Red Dead Redemption 2 - Honorable Mention
Red Dead Redemption 2 ($60 on Steam) snuck up on me. For a long time I enjoyed everything but the story. I didn’t feel all that invested in Arthur Morgan, nor the exploits of Dutch and his gang. I partook in Rockstar’s elaborate Old West theater production but felt removed from it, preferring instead the quiet of a camp in the mountains, or people-watching in Saint Denis.
But then all those lonesome hunting trips endeared Arthur Morgan to me, and as the stakes ramped up I found myself more and more invested in getting him free of Dutch, finding him a happy farm somewhere and making a life for him. You know it won’t work out that way, and can’t if you’ve played the original Red Dead Redemption. I wanted it anyway though.
The journey is long and meandering, but maybe it needed to be. I spent the early hours annoyed by how damn slow the story unfurled, but now I wonder: If it were any faster, would the emotional payoff be as high? I doubt it.
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