Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game about
characters a gang of Outlaws struggling
to find refuge in a rapidly changing
America guided by their idealistic
leader Dutch band
there's hosea matthews the older and
wiser right-hand man to dutch and their
surrogate son the protagonist arthur
morgan the hot-headed and violent Bill
Williamson say the ad a traumatized
widow who transforms into a merciless
gunslinger uncle who constantly demands
that Jackie Chan retrieved the talismans
Miss Grimshaw the firm but loving
backbone of the game Tilly
Abigail Jack Strauss Charles Caryn
Pearson Lennie Xavier Reverend Sean
Michael Jack Marsden who was a nearly
unrecognizable from the man we play this
in the original and my horse - who got
that name because the first horse died
in a train accident the other side of
the hideout where all these colorful
personalities go about their daily lives
is easily the strongest aspect of Red
Dead - you'll constantly see them
chanting singing arguing dancing
sometimes - playing poker other nights
there's swapping stories and drinking
whiskey around the campfire Dutch can
often be found blasting some classical
music on his phonograph and miss
Grimshaw scolding someone for doing
something stupid the game has a
brilliant way of letting them interact
and play off of each other while you
learn more about who they really are
making their precarious circumstances
all the more heart-wrenching just wait
till the first game you [ __ ] pieces
now remember two seconds ago when I said
The Hideout was the best part of the
game I was actually a lying man there
because the music is the best part of
the game you open with these menacing
horns being drowned out by the wind of
the blizzard just as Justin
comes into view you can hear this faint
shimmering shootouts are brought to life
fight triumphant fan of things full of
pulsating bass and marching drums then
out of nowhere they pull our [ __ ]
diangelo what the [ __ ] he comes another
after they get this on the ski this was
you Diaz love come on come on just sneak
this song into the game is such a badass
move and for that I have to give
D'Angelo five out of five greatest
musician of all time now back to read
the game time to sucks dick
I'll have miles on you every second
you're in here thief
so what are you in the market for for
the first four chapters I was in Prague
not only by the storytelling it set
pieces by the side missions in my new
details of the world then chapter 5 hits
and I go what the hell the game takes a
dramatic nosedive in quality when you
wash up on this island for an hour and a
half straight you're just bowing people
down with almost no motivation behind it
even after you leave the island like
they'd never escaped that blooming sense
of repetition creative missions that
move the story forward start becoming
more infrequent as you're subjected to
one shooting gallery after another
you're constantly riding your horse
across the map to a mission only to
follow some do it for another five
minutes when you start it you have these
ancient shooting mechanics with
de-emphasized aiming the cover system is
straight-up broken all of these issues
that once felt minor started to really
irritate me as I became increasingly
disconnected from the story
do it like you did good
nope Rockstar is still clueless when it
comes to bringing things to a dramatic
climax you have all these spinning
plates that are ready to topple and
shatter on the floor but instead they
start introducing new characters while
the people who actually care about just
meander towards some weak-ass
dissolution you know something's gone
astray when you're playing a game about
bounty hunting train robbers and the
most exciting mission in the past 10
hours is a music video of building a
house thankfully the open world is far
less predictable I had a lot of fun just
roaming around soaking in all the
scenery and gladly occasionally I would
stumble across some weirdos or an
abandoned cabin I'm trying to piece
together what happened there this is a
robbery you're getting robbed friend
you're getting robbed Oh No one time I
jumped on some dudes wagon and threw him
off then we get into a big fistfight
then the police shot him for some reason
then there was that time that I ran into
a group of bandits
those guys got killed and how can we
forget about the legendary poker match
between me and my arch-nemesis mr.
Cornelius what are you gonna do where
you gonna do about Oh
he's calling me he's coming [ __ ] oh this
suits me very well god damn well when
you lose you lose you know what kid
clearly these police are not familiar
with the standard rule set of poker just
as Arthur grows disillusioned with his
mentor Dutch so did I with this massive
video game whose excess eventually
becomes a major net remote however the
first half is so exciting and memorable
with such thoughtfully realized
characters that I can easily recommend
this game I give red bed together in a
big old cigar
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