{"id":58260,"date":"2024-12-18T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=58260"},"modified":"2024-12-17T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T00:15:39","slug":"wednesday-action-log-12-18-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=58260","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Action Log 12-18-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve ended up playing\u00a0<strong>Viewfinder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually had it since last month, but I forgot entirely. So now I&#8217;ve played it and, it&#8217;s fine. The premise of being able to take a photo, look at it, and then it becomes a part of the environment is really cool, but there was more focus on story than I expected; which is okay, but story in games isn&#8217;t really my thing. Most of the story is in audio logs and there&#8217;s at least one audio log to listen to on each puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay itself is cool, but I felt like I was in a tutorial all the time, it would introduce a new concept, reinforce it, then move on. I guess the concepts did stick around for a whole zone, but the zones are pretty short, and only the <em>optional<\/em> puzzles had me actually stop and think about it for a minute before I figured out the solution.<\/p>\n<p>I did still enjoy the game but I think I went in with the wrong expectations. I went in thinking of <strong>The Witness <\/strong>with its utilizing its one gimmick in every way possible, and its oddly quiet environment. But <strong>Viewfinder<\/strong> is more of a cute, three hour puzzle game that shows you its ideas once and then its done.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I did this week, what&#8217;s everyone else doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve ended up playing\u00a0Viewfinder. I&#8217;ve actually had it since last month, but I forgot entirely. So now I&#8217;ve played it and, it&#8217;s fine. The premise of being able to take a photo, look at it, and then it becomes a part of the environment is really cool, but there was more focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58260","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58264,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58260\/revisions\/58264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}