{"id":5212,"date":"2012-11-27T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2012-11-27T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T19:49:19","slug":"chaos-on-deponia-review-at-adventure-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=5212","title":{"rendered":"Chaos on Deponia review at Adventure Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2012\/chaos-on-deponia.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Adventure Gamers posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/articles\/view\/23358\" target=\"new\">my review of Chaos on Deponia<\/a>. This is the second game in a series of three. (I reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/articles\/view\/21988\" target=\"new\">the first one<\/a> a few months ago.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a Monkey Island-style comedy game and it&#8217;s stylistically very &#8220;old school,&#8221; with all those ridiculous types of inventory puzzles we used to love back in the 80s and 90s. Sadly for me, the humor doesn&#8217;t really do it for me&#8230; I strongly suspect this is a symptom of jokes simply not carrying over from the original German, since the translation seems capable. (I felt the same way about the first game.) But it&#8217;s still a charming game, with some great puzzles and gorgeous cartoon graphics that are unlike what you see in most adventure games these days.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah. It&#8217;s an adventure game! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/articles\/view\/23358\" target=\"new\">Go read the review<\/a> if you wanna know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Adventure Gamers posted my review of Chaos on Deponia. This is the second game in a series of three. (I reviewed the first one a few months ago.) This is a Monkey Island-style comedy game and it&#8217;s stylistically very &#8220;old school,&#8221; with all those ridiculous types of inventory puzzles we used to love back [&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-5212","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\/5212","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=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}