{"id":472,"date":"2019-07-26T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2020-02-05T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:31:24","slug":"stories-untold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Stories Untold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other day I spent a couple of hours playing this little game called <strong>Stories Untold<\/strong>. It wasn&#8217;t half bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/stories_untold-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/stories_untold-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/stories_untold-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/stories_untold-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/stories_untold-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">S.U. is one of those games that leans heavily on the nostalgia factor. Look at the poster (designed by Stranger things artist Kyle Lambert&#8230; no one would have EVER guessed that!), it&#8217;s pure 1980s modern antiques. And I don&#8217;t mean this in a negative way. Obviously it&#8217;s a dish best served to those who have actually tasted the original thing. I actually had a tv like that and a computer like that and played textual adventures like the one at the core of the tale. It&#8217;s the 30-year cycle (some say it&#8217;s 20 or 40 but hey, let&#8217;s not argue sociology here)&#8230; I&#8217;ve always liked that period of my life but now you get the feeling that, finally, everyone is getting it; now we are all big on the 1980s, shoulder pads and all!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The game consists of four chapters, the first three apparently isolated but ending up connected through the fourth. The story isn&#8217;t actually as clever as it wants to be, albeit clever enough for younger people who probably haven&#8217;t played\/read\/watched as many stories as someone my age has. Nevertheless the execution does have exceptional charms. The aesthetics, the sounds, the music are a labour of love. And most importantly the gaming itself. The\u00a0four chapters are four distinct gameplay experiences, you get to do different things in each of them. It&#8217;s a mix of text-based adventure, practical simulation (the second chapter reminded me of oldies like\u00a0<em>Life or Death<\/em>), walking simulator, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s cheap, short and sweetly creepy, definitely time well spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stories Untold - Launch Trailer\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SokHO_XlMnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I spent a couple of hours playing this little game called Stories Untold. It wasn&#8217;t half bad. S.U. is one of those games that leans heavily on the nostalgia factor. Look at the poster (designed by Stranger things artist Kyle Lambert&#8230; no one would have EVER guessed that!), it&#8217;s pure 1980s modern &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stories Untold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electricdawn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}