The trailer for the latest Silent Hill instal­ment to come from Konami filled me with a rare kind of glee. How­ever, I haven’t played a Silent Hill game since Home­com­ing and haven’t com­pleted one since the The Room and it made me won­der why I still get excited about the fran­chise. The series has seen […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• addiction,
• Anime,
• conditioning,
• ghost in the shell,
• ghost in the shell standalone complex,
• hill,
• hope,
• meta,
• pavlovian response,
• psychological,
• silent,
• silent hill,
• standalone complex,
• stockholm syndrome,
• syndrom,
• theory,
• video games

I am abjectly ter­rible at fight­ing games. This didn’t stop me from seek­ing out arcades in Japan to ham­fistedly fondle the seduct­ive BlazBlue machines, or import­ing the US ver­sion when it was released, or ven­tur­ing online to be emas­cu­lated in short order. I may appre­ci­ate their focus and pur­ity but a lack of innate talent […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• active,
• Anime,
• blazblue,
• control,
• cosplay,
• dojinshi,
• final fantasy,
• interactive,
• litchi,
• meta,
• nintendo,
• noel vermillion,
• otaku,
• own,
• passive,
• silent hill,
• time,
• video games,
• Videogames

A brief look into my reas­ons for decid­ing to play the MMO, Aion and my plans for record­ing my first steps into the world.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• aion,
• collectors edition,
• gametrailers,
• guild wars,
• marketing,
• mmo,
• mmorpg,
• ncsoft,
• recording,
• steam,
• ultima online,
• video games,
• Videogames

My Hit­man Con­tracts nar­rated play­through is now (almost) com­plete. Ori­gin­ally only going to be a “no bul­let” run, it quickly turned into a fabled “all zero” run which provided enough of a chal­lenge for me to run through the game again. All twelve mis­sions con­tained in the game were com­pleted without: assas­sin­at­ing any­one unne­ces­sary, alerting […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 47,
• all zero,
• conclusion,
• contracts,
• hitman,
• playthrough,
• retrospective,
• runthrough,
• silent assassin,
• zero bullet

Mis­sion twelve: Hunter and Hunted. Wounded, out-gunned and trapped; the situ­ation looks bleak for 47 as a well-informed detect­ive closes in on the assas­sin. With the hotel being assaul­ted by heavily-armed SWAT teams, the ques­tion is whether 47 can escape the onslaught and still com­plete his ori­ginal mis­sion. This seems like it’s only the begin­ning of some­thing much bigger.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 47,
• all zero,
• contracts,
• detective,
• hitman,
• hotel,
• hunter and hunted,
• playthrough,
• runthrough,
• silent assassin,
• swat,
• zero bullet