{"id":7793,"date":"2017-07-01T07:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2017-07-01T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T12:21:47","slug":"final-impression-the-kings-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2017\/07\/01\/final-impression-the-kings-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Final impression &#8212; The King&#8217;s Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE KING&#39;S AVATAR: Tells the exciting story of a deposed Pro-Gamer just kinda dicking around griefing low-level nobodies in the starter town<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rei-son D&#39;etre (@LossThief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LossThief\/status\/880333221644435456\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nWell, they&#8217;re not wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYe Xiu was the best know professional player of Glory, until he got unnecessarily nastily fired from his team, so the first thing he does is duck into a nearby internet cafe, apply for a job as night manager and start playing Glory again, on the newly opened tenth server where, as the tweet says, he spents his time grieving nobodies. And that&#8217;s basically <cite>Quan Zhi Gao Shou<\/cite>\/<cite>The kings Avatar<\/cite>, a series of imagined battles played out within the game interspersed with scenes of young men and the occassional young woman looking <em>really serious<\/em> at their monitor, with close-ups of exciting keyboard and mousing actions. And yet&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UAGqV6Ho32s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nAs Youtube anime critic The Pedantic Romantic argues, this looks a bit like Sword Art Online, only without the actually being stuck in the game and dying in real life if you die in <strike>Canada<\/strike> the game bits. What&#8217;s more, Glory feels much more like a real MMO than SAO&#8217;s games ever did. It was this review that picqued my interest enough to watch the first couple of episodes, something made easy because the Chinese television producer behind it, Tencent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSjaP1eV5eQ&#038;list=PLMX26aiIvX5ocv2xksC-w-YQrqlixhIRA\">released the whole series on Youtube<\/a> for wordlwide viewing. What I like about this is that it keeps the focus on gaming and gaming culture instead of having to add some supernatural or fantasy element to it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s also the first actual Chinese cartoon to hold my interest enough to finish the series; it was always one of the first series I watched on a Friday night or Saturday morning this season. Even if the stakes were low and the story this season was little more than Ye Xiu getting a band of new players with potential together to perhaps form a new team when he goes back to the pro-leagues, on an episode by episode base it was always interesting. just as watching an underdog succeed despite the odds, there&#8217;s also pleasure in watching an expert quietly finishing off supposedly superior players. If you should want to watch it, I&#8217;d advise against binging it, as then its flaws quickly become apparant: each episode is basically the same story of Ye Xiu kicking ass, there&#8217;s an over reliance on some stock fighting animations, etc. Watched one episode at a time it&#8217;s perfect brain candy if you like seeing somebody play an MMO perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE KING&#39;S AVATAR: Tells the exciting story of a deposed Pro-Gamer just kinda dicking around griefing low-level nobodies in the starter town &mdash; Rei-son D&#39;etre (@LossThief) June 29, 2017 Well, they&#8217;re not wrong. Ye Xiu was the best know professional player of Glory, until he got unnecessarily nastily fired from his team, so the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[2532,2533],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-final-impression","tag-the-kings-avatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}