{"id":31798,"date":"2019-09-12T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=31798"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:20:02","slug":"marvel-buckles-its-swash-with-solomon-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/marvel-buckles-its-swash-with-solomon-kane\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel buckles its swash with Solomon Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the success of the 17th century videogame <em>Greedfall<\/em>, Marvel has just announced they will add Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Solomon Kane to the comics line-up alongside Conan.  Let&#8217;s hope he doesn&#8217;t end up joining The Avengers superhero-team and wielding a machine-gun &mdash; which is the sorry fate of Conan this month, under Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the fair-minded reviews, <em>Greedfall<\/em> is probably the closest thing to a game Lovecraft would like. Although he might tut at the authenticity of bits of it, and hope for a makeover mod that would steer it more toward the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/greedfall-panorama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/greedfall-panorama.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"198\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Probably best described as <em>Skyrim<\/em> meets <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> in 17th century America, via the pirate island of the excellent first <em>Risen<\/em> game + some mystical <em>Witcher<\/em>-like backwoods monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the success of the 17th century videogame Greedfall, Marvel has just announced they will add &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/marvel-buckles-its-swash-with-solomon-kane\/\">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":[21,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53876,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions\/53876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}