{"id":651,"date":"2007-10-01T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/god-hand\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:23:24","slug":"god-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/god-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"God Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While organising my games collection, I&#8217;ve been removing titles that I don&#8217;t think are worth keeping. There are quite a few wild cards (games I never really got into), and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/God_hand\">God Hand<\/a> was one of them. I&#8217;d tentatively put it in the &#8220;get rid of pile&#8221;, but then I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vAga2AjfZlg\">this video of the ending credits<\/a> (found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2007\/09\/the_best_video_game_credits_ev.php\">GameSetWatch<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vAga2AjfZlg\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are awesomely naff. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLead vocals: <em>Dragon kick your ass into the Milky Way!<\/em><br \/>\nBackup vocals (high-pitched): <em>Milky Way!<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLead vocals: <em>Hyper-active fighting styles so slick they&#8217;ll make you drool!<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While trying to find the lyrics, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com\/godhand\/godhand.htm\">this glowing review and game summary at Hardcore Gaming 101<\/a>. I was reminded of why this game was on my purchase list in the first place:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God Hand is like a mid 80s arcade game brought up to vaguely current standards, except it&#8217;s actually somewhat self conscious of how ridiculous the whole concept is. The result is one of the freshest video games released in a long time, which was essentially the point of the now-defunct Clover Studios.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see a God Hand games night in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While organising my games collection, I&#8217;ve been removing titles that I don&#8217;t think are worth keeping. There are quite a few wild cards (games I never really got into), and God Hand was one of them. I&#8217;d tentatively put it in the &#8220;get rid of pile&#8221;, but then I saw this video of the ending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/god-hand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God Hand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}