{"id":988,"date":"2010-11-14T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2010-11-14T21:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T04:16:02","slug":"fireball-and-faery-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/fireball-and-faery-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball and Faery Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/5167621985_9e1f18a309.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Radiangames Fireball Screen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/5167621985_9e1f18a309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having finished Fallout: New Vegas I spent the last couple days playing Rock Band 3 (review coming at some point), Radiangames Fireball and Faery: Legends of Avalon.\u00a0 Fireball is similar to passivism mode in Geometry Wars but expanded to a full game.\u00a0 At just $1 it is my value game for the week because I&#8217;ve easily put 4 or 5 hours into it already.\u00a0 It is a blast to play and with online leaderboards it keeps me coming back to try new tactics.\u00a0\u00a0My review for Fireball is up on XBLA &amp; XBLIG Ratings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/61-other\/3348-radiangames-fireball\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. The challenges modes are my current addiction.\u00a0 At just 3 minutes they don&#8217;t take very long but are a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Faery: Legends of Avalon hit Xbox Live Arcade this week and with my saved game at 8 and a half hours I&#8217;ve finished it already. It is fun, if linear, RPG that explores the world of Avalon as you try to save magic from extinction.\u00a0 The combat is turn based and with 6 or 7 companions to choose from on your quests there is a wide range of attacks and spells to use.\u00a0 I had fun going back to a fairly classic RPG what was not overly complicated or fast.\u00a0 My full review is up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/3323-faery-legends-of-avalon\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having finished Fallout: New Vegas I spent the last couple days playing Rock Band 3 (review coming at some point), Radiangames Fireball and Faery: Legends of Avalon.\u00a0 Fireball is similar to passivism mode in Geometry Wars but expanded to a full game.\u00a0 At just $1 it is my value game for the week because I&#8217;ve [&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":[6,29,90],"tags":[179,178,7,5,30,116],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","category-xbox-live-indie-games","tag-faery-legends-of-avalon","tag-radiangames-fireball","tag-review","tag-video-game","tag-xbla","tag-xblig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}