{"id":95907,"date":"2019-06-28T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/video_its_all_about_robotnik_in_mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_2020"},"modified":"2019-06-28T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:30:00","slug":"video-its-all-about-robotnik-in-mario-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/video-its-all-about-robotnik-in-mario-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: It&#8217;s All About Robotnik In Mario &amp; Sonic At The Olympic Games 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd05569b455ae\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd05569b455ae\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/video_its_all_about_robotnik_in_mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_2020\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRgcSumZoNk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We recently got the chance to go hands-on with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_tokyo_2020\"><strong>Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games<\/strong><\/a> on Switch, and we had a jolly good time indeed. Sure, there were some unwelcome flashbacks to Wii-era waggle, but the game is so packed with joy and humour that it&#8217;s easy to overlook that \u2013 especially when you&#8217;re playing with a like-minded friend.<\/p>\n<p>However, what <em>really<\/em> struck us during our brief time with the game was just how amazing Sonic&#8217;s nemesis Robotnik (or Eggman, if you prefer) is. From his delicate poise to the fact that, unlike his arch enemy, he actually <em>removes his footwear<\/em> during some events (does that mean Sonic&#8217;s shoes are actually <em>part of his body?!<\/em>), it&#8217;s clear that this is one mad professor who gives it his all, no matter the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The game launches in November. Are you excited yet? Will you be picking Robotnik? (The only right answer here is &#8216;yes&#8217;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRgcSumZoNk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] We recently got the chance to go hands-on with Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games on Switch, and we had a jolly good time indeed. Sure, there were some unwelcome flashbacks to Wii-era waggle, but the game is so packed with joy and humour that it&#8217;s easy to overlook that \u2013 especially [&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-95907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95907","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=95907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}