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Thanks gamezone.com, Harry Tipper is my fave.

It's about time that I talk about video games on here, don't you think? I'm sure that at least Clarinet and Olovio agree with me. So, let's talk Timesplitters.

I believe I was in 5th grade when I first played a Timesplitters game with my two cousins. We played the 2nd in the series while listening to some weird playlist thing that the older of my cousins would have running on his computer. I always played as the gingerbread man because a gingerbread man carrying a dangerous weapon always equals comedy gold.

Not really.                                                   

Anyway, last year I scored a copy of what I thought was Timesplitters 2 in the bargain bin at my local Game Stop. To my surprise, the game inside the case was actually a later version of the game: Timesplitters Future Perfect. What a blessing that was (solely based on the fact that there was a disco track that we could use in the arcade mode). Well, after spending lots of time in death matches like we used to, my cousin and I decided to be daring and try the co-op story mode. We did alright for the first stage, but once we got to the second one, we couldn't get any further. Our first objective was to get into this big castle or fortress or whatever after killing a bunch of guards. We succeeded in killing the guards, but no matter what we tried, we couldn't seem to get inside the stupid fortress. We shot at it with all of our guns, threw grenades at it, shot at it with a turret gun mounted to the ground, we ran into it, punched it, and I even tried to use Cortez's (my character's) weird wristband device that lifts stuff using see through octopus arms. Nothing worked. We tried and tried until it seemed like the only reason why it didn't work was that the disc was messed up.

Well, here we are a whole year later, and we finally figure out that all you have to do is hit "x." That's right, just "x." I'm past the point of feeling stupid and am just happy that we can actually make the story progress! What more could I want than to unlock Swinging Tipper for arcade mode?

I seem to have a penchant for overlooking simple solutions in video games. I had trouble with Lego Batman, for god's sake. Lego. Batman.

Keep frodoin' that frodo, dudes. 

Man. This post really ruins my credibility, doesn't it?