{"id":4141,"date":"2011-08-31T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2011-09-25T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T01:53:04","slug":"emily-the-strange-strangerous-review-at-adventure-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=4141","title":{"rendered":"Emily the Strange: Strangerous review at Adventure Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,1358\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2011\/strangerous.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oops&#8230; what happened to August?<\/p>\n<p>This morning Adventure Gamers published my review of Strangerous, a Nintendo DS game based on one of my favorite <s>namesakes<\/s> tee shirt celebrities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilystrange.com\" target=\"new\">Emily the Strange<\/a>. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,1358\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is sort of a weird beast&#8230; a DS game based on a license enjoyed mostly (I think) by girls and young women with a particular sense of humor. The DS almost seems passe for a game like this. I would have expected it to turn up on the iPhone. It did give me an excuse to turn on my DS for the first time in a very long time, though, and I liked seeing Emily in motion even if the game itself was basically a Professor Layton knock-off. It&#8217;s probably best suited to younger Emily fans who haven&#8217;t played many puzzle games before, since most of the puzzles are very easy and very familiar. As of right now it&#8217;s only out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Emily-Strange-Strangerous-Nintendo-DSi\/dp\/B004JMZPN2\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1314834941&#038;sr=8-2\" target=\"new\">in the UK<\/a>; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Emily-Strange-Strangerous-Nintendo-DS\/dp\/B004YAW1DG\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1314834949&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"new\">US release<\/a> is reportedly coming later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have dusted off my DS (it seems so clunky compared to my iPod Touch), maybe I should finally play that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/article\/id,1240\" target=\"new\">Last Window<\/a> import I bought earlier this summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops&#8230; what happened to August? This morning Adventure Gamers published my review of Strangerous, a Nintendo DS game based on one of my favorite namesakes tee shirt celebrities, Emily the Strange. You can read it here. This is sort of a weird beast&#8230; a DS game based on a license enjoyed mostly (I think) by [&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":[17],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-writing","tag-around-the-web","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}