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The Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy is the series of games that has the biggest discrepancy between how much I expected to like them and how much I absolutely adore them. I picked up the first one in 2018 expecting…
Read More Hitman Challenge Reviews – Paris (“Public Speaker”)
Note: I published a version of this post a week ago but WordPress makes it much too easy to roll back a post to an earlier draft without any chance of recovering the later version. Siggghhhh...which means most of what…
Read More Video Game Level Reviews – The Last of Us Chapter 4 (“Pittsburgh”)
"Bill's Town" puts the brakes on the overarching storyline to give Joel and Ellie's burgeoning camaraderie some room to breathe. Its subtle, sweet, and nuanced and its coupled with some phenomenal small town atmosphere. Unfortunately, the gameplay in this level…
Read More Video Game Level Reviews – The Last of Us Chapter 3 (“Bill’s Town”)
"Outskirts" is the first level where The Last of Us takes off the training wheels and let's you loose. Not that the first two levels were childish or anything (I mean the prologue was about a child) but they were…
Read More Video Game Level Reviews – The Last of Us Chapter 2 (“Outskirts”)
And here we have the first, actual playable level of The Last of Us (the prologue is more like a short film). Characters are re-established, gameplay mechanics are introduced, and the player is set loose into the world. Honestly, I…
Read More Video Game Level Reviews – The Last of Us Chapter 1 (“Quarantine Zone”)
While I love reviewing video games, I am a big fan of wasting my own time so I've decided I want to review video game levels. There's only so much I can touch on in an overall game review and…
Read More Video Game Level Reviews: The Last of Us Prologue – “Hometown”
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