{"id":26489,"date":"2015-04-15T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26489"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:40:38","slug":"hitman-absolution-ep13-craperture-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26489","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Absolution EP13: Craperture Science"},"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\/B8t8lDyD4GQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B8t8lDyD4GQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been doing this for five years, and covered over sixteen videogames. In all that time, the same pattern holds true: We get more and more negative as a particular game drags on. If we start out loving a game, we&#8217;ll come to recognize its flaws. If we start out ambivilent about a game, we&#8217;ll grow to resent it. And if we start out disliking a game, we&#8217;ll loathe it by the end. <\/p>\n<p>But <em>Hitman: Absolution<\/em> seems to break with that tradition. We started out really negative, but now I guess we&#8217;re more amused than outraged. The game really is awful, but it&#8217;s awful in such interesting and varied ways that after a while I run out of anger and just want to stop and watch the train wreck unfold. <\/p>\n<p>The bit with jumping out of the birthday cake was a fun idea. But it was patronizingly easy to pull off, requiring no more planning than choking a single woman in an empty room. And since it&#8217;s not part of the core game, there&#8217;s no reason to do it. And it&#8217;s stuck in a silly postage-stamp level that serves no other purpose and is part of a sprawling installation that makes no damn sense. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love a postmortem on this game. What on earth were they thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) We&#8217;ve been doing this for five years, and covered over sixteen videogames. In all that time, the same pattern holds true: We get more and more negative as a particular game drags on. If we start out loving a game, we&#8217;ll come to recognize its flaws. If we start out ambivilent about 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-26489","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\/26489","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=26489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}