{"id":44327,"date":"2018-08-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_devolver_digital_celebrates_the_launch_of_the_messenger_with_short_live_action_film"},"modified":"2018-08-31T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:00:00","slug":"video-devolver-digital-celebrates-the-launch-of-the-messenger-with-short-live-action-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/video-devolver-digital-celebrates-the-launch-of-the-messenger-with-short-live-action-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Devolver Digital Celebrates The Launch Of The Messenger With Short Live Action Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f06747d04a04\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f06747d04a04\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"The Messenger\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f06747d04a04\/the-messenger.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f06747d04a04\/the-messenger.900x.jpg\" alt=\"The Messenger\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yesterday saw the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/messenger\"><strong>The Messenger<\/strong><\/a>, an &#8220;epic ninja adventure&#8221; that has been received exceptionally well by players and critics alike almost immediately. To celebrate, a short film has been released featuring all the live action ninja fighting you could possibly hope for.<\/p>\n<p>Titled\u00a0Shinobi No Kikan, this film\u00a0was directed and produced by Imagos Films.\u00a0Sabotage and Devolver Digital, the game&#8217;s developer and publisher, have said that the film acts as\u00a0&#8220;an abridged story of the game\u2019s hero&#8221;,\u00a0mixing live action, animated sprites, and gameplay to present the tale of a seemingly impossible quest. You can check it out for yourself below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve missed our coverage of the game, or want to know a little more, feel free to check out our recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/the_messenger\">review<\/a>. We awarded it an &#8216;excellent&#8217; 9\/10, saying the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;2D side-scrolling action games like The Messenger may be a dime a dozen these days, but you\u2019d be missing out on something special by passing this one up. Featuring a surprisingly long campaign, an incredible soundtrack and tight, challenging level designs, The Messenger stands as a shining example of great game design. We\u2019d highly recommend you pick this one up; it\u2019s the very definition of a modern classic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Have you been playing The Messenger? What are your thoughts so far?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw the release of The Messenger, an &#8220;epic ninja adventure&#8221; that has been received exceptionally well by players and critics alike almost immediately. To celebrate, a short film has been released featuring all the live action ninja fighting you could possibly hope for. Titled\u00a0Shinobi No Kikan, this film\u00a0was directed and produced by Imagos Films.\u00a0Sabotage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}