Textbook definition of a purity spiral in this thread.
The "based Eastern European devs" that have made two games that are about as "counter-cultural" "anti-woke" as can be, you're now jumping on because of the most microscopic issues imaginable. Being as suspicious and paranoid as possible about every little thing, claiming "wokeness" for innocuous statements by NPCs. If you're motivated to find anti-white Jewish subversion everywhere you look, of course you'll find it.
Gay people existed. Jewish people existed. Gypsies existed. Medieval Europe for women was not the Handmaid's tale. You're treating the mere acknowledgement of these facts as some grand conspiracy of historical revisionism when it's just as it's always been, motivated by historical accuracy.
Some people are pissed that their medieval knight hack-and-slash video game has gay people in it because it's a sequel to a game that made it a point to not have those things. You could walk around the province and not be accosted by Jews and Blacks and Gay prostitutes trying to get Henry out of the closet and be confident that it was a decent recreation of daily life in 15th century Bohemia if that mattered to you. The devs pretty much marketed the game as such during a time when there were social (and now, we know for certain, also financial) incentives to do otherwise. Doing so lended a sense of integrity to the first game that mattered to some people and motivated them to buy and play it.
It isn't "mere acknowledgement" of Jews, Gypsies, gays—and exotic snake-tongued, sleek, oiled mahogany-skinned foreign princes ripe for chain-and-whip play—to make Henry, who's ostensibly a regular guy, such a fulcrum in the exploration of these topics that only result in storylines and outcomes with very modern subtexts. That is textbook subversion and not at all motivated by any actual desire for historical accuracy. Intersex people have undoubtably been born and have lived in every place during every period of history, but should the Holy Roman Emperor have been intersex in KCD2? We never would have truly known if he was or not. Maybe Henry should have been retconned intersex, since it's simply "mere acknowledgement," right?
Henry has no choice but to be passive, if not progressive (and anally receptive) in his attitudes towards these obviously progressive inclusions which then removes agency from the player by virtue of Henry being our agent within the game. If Hans being gay was important enough to implement a whole questline ending in a "crossing swords" punchline, then it being brought up without intention to engage with him homosexually should have been implemented as well. Giving the player an opportunity to choose how Henry would handle his best friend and feudal Lord being a damn dirty homosex with the risk of the player choosing Henry to have the negative reaction we would expect a medieval man-at-arms to have
is historical accuracy. But it's either buttsex Lord Capon or it goes completely unacknowledged. Picking the right dialogue options doesn't turn Hans gay, he is gay. In better RPG writing, unexplored content still impacts a character. It all just speaks to poor and rushed implementation for asspats and journogibs (and probably USAIDS dollars). It may as well have not been included.
I'm not gonna knock anyone for buying and playing KCD2 since these are ultimately small plot points and I liked the first game for the gameplay and combat. But to say that they're "microscopic" or "mere acknowledgement" does complete disservice to much of why KCD1 was well received and is just outright downplaying their negative impact on the game.
