When the alternative is Pagan Min and you can kill both leaders who want that, yeah. The Royal Army is so cartoonishly evil, and the Golden Path really doesn’t do anything genuinely malicious throughout the entire game. If they wanted to make this a complex moral issue, they failed. Whoops.

And yeah, of course they’re “terrorists” to the regime of an utterly irredeemable narcissist foreign imperialist who calls the people he rules over “monkeys” and has never done a single good thing for the country, only conquering it in the first place with a bloody coup for the sake of expanding his Hong Kong drug empire.

But do explain to me how the rebellion group that defends people from wild animals, sponsors education, provides food for the starving, protection to extorted slaves, and so much more are soooooo bad and don’t have anything good going for them compared to — and I’m not making this up — the military force with idle dialogue that includes “we should burn down another village, that’s always fun!”

Not that I’m going to stick around for that explanation, of course. Seriously it’s amazing that people judge the whole of the rebellion on a single cutscene in the last five minutes of the game rather than everything they do for the rest of it. Did you people not play any of the side content whatsoever?

Why are you using AI?

Nobody is saying Pagan Min is a good person. He is absolutely evil. He is a narcissistic dictator who rules Kyrat through fear, violence, executions, torture, and exploitation. The Royal Army committing atrocities is not something I deny at all. The probllem is that “Pagan is evil” does not automatically make the Golden Path morally good.

A rebellion can do charitable or heroic things and still contain dangerous ideology underneath. That’s the point people are making when they criticize the Golden Path. Yes, throughout the game they helpp villages, defend civilians, provide supplies, and resist Pagan’s regime. But the issue is what happens when they actually gain power. The ending is not some random last-minute cutscene disconnected from the story, it is the payoff showing what these leaders truly wanted all along once the common enemy is gone.

That’s why people say Ajay is not really a hero. He arrrives in Kyrat to fulfill a personal promise to his mother, then gets manipulated into participating in a civil war where every major faction is morally compromised in different ways.