{"id":1035,"date":"2007-03-20T07:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2007-03-20T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T13:45:47","slug":"samorost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Samorost 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='256'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/www.greatgamesexperiment.com\/game\/samorost2'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/samorost2a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='256' alt='Samorost 2' title='Samorost 2'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>A reader was kind enough to send along a link to this game, and was lucky enough to catch me in an idle moment.  (I should note that in this case &#8220;idle&#8221; = not playing some <em>other<\/em> videogame.)  It&#8217;s a puzzle game where you explore a strange little asteroid inhabited by a variety of creatures.  The goal is to rescue your dog.   There are a lot of games of this sort out there and they don&#8217;t usually interest me, but this one was quite compelling.  The visuals are delightful. It&#8217;s also deviously hard in a couple of places.<\/p>\n<p><table width='256'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='left'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/www.greatgamesexperiment.com\/game\/samorost2'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/samorost2b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='256' alt='Samorost 2' title='Samorost 2'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>I looked and found the game wasn&#8217;t listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatgamesexperiment.com\">Great Games Experiement<\/a>.  I corrected that, which always gives me a feeling of satisfaction.  <\/p>\n<p>These little screenshots don&#8217;t really do the game justice. There are a lot of neat places to see.  The puzzles have that &#8220;it&#8217;s obvious once you finally figure it out&#8221; thing going for them that I always enjoy.  You can play the game at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatgamesexperiment.com\/game\/samorost2\/\">GGE<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samorost.net\/samorost2\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader was kind enough to send along a link to this game, and was lucky enough to catch me in an idle moment. (I should note that in this case &#8220;idle&#8221; = not playing some other videogame.) It&#8217;s a puzzle game where you explore a strange little asteroid inhabited by a variety of creatures. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}