{"id":253,"date":"2012-06-04T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2012-06-04T17:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:30:55","slug":"im-still-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/im-still-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Still Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I finished up my runthrough of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002I0F5M8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=onefact-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002I0F5M8&quot;\">Batman: Arkham City<\/a>. I was torn about it and so it took me a while to finally get around to reviewing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arkham City <\/em>is a direct sequel to <em>Arkham Asylum <\/em>and\u00a0lifts most of its design and play from its predecessor. The developers have managed to tighten things up a bit, this time around&#8211;combos ear easier to pull off and are smoother, for instance.\u00a0Rather than being a relatively linear game like its predecessor, though, <em>Arkham City<\/em>\u00a0went with a sandbox design. At first, this seems like an obvious path for a game about a superhero fighting crime. Unfortunately, though, <em>Arkham City <\/em>manages to feel very small in comparison to its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Though there are many things to explore, the main plot&#8211;finding out the secrets of the asylum\/prison\/post-apocalyptic-hellscape that is the game&#8217;s namesake&#8211;feels short. Worse yet, the side missions dealing with other characters feel more like the &#8220;collect the token&#8221; games from the Nintendo 64 era rather than anything deep or richly connected to the rest of the experience. Compounding it further, some of the side quests don&#8217;t even get real conclusions. The worst offender ends up with a villain walking out of the city and Batman saying that he&#8217;d &#8220;deal with him tomorrow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What there was of <em>Arkham City, <\/em>I mostly enjoyed, even with its flaws. Nevertheless, I don&#8217;t think that I can recommend the game. It just leaves you wanting more in a way that a game of its pedigree shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batman: Arkham City: 0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I finished up my runthrough of Batman: Arkham City. I was torn about it and so it took me a while to finally get around to reviewing it. Arkham City is a direct sequel to Arkham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/im-still-batman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[8,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}