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To my eyes, it just really pops and exudes personality. It immerses you into this crazy world you’re about to experience.

There’s this tinge of dementedness and ugliness that imprints both them and the journey you’ve taken on your mind. I love it.

When I say “cartoonish”, I am by no means trying to be demeaning or insulting towards it. On a purely visual level, it looks fantastic, particularly for its time of development.

What I was trying to say is that I enjoy how styilized and comic-booky it feels. Notice how I said SLIGHTLY MORE cartoonish, not cartoonish on its own. Especially compared to how realist RDR2 looks (which I love in its own way). The limitation of the technology of the time had its role, I’m sure, but the way the characters’ personalities mix with their apperances, the facial proportions and expressions, and the contrast and textures lead me to believe they deliberately took a slight deviation from realism and a slight leaning towards art style.

It actually kinda reminds me of Telltale’s Walking Dead a bit.

It lends RDR1 an aesthetic that both sticks out and is able to hold up after much time has passed.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (New York), May 7, 1864

On May 14, 1862, a group of formerly enslaved men, women, and children gather outside a building on the Foller Plantation, located at Cumberland Landing on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County. During the Peninsula Campaign of the Civil War, photographer James F. Gibson made a series of images of the Federal troop encampment at the landing. Among those glass-plate negatives is this portrait of so-called contrabands, or enslaved people who had emancipated themselves by fleeing behind Union lines.

Sandro’s father was Valentino Mazzola, captain of the legendary Torino side which tragically perished in the 1949 Superga air disaster, when Sandro was six.

One of my favorite images in cinema. The evening sky mixed with Sheen’s nonchalant posing always gave me a warm and melancholic feeling for some reason.