As it pertains to Resident Evil 5, I have pretty much done it all now.  Earlier today, I did what I thought was the impossible, and I conquered Desperate Escape on Professional difficulty, and I now have all 60 out of 60 available XBOX achievements.  The S ranking is a little bit of a surprise, considering I figured I would be tanked by the great length of time I took to complete the mission, but apparently, my impeccable accuracy, the fact that I killed everything I could out of necessity and not for fun, and racked up a godly amount of bonus stars was enough for me to round out the 400 times I was killed, and the total 2:30:58 time needed to finish.

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A gripe I had about not working was the simple fact that my weekends had lost meaning, since they were just like every other day in which I wasn’t working.  This past week, I finagled out four solid working days, and a good bit of hours to alleviate the grind, so suffice to say, my weekend had some meaning again, especially since I’m slated to work the next day or two starting tomorrow.  So what do I do all weekend?  Aside from watching Alice in Wonderland, pretty much absolutely nothing, but play XBOX all weekend long.  But most importantly, it was going through the second of the two Resident Evil 5 downloadable missions, Desperate Escape. And for once, we have a game that lives up to its title.

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It’s such a small and fleeting moment, but it’s the one I remember the most as my favorite.  After using Chris Redfield as a springboard to acrobatically flip across a giant chasm in the flooring of the second-story, Jill Valentine makes a perfect landing, and for one brief second, stands, and stares off into the distance while the virtual camera captures the blank expression on her face.  It’s my favorite shot out of the entire Resident Evil 5 Lost in Nightmares content.

To very little fanfare, and seemingly low-interest from the rest of the video-game loving internet, the first of two mini side-missions for Resident Evil 5, Lost in Nightmares, broke this past week.  This is how I spent my Saturday evening, a little under the weather, sick with Bulldykefluenza.  And within two hours, I had beaten the mission once on Normal difficulty, and once on Veteran difficulty.  This morning, I tackled the game on the subsequent unlocked Professional difficulty, thus resuming my self-proclamation as an elite Resident Evil 0wner.

Overall, it was fresh and new, and no doubt packaged beautifully, but let’s be straight here – it was too damn short.  Start to finish in the blink of an eye.  But I can’t balk that much; despite the fact that I did have to pay to download it, it reunites me with my beloved Jill Valentine.

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