day chinks then it's clearly woked
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it's probably gonna be mild
except story missions
i don't think devs want drama
remember how journos cried about catwoman being called 'mean sexist slurs' by a bunch of male feminists and other criminals in Arkham city
if even that's too extreme for western mainstream g*mer
so i don't think they can go Come and See (a movie people who should really watch, if they want to get legitimately uncomfortable) levels of realism
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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHY DO DIFFERENT CULTURES EXIST REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?
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I take more radical centrist position in this situation
I agree that game number one was historically correct with it's demographics based on it's location
And I agree that this one seems to be more diverse based on it's
And Devs way of implementing it looks ok so far.
It's not like we have race changes in historic characters
Or...as I'm currently thinking about playing AC Syndicate - open trans man in 19th century UK
Writers suddenly turning Henry bi might be a legitimate complaint.
Minority NPC's isn't
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no, no mexicans
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Universities as we see today pretty much happened after enlightenment so after the game story
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None the less it's still going to be a draw to all sorts of people from the region
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Also most classes were theology.
There of course were some gays back then but they were like secret societies with their hand sign skills like this:
But if they made gay relationships the way keplon mission in gta5 worked then that would been hilarious. The length you must go to get gay relationships
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Rslurred and wrong. Theology was part of it, but the so was law, medicine, philosophy and the liberal arts.
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I reserve judgement until I see how open the gay boys are. They should be scared and timid and I should be able to report them. Being openly gay and proud is gay.
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Exactly. Should be executed by the nobles or whatever for being gay Jews. Weren't they banished from 50,000 countries??
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That depends, can you kill the gyspsy characters?
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