7 Life Lessons You Learned From Red Dead Redemption
5. You’re Only Human
You’re a deeply flawed human being. We all are. Accept this. This is what Red Dead taught us.
Check out the apparently kind and heroic John Marston. When he’s not mass-slaughtering miners to reach the next checkpoint, he’s haunted by his past mistakes; making his gang face justice is his way of stopping the lambs inside his head from screaming.
And that’s the point. We all make mistakes, cupboards full with the skeletal remains of regret (I wish she hadn’t dumped me, I wasn’t nice enough to my brother, I should’ve hidden the bodies better, that sort of thing).
No matter how often we screw up, we gotta learn from experience and get back in the saddle. Killed innocent people for gold? Redeem yourself and all is forgiven. Do a thousand good things, save a thousand lives and maybe – just maybe – you can save your own.
Probs not, though, 'cause you just lost at poker and those cheatin' townsfolk are gonna pay...