Sentences with phrase «at certain points in the story»

Not exact matches

If our personal identity is a story we tell about our bodies and certain brain activities that occur in them, and I think it is, then locating the self at a single point serves a central purpose: It separates the storyteller from the story.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

What's surprising is that this cliche - filled narrative takes a turn at a certain point and begins to barrel towards much more exciting and immediately engaging events — but like what feels like everything in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 it takes a while to get to that point even if you ignore side quests and attack the main story specifically.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

What we do know for certain is that the untitled Avengers movie will mark an ending to what will be an 11 - year - old, 22 - movie - long story at that point (kicked off in the distant past by 2008's Iron Man).

-- Nintendo previously made Zelda games by making small areas and connecting them together — For Breath of the Wild, the team first had to figure out what needed to be placed on the map — Groups were created out of the over 300 devs to work on specific sections of the world — Game Informer's demo starts at Serenne Stable — Yammo runs this place — Link can rest in bed and restore health here — Stable also lets you store horses, meet with merchants, NPCs — Stables are located throughout the world — Each one is run by a distinct character — You can spend rupees on a more expensive bed, giving you an extra heart the next morning — These hearts are yellow and can't be recovered if you're hit in combat — Spending time by fires in the world passes time — Dynamic weather system in the game, with the world reacting as a result — Ex: when it starts raining, NPCs outside the stable quickly go inside — Beedle is back to sell you goods — Have to be careful during a thunderstorm, since your metal items can attract thunder — Metal weapons and shields can be discarded or thrown at enemies — Link can get killed by lightning — Difficulty dips / spikes depending on where you are, since you can go around it and avoid it until you're stronger — Over 100 Shrines — You can find an item that identifies Shrines — Discover a Shrine for it to be a fast - travel point — Shrines also give a Spirit Orb — Trade in orbs for unknown items — Dedicated team handled animal A.I. — Bears, wolves, deer move through the snow — You can get overwhelmed by enemies quickly — Link can keep multiple horses at a time — Affection / loyalty important with horses — Feed and take care of horses to raise their stats — Can call horses over to you, but horses need to be within a certain proximity to be called — Horses can be killed by enemies — Aonuma «wanted players to choose their own path», so no companion character in this game — Stamina meter encopasses sprinting, paragliding, climbing — Meter can be upgraded, but Nintendo won't say how — Different shields have different speeds and level of control for snowboarding — Can mine rocks which can be solid for rupees or used for crafting — Can place stamps to mark areas of interest — 100 of these symbols can be used on the map, including sword, shield, bow and arrow, pot, star, chest, skull, leaf, diamond — Every style of weapon has a unique set of animations and feel different — No invincible weapons in the game, Nintendo says — Zelda can get mad at you and scold you — Players can see the ending without seeing everything from the story — A certain element was added in the game to make for a more cohesive storyline — Most difficult Zelda game to make — Aonuma is still finding new things in the world

It had these scenes in which an in - game character was also piecing the story and the alternate ways it could go and bafflingly I think at certain points it objectifies the male supporting characters.

* The Supply Box is accessible at Base Camp after a certain point in the story.

Beyond that, players may wish to engage the Shrine, which is our in - game difficulty system that's introduced at a certain point during the story.

Additionally, to prevent grinding, until you pass a certain plot point in the story, you're capped at level 15, no matter how much experience you gain.

Both assassins can be accessed at any point in the open world setting of London, though there are certain story missions that won't allow you to switch between the twins.

If you're a completionist then you can probably add another 10 hours to that figure, as well as another playthrough or two thanks to the way story branches at a certain point in the game.

There's a second character that you can play as in Egypt at certain points, and this sometimes makes total sense and other times pulls you out of Bayek's story in a way that's annoying.

Sure I would like to be able to save and load from any point in the SP story, but at least they give you plenty of saves, and I had to load up quite a few times on certain parts of the story.

In part one of our story, I rode out to battle against what now feels like the absolutely quaint notion that barraging the game's community with media hyping future cash shop products that conspicuously excludes pricing, then releasing those products at absurd price points with only a few days of availability was a predatory and anti-consumer way to market a product that leveraged fear of missing out to take advantage of players of a certain mindset.