{"id":1793,"date":"2010-11-05T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2010-11-05T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:40:12","slug":"game-21-phantom-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2010\/11\/05\/game-21-phantom-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"Game #21: Phantom 2040 &#8211; Sega Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1447351105.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1796\" title=\"OhSnap_1447351105\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1447351105-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1447351105-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1447351105-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1447351105.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This game was supposed to be like Metroid.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels like it&#8217;s supposed to be like Metroid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1455301105.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1797\" title=\"OhSnap_1455301105\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1455301105-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1455301105-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1455301105-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1455301105.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it starts off with a boss fight, where it&#8217;s not even clear that it is a boss fight and not clear that you&#8217;re hurting the boss or the boss is hurting you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1504561105.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1795\" title=\"OhSnap_1504561105\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1504561105-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1504561105-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1504561105-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1504561105.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you end up in a sewer\/train tunnel\/jungle temple\/cyber base, where you wander around aimlessly, looking for switches to destroy that open up doors.\u00c2\u00a0 That might have been fun if something were going on, but really, it feels like there&#8217;s a huge area that the designers forgot to put enemies in.\u00c2\u00a0 All I ever found in this temple\/train sewer place were birds.\u00c2\u00a0 That don&#8217;t hurt you.<\/p>\n<p>I know Metroid.\u00c2\u00a0 Metroid is a good friend of mine.\u00c2\u00a0 You sir, are no Metroid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game was supposed to be like Metroid.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels like it&#8217;s supposed to be like Metroid. But it starts off with a boss fight, where it&#8217;s not even clear that it is a boss fight and not clear that you&#8217;re hurting the boss or the boss is hurting you. Then you end up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172],"tags":[238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}