{"id":14259,"date":"2011-11-24T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2011-11-24T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T17:58:54","slug":"assassins-creed-2-ep26-il-doge-ridicolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14259","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 EP26: Il Doge Ridicolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out at 5:34, when Josh reaches the cutscene just a fraction of a second before the guards flip out.  (If they had been alerted, I&#8217;m pretty sure he wouldn&#8217;t have been able to go through the door.) <\/p>\n<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\/jvFvQ2A0Ojg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvFvQ2A0Ojg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so Ezio is notorious while wearing the golden mask that made no sense to obtain. On the other hand, it was <em>impossible<\/em> for him to become notorious when wearing a SMALLER mask, even though his hood hides both masks and later he&#8217;s incognito anyway because&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.  I don&#8217;t even know what the rules are anymore. <\/p>\n<p>This part of the game is like one of those, &#8220;How many things can you find wrong with this picture&#8221; deals.  Except, this thing is fractally wrong:  Every plot hole encompasses a number of smaller plot holes, which in turn contain more holes, all the way down. <\/p>\n<p>I do get mad at sloppy writing, but it&#8217;s an inescapable truth that most people just don&#8217;t seem to care or even notice.  I have never seen any Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 review that even mentioned these issues in passing. This does not bode well.  <\/p>\n<p>I liked the story of Assassin&#8217;s Creed 1. I think Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 is bigger and dumber. In a lot of ways this reminds me of the shift from Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2, where the story was pounded into mush, but sales went up.  It&#8217;s not just that developers think that stories don&#8217;t matter.  They are looking at evidence that good storytelling is a liability, and that what you need is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMcVZQI6ybw\">a button that makes awesome happen<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out at 5:34, when Josh reaches the cutscene just a fraction of a second before the guards flip out. (If they had been alerted, I&#8217;m pretty sure he wouldn&#8217;t have been able to go through the door.) Link (YouTube) Okay, so Ezio is notorious while wearing the golden mask that made no sense to [&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":[208],"class_list":["post-14259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259","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=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}