When it comes to video games, I’m what you might call a one-and-done kind of guy. With a few rare exceptions (hi FromSoftware, and only then if five years have passed since my last playthrough), I never really feel the urge for a replay, no matter how fun I had the first time around. So it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to hear the idea of New Game Plus – where you’re pretty much compelled to dive back in straight away if you don’t want to lose all that vital muscle memory – has never really appealed. Why do it again, when I could be doing something new? But finally it’s happened; my forty year no-New-Game-Plus streak has been broken – all thanks to the clever narrative machinations of the excellent Silent Hill f.
