{"id":219,"date":"2008-04-23T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/lost-cities-impressions\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:14:00","slug":"lost-cities-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/lost-cities-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Cities Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2008\/083\/945550_20080324_screen002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2008\/083\/945550_20080324_screen002.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I also checked out Lost Cities today on Xbox Live Arcade.  I generally don&#8217;t play a lot of board and card games on XBLA. It is not that I don&#8217;t like them, but there are just other types of games I prefer more. Lost Cities is pretty fun &#8211; not great, but still fun if you like this type of game.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a strategy card game basically that is played with two people.  You have to play your cards in a strategy that gets you more points than your opponents. There is an element of chance that effects the outcome because you draw cards from a random deck.  So, if you partner just gets much better cards and has an ok strategy he could probably beat you even if you have a great strategy but get lousy cards.  Fortunately the cards are randomly drawn so you&#8217;ll most likely get pretty even cards.  Then it is up to you to have a better strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I played the trial a few times and was beating the AI pretty badly.  It was actually kind of boring after about the second time.  I think this game would be more fun in the multiplayer mode when you&#8217;re playing against a friend and shooting the breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also checked out Lost Cities today on Xbox Live Arcade. I generally don&#8217;t play a lot of board and card games on XBLA. It is not that I don&#8217;t like them, but there are just other types of games I prefer more. Lost Cities is pretty fun &#8211; not great, but still fun if [&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":[6,29],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}