{"id":2432,"date":"2017-10-14T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2017-10-14T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:44:58","slug":"cuphead-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/10\/cuphead-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuphead part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats on the&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/studiomdhr.com\/cuphead-goes-platinum\/\" target=\"_blank\">success<\/a>! Here\u2019s an interview about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asoundeffect.com\/cuphead-sound\/\" target=\"_blank\">game\u2019s sound design<\/a>, which is fantastic as <a href=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/10\/cuphead\/\" target=\"_blank\">I said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now the difficulty thing. Very good arguments back and forth but I think what doesn\u2019t quite work is the dissociation that happens when looking and listening to a cute game that is that hard. The 30s cartoon aesthetic is just way too na\u00efve in a good way and adorable to be serving such a brutal gameplay. I get the contrast idea but man, this game is so punishing. Your brain gets on a timing\/width diet and forgets about all the amazing detail and whimsical sounds happening anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I think the unlimited credit \u201cdifficulty system\u201d \u2013like in Metal Slug or Castle of Illusion- would have been better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats on the&#160; success! Here\u2019s an interview about the game\u2019s sound design, which is fantastic as I said. Well, now the difficulty thing. Very good arguments back and forth but I think what doesn\u2019t quite work is the dissociation that happens when looking and listening to a cute game that is that hard. The 30s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}