{"id":12173,"date":"2022-12-26T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/26\/best-of-2022-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-start-at-the-beginning-of-series-like-zelda-or-dragon-quest\/"},"modified":"2022-12-26T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:34:44","slug":"best-of-2022-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-start-at-the-beginning-of-series-like-zelda-or-dragon-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/26\/best-of-2022-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-start-at-the-beginning-of-series-like-zelda-or-dragon-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of 2022: Is It Ever A Good Idea To Start At &#8216;The Beginning&#8217; Of Series Like Zelda Or Dragon Quest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The perils of dipping a toe in a franchise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the holidays we&#8217;re republishing some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/best-of-2022\">choice features<\/a> from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from<\/em> <em>NL staff and contributors<\/em><em>, you&#8217;ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and \u2014 of course \u2014 enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It started with a simple question: <em>Which Dragon Quest should I play first?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/best-of-2022-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-start-at-the-beginning-of-series-like-zelda-or-dragon-quest\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Best Of 2022: Is It Ever A Good Idea To Start At &#8216;The Beginning&#8217; Of Series Like Zelda Or Dragon Quest?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The perils of dipping a toe in a franchise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the holidays we&#8217;re republishing some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/best-of-2022\">choice features<\/a> from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from<\/em> <em>NL staff and contributors<\/em><em>, you&#8217;ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and \u2014 of course \u2014 enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It started with a simple question: <em>Which Dragon Quest should I play first?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/best-of-2022-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-start-at-the-beginning-of-series-like-zelda-or-dragon-quest\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}