{"id":271,"date":"2024-07-22T02:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:36:15","slug":"firewatch-game-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/firewatch-game-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Firewatch Game Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Life is messy.  People are complicated.  Problems are hard.  That&#8217;s what makes this game great.  Not every story wraps with a nice tidy bow in the end.  We can run away from our problems, or hide.  But if we don&#8217;t face them, they&#8217;ll always catch up to us eventually.  It&#8217;s not pretty.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to finish a game and not feel great about it.  But this is not a fairy tale.  Life never is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finished it and jotting down my initial thoughts, because I can tell this game is going to be with me for a while.  I&#8217;ll need to think this.   Love it when I know that a story will stay with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing I really enjoyed was the music, whenever there was a suspenseful scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, it&#8217;s not much, but that&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is messy. People are complicated. Problems are hard. That&#8217;s what makes this game great. Not every story wraps with a nice tidy bow in the end. We can run away from our problems, or hide. But if we don&#8217;t face them, they&#8217;ll always catch up to us eventually. It&#8217;s not pretty. It&#8217;s not easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}