If the title of this episode has you confused, my attempt at "The Fixer" was... less than ideal.I'll be honest with you, I was really bummed that I bungled that mission at the end.But in hindsight, it's good that I was able to capture that on camera, to demonstrate the true finality of these...

Today, we take another look at Elusive Targets with "The Fixer".The tricky part of an Elusive Target is that players can restart as many time as they want until they complete an objective.IO allows players to restart because they want to offer them the opportunity to scout out the area and how the...

Welcome to the next installment of our Kingdom Hearts Primer. This time, we cover the game that begat many of the concepts that confuse the hell out of people trying to get into Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.We hope you look forward to this as much as we look forward to presenting it, with the...

And now, we end our little escapade in Colorado.The story of Hitman has always been a precarious position. As a series, Hitman has always been gameplay first. While a story exists, and there is a canon for the series, it has never been an important part of the series.There has only been one Hitman...

Starring John Travolta and Nick Cage...To elaborate on a point I was making in the middle of this episode regarding the online nature of this game.When players launch Hitman (2016), the game will immediately attempt to connect with I/Os servers. If the game fails to connect, then the player can...

Welcome to Colorado, one of the most interesting missions in the game.In hindsight, after taking this footage and playing Colorado many times afterward, the most striking thing about it is just how small the level actually is.I talked a bit in this episode about how the episodic model can, in some...

Today, we finish our discussion on Escalation Contracts and the "stack" of Hitman.Last time, I talked about how Escalations help Hitman players improve their improvisational skills and ability to adapt to new conditions on old missions.Each level of an escalation adds a new condition, which could...

And now, we get to talk a bit about Escalations in Hitman.Continuing from where I left off last time...In his article about the success of Hitman, Kirk Hamilton posits that Escalations help players master small subsections of a given map, and he's not wrong. However, I would add that they add a...

Today, we explore the contracts mode in Hitman.I got the idea for making both this and the Escalation contract episodes (yes, plural) after reading an opinion piece from Kirk Hamilton on Kotaku. In the piece, he talks about the what I have come to call the "stack" of Hitman, which I also eluded to...

At long last, we have arrived at the first finale of our Kingdom Hearts Primer.It's a shame that Gamer's Little Playground had to change the music in the end for copyright reasons, because that finale had me bawling as a child.There's not much more that I can add to our commentary on this episode....