{"id":226,"date":"2006-06-06T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/06\/06\/shadow-of-the-colossus-mini-review\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:40:12","slug":"shadow-of-the-colossus-mini-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/06\/shadow-of-the-colossus-mini-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of the Colossus mini-review"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-icon\" id=\"image225\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/shadow-of-the-colossus-20050927025333795.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of Shadow of the Colossus, courtesy of IGN.com.\" \/>\n<p>One of the most rewarding gaming experience I&#8217;ve had in quite some time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowofthecolossus.com\/\">Shadow of the Colossus<\/a> is an exercise in restraint (something rarely found with game designers). Large parts of the game are spent riding a horse through a lavishly rich landscape, looking for a giant monster to battle. Felling one of the title colossi always involves solving a logical puzzle (real-world logic, as opposed to the so often found in-game logic) and is very satisfying. One of the best looking games I&#8217;ve ever seen on the <acronym title=\"PlayStation 2\">PS2<\/acronym>, riding, fighting and climbing cliff-faces are always esthetically pleasing and quite cinematic. Highly recommended! <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most rewarding gaming experience I&#8217;ve had in quite some time, Shadow of the Colossus is an exercise in restraint (something rarely found with game designers). Large parts of the game are spent riding a horse through a lavishly rich landscape, looking for a giant monster to battle. Felling one of the title &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/06\/shadow-of-the-colossus-mini-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shadow of the Colossus mini-review<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[46,22],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-gaming","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}