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rionaleonhart) wrote2018-12-04 08:08 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2018-12-04 08:08 am
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She's Missing A Tiny Magician. I Suppose We All Are.
Major spoilers for Red Dead Redemption II under the cut; I think I'm at the end of chapter five or the beginning of chapter six. Spoilery content warning (highlight to read): terminal illness.
Arthur, I noticed during a couple of routine cutscenes in Red Dead Redemption II, didn't look entirely right; he was a little too pale, a little discoloured. Did he... need a bath? I wasn't sure I'd seen this before.
I checked the menu to see whether it could tell me what was wrong, and it told me Arthur was Unwell. What did that mean? How could I cure that status? The game had never told me this could happen.
On the way to the next mission, Arthur fell off his horse and passed out in the street. I was VERY ALARMED.
A passer-by helped him to the doctor, and the doctor diagnosed him with tuberculosis.
I've been thinking 'please don't kill the protagonist at the end, Rockstar, you know there are more ways to end a game than by killing off the protagonist' all game. I thought there was a good chance Marston would kill Arthur at the end, maybe after a timeskip. I wasn't expecting tuberculosis. I have to admit that killing a game protagonist through illness would, at the very least, be something I've never seen before.
Rockstar's also definitely succeeded in creating a plot twist that hits hard. I woke in the night because I couldn't stop thinking about this. Poor Arthur. He's not a good man, but I love him.
Arthur is, understandably, pretty upset (his writing in his journal entry about this is just a little messier than usual and it breaks my heart), but I'm pleased to report he's still having stupid adventures. The day after his diagnosis, he hijacked a hot-air balloon and shot at a gang from the sky.
Who's going to look after my horse??
Unrelated to that, my new favourite line from Arthur's journal: His first name is Onry, only he spells it Henri.
Arthur, I noticed during a couple of routine cutscenes in Red Dead Redemption II, didn't look entirely right; he was a little too pale, a little discoloured. Did he... need a bath? I wasn't sure I'd seen this before.
I checked the menu to see whether it could tell me what was wrong, and it told me Arthur was Unwell. What did that mean? How could I cure that status? The game had never told me this could happen.
On the way to the next mission, Arthur fell off his horse and passed out in the street. I was VERY ALARMED.
A passer-by helped him to the doctor, and the doctor diagnosed him with tuberculosis.
I've been thinking 'please don't kill the protagonist at the end, Rockstar, you know there are more ways to end a game than by killing off the protagonist' all game. I thought there was a good chance Marston would kill Arthur at the end, maybe after a timeskip. I wasn't expecting tuberculosis. I have to admit that killing a game protagonist through illness would, at the very least, be something I've never seen before.
Rockstar's also definitely succeeded in creating a plot twist that hits hard. I woke in the night because I couldn't stop thinking about this. Poor Arthur. He's not a good man, but I love him.
Arthur is, understandably, pretty upset (his writing in his journal entry about this is just a little messier than usual and it breaks my heart), but I'm pleased to report he's still having stupid adventures. The day after his diagnosis, he hijacked a hot-air balloon and shot at a gang from the sky.
Who's going to look after my horse??
Unrelated to that, my new favourite line from Arthur's journal: His first name is Onry, only he spells it Henri.
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I love that about the balloon.
Possibly he will be very lucky, manage his TB well, and stay alive exactly long enough to make it through the lifespan of the horse?
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Huh, perhaps!
I'm all for Arthur surviving long enough to look after Kay through the power of willpower and sheer love for his horse.
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I mean Doc Holliday lived for like fifteen years after first being diagnosed. (He moved to a hotter, drier climate, which is how he ended up in the American Southwest.) If Kay is a middle-aged horse, and Arthur is lucky, he could see her through the rest of her life. ...and if you felt any urge to write "Arthur spends the next fifteen years hanging on to life by willpower and tending Kay, until they both die peacefully on the same day" fic, I would definitely read it.
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If Dutch doesn't get a finding-out-about-Arthur's-TB-and-it-breaking-his-heart moment, I will be unsurprised but also extremely betrayed.
I am impressed at this game's willingness to use "You are approaching a mission marked on your map" as an excuse to completely blindside you with plot developments which were NOT WHAT YOU ASKED FOR. Like, nothing goes your way. You can't even rely on the gameplay mechanics to deliver what you expect.
On a side note, now when I try to write Hank's voice, I keep ending up with Arthur's in my head.
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I mean, I kinda guess that everyone is going to end up dead except for the people who have to live long enough to die in RDR1.
MAN, I WAS THINKING THAT MAYBE I'D SAVE UP AND GET A PS4 AND POSSIBLY GET THIS GAME. BUT I'M NOT SURE I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME. I THINK I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE VERSION OF THIS GAME THAT'S AN OPEN-WORLD SURVIVAL SANDBOX OF THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS. Everything past a certain point seems to be the player just sitting there and going "Yes, thank you for kicking me in the teeth, Rockstar, please continue with your well-rendered and stylish boots that I'm surprised I don't have to hammer X to polish."