{"id":12766,"date":"2020-01-16T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2020-01-16T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:22:10","slug":"the-crystal-maze-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12766","title":{"rendered":"The Crystal Maze US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You will definitely need to use the Dark Arts for this, but Nickelodeon have put up the first episode of <strong>The Crystal Maze US<\/strong> a week before it airs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tuLy_6BEZ6A\">Here&#8217;s the Youtube link<\/a>, but it&#8217;s geolocked so get your VPNs ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Main takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They&#8217;re into the first game within two minutes.<\/li><li>Despite that they only get 8 games + Dome. The Megacrystal is also in effect. Plenty of between game chat, and certainly before the Dome.<\/li><li>Graphics have been touched up a lot &#8211; zone map transitions look great, as does the VR game from last series.<\/li><li>Games from all (modern) series have been used, a medieval game has been adapted for Eastern.<\/li><li>Games are a bit easier &#8211; extra lives, extra thirty seconds added for some of them.<\/li><li>Breaks mid-game because it&#8217;s America.<\/li><li>Dome is $100 per gold, -$100 per silver, more than 100 gold after deductions bumps the prize up to $25,000.<\/li><li>I hope you like high pitched screaming because there&#8217;s a lot of it.<\/li><li>Jury out on Adam Conover for me. There&#8217;s not really a lot of room for him to be funny in an endearingly odd way, and his corny jokes came across as a bit overtly scripted (although there was a bit with an exercise bike which suggests a fun direction). He&#8217;s doing a lite-version of the Ayoade &#8220;this is because of editing&#8221; schtick. Really it&#8217;s difficult for me to judge because I&#8217;m quite far away from the target audience.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So&#8230; not sure what to make of it, keeps many of the UK&#8217;s issues, improves some bits, does other things slightly worse&#8230; score draw? Fascinated to see what they make of it over there though. I kind of hope it&#8217;s successful, because imagine a set built with American money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will definitely need to use the Dark Arts for this, but Nickelodeon have put up the first episode of The Crystal Maze US a week before it airs. Here&#8217;s the Youtube link, but it&#8217;s geolocked so get your VPNs ready. Main takeaways: They&#8217;re into the first game within two minutes. Despite that they only\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12766\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3jU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}