{"id":1283,"date":"2016-03-14T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:19:34","slug":"tlfaip-bastion-anklegators-crankydiles-part-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2016\/03\/14\/tlfaip-bastion-anklegators-crankydiles-part-six\/","title":{"rendered":"TLF\/AIP Bastion: Anklegators &#038; Crankydiles (Part Six)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2016\/03\/anklegators-and-crankydiles-as-i-play-bastion-part-six\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new As-I-Play <em>Bastion<\/em> post went up today on TLF<\/a>, and I&#8217;m actually going to say a little bit about it.<\/p>\n<p>I know my <em>Bastion<\/em> posts over there have mostly been a lot of me whining about how I don&#8217;t like the core gameplay and how annoying the control scheme is (it really was pretty bad playing mouse-and-keyboard), but in my last three posts on the game (parts 6-8)&#8211;this is the first of those to go up, stay tuned for more&#8211;the series really takes a turn.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I finally broke down and bought a controller to use on my PC, which made a <strong>world<\/strong> of difference. HUGE. I cannot recommend that purchase to those of you playing console-games-on-a-PC enough.<\/p>\n<p>Second of all, <em>Bastion<\/em> itself starts to go to interesting narrative places which actually made me really start to fall in love with, if not the game itself, the premise behind it. I have a lot of really strong things to say about the game, particularly in the forthcoming parts seven and eight (over the next few weeks and into April), so I would really encourage you to at least read those, if not to go back and skim the first six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a new As-I-Play Bastion post went up today on TLF, and I&#8217;m actually going to say a little bit about it. I know my Bastion posts over there have mostly been a lot of me whining about how I &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2016\/03\/14\/tlfaip-bastion-anklegators-crankydiles-part-six\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9152,9130,9148,9147,9136],"tags":[9162],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-i-play","category-game-criticism","category-games-as-art","category-tlf","category-videogames","tag-bastion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-kH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}