It’s impossible not to have a little love for the Law. The
real star of Video Game High School is this triumphant archetype, every
cinematic bully in history mashed into one smirking, swaggering, implausibly awesome
package. While the Law’s personal brand of egotistical malice and his
relentless, disproportionate persecution of dweeby Brian D would be heinous in
real life, but in the glossy setting of VGHS, the sheer flamboyancy of the Law’s high school super-villainy makes
it impossible not to chuckle at his antics.
Law is the product of a near-future civilization which has foolishly elevated the most skilled video-game players to the status of rock gods, like some globe-girdling South Korea. Unfortunately, this effectively means that That One Guy (the guy who is so much better at FPS’ than anyone else) is now a beloved and dreaded Master of the Universe, tearing through super-immersive virtual battle-fields and terrorising plucky high-school twitchers. Law’s rampant megalomania is so hilariously overblown, his shooting skills so preternaturally precise (WALLHACKZ) and his feud with Brian D such a typhoon of high school movie clichés (with a post-Xbox generation twist) that you can’t hate the man, even as you root for his downfall. Anyone who has ever longed to see That One Guy brought low in his game of choice by the sweaty-thumbed noobs of this world can identify with the perpetually put-upon Brian D's struggle to wipe the cocky grin off Law’s beaming face, but that doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate this trigger-happy narcissist's sauntering showmanship.
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