{"id":26,"date":"2007-01-27T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/26"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:26:55","slug":"throne-of-darkness-graphical-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/26","title":{"rendered":"Throne of Darkness: Graphical Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I gave <em>Throne of Darkness<\/em> another go.  I&#8217;m out of the dungeon and into the final castle, but things there are slaughtering my party regularly.  I think I&#8217;ll have to have another crafting spree before I can make any more progress, and maybe go back and slaughter some creatures along alternate paths for more XP and crafting supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve run out of interesting things to say about the gameplay, let me talk about the graphics a little.  I mentioned before that I bought this game primarily on the basis of the screenshots on the box (which is a poor way to make purchasing decisions, but hey, it was cheap).  The thing I liked was mainly the texture of the objects.  Items have engraving-like detail, and magic items are tinted in various colors depending on their enhancements.  It&#8217;s especially striking now, coming from a stint of <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>, which uses heavily stylized 3D.  The <em>Throne of Darkness<\/em> style is a good example of what 2D graphics can do better.<\/p>\n<p>All of which makes me wonder what they were thinking when they made the crudely cel-shaded cutscenes.  Nobody&#8217;s perfect, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I gave Throne of Darkness another go. I&#8217;m out of the dungeon and into the final castle, but things there are slaughtering my party regularly. I think I&#8217;ll have to have another crafting spree before I can make any more progress, and maybe go back and slaughter some creatures along alternate paths for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg","tag-throne-of-darkness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}