{"id":2062,"date":"2009-01-06T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2009-01-06T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T12:27:07","slug":"unskippable-eternal-sonata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"Unskippable: Eternal Sonata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=2002\">I mentioned<\/a> Unskippable a few weeks ago.  The feature officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/unskippable\/485-Eternal-Sonata\">launched<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/embed\/485\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Like MST3K, they do have to work with what they&#8217;re given.  And I think their hit \/ miss ratio is about the same as the crew from the Satellite of Love.  (I suppose it helps that the one who made the &#8220;Archduke Ferdinand&#8221;  joke (who I&#8217;m pretty sure is Graham Stark) sounds like Mike Nelson in both voice and delivery. (And I know I&#8217;m risking a flamewar here, but I always liked Mike best. (Not that I&#8217;m criticizing Joel, he thought of the series and all, it&#8217;s just that Mike makes me laugh more.)))  I don&#8217;t know if Eternal Sonata itself is any good, but the cutscene here looks insufferable. I would not want to watch it without Stark and Saunders along to ease the pain.  <\/p>\n<p>One thing I do wonder is how they plan to feed this thing.  It <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> be a weekly feature.  I don&#8217;t think there <em>are<\/em> 52 cutscene-heavy games per year.  And ideally you want more than that, because you need to pick &#038; choose what you&#8217;ll take on in order to exploit only the richest lodes of stupidity and auteur self-indulgence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned Unskippable a few weeks ago. The feature officially launched yesterday: Like MST3K, they do have to work with what they&#8217;re given. And I think their hit \/ miss ratio is about the same as the crew from the Satellite of Love. (I suppose it helps that the one who made the &#8220;Archduke Ferdinand&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[148,135],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","tag-eternal-sonata","tag-unskippable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}