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"I'm sorry but you'll have stay past 5.30 and finish that report..."

"I'm sorry but you'll have stay past 5.30 and finish that report..."
Hack and slash is not something I tend to like. I'm highly intelligent. However, if you chuck in some emotive stuff (story) vague references to classical literature and one hundred weird characters with a table of biographies, I tend to completely immerse myself in some semi fantasy role play, even if the character design is super manga style. That's why I'm addicted to Dynasty Warriors. Taking command of a character who has god like fighting ability and faced with a ancient battlefield filled with enemy soldiers, repeatedly pressing square for hours takes on a whole new charm. It's very moreish.
You will no doubt have heard of this series of Hong Kong movies and the endless praise that has been showered upon them. They are without a doubt good films; nearly everyone says so. They also came out five years ago so this is not a review. Although I am a legitimate geek, I'm rather a lazy one and not as up to speed or as on the pulse as some of my counterparts. I don't constantly have my nose in the air, sniffing the winds of change in the realm of Middlearth and therefore when I do eventually become an obsessive fanboy, I tend to stand alone and pitiful in my long delayed appreciation. So five years later I now want to be/rifle through the rubbish bins of Hong Kong star Tony Leung.