{"id":27446,"date":"2015-06-19T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27446"},"modified":"2015-06-19T18:31:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:31:54","slug":"arkham-asylum-ep6-ball-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27446","title":{"rendered":"Arkham Asylum EP6: Ball Soup"},"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\/rTUGLobuoMA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTUGLobuoMA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to point out that of the 6 episodes of Arkham Asylum so far, only half of them directly refer to &#8220;ass&#8221; or &#8220;balls&#8221; in the title. And at the top of the episode we go <em>over four minutes<\/em> without making jokes about drawing dicks on things. This is all part of our efforts to deliver you the most analytical and highbrow videogame show on the internet<span class='snote' title='1'>BUTTS!<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>I know I jump in and out of &#8220;reflexive fanboy defense&#8221; mode when Josh says he doesn&#8217;t like the combat. For the record, in a non-joking way: The combat in this game falls somewhere between serviceable and dull. If you find yourself playing the game, I suggest putting the game on easy and enjoying it as a breezy power fantasy. As someone who didn&#8217;t have a lot of experience with these kind of games in the past, &#8220;easy&#8221; felt &#8220;just right&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The next game is much better, but I don&#8217;t want to over-hype it. There are still things about it that feel stiff and awkward, and the camera is still the main villain if you find yourself fighting in a small space. I&#8217;ve managed to fall in love with it anyway, but that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve learned to tolerate or ignore the faults<span class='snote' title='2'>Twice butts!<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I&#8217;d like to point out that of the 6 episodes of Arkham Asylum so far, only half of them directly refer to &#8220;ass&#8221; or &#8220;balls&#8221; in the title. And at the top of the episode we go over four minutes without making jokes about drawing dicks on things. This is all part of [&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":[318,497],"class_list":["post-27446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-batman","tag-butts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27446","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=27446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}