{"id":15922,"date":"2012-05-16T14:05:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:05:29","slug":"alan-wake-ep14-stabbed-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15922","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake EP14: Stabbed in the Brain"},"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\/B5ApSnJVEWM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B5ApSnJVEWM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The headache stabbed me in the brain. And then I wrote a novel. Sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see:  Goofy puzzles. Occasionally awkward dialog. A wall between story and gameplay. A seemingly boring jerk for a protagonist. Repetitive foes. Terrible lip sync. Checkpoint saves. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve accused Alan Wake of all of these, and I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re wrong.  But I think all of those problems are even <em>worse<\/em> in Silent Hill 2, which<a href=\"?p=341\"> I still regard as one of the more powerful games I&#8217;ve experienced<\/a>. I&#8217;m still gnawing on this, and I can&#8217;t speak for the rest of the cast, but I suspect that if the game had connected with me on an emotional level (dread, sorrow, anger, whatever) then I wouldn&#8217;t be focusing on these problems.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) The headache stabbed me in the brain. And then I wrote a novel. Sounds about right. Let&#8217;s see: Goofy puzzles. Occasionally awkward dialog. A wall between story and gameplay. A seemingly boring jerk for a protagonist. Repetitive foes. Terrible lip sync. Checkpoint saves. We&#8217;ve accused Alan Wake of all of these, and I [&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":[232,208],"class_list":["post-15922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-alan-wake","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922","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=15922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}