{"id":36809,"date":"2015-09-28T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=36809"},"modified":"2015-09-28T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:26:59","slug":"if-youre-hiding-from-monsters-you-may-as-well-check-out-somas-backstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2015\/09\/28\/if-youre-hiding-from-monsters-you-may-as-well-check-out-somas-backstory\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re hiding from monsters, you may as well check out Soma&#8217;s backstory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SOMA - Transmission #1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8I_J2VjsqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Frictional Games&#8217; Soma was released on September 22nd, and if you&#8217;ve braved the horror game&#8217;s corridors already, you probably have a few questions about the plot. Frictional isn&#8217;t promising that all questions will be answered, but if you&#8217;re itching for some background, they&#8217;re releasing an episodic video series showing some of what happened before the game. There are some light spoilers in the video, so if you haven&#8217;t panicked your way through Soma, you may want to hold off watching the series until you do. Frictional says they will upload a new episode every day until October 5th. If you do want to watch the video, you should start with the two teasers from the live-action series which were released <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lLVOif6CHgE\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eytOzwyfiCA\">here<\/a> in 2013 when the game was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Soma is available on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frictional Games&#8217; Soma was released on September 22nd, and if you&#8217;ve braved the horror game&#8217;s corridors already, you probably have a few questions about the plot. 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