{"id":87693,"date":"2020-10-03T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/red-dead-redemption-2-direct-sequel-sadie-adler\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T23:33:00","slug":"red-dead-redemption-2-set-up-the-perfect-protagonist-for-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/03\/red-dead-redemption-2-set-up-the-perfect-protagonist-for-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Dead Redemption 2 Set Up the Perfect Protagonist for a Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em><\/strong> was one of the most critically acclaimed games of the last generation, and with it seeming increasingly likely that fans of Grand Theft Auto<\/em> may be in for a wait for GTA 6<\/em>,<\/a> many will be looking to Red Dead Redemption<\/em> as the studio\u2019s new flagship franchise.<\/p>\n

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em><\/a> introduced Arthur Morgan, a character not seen or mentioned in the original Red Dead Redemption<\/em>, with the original game taking place twelve years after the character\u2019s death. With its themes of haunted pasts, revenge, and the gradual disintegration of the American frontier, it is unlikely that Rockstar would take players further back in time for Red Dead Redemption 3<\/em>. However, the perfect protagonist for the a sequel game has already been set up.<\/p>\n

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The Red Dead<\/em> games aren\u2019t just set in the past: they\u2019re about their main characters John Marston and Arthur Morgan<\/a>‘s relationships with their pasts. They feel themselves gradually approaching a turning point in history that comes to represent a kind of judgement day for both them and the Wild West itself. The question is whether or not the character\u2019s can achieve redemption before that judgement day comes.<\/p>\n

In the original Red Dead Redemption<\/em>, John Marston appears to genuinely believe he has a shot at salvation. He hunts down the members of the Van Der Linde gang<\/a> in the belief that, if he does, his wife and child will have a shot at a new life. This ends with him ultimately choosing to sacrifice himself,\u00a0hoping through sacrifice he can free his family from his past, a belief that proves to be ultimately false when his son Jack takes up his gun in search of revenge.<\/p>\n

In Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>, Arthur Morgan \u2013 at least,\u00a0Arthur Morgan played with high honor<\/a> \u2013 struggles with the belief that a person with his past can ever be redeemed at all. He doesn\u2019t get the satisfaction of a moment of heroic sacrifice, and his death is ultimately caused by one of his own pointless and random acts of violence, dying from the tuberculosis he contracts from a minor character named Thomas Downes. Arthur Morgan writes in his journal that after “all them bullets shot at me, all them horses threw me, all them fights and it was the beating of that pathetic little fella Downes that killed me, I reckon.”<\/p>\n

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With both Red Dead Redemption<\/em> games focusing on different ways that the protagonist deals with their pasts, Sadie Adler is the perfect protagonist for a future Red Dead Redemption<\/em> game. Thrown into the outlaw lifestyle by the murder of her husband Jake by the O\u2019Driscoll gang<\/a>, she gets her revenge in Red Dead 2<\/em> by stopping an attempt to save Colm O\u2019Driscoll\u2019s life. However, it is clear that her moment of revenge is far from a moment of redemption, as she immediately starts a firefight by cutting the throat of a gang member she\u2019s holding hostage.<\/p>\n

Sadie goes on to become a formidable bounty hunter with something of a death wish and becomes increasingly brutal in the hunt for Micah Bell. If the player spares Cleet at the gallows while interrogating him for Micah\u2019s location, Sadie will shoot him dead instead. Because\u00a0she is closest to Arthur of all the members of Dutch\u2019s gang<\/a>, players can see Sadie veering away from this throughout the game but maintaining a hard, “try me” attitude.<\/p>\n

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Sadie should be the protagonist of a Red Dead<\/em> sequel<\/a> for a few key reasons. First, because she was never actually considered a part of the Van Der Linde gang by the authorities, she actually has no record, which is why she was able to become a successful bounty hunter. It’s practically a clean slate for her. Second, unlike Arthur and John, she is a character who actually seems to move further and further from personal redemption over the course of her story, despite remaining likeable and sympathetic.<\/p>\n

Unlike Arthur, she has no dark past to deal with\u2013in fact, her life with her husband is relatively happy, which is why his murder changes her so deeply. Unlike John, the death of her husband as the initial event in her character arc also means that she has no clear future, which though it failed to come true, John imagined he would have with Abigail and their son Jack Marston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sadie Adler<\/a> is a character in search of redemption just like the protagonists of the other two games, yet her story provides Rockstar with the chance to ask what exactly redemption can mean when it does not\u00a0end with death. Can Sadie build a new life, and can that new life replace the one she lost?\u00a0Is there only redemption in death? A sequel could see players choosing whether or not Sadie becomes more like Dutch or more like Arthur over time through the games\u2019 honor system.<\/p>\n

Sadie\u2019s character begs the question of what happens to someone after their revenge has been achieved, and with both John and Arthur dying before they could answer the question, what a post-redemption life might look like, if it can exist at all. While that remains to be seen, many\u00a0fans of<\/a>\u00a0Red Dead<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>will likely be hoping to see more of Alex McKenna\u2019s fantastic performance as Sadie Adler in the franchise\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is out now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n

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