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QUEST

It’s seven years ago to the month I sent in a letter, for which I was handsomely rewarded with a pair of SteelSeries headphones – which I still happily use to this day. I wrote in at the start of what was then the new console generation lamenting the twin opposing forces of increasingly padded games and the length of time it took to complete them, against the increasingly reduced available time to play due to general adulting and growing up.

During the years since I’ve observed with interest the ongoing trend of other letters on the same theme, most recently with Phil Galloway and Daniel Sherwood in 366. I thought it timely, perhaps, now to come back at the start of the supposed ‘new gen’, this time with a two-part PSA for all my fellow