{"id":26610,"date":"2015-04-30T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26610"},"modified":"2015-04-30T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:18:54","slug":"hitman-absolution-ep16-judge-judy-and-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26610","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Absolution EP16: Judge Judy and Executioner"},"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\/mKWaW9gIEa0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mKWaW9gIEa0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I kind of lost it this week. This part of the game is so egregiously incompetent that I stopped analyzing the game and just got angry at it. The part where you&#8217;re captured in a cutscene (again!) is probably not quite as bad as <a href=\"?p=26221\" title=\"Hitman Absolution EP4: Ranting and Raving\">the end of the Terminus mission<\/a> in terms of &#8220;authorial blunders per minute&#8221;, but this one tries my patience a lot more. <\/p>\n<p>Skurkey has his dominatrix here at work not because it makes any kind of sense in how people would behave, but because the writers wanted more of whatever this is. I can&#8217;t can&#8217;t tell is this is supposed to be fanservice or mocking BDSM culture, but it&#8217;s really confusing either way. Skurkey has been established as a pretty dim bulb, but even if you ghost this entire area he still gets you with this electrocution trap, meaning he&#8217;s both clairvoyant and way more clever than the writers have shown him to be. And then two seconds later it reveals he didn&#8217;t even know you&#8217;re the Hitman! So why did he leave that trap? Okay, I accept that this world has videogame electricity where exposing current to a puddle of water makes a knockout trap instead of, you know, blowing a fuse. But does the Sheriff just randomly make this shock trap outside his office for no reason? <\/p>\n<p>And then we have yet another section where Dexter cackles over you and refuses to kill you for no good reason and instead leaves you in an easily escape-able situation. None of this makes sense or fits together. It&#8217;s just an endless chain of the very worst videogame cliches, repeated over and over again. This blend of &#8220;dark, serious, and edgy&#8221; with &#8220;willfully stupid, childish, and absurd&#8221; is contemptible. This is a game that&#8217;s trying to do some sort of introspection while at the same time lacking any sense of self-awareness. <\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, this is our last week with <em>Hitman: Absolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I have to admit I kind of lost it this week. This part of the game is so egregiously incompetent that I stopped analyzing the game and just got angry at it. The part where you&#8217;re captured in a cutscene (again!) is probably not quite as bad as the end of the Terminus [&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-26610","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\/26610","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=26610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}