{"id":26234,"date":"2015-03-19T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26234"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:07:51","slug":"hitman-absolution-ep5-team-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26234","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Absolution EP5: Team Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: At the start of this episode we&#8217;re still raving. <\/p>\n<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\/DOGsgKsFEf4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DOGsgKsFEf4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so Birdie suggested that you take the girl and run. And 47 doesn&#8217;t want to do that. So instead we go and kill Dom Osmund. It really does seem like running is a foolproof plan, and 47 doesn&#8217;t seem to have a good reason for not following it. I&#8217;d forgive this for the sake of getting on with the story, but the next part of the game really makes it clear that once again the audience is right and 47 is dumb. <\/p>\n<p>So on top of the cops storming the exploding hotel, the cops gunning down people on the roof, the cops searching the library, the cops doing the drug bust, and the cops locking down the subway, there are also cops patrolling the sewers? Maybe there&#8217;s a reason given for this, but right now we&#8217;re staggering around in the aftermath of a category-5 <a href=\"?p=17745\" title=\"Plot Holes Part 2: Story Collapse\">story collapse<\/a>, and I&#8217;m not inclined to assume anything favorable on the part of the writers. So I&#8217;ll just assume this is more random stupidity. <\/p>\n<p>The train platform is indeed a pretty cool sequence. It feels a lot like a &#8220;classic&#8221; Hitman experience. Too bad it&#8217;s not, and you don&#8217;t actually have a target. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: At the start of this episode we&#8217;re still raving. Link (YouTube) Okay, so Birdie suggested that you take the girl and run. And 47 doesn&#8217;t want to do that. So instead we go and kill Dom Osmund. It really does seem like running is a foolproof plan, and 47 doesn&#8217;t seem to have a [&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":[477],"class_list":["post-26234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-hitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234","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=26234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}