Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 is an absolute masterpiece from the story line to the visuals.
Arthur Morgan is one of the most beautifully written characters of all time.

In my sobriety, I anticipated that Red Dead II would be a venerable successor to its predecessor, a game which would allure aspiring horse enthusiasts, with a penchant for gazing diligently at the bodily anatomy of mares and stallions alike. Albeit, it was not to be, for while Red Dead once exonerated the cultural practices of the Irish, featuring a manic Irish man, cupping the testicles of a stallion in the palm of one hand, whilst vigorously caressing his phallus in the other, this waning spawn of its precursors loins features nowt but rambling suffragettes, roving bands of cutthroats and the withering vestiges of the game developer's desire to live, that now lay forlorn and scattered across the plains of this realm.
The premise of scandalous trysts with mares, brawls with towering women, rippling with cords of muscle and emulating the life of a cunning outlaw is a facade, a guilefully crafted illusion, designed to entice players to purchase Red Dead II, only for them to soon grimly comprehend that they have been duped. I was one of these unfortunate saps who after trekking for hours among the marshes and bogs of a backwater province, finally reached the epiphany that what I had embarked not upon a game revolving around western cutthroats and brigandry, but instead a tedious trudging simulator, one that would gradually sully the bridle and tear at my once pristine garments and boskin boots.
There was but one consolation I had, a slither of bliss, that enlivened the otherwise senseless and agonizingly leisurely and bovine ventures throughout the inexplicably immense wildernesses. To elaborate, what verily ignited my passion was the tale of how Arthur, Dutch and the rest of their criminal syndicate, despite being murderers, the bane of paupers and ruffians of the lowest calibre, had altruistically decided not to partake in the maleficent and grievous activity of racism and sexism. Forsooth, Arthur himself can boldly proclaim himself to be not only the paragon of equal rights, but also the personal chauffeur for belligerent, screeching suffragettes.
And who could omit the wholly uncontrived and delightful Lenny quest, where Arthur and his amicable Stygian thrall, Lenny, capriciously sauntered about the Valentine saloon, engaging in ludicrous shenanigans, which elicited immense amounts of felicity amongst the lobotomized hordes, who prowl around Reddit's most banal, creatively bereft caverns. In sooth, this game is a wholeheartedly enlightening bastion of fairness, tolerance and affability to all, traits which were indisputably prevalent throughout the 20th century, and paint a stark contrast its predecessor, which inexplicably features nowt but tension and senseless conflicts amongst the masses.

The best advice I can give you to achieve the best experience is to avoid rushing through it, at least for the first time.. explore the world of Red Dead Redemption 2 as much as you can and interact with the life happening around you.. Give it time and let the game introduce itself to you, every detail will going to worth it and in three words: enjoy the adventure

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☑ 10

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of those games that stays with you long after you've finished playing. It is, quite literally, unforgettable. The world feels alive, with gorgeous landscapes that make you want to explore every corner, none of which disappointing. Every character feels real, and every moment, big or small, leaves a lasting impact. It's a game that pulls you in with its beauty, but keeps you with its deep, emotional storytelling. Arthur Morgan’s journey is beautifully written, and to me, nothing can compare.
It's 100% worth the price, and on sale it's a steal. Get it if you can, you will not be disappointed ♡

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☑ 10

The Game Of Games
You have not played a more polished game in your life and probably won't for a while until Rockstar comes out with another game. This game is at this point already 6 years old and remains an unreached milestone in immersion, open world density, depth of interaction and and and. The amount of options, choices, characters, randomly occuring events and never ending amount of exploraton you have in this one game is quite astonishing. Playing this you will continually ask yourself how in the world they managed to put this together to make it a real game. And again, this was 6 years ago already. I guess a lot of devs had to suffer some intense crunch for years to make this brilliant game a reality. It really shows. They took an insane amount of precaution for immersion on all fronts and to never let it break.
The historically accurate depiction of the wild west is another thing we've most definitely never seen before in a video game. This basically is a Hollywood western movie implanted into a game.
Almost every action you take has ripple effects...
that even in the most minor ways you can imagine will be remembered by NPCs in the game. You steal something in a bar, even after months of ingame time they will remember you there as a thief and also what specifically you stole. NPCs you kill in the wild will remain laying there, unfound, rotting, vultures gathering. You can observe the decomposure day by day. You can also tie people up and feed them to the aligators.... and I mean... if that's not a 10/10 game, then I don't know what is, lmao.
Rockstar have done it time and time again...proving that they are the best in the industry by a long shot, considering they have been coming out with groundbreaking games consistently since GTA 2. And this game in particular still stands tall as one of the greatest achievements in gaming development as a whole to this day. Every once in a while we all have these outlandish thoughts that "you know I wish I could do this or that in a game" and then you realize that's maybe too far out there for a game to be advanced enough to meet that expectation. THIS is the game where you can actually do some of those things.
This game has set the bar so high... maybe too high
it's actually quite worrying if anyone is gonna reach that level again anytime soon. If at all. The game has been in development for like 8 years, so for anyone to spend that time, have the talent, vision and direction to even make it this great and also take the giant risk to commit to it for so many years, has not been done by many, especially big studios and will probably become more rare in the future. Just like with modern cinema. Sh1t out something average with high production for guaranteed sales and that's about it. Low risk, high reward. So imo it remains doubtful how many deeply original games AAA like these we'll continue to have.
...and wow, I've said "game" like 20 times in this review.
To anyone who's interested, I've made a performance optimization guide of how I fixed up my game to look and perform the best: