{"id":1010,"date":"2011-01-06T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:12:40","slug":"enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Enslaved: Odyssey to the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Enslaved_Odyssey_to_the_West.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1011\" title=\"Enslaved: Odyssey to the West\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Enslaved_Odyssey_to_the_West.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Enslaved_Odyssey_to_the_West.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Enslaved_Odyssey_to_the_West-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>In a <a title=\"Rogers Video Boxing Day Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=961\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> I mentioned buying a bunch of games from Rogers Video as part of their boxing day sale.\u00a0 One of those games was a PS3 game called <a title=\"Enslaved on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enslaved:_Odyssey_to_the_West\" target=\"_blank\">Enslaved: Odyssey to the West<\/a> developed by Ninja Theory.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the games that I bought that day were purely for trade on Goozex, but this one I actually wanted to play.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember where I first heard about it, but at some point prior I had decided that I wanted to play it and added it as a request on Goozex.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I was in 80th place in line on Goozex (the unfortunate case with new games).\u00a0 So imagine my surprise when I found it at Rogers Video for a mere $13.33 (buy 1 get 2 free at $40).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Anyway, I ended up playing and completing this game over the holidays.\u00a0 I finished it in 3 sessions over 3 days.\u00a0 Supposedly, there is about 10 hours of game play, but it felt more like 6 to 8 hours.\u00a0 Perhaps that&#8217;s a good thing that it seemed to go so quickly instead of dragging on.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it was a lot of fun.\u00a0 Similar in gameplay\/feel to perhaps <a title=\"BG&amp;E on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Good &amp; Evil<\/a> or <a title=\"Oni on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oni_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\">Oni<\/a> not counting the whole escort aspect.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics on the PS3 were great, although some of the initial animations seemed a little choppy.\u00a0 The voice acting was very good.\u00a0 There were some points early on where the dialogue was difficult to hear due to the music volume but that wasn&#8217;t a problem later on.<\/p>\n<p>The Character development was done very well.<\/p>\n<p>The story was interesting but I would have liked a bit more back story.\u00a0 You get some hints here and there throughout the game, but it doesn&#8217;t get addressed directly.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I really enjoyed it and in my case it was a definite win.\u00a0 I only paid $13.33 to buy it used and after finishing it, I traded it back out on Goozez for 1000 points (~$50).\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Enslaved on Metacritic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-3\/enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west\" target=\"_blank\">Metacritic rating: 80 out of 100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post  I mentioned buying a bunch of games from Rogers Video as part of their boxing day sale.  One of those games was a PS3 game called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West developed by Ninja Theory.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the games that I bought that day were purely for trade on Goozex, but this one I actually wanted to play.  I don&#8217;t remember where I first heard about it, but at some point prior I had decided that I wanted to play it and added it as a request on Goozex.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I was in 80th place in line on Goozex (the unfortunate case with new games).  So imagine my surprise when I found it at Rogers Video for a mere $13.33 (buy 1 get 2 free at $40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,54,55,38,22,56],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-boxing-day-sale","tag-enslaved","tag-enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west","tag-goozex","tag-ps3","tag-rogers-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-gi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}