{"id":2243,"date":"2008-02-27T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2008-02-27T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T07:24:25","slug":"i-reached-the-end-i-sighed-in-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I reached the end,&#8221; I sighed in sorrow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the little characters waved goodbye to each other.  Giving goodbye presents such as a hammer and a cookie.<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the day that I have completed my first rpg game.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time on the Nintendo DS.  Before this, I had only played SimCity and the Sims for days at a time.  Then Animal Crossing and Yoshi&#8217;s Touch N Go which was overcome by Mario and Luigi.  But really, as I discovered, it&#8217;s the story that kept me going even though it was just a red man and a green man running and jumping for items.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in my life, a friend tried to get me to play Final Fantasy.  XII, that is.  I thought it was arduous as we sat in bed watching the game play out on his projector.  I didn&#8217;t get the turn-based system and kept going only because he wanted to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I like Mario and Luigi mostly because of all its tutorialness.  And how over time, I learn how to make the right decisions during battles.  How do people learn otherwise?  And it, it&#8217;s so fascinating.  Because it becomes a world where you make decisions.  And when you make them, you have to have skill to execute those decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Next?<\/p>\n<p>Probably just picross!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the little characters waved goodbye to each other. Giving goodbye presents such as a hammer and a cookie. Today marks the day that I have completed my first rpg game. Namely, Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}