{"id":14193,"date":"2011-11-11T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2011-11-11T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:13:37","slug":"assassins-creed-2-ep19-pick-a-pocket-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14193","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 EP19: Pick a Pocket or Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ip3mX4Vnyus\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ip3mX4Vnyus'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to Venice, Ezio. It&#8217;s good that you are here.  Recently several of my best thieves were injured or killed in a haphazard and ill-advised frontal assault on a public building in broad daylight.  Then half of my forces betrayed me, so I need you to kill them.  Then the other half were captured. Sadly, my thieves can&#8217;t pick locks or fight to save their lives, so you need to free them and slay their guards. And could you also lead them home? They don&#8217;t have a very good sense of direction. <\/p>\n<p>So, I basically need you to do everything. But first, you must prove you are worthy by climbing a tower you already climbed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll take this over the &#8220;do these same three quests, over and over, dozens of times&#8221; of the original Assassin&#8217;s Creed.  <\/p>\n<p>AC2 really does seem to change character when you reach Venice.  It becomes a lot more &#8220;questy&#8221;, and driven more by &#8220;BECAUSE IT&#8217;S A VIDEOGAME&#8221; logic. I wonder what brought on this shift in tone and style.  For those of you who have played Brotherhood:  Is it more like the first half of AC2, or it it more like the Venice section of the game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Welcome to Venice, Ezio. It&#8217;s good that you are here. Recently several of my best thieves were injured or killed in a haphazard and ill-advised frontal assault on a public building in broad daylight. Then half of my forces betrayed me, so I need you to kill them. Then the other half were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","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=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}