I’m actually pretty far into Red Dead Redemption. I’m playing catch-up from last month where I wasn’t able to post a lot. If it looks like I’ve just been flying through the game don’t be deceived. I’ve been playing this for a good while now. I’ve actually completed Mexico which is why I’m just giving a brief synopsis on what went on there and my impressions of it. I should be caught up in a day or two and get back to discussing my individual play sessions.
Back to the characters then.
Landon Ricketts introduced me to a girl named Luisa Fortuna. Luisa is a freedom fighter, a rebel. She believes in the coming revolution and in its leader, the man she plans to marry. Luisa’s main purpose is to lead Marston to this man so I can take missions from him. Sadly Luisa is fool, blinded by thoughts of glory and the righteousness of her cause and by the man she loves. The war rips her family apart. Her father dies, her mother is in hiding, and her sister is in the United States. Still she carries on valiantly in the name of freedom.
Eventually she learns that the rebel leader, one Abraham Reyes, is being held captive by the Mexican Army and is scheduled for execution. So it’s up to brave Mr. Marston to save the day. When you meet Reyes it becomes very clear that it’s a miracle that the rebellion is able to survive at all. If Luisa’s head is in the clouds, Reyes’ is in another solar system. The man thinks very highly of himself, but only in the sense that he hopes his story will be an epic poem, song, ballad, novel, whatever. He dreams of untold glory and ruling Mexico with a loving hand.
He also dreams of impregnating every female in Mexico with his offspring so an army of people with noble blood can be born. The guy can’t even remember to who Luisa is, let alone get her name right even if Marston just told him her name 30 seconds ago. He keeps calling her that peasant girl and the only thing he can remember about her is how good she was in bed.
Truthfully the guy reminds me a lot of Agustin Allende, the man currently in charge of Mexico. Allende wants women, Reyes wants women. Allende wants glory, Reyes wants glory. Allende just takes what he wants. Reyes uses pretty words to seduce what he wants out of people. Thankfully Marston isn’t taken in and he recognized Reyes for the dreamer that he is. Marston does stick close to him because he believes that Reyes will eventually help him find his bounty. Marston does hope that Reyes will be a good leader though.
Amazingly enough Reyes comes through. You have to assault the prison where Reyes was being held and you manage to find Javier Escuella. Go figure you find the second guy first, what were the odds? Javier actually tries to get on Marston’s good side by telling him to remember the past and that they were brothers-in-arms, fighting together side-by-side. Marston doesn’t buy it and Javier knows it. It turns out that Marston’s gang left him for dead after a bank robbery went wrong. Marston got shot and the rest of the gang took off, Marston has never forgiven them for that. So Javier runs away.
Its short little chase and afterwards Marston turns Javier over to the authorities. What I’m curious about his how the American authorities got to American - Mexican border so darn quickly. Sure they had a car, but there are no cell phones so Marston would’ve had to inform them ahead of time or sat on Javier for a few days until they received his telegram and finally showed up.
There’s one more fight in Mexico. We’ll cover that next time.
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