[STEAM] 007 First Light's naughty schoolboy antics feel like a spiritual successor to Bully and I'm having the time of my life pretending Bond is Jimmy

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The best part of

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is the tutorial montage. It's a small slice of rambunctious mayhem Bond can enjoy before being thrown into a national conspiracy against MI6, where the most important item on his to-do list is impress his fellow 00 initiates and make the cut himself.

But as I break grapples, throw punches, and get away with more than one dirty trick during the close-combat tutorial, this particular brand of rambunctious young adulthood feels familiar to me. The last time I played a game with a protagonist this cheeky and sneaky was back in the PS2 days, but it's good to see the spirit of one of the

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ever living on in 007.

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(Image credit: IO Interactive) In a game filled with some pretty dark, upsetting moments, 007 First Light's first few hours offer moments of true joy and silliness. Young Bond is as chaotic and emotions-driven as a teenage boy himself, reveling not only in this strange new world of spywork and subterfuge, but the simple joys of being young and dumb.

It's a breath of fresh air to see such an iconic character in such wildly different parameters, and he's immediately more relatable because of it. So even if we never see Bully 2, I'm glad 007 First Light gives us a glimpse of who Jimmy Hopkins might have become – if he ever made it out of Bullworth's endless summer, of course.

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