{"id":30,"date":"2008-04-21T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-08-18T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:25:06","slug":"recommend-and-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/2008\/04\/21\/recommend-and-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommend and Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Layton and the Curious Village was given to me as a Birthday<br \/>\npresent.  I&#8217;ve been making quick work of it, as it&#8217;s very addicting.<br \/>\nI highly recommend it to anyone who likes puzzles, mystery or fun.<\/p>\n<p>You control the professor and his assistant, Luke, as they visit the<br \/>\ntown of St. Mystere at the request of one Lady Dahlia.  They find a<br \/>\nstrange village full of mysteries which you investigate.  The gameplay<br \/>\nconsists of some point and click adventure, and solving puzzles.  I<br \/>\nseem to be nearing the end at about the 10 hour mark, though your time<br \/>\nwill vary with your success at the puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, in the course of playing a puzzle game, I find a lot of<br \/>\nquestions that I have a gripe with.  The instructions are poor,<br \/>\nunclear, etc.  I have only hit one puzzle that has me wanting to track<br \/>\ndown a developer and smack him in the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a spoiler, I merely give you what the instructions should<br \/>\nread.  For the puzzle &#8220;Seven Squares&#8221;, it should read draw a line<br \/>\nbetween each and every pin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I came up with numerous solutions that placed 7 or more squares on the<br \/>\nboard while not using a pin twice, but only one answer is accepted.<br \/>\nIf you use the above instructions, then the one answer will truly be<br \/>\nthe &#8220;one and only answer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of that one snag, get this game if you have a DS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Layton and the Curious Village was given to me as a Birthday present. I&#8217;ve been making quick work of it, as it&#8217;s very addicting. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes puzzles, mystery or fun. You control the professor and his assistant, Luke, as they visit the town of St. Mystere at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}