The Double-A Team: The strange, mundane pleasures of The Darkness

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I played The Darkness for the first time years ago. This happened after a period of obsession with its sequel, a period in which I tasked myself with treasure hunting a PS3 copy of the predecessor here in Argentina. Every cell of my body wanted to know the origins of Jackie Estacado, the black sheep of a mob family who witnesses the murder of his soulmate by the same hands that adopted him at a young age.

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