{"id":14297,"date":"2011-12-01T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2011-12-01T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:56:26","slug":"assassins-creed-2-ep29-whos-the-templar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14297","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 EP29: Who&#8217;s the Templar?"},"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\/RuxAZPtMq9w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RuxAZPtMq9w'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Another case of the game shooting itself in the foot.  The idea of having a map detailing the location of boxes that are kept in semi-public places is wrong for a lot of reasons. Who is guarding these pages? The Templars? Why don&#8217;t they gather them up and put them someplace safe? Or burn them, if they don&#8217;t want them falling into assassin hands? Who pays to guard them? Who MADE this map, and why? Who put these items in these chests, and why?<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, it&#8217;s just an arbitrary videogame item round up.  This is fine for Mario (the plumber, not the assassin) and Link, but it doesn&#8217;t work against this faux-historical backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, this once again takes the momentum out of the plot.  The player thinks it&#8217;s time for the big showdown, and instead everything grinds to a halt while you prance around doing things that are less interesting and don&#8217;t make any sense in-world. It&#8217;s like: <em>The Rebels are about to begin their run on the Death Star, but first we have to drop everything and do this crossword!<\/em> By the time you get done, the feeling of urgency has been obliterated.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I&#8217;m not objecting to fetch \/ gathering quests.  Those can be fine, and lots of people even enjoy them.  What I&#8217;m objecting to is how this is executed.  It&#8217;s sloppy, dull, and damaging to the pacing of the story. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the finale. Buckle up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Another case of the game shooting itself in the foot. The idea of having a map detailing the location of boxes that are kept in semi-public places is wrong for a lot of reasons. Who is guarding these pages? The Templars? Why don&#8217;t they gather them up and put them someplace safe? Or [&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-14297","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\/14297","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=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}