{"id":20383,"date":"2013-07-19T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20383"},"modified":"2013-07-19T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T01:08:24","slug":"tomb-raider-ep15-run-you-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20383","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider EP15: Run You Bastards!"},"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\/h7j0u84oUWA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h7j0u84oUWA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I berated <em>Prince of Persia: Two Thrones<\/em> because I hated its time-pressure platforming sections. I ended up fumbling around, trying to figure out what the game wanted from me and where I was supposed to go. This section where you run through the burning compound is a much better execution of the same idea. (I&#8217;m aware it&#8217;s been done elsewhere, including <em>Drake&#8217;s Fortune<\/em>, but I haven&#8217;t played those games.) It presents a frantic, high-speed run through a crumbling structure, and yet it&#8217;s pretty clear where you&#8217;re supposed to go. The visible threat is intense, but the actual time pressure is fairly low-key, allowing you to fumble a bit without leading to instant death.<\/p>\n<p>Also: I&#8217;m disappointed with everyone who allowed Josh to die repeatedly. I need you folks to step up your game next week or we&#8217;ll have more of the same. <\/p>\n<p><em>RUN YOU BASTARDS! I&#8217;m coming for you! Again! And this time I might not die right away and I might even live long enough to hurt some of you, so really we&#8217;d all be better off if you ran away. Actually why aren&#8217;t you running away? Isn&#8217;t this place on fire? What&#8217;s the point in this firefight again? In fact, why don&#8217;t you guys ju&#8230; Oh. I&#8217;m dead again. Well, only one thing to do now. RUN YOU BASTARDS! I&#8217;m coming for you! (etc.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I berated Prince of Persia: Two Thrones because I hated its time-pressure platforming sections. I ended up fumbling around, trying to figure out what the game wanted from me and where I was supposed to go. This section where you run through the burning compound is a much better execution of the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","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=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}