Sentences with phrase «instead of slogging»

Not exact matches

Instead of an exciting battle, you find yourself slogging through the game.

We went into the experience expecting a pulse - pounding shooter with fancy cut scenes and lots of drama (no surprise, since we play more FPS on consoles than RPGs), and instead found a slower - moving and tough (but immensely rewarding) slog through a beautiful fantasy world populated by imaginative monsters and more weapons than we know what to do with.

Instead, Rampage is a little of a slog until the end, beginning with an absolutely brutal five minute space sequence.

Even Jennifer Lawrence doesn't appear particularly enthused about having to slog through this downer of a finale, and it's hard to blame her, because instead of going out on the high note that the franchise and its loyal fans deserved, my first thought when the film ended was, «Thank God it's finally over.»

Instead, the core of the trial is likely to slog through recondite economic arguments and civil evidence issues; part of today's hearing focused on expert witness opinion about the competitive effects of agency pricing and whether it coincided with Apple's economic self - interest.

In return for this slog, instead of a modest advance plus 8 % — 15 % royalty from a traditional publisher, a self - published author may enjoy royalties of 70 % if their book is sold at a certain price (# 1.49 to # 7.81) in the Kindle store.

Instead, I get «missions» (what an awful name for Extreme Technical Timing Challenges), I can pay to download computer opponents that should have been in the game in the first place, or I can slog through the inflexible arcade mode of fighting a sequence of battles over which I have no control beyond difficulty level.

We went into the experience expecting a pulse - pounding shooter with fancy cut scenes and lots of drama (no surprise, since we play more FPS on consoles than RPGs), and instead found a slower - moving and tough (but immensely rewarding) slog through a beautiful fantasy world populated by imaginative monsters and more weapons than we know what to do with.

It's a drab, boring, slog of a game with ugly visuals, the least satisfying action you could want from a twin - stick shooter and a series of unnecessary mechanics that just infuriate instead of add anything meaningful to the experience.

The compliment in that is that Grow Home is such a joy to play that you'll totally forget after the first few giggles, engrossed instead in carefully clambering the little red robot to new heights, planning both his path and the path of the beanstalk's growth, and keeping an eye out for the pretty polygonal views and charming surprises that make the slog worthwhile.

Instead they slog ahead as before, trying to maintain business as usual by cutting a lot of the wrong corners and blaming the wrong people for their plight.