{"id":2654,"date":"2021-05-18T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?page_id=2654"},"modified":"2023-10-11T22:15:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T04:15:29","slug":"great-games","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/video-games\/great-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, I play a video game that&#8217;s so great, I can&#8217;t help but rank it as the best of the best. Occasionally, these games receive a 5-star rating when I review them. Much like my 5-star rated <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/books\/best-books\/\">books<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/movies\/favorite-films\/\">movies<\/a>, these are the games I think are essential to play, in my opinion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/video-game-hollow-knight-2017\/\">Hollow Knight<\/a> (2017)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/video-game-shovel-knight-2014\/\">Shovel Knight<\/a> (2014)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/video-game-a-link-between-worlds-2013\/\">The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds<\/a> (2013)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/video-game-lego-the-lord-of-the-rings-2012\/\">LEGO The Lord of the Rings<\/a> (2012)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/video-game-ocarina-of-time-3d-2011\/\">The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D<\/a> (2011)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/video-game-the-stanley-parable-2011\/\">The Stanely Parable<\/a> (2011)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/video-game-portal-2-2011\/\">Portal 2<\/a> (2011)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/video-game-chrono-trigger-2008\/\">Chrono Trigger<\/a> (2008)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/video-game-mega-man-x-1994\/\">Mega Man X<\/a> (1994)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, I play a video game that&#8217;s so great, I can&#8217;t help but rank it as the best of the best. Occasionally, these games receive a 5-star rating when I review them. Much like my 5-star rated books and movies, these are the games I think are essential to play, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1858,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2654","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2654\/revisions\/3667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}