{"id":1139,"date":"2011-02-19T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2011-02-19T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T03:18:55","slug":"stacking-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/stacking-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacking Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5253\/5431443422_ce723a4572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Stacking Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5253\/5431443422_ce723a4572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/7745946\/stacking_tips_and_hints.html?cat=15\">Stacking<\/a> <\/strong>when it release last week and have been having a good time with the mix of adventure and puzzle genres. The actual story can be finished in about 5 hours without too much trouble, but going back and finding every solution for each challenge is taking much longer.\u00a0 So far no cheating and using a guide though. I&#8217;m hoping to get 100% of everything complete without any help. We&#8217;ll see if that happens. I&#8217;ve got a full review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/37-adventure\/3738-stacking\"><strong>XBLA Ratings<\/strong><\/a> but really you should just check out the demo for yourself.\u00a0 I know a lot of folks are waiting to get it on sale sometime, and I can&#8217;t really blame anyone since $15 is a bit steep for a game you can complete so quickly. \u00a0 I think I like Double Fine&#8217;s Costume Quest a little more that Stacking, but both are great and have me looking forward to whatever they do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Stacking when it release last week and have been having a good time with the mix of adventure and puzzle genres. The actual story can be finished in about 5 hours without too much trouble, but going back and finding every solution for each challenge is taking much longer.\u00a0 So far no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,200,5,30],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-review","tag-stacking","tag-video-game","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}