{"id":585,"date":"2009-08-20T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/585"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T23:24:58","slug":"zuma-no-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/585","title":{"rendered":"Zuma: No Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, no sooner do I make a move away from <em>Zuma<\/em> than PopCap unexpectedly announces a <a href=\"http:\/\/popcap.com\/promos\/zumasrevengegame\/?icid=zr_pre_HP_PLARGE_pc_08_18_09_EN\">sequel<\/a>.  I take this as a sign from the gods of gaming and synchronicity that they don&#8217;t want me to abandon it just yet, and who am I to argue with gods?<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing that really separates this game from PopCap&#8217;s more recent titles, it&#8217;s that its Adventure Mode is actually hard.  Of the other PopCap games that I&#8217;ve purchased since starting this blog &#8212; <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/498\"><em>Peggle<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/340\"><em>Bookworm Adventures<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/554\"><em>PvZ<\/em><\/a> &#8212; I completed two of their campaigns in a single day, and the other in three.  I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll ever manage to finish <em>Zuma<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve been stuck at the same point for several posts now.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the point where I&#8217;m stuck is so very close to the end!  This is the point where one wants to just charge through and finish the thing, but that&#8217;s exactly the wrong approach to take to a game like this.  It asks the player to be patient, to keep practicing without any measure of progress &#8212; no virtual cash or experience points building up from session to session.  I wonder if the sequel will add such things?  It could be a significant way to extend the game&#8217;s appeal to magpies like me, but at the cost of changing the game&#8217;s character in ways that fans of the original might not like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, no sooner do I make a move away from Zuma than PopCap unexpectedly announces a sequel. I take this as a sign from the gods of gaming and synchronicity that they don&#8217;t want me to abandon it just yet, and who am I to argue with gods? If there&#8217;s one thing that really separates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}