{"id":30644,"date":"2011-12-04T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-my-shield-broke-i-raged-i-swore-i-pulled-a\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T16:54:19","slug":"when-my-shield-broke-i-raged-i-swore-i-pulled-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-my-shield-broke-i-raged-i-swore-i-pulled-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When my shield broke, I raged, I swore, I pulled a total Croyt. And then I realized I was experiencing something that is somewhat lost in videogames now: Genuine difficulty. This game was not kowtowing to me. Sure, it spent five hours on the freaking tutorial \u2014 but by god, after that, it was done holding my hand. And if I wasn\u2019t paying attention during those five hours, then too bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2011\/12\/03\/legend-zelda-skyward-sword-review-exegesis\/4\/\">&lsquo;Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword&rsquo;: Best. Wii. Game. Ever. | PopWatch | EW.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my shield broke, I raged, I swore, I pulled a total Croyt. And then I realized I was experiencing something that is somewhat lost in videogames now: Genuine difficulty. This game was not kowtowing to me. Sure, it spent five hours on the freaking tutorial \u2014 but by god, after that, it was done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644","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=30644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}