{"id":27856,"date":"2013-12-20T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thisistheverge-who-needs-a-controller\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:18:36","slug":"thisistheverge-who-needs-a-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thisistheverge-who-needs-a-controller\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27856 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thisistheverge-who-needs-a-controller\/attachment\/27857\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_my29v2yoit1r3kmkso1_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thisistheverge.tumblr.com\/post\/70588531828\/who-needs-a-controller-republique-is-ipad\">thisistheverge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/12\/19\/5227074\/republique-episode-one-iphone-ipad-review\">Who needs a controller? \u2018Republique\u2019 is iPad gaming without compromise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Console quality&rdquo; is a phrase that gets tossed around quite a bit in mobile development. Both players and creators seem eager for something a bit bigger and more substantial than Angry Birds \u2014 but we\u2019ve yet to really see a game that meets those lofty standards. Titles like Deus Ex: The Fall and Oceanhorn nearly look like console games with great 3D visuals, but ultimately fail with gameplay that\u2019s not well suited to a touchscreen. Even the excellent Infinity Blade series \u2014 perhaps the best-looking games to grace a smartphone \u2014 features gameplay that\u2019s fun, but severely stripped down. The next contender for the crown is Republique, a stealth action game from new studio Camouflaj. And the amazing thing is that it actually works \u2014 it\u2019s like Metal Gear Solid streamlined for a touchscreen, and it\u2019s one of the best mobile games of 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thisistheverge: Who needs a controller? \u2018Republique\u2019 is iPad gaming without compromise &ldquo;Console quality&rdquo; is a phrase that gets tossed around quite a bit in mobile development. Both players and creators seem eager for something a bit bigger and more substantial than Angry Birds \u2014 but we\u2019ve yet to really see a game that meets those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27858,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856\/revisions\/27858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}