{"id":36531,"date":"2017-01-13T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36531"},"modified":"2017-01-13T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:57:01","slug":"until-dawn-ep15-hey-ash-whatcha-playin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36531","title":{"rendered":"Until Dawn EP15: Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin&#8217;?"},"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\/meRpArVM5uA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=meRpArVM5uA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This episode was really frustrating for me. We got to the part of the game where it&#8217;s begun to reveal stuff, but because I&#8217;m not playing I can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s going on, and every time I asked the other hosts they were cryptic.<\/p>\n<p>I thought we agreed that Chris wouldn&#8217;t shoot anyone and he would simply wait for the sawblade scenario to play out. But then right at the end he pointed the gun at himself and there was a gunshot sound. I couldn&#8217;t tell if the game forced that to happen, or if Josh Viel did that. Then later we get a tape recording of the killer rehearsing, but because we were talking over it I couldn&#8217;t hear the voice. (Watching the episode now, it sounds like Josh to me, which the &#8220;cut in half&#8221; gag sort of already gave away.)<\/p>\n<p>So yeah. This is a really sub-optimal way to experience the game. There&#8217;s a week (or even a month!) between chapters, I can&#8217;t quite hear everything, and I can&#8217;t always tell player action from events mandated by the developer. <\/p>\n<p>Despite all of this, I&#8217;m still pretty into it. I&#8217;m seriously doubting all of this will make sense in the end, but I&#8217;m genuinely invested in these characters and I want to see what happens to them. Also, I haven&#8217;t completely rejected the world. I haven&#8217;t gone through <a href=\"?p=17745\">story collapse<\/a>. Maybe the big reveals will work and maybe they won&#8217;t, but after such an interesting journey I&#8217;m still invested enough that I want to see them for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) This episode was really frustrating for me. We got to the part of the game where it&#8217;s begun to reveal stuff, but because I&#8217;m not playing I can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s going on, and every time I asked the other hosts they were cryptic. I thought we agreed that Chris wouldn&#8217;t shoot anyone and [&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":[],"class_list":["post-36531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531","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=36531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}