{"id":19308,"date":"2022-02-14T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:18:47","slug":"the-gardens-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/02\/14\/the-gardens-between\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gardens Between"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I recently finished playing a lovely puzzle game: <a href=\"https:\/\/thegardensbetween.com\/\">The Gardens Between<\/a>. It\u2019s a sweet, wordless game about friendship and memory, available on a bunch of different platforms, including iOS and Steam.<\/p>\r\n<p>The game starts with two kids who are friends (and next-door neighbors), Arina and Frendt (I read them as being a white girl and boy, but I\u2019m not sure whether that\u2019s the designers\u2019 intent), in their treehouse on a rainy night. They then find themselves transported to a series of islands in which you can explore their memories using a nifty interface that lets you move them forward and backward in time \u201cto solve puzzles and illuminate threads of a bittersweet narrative,\u201d as the game\u2019s website puts it.<\/p>\r\n<p>The puzzles are mostly pretty straightforward. There are two specific mechanics that come up partway through the game that I would never have figured out on my own (I consulted a cheat page for those), but other than that I found the puzzles easy to solve. But the graphics are great, the rewind-time mechanic is really cool, and the story is sweet.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recommended, especially on a large tablet with headphones or other good audio.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>(Quasi-spoiler in a comment on this post.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19309,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions\/19309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}