{"id":14601,"date":"2011-12-28T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14601"},"modified":"2011-12-28T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:17:07","slug":"spoiler-warning-presents-batman-london-city-ep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14601","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Presents Batman: London City, EP 2"},"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\/Qc4pRSJKtuc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qc4pRSJKtuc'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It pains me to poke fun at an indie game like this.  For my part, I didn&#8217;t mind Holmes in a top hat. I thought the scenery was charming in parts.  (If I&#8217;d been in charge of the set design I would have put more lights on the streets.  Too much flat lighting, not enough contrast in some places.) I thought the voice acting was great in a few spots, and acceptable in others.  I liked the character models. Just a few years ago, this sort of full-on first-person scenery (with animated human characters!) was pretty much out of reach of indies, and it&#8217;s nice to see them close that gap as the tools and tech become accessible and affordable. <\/p>\n<p>But I just can&#8217;t make excuses for the nested fetch-quest structure of the game.  Maybe you do detective work eventually, but buying medicine so you can get rid of an old man so you can talk to a guy so you can get a jacket so you can get a file folder for a police report that Sherlock Holmes wouldn&#8217;t need or want? (Or however the chain went.) You can give an indie game a pass for a lot of things, but if you&#8217;re aiming your title at Sherlock fans then this is the sort of thing you really need to get right. <\/p>\n<p>I hope it got better later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) It pains me to poke fun at an indie game like this. For my part, I didn&#8217;t mind Holmes in a top hat. I thought the scenery was charming in parts. (If I&#8217;d been in charge of the set design I would have put more lights on the streets. Too much flat lighting, [&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-14601","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\/14601","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=14601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}