I turned a Rockstar PS2 classic into a cozy game and it proved that the Steam Deck's greatest strength is in being the anti-Switch 2

Bully on Steam Deck screenshot of protagonist Jimmy Hopkins at the start of the game, standing in the principal's office.

I bought Bully during a Steam sale four years ago, played it for 50 minutes, and uninstalled it soon after. It's not that I didn't appreciate one of the best Rockstar games of all time, the seminal "GTA at boarding school" classic of 2006. Quite the contrary; I adored playing it on my brother's PS2 so much that the thought of experiencing it through anything other than the 20-inch Panasonic TV we'd had in our shared room growing up was nothing short of sacrilege.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I found myself foregoing Hades 2 to try out Bully on my Steam Deck during a road trip last weekend. And imagine my further surprise when, after 19 years, I was able to recreate that nostalgic safe space from the passenger seat of a Fiat 500.