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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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 So what do I do all weekend?\u00a0 Aside from watching\u00a0Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, pretty much absolutely nothing, but play XBOX all weekend long.\u00a0 But most importantly, it was going through the second of the two\u00a0Resident Evil 5\u00a0<\/em>downloadable missions,\u00a0Desperate Escape.<\/em>\u00a0And for once, we have a game that lives up to its title.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unlike\u00a0Lost in Nightmares<\/em>\u00a0this game takes place in the RE5 present, basically what is going on with my virtual squeeze, Jill Valentine, after she is freed from Wesker’s brainwashing.\u00a0 She teams up with Josh Stone, another reoccurring character from the game that the player never really comprehends how he gets from point A to B to C, and so on, until this.\u00a0 And aside from a few melee attacks, the game plays just like Chris\/Sheva and Chris\/Jill.\u00a0 And most importantly, after using Josh as a springboard, Jill busts out with the statuesque pose that I admire.<\/p>\n But anyway, the title of the sub-quest is very much accurate – by the time you get to the end, it’s been such a difficult fight, that the escape most certainly feels an air of desperation.\u00a0 The computer is merciless at sending hordes of Majini after you, and the clock doesn’t seem like it’s moving when the shit begins to get real.\u00a0 Whereas I was able to get an easy-run of\u00a0Lost in Nightmares\u00a0<\/em>down to about 24 minutes,\u00a0Desperate Escape\u00a0<\/em>takes me about an hour so far.\u00a0 LiN has quite literally up to nine actual defeat-able adversaries, and with DE, my highest count has been like 209.\u00a0 The enemies just seem to come forever, and it’s on a whole other world of challenging than LiN could possibly imagine to be.<\/p>\n I like to get all the XBOX achievements of games I like, and it took me no time at all to get the five bonus achievements from the first download package.\u00a0 However, with DE, I’m stuck at 4\/5 accomplished.\u00a0 Simply put, the fifth achievement, of beating the mission on Professional, the highest difficulty, is currently way out of my grasp.\u00a0 I like to think I”m a pretty good RE5 player, and it has little to do with my skills in this instance; it’s the AI of the other player, in my case it’s Josh, since I choose Jill, that anchors the difficulty to the point of near impossibility.\u00a0 The AI is very loose with ammo consumption and will gladly empty a clip into a clearly identifiable bullet-proof vested adversary for zero damage.\u00a0 Not to mention their reaction time is borderline handicapped, and has a tendency to eat a blow before realizing that I’m on the other side of the moon, but in Professional mode, one blow is pretty much all it takes to kill the player.<\/p>\n In short,\u00a0Desperate Escape\u00a0<\/em>is hard as shit.\u00a0 I can’t even fathom beating it in Professional, because it’s obvious that I’ll need the assistance of another human being, preferably someone of comparable talent as me to not job the KiSS Demon to Norman Smiley, but the sad thing is, I don’t know anyone who really wants to play RE5 anymore.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll have to relegate myself to doing what most others are doing, going on to message boards, and asking people for help, for exactly the same reasons I’ve listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0 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 … Continue reading A game that lives up to its title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,15,39,19],"class_list":["post-26186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-jill-valentine","tag-og","tag-resident-evil","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26188,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186\/revisions\/26188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}