{"id":310,"date":"2008-12-30T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-12-30T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:59:51","slug":"videogames-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/videogames\/videogames-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogames | Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently became aware of <strong>Passage<\/strong> by its release on the iPhone and the strong words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\">1UP.com<\/a> editor and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespite.net\/\">retro gamer extraordinaire<\/a> Jeremy Parish. I was about to take the dive on the ninety-nine cent iPhone version, when I stumbled across the fact that the game was available for free for Windows, OSX and Linux. The price was right and I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what to expect.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/screen.png' alt='Passage \u00e2\u20ac\u201c free for Windows, OSX, Linux.' class=\"center\" width=\"500px\" height=\"86px\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Passage<\/strong> is an experience that&#8217;s hard to define, but difficult not to recommend. Thought provoking, melancholy, adventurous, touching, grand and minute, <strong>Passage<\/strong> manages to be all of these things within the five minutes it takes to start and ultimately finish the narrative. There&#8217;s no dialogue, no cut scenes, the characters are little more than 8&#215;8 sprites, but <strong>Passage<\/strong> contains more verve and characters than many of the blockbuster Xbox360 and Playstation 3 games released this year.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t ruin the experience for you by spoiling the story, but give it a shot, it&#8217;s free afterall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Passage<\/strong> can be downloaded for free <a href=\"http:\/\/hcsoftware.sourceforge.net\/passage\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently became aware of Passage by its release on the iPhone and the strong words of 1UP.com editor and retro gamer extraordinaire Jeremy Parish. 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