{"id":7370,"date":"2021-02-01T20:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2021-02-01T20:06:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:06:36","slug":"donut-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7370","title":{"rendered":"Donut County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/apps.9487.14011542784181932.80ac6320-df7b-4be6-9355-e9083a5d2063.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>The thing about <a title=\"Donut County for XBox One, at the Microsoft Store\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/donut-county\/9N6V2181GHLM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donut County<\/a> is, it&#8217;s barely a game at all[1].<\/p>\n<p>But if you can get past that, it&#8217;s pretty fun and funny. It&#8217;s approximately a knockoff of <a title=\"My review of Katamari Damacy. Sidenote: this blog is old enough to *have* a review of Katamari Damacy. It may, uh, be old enough to drive.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katamari Damacy<\/a>, but instead of rolling things up, you are a hole in the ground, and you are swallowing said things. Donut County is a county somewhere near alternate Los Angeles I guess?, inhabited by all manner of sentient animals and also for some reason this one girl. The only problem is that everyone and everything keeps disappearing into holes in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Who could be causing this? And why? And will you ever get to fly the sweet quadcopter that you can unlock if you reach level 10?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: as two hour games go, I definitely got my money and time investment&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>[1] This is not entirely true. The last third adds more game elements, such that by the end, there&#8217;s some game there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about Donut County is, it&#8217;s barely a game at all[1]. But if you can get past that, it&#8217;s pretty fun and funny. It&#8217;s approximately a knockoff of Katamari Damacy, but instead of rolling things up, you are a hole in the ground, and you are swallowing said things. Donut County is a county [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[436,1330,1329,1290],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-adventure","tag-puzzle","tag-xbox-game-pass","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}