{"id":1133,"date":"2025-07-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:09:41","slug":"review-chronicles-of-the-wolf-switch-a-spot-on-castlevania-tribute-that-may-test-your-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/review-chronicles-of-the-wolf-switch-a-spot-on-castlevania-tribute-that-may-test-your-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Chronicles Of The Wolf (Switch) &#8211; A Spot-On Castlevania Tribute That May Test Your Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Metroidvania with claws.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/chronicles_of_the_wolf\">Chronicles of the Wolf<\/a> is a tough game to review. A decade or so ago, 2D Metroidvanias were rarer, but they now represent one of gaming\u2019s most enduring and best-developed genres.<\/p>\n<p>But how do I assess a production like this that purposefully ignores many of the design changes that made the genre more accessible? This meaty retro-inspired game will leave a lot of players battered and bruised, ready to give up and swan off to the nearest tavern in its rural 18th-century French setting.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/chronicles-of-the-wolf\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Metroidvania with claws. Chronicles of the Wolf is a tough game to review. A decade or so ago, 2D Metroidvanias were rarer, but they now represent one of gaming\u2019s most enduring and best-developed genres. But how do I assess a production like this that purposefully ignores many of the design changes that made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}