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I didn’t unlock fast travel inRed Dead Redemption 2until halfway through chapter three.

I used it once or twice and then never did so again.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been a formative experience for me so far.

I’ll admit that I struggled with the slower pace of Red Dead Redemption 2 in general at first.

Zooming out to view the whole map in its largely unexplored glory, I was baffled.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Was this just how things were going to be from here on out?

The frustration very nearly made me put down the game entirely.

It’s a level of player-character synthesis that I can’t recall ever feeling before.

Red Dead Redemption 2

To me, it’s all down to the details.

The world in Red Dead Redemption 2 feels so alive, moving around you instead of because of you.

Red Dead Redemption 2

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