Glimpses

[Originally written on 9th June 2015] INTRODUCTORY PEEK Bully is a game by Rockstar Studios - better known for one of the best-selling games in Playstation 2 history - GTA San Andreas. Personally, I enjoyed Bully more than I did GTA SA. That might be because Bully was the kind of game that came along at the right age for me. I was still in higher secondary school, in sixth standard if my memory serves me right, when I started playing this game. The setting, which was also a school, completely reached out to me and the background of the main character, which is established in the opening cutscene itself, appealed to the gamer in me.  Then came the missions, and the way in which they were presented, the way different characters were developed and the way the whole thing unfolded managed to bind me quite splendidly. I enjoyed it so much that when the DVD malfunctioned after only 22% completion of the game, I bought a new one…after six years! Yes, I could not manage to move on from the...