{"id":14785,"date":"2024-06-27T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14785"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:19:13","slug":"bothers-bar-plays-badly-fortress-challenge-fort-boyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14785","title":{"rendered":"Bother&#8217;s Bar Plays Badly: Fortress Challenge Fort Boyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;ve spent \u00a335 so you don&#8217;t have to, it&#8217;s the new Microids Fort Boyard game out today featuring as many as &#8220;some&#8221; new events but the big deal are the &#8220;perks of Sir Fouras&#8221; &#8211; not a recognised knight of the realm as far as I know, which emulates the show&#8217;s big twist from the last few years, a modifier that affects the adventure &#8211; ancient games, not seeing the clock, poisoned gifts&#8230; like on TV, some work better than others (the one I&#8217;m showing off, Poisoned Gifts, feels a bit&#8230; janky? Broken? See for yourselves). Whatsmore some of the events don&#8217;t have their music, they just have the theme tune playing over it &#8211; rubbish! For balance, what I would suggest is that the new events feel a bit more <em>involved<\/em> than many previously. PS5 version played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vDw8kInfyGw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new series of <strong>Fort Boyard<\/strong>, the 35th! begins on Saturday night on France 2 at 8:10pm UK with the unlocking of the Forbidden Cells, this year&#8217;s gimmick. The last few years France TV have turned their geoblocking off for the Fort, but if they don&#8217;t you&#8217;ll need a VPN to watch. The show will be discussed on the Discord in #fortboyardchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;ve spent \u00a335 so you don&#8217;t have to, it&#8217;s the new Microids Fort Boyard game out today featuring as many as &#8220;some&#8221; new events but the big deal are the &#8220;perks of Sir Fouras&#8221; &#8211; not a recognised knight of the realm as far as I know, which emulates the show&#8217;s big twist\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14785\">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-14785","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-3Qt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785","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=14785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}