{"id":2934,"date":"2010-12-31T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:05:12","slug":"gray-matter-something-to-look-forward-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"Gray Matter &#8212; something to look forward to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,1251\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2010\/gray-matter.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,1251\" target=\"new\">review of Gray Matter<\/a> has just been posted on Adventure Gamers. Designed by Jane Jensen, the storytelling powerhouse who co-authored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,879\/\" target=\"new\">King&#8217;s Quest VI<\/a> and created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,336\" target=\"new\">Gabriel Knight series<\/a>, Gray Matter is a game I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The game was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,261\" target=\"new\">first announced in 2003<\/a> and was supposed to launch the next year, but an &#8220;indefinite hold,&#8221; then a change in publisher, and finally a change in developer led to numerous delays. The official English release isn&#8217;t until February 2011 (I played from an advance review copy), but it is now out in a German version that includes the option to install in English, so the truly dedicated can hunt it down before then. There&#8217;s also demo that can be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graymatter-game.com\/\" target=\"new\">the Gray Matter website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2010\/gray-matter2.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re looking forward to something for so long, it&#8217;s easy for expectations to meander into the crazy-land of Absolute Perfection (population zero). Gray Matter is not a perfect game. I go into plenty of detail about the reasons why in the review, so I won&#8217;t harp on them here. Even so, its story is as complex and nuanced as I&#8217;d hoped for, and for that reason Gray Matter was probably my most exciting gaming experience of 2010. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsl-game.com\" target=\"new\">The Silver Lining<\/a> was a close second&#8230; good year for Sierra junkies!) I really hope this is just the beginning of a Jane Jensen resurgence, because as much as I enjoy Telltale&#8217;s comedy, the dark, dramatic adventures are much more my style.<\/p>\n<p>Playing Gray Matter put me in the mood to re-experience Gabriel Knight, so I started replaying Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned yesterday. The graphics are even worse than I remembered&#8230; but with a story that good, who cares?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Gray Matter has just been posted on Adventure Gamers. Designed by Jane Jensen, the storytelling powerhouse who co-authored King&#8217;s Quest VI and created the Gabriel Knight series, Gray Matter is a game I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting for a long time. The game was first announced in 2003 and was supposed to launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-writing","tag-sierra-games","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}