{"id":27820,"date":"2015-07-14T14:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27820"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:11:56","slug":"experienced-points-batman-needs-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27820","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Batman Needs Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is a little bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/14309-Without-Robin-Batman-is-Nothing\">why Robin is often overlooked in movies and games, and why now is a good time for the Arkham games to start using him<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I was really disappointed in how limited the team fights are in Arkham Knight. You team up with Catwoman in Riddler&#8217;s stuff, you team up with Nightwing to fight Penguin, and you very briefly team up with Robin somewhere in the middle of the story. That&#8217;s a trivial slice of the overall game. There are more predator encounters than team fights. More Ubisoft-style towers to clear than team fights. There&#8217;s way more tank fights, more Batmobile races, and more puzzles. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that the strongest and most promising feature in the game was left as sort of an afterthought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is a little bit about why Robin is often overlooked in movies and games, and why now is a good time for the Arkham games to start using him. I was really disappointed in how limited the team fights are in Arkham Knight. You team up with Catwoman in Riddler&#8217;s stuff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-27820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-batman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820","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=27820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}