{"id":7,"date":"2007-01-03T00:24:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:53:33","slug":"skullmonkeys-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"Skullmonkeys: Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second attempt at the last level with 94 lives yielded victory. It turned out that the last part I faced on the previous attempt (an exceedingly tightly-timed section involving two sets of moving platforms that appear when you step on a switch and disappear shortly afterward) was the very last challenge in the game.<\/p>\n<p>For all  its goofy amiability on the surface, <em>Skullmonkeys<\/em> is a brutally punishing game, one that cracks the whip and demands more. \u00a0Call it masochism, but there&#8217;s a great deal of satisfaction in beating a game like that. \u00a0There&#8217;s a sense of accomplishment, and also a sense of freedom in realizing that you don&#8217;t have to play it any more.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: a change of pace while my left thumb heals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second attempt at the last level with 94 lives yielded victory. It turned out that the last part I faced on the previous attempt (an exceedingly tightly-timed section involving two sets of moving platforms that appear when you step on a switch and disappear shortly afterward) was the very last challenge in the game. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-platformer","tag-skullmonkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}