{"id":8622,"date":"2022-10-18T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/review-thems-fightin-herds-cute-and-cuddly-characters-mask-an-incredibly-in-depth-fighter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:15:56","slug":"review-thems-fightin-herds-cute-and-cuddly-characters-mask-an-incredibly-in-depth-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/review-thems-fightin-herds-cute-and-cuddly-characters-mask-an-incredibly-in-depth-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Them&#8217;s Fightin&#8217; Herds &#8211; Cute And Cuddly Characters Mask An Incredibly In-Depth Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chomping at the bit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The craze now coined as \u201c<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bronyism#:~:text=bronyism%20(uncountable),culture%2C%20or%20philosophy%20of%20bronies.\">bronyism<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a heavily documented <strong>My Little Pony<\/strong> fandom that took root in 2010 \u2014 turned out to be more about inclusion than it did the show (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic\">Friendship is Magic<\/a>) itself. Despite our attempts to get into it based on recommendations, we found its adult appeal largely overvalued. It acted as a conduit for individuals to share and be part of something, and every Brony surely knows, deep down, that the primary attraction is its related community. However, it turned out to be just the beginning of the next decade of media output and social-political causes that operated on a similar set of principles.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years on, and the fandom isn\u2019t ready to quit just yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/thems_fightin_herds\">Them\u2019s Fightin\u2019 Herds<\/a> isn\u2019t a licensed product and doesn\u2019t feature a single character from the show, but its art style, themes and execution are so perfectly accurate to its influence that it takes scrutiny to realise it\u2019s not an official Hasbro product. Obviously, the horse in the room here is that Lauren Faust, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic\u2019s creator, rendered the game\u2019s cast of characters, making it feel totally authentic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/thems-fightin-herds\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Them&#8217;s Fightin&#8217; Herds &#8211; Cute And Cuddly Characters Mask An Incredibly In-Depth Fighter<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chomping at the bit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The craze now coined as \u201c<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bronyism#:~:text=bronyism%20(uncountable),culture%2C%20or%20philosophy%20of%20bronies.\">bronyism<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a heavily documented <strong>My Little Pony<\/strong> fandom that took root in 2010 \u2014 turned out to be more about inclusion than it did the show (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic\">Friendship is Magic<\/a>) itself. Despite our attempts to get into it based on recommendations, we found its adult appeal largely overvalued. It acted as a conduit for individuals to share and be part of something, and every Brony surely knows, deep down, that the primary attraction is its related community. However, it turned out to be just the beginning of the next decade of media output and social-political causes that operated on a similar set of principles.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years on, and the fandom isn\u2019t ready to quit just yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/thems_fightin_herds\">Them\u2019s Fightin\u2019 Herds<\/a> isn\u2019t a licensed product and doesn\u2019t feature a single character from the show, but its art style, themes and execution are so perfectly accurate to its influence that it takes scrutiny to realise it\u2019s not an official Hasbro product. Obviously, the horse in the room here is that Lauren Faust, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic\u2019s creator, rendered the game\u2019s cast of characters, making it feel totally authentic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/thems-fightin-herds\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8623,"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\/8622"}],"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=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}