{"id":1788,"date":"2009-09-16T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2009-09-16T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:03:15","slug":"tom-chick-mostly-loves-majesty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/16\/tom-chick-mostly-loves-majesty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Chick Mostly Loves Majesty 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this has become <em>Majesty 2<\/em> week, I thought I should point you to my colleague&#8217;s review over at Fidgit. <a href=\"http:\/\/fidgit.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/majesty_2_review.php\">For some people, a near perfect copy is enough.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the most part, Majesty 2 is the same game as Majesty. Which is fine by me. The original game was a near work of genius for how it carved out its own niche. It violated rules, broke genres, and confounded expectations. It sat somewhere between a conventional real time strategy game, a city builder, an RPG, and an ecosystem, but it wasn&#8217;t any of those things. It was the Will Wright game that Will Wright never made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He complains about the interface, and he&#8217;s right to do so. While all the basic tasks are nicely laid out, there is still a lot of hidden information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this has become Majesty 2 week, I thought I should point you to my colleague&#8217;s review over at Fidgit. For some people, a near perfect copy is enough. For the most part, Majesty 2 is the same game as Majesty. Which is fine by me. The original game was a near work of genius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,6,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-sQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}