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Perfect Dark (XBLA)

This is a fun game. It was just kinda nice to go back to a game that still had enough big areas and mazy corridors but wasn't overwhelming in its hugeness. Pretty much all the weapons felt useful and had different modes to just make that even better.

There were some annoyances with the game where it felt it was very harsh. In one of the missions, you're supposed to blow up a gunship with an RPG. Except you only get one rocket and if you don't put on tracking mode, chances are you will not hit it. Except to put on tracking mode, you have to stand still for a bit and let it lock-on. This is after the gunship has been following you throughout pretty much the entire level together with enemies shooting you. And after this, you still have to take out about five enemies with shotguns who surround you. And if you do miss that rocket, objective failed, game over. Another mission later on asks you to put a communications tracker on a satellite dish. You have to throw this tracker, and you have to lower the satellite dish to do so. If you throw it before the dish is fully down, tough luck, the device will fly through and mission failed.

I also think the game has a rough difficulty curve in the final levels with some really obscure stuff it wants to you to do (blow up a rockface to reveal a ladder, except the ladder is really difficult to see especially if you don't really know to look for it). The overall gameplay is just so fun though, and Joanna is confident and sassy without it becoming too much.

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How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious!