Sentences with phrase «as prequels go»

And as prequels go, it is a pretty solid one at that.

As prequels go, it's pretty exciting.»

Not exact matches

As unnecessary prequels go, «Solo: A Star Wars Story» isn't bad.

It goes without saying that Batman Begins is the best prequel of the summer, a film that allows Liam Neeson as Bruce Wayne's mentor / surrogate father figure to make amends for The Phantom Menace and offers a peek, along with Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, at the full grim panorama of what the Star Wars films have squandered.

O.G. gives you a chance to meet this character Jeffrey plays, but Hard Truth is almost like going back in time as an almost non-fiction prequel.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is director Matt Reeves sequel to Rupert Wyatt's prequel, which was in - turn a reboot of a franchise born in the late sixties that went on to spawn more than 5 spin - offs as well as a television series.

Needless to say, nothing goes as the group plans in director Jordan Vogt - Roberts» Kong: Skull Island, a visually phantasmagoric action - fantasy - comedy hybrid that plays out as something of an unhinged, shaggy - eared prequel to Gareth Edwards» excellent 2014 reinterpretation of Toho Studio's legendary Godzilla.

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

X-Men: First Class is one of the many Batman Begins / Casino Royale - type prequels, which go into unnecessary detail about their heroes» formative years — as if anyone needed to know how Professor X got his team of mutant superheroes together.

«Minions,» the hilarious new animated prequel to the «Despicable Me» franchise, goes back to the beginning when the Minions started out as single - celled yellow organisms, then evolved through the ages, perpetually servi...

As a result, Rockstar decided to go back in time and bring us a prequel, with Red Dead Redemption 2 set before the events of its predecessor and featuring a fresh - faced (well, kinda) John Marston in the process.

Adam Driver evolves the most as Kylo Ren, going places Hayden Christensen could've only dreamed of in the prequels.

JJ Abrams was in a bit of a strange position; despite the huge expectation attached to the new Star Wars film, nobody really expected The Force Awakens to measure up to the original trilogy, and barring some catastrophic error of judgement, nobody really believed that it was going to be as bad as the prequels.

As a direct sequel to the third film (which in turn was a prequel to the first two), «The Last Key» focuses once again on clairvoyant Elise Rainier, who goes back to her childhood home to face some of her most personal demons yet.

I would like to see a sequel to «The Three Amigos» or perhaps a prequel such as «Little Neddy goes to War» or «Those Darn Amigos».

If you're as sick of how many prequels and sequels are out there as I am, then you're going to love this!

Holy Sh!t... Playstation owners would go APE SH!T for a sequel, prequel, or anything and esp if made by team ico... Just as long as theyve been working on it for a few years and it does nt take a 10th the time it took them to release The Last Guardian (even though it was a small team that made tlg) to release this game.

The Phantom Pain is without a doubt the single most anticipated game that Konami fans are going to be waiting enthusiastically for, while the strategy for marketing the game has become a first for Konami by selling the prequel with the game still a couple of years from release, we can take a look first look at what to expect at this years E3 as Hideo Kojima gives us a first look at the E3 trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

The game itself is a prequel to the upcoming movie and tells the tale of the Autobots as they try to track down the remaining Decepticons who have now gone into hiding.

Having watched both that and the Brotherhood anime, which also serves as a prequel to the game, I was able to follow what was going on, but I have a strong feeling anyone who doesn't go in armed with all that exposition will be at a distinct disadvantage.

When Square Enix announced the prequel, replacing Ashley Burch with Rhianna DeVries as Chloe because of the actors strike, and that it was to be made by a completely different studio, alarm bells went off.

For quite some time now, Lucasarts has been exclusively focusing on games based off the Star Wars prequels for a while, and as a result, a lot of their original titles just simply went on hiatus.

Oh, and it's a prequel as well, so you don't need to have played the others to understand what is going on!

No title or date was given but EA has already confirmed that the Star Wars: Battlefront sequel is releasing in 2017, likely this fall, and we know it's going to tie into the new movies as opposed the original or prequel trilogies.

This is prequel to the main - series, so fans of old will catch all the foreshadowing of the previous games shown throughout the sub-stories, as well as new fans having a better sense of what is going on as they are introduced to the large world of

Hugh Howey's self - published ebook was a surprise hit when it debuted in 2012, and it went on to spawn a multi-novel series known as the «Silo» franchise that included several prequel stories and spinoffs.

It's a neat idea, and it's really starting to bear fruit - the sublime Transparent has deservedly picked up a host of top TV awards, the brilliant Bosch has received rave reviews from the critics and the Michael Bay - produced Black Sails, a kind of adult prequel to Treasure Island, has got better and better as its gone on.