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Lian Xing is stumbling clumsily backwards through the control room, the petite brunette moving with about as much grace as a gorilla on ice, which is disturbing, not only because the covert operative only tips the scales at only 54 kilograms, but because this is Syphon Filter, Dark Mirror, a game of stealth and the first game to bring user-friendly precision control to the Playstation Portable platform. Even more alarming, I’m not actually touching the analogue nub. Lian bumps drunkenly into a doorway, alerting the three guards to her presence and slumps to the floor in a hail of gunfire. Lian’s dead, but far far worse, and without getting too technical, The Incomplete Gamer PSP is rooted.

Everyone out there bemoaning the fact that the PSP only has one analogue nub, and not the two analogue joysticks like the PS2 and PS3; there is a fate far worse, which is of course no analogue nub at all. Kutaragi’s Law of course states that your PSP will break on a public holiday, at a location where you have no on-line access and at a time when you have a great deal of free time to get your game on, if only your PSP would function.

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