Far Cry 6's Joseph Seed DLC Fails The Judge Compared to Jason Brody and Ajay Ghale

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With the recent release of the Joseph Seed: Collapse DLC, Far Cry 6’s season pass has come to an end. Already, many are expecting Ubisoft to move on to Far Cry 7 or another spin-off, as the franchise typically follows an annualized release schedule. This doesn’t mean that the DLC has been pushed out of mind, though, as the first two really nailed various aspects of character.

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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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