{"id":10846,"date":"2010-03-01T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=10846"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:06:21","slug":"tom-baker-reviews-uncharted-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/01\/tom-baker-reviews-uncharted-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Baker reviews &#8220;Uncharted&#8221; video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Baker<\/a> (Chiba-ken, 1989-91)<\/strong> is a staff writer for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Daily Yomiuri<\/strong><\/a><em>. A big part of his beat is the <strong>Pop Culture page<\/strong>, which covers manga, anime and video games.\u00a0 You can follow Tom&#8217;s blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tokyotombaker.wordpress.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here is his latest video game review, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naughtydog.com\/games\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c<strong>Uncharted<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Uncharted 2<\/strong>\u201d<\/a> which Sony recently released as a box set in Japan:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uncharted-2-among-thieves-400221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10957\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uncharted-2-among-thieves-400221-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uncharted-2-among-thieves-400221-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uncharted-2-among-thieves-400221.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>My pal <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathan_Drake_(character)\" target=\"_blank\">Nate<\/a> is such a great guy that he keeps hanging out with me despite the fact that I&#8217;ve gotten him killed hundreds of times, usually by explosions, gunfire or plunges from cliffs. It&#8217;s a good thing he&#8217;s made out of pixels, or this relationship would be a lot harder on both of us.<\/p>\n<p>Digital though he may be, Nathan Drake, the lead character in the <strong>Sony PlayStation 3<\/strong> video games <strong>Uncharted: Drake&#8217;s Fortune (2007)<\/strong> and <strong>Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)<\/strong>, is so lifelike and likeable that it is not unusual for players to think of him as someone who really exists.<\/p>\n<p>The two games, re-released Feb. 18 as a 7,980 yen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%89-%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%89%E3%81%AE%E7%A7%98%E5%AE%9D-PlayStation3-%E9%BB%84%E9%87%91%E5%88%80%E3%81%A8%E6%B6%88%E3%81%88%E3%81%9F%E8%88%B9%E5%9B%A3-%E5%90%8C%E6%A2%B1%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF\/dp\/B0032JTHG4\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=videogames&amp;qid=1267361071&amp;sr=1-6\" target=\"_blank\">box set<\/a>, are swashbuckling adventures from the Indiana Jones school in which our hero and a few friends hunt for treasure in exotic locales while fighting off gangsters and pirates who are also after the loot. And also as in Jones&#8217; world, events take a paranormal turn once the treasure is uncovered&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/arts\/20100219TDY11001.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the review here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Baker (Chiba-ken, 1989-91) is a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri. A big part of his beat is the Pop Culture page, which covers manga, anime and video games.\u00a0 You can follow Tom&#8217;s blog at tokyotombaker.wordpress.com. Here is his latest video game review, of \u201cUncharted\u201d and \u201cUncharted 2\u201d which Sony recently released as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,30,58,1,6],"tags":[200,193],"class_list":["post-10846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-blogs","category-japan-trends","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","category-writers","tag-nate-drake","tag-uncharted"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2OW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}