And now, I’ve only just played through a scene where it’s revealed that Arthur has contracted tuberculosis. Whether or not Dutch saves his gang in 1899, it doesn’t make much difference, because he still ends up destitute and dead in circa 1912. Thanks to Red Dead Redemption, we already know the outcome of the Van der Linde gang. There, the gang regroups, is again found by the Pinkertons and must escape, again.Īnd I still have half the game to go? The whole shoot-escape-settle-and-repeat routine is getting a little tedious. Stranded, the remnants of the Van der Linde gang become involved in the rebellion, and, with the help of the workers, manage to both take down the nefarious Alberto Fussar, head honcho of sugar, and make their way back to the United States. Only the thing wrecks in a terrible storm and the crew ends up stranded on the island of Guarma, a spot that is currently boiling over in a war between sugar plantation owners and their enslaved workers. A major shootout between the gang and the Pinkertons in Saint Denis – causing the death of several gang members along with the arrest of John Marston – leads Dutch, Arthur, and a few other escaping folks onto a boat that’s supposed to sail them off to the shores of Cuba. Which results in an almost unbelievable trip into what I can only call an Uncharted situation. Though Arthur recognizes the folly in Dutch’s singular vision to “get money and save everyone,” it’s still a case of the blind leading the blind. Dutch Van der Linde remains Arthur’s guiding light, forcing him to beg, borrow, steal, and kill, all in the name of the gang.

Arthur’s life becomes reluctantly cosmopolitan upon entering the fancy digs of Saint Denis, a city bristling with New Orleans-style charm. Escaping from their camp in Horseshoe Overlook after it was discovered by the Pinkertons, the gang sets up shop first in a forested spot called Clemens Point, and then in an abandoned plantation mansion called Shady Belle.

government), and big-money players, such as Saint Denis’s crime boss, Angelo Bronte, and wealthy magnate Leviticus Cornwall. At this point, the gang is on the wrong side of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (a private security firm hired by the U.

No longer does anyone seem too worried about small-time rogues such as the O’Driscoll gang, or old rivalries between old families. I remain curious about Arthur Morgan, but controlling him is so terrible it pretty much belies the fact that he’s supposed to be a rootin’-tootin’ gunslinger, though…it does support his gang’s theory that he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. Does this still hold true? More so than ever! In fact, at this point, the game is so much less fun to play, it’s almost hard for me to wrap my head around just how enthrallingly mad its story is. With this midway update, allow me to return to something I said in my first impressions post, paraphrased as RDRII is not a fun game, but it’s a fascinating one. That said, I am officially halfway done with the game, so that’s got to count for something. Alas, in the case of my overly-saturated schedule between Halloween and New Year’s Day, one would be heartily wrong. It’s been seventy-seven days since Red Dead Redemption II was released, and one would likely gather that seventy-seven days would provide more than enough time in which to finish the game.

Trine 2 demo