{"id":27300,"date":"2015-06-12T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27300"},"modified":"2015-06-12T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T19:10:30","slug":"arkham-asylum-ep3-asylum-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27300","title":{"rendered":"Arkham Asylum EP3: Asylum of the Heart"},"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\/jCdhSJWth6o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jCdhSJWth6o'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s our first week of Arkham Asylum. I&#8217;m really glad to be covering something we like. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good bit of tension between this game and Arkham City, to the point where it&#8217;s hard to discuss one without bringing up the other. I think this one makes more sense and it has a more focused story, but I find City to be more fun to play and explore. The combat is smoother, the combat is deeper, the enemies are more varied, but the overall plot is muddled. <\/p>\n<p>In Arkham City, it was like the team was compelled to use every Batman villain in existence, including some of the obscure D-listers. The game has Hugo Strange, Penguin, Two-Face, Catwoman, Joker, Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze, Bane, Zsasz, Hush, Deadshot, Soloman Grundy, Clayface, Poison Ivy, Mad Hatter, Riddler, and Ra&#8217;s al Ghul<span class='snote' title='1'>Also Calendar Man is there, perplexingly the only man in all of Arkham City who is locked in a cell.<\/span>. That feels like extreme overkill. It feels like they were overcompensating. Which is odd, since the first game was great and they didn&#8217;t need to compensate for anything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) So that&#8217;s our first week of Arkham Asylum. I&#8217;m really glad to be covering something we like. There&#8217;s a good bit of tension between this game and Arkham City, to the point where it&#8217;s hard to discuss one without bringing up the other. I think this one makes more sense and it has [&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":[318],"class_list":["post-27300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-batman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300","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=27300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}