Sentences with phrase «most episodic»

Typical to most episodic releases, you can buy the game in a variety of ways, whether it be piecemeal or a season pass.

Most episodic games come out over a period of a few months, not nearly a year later (at least, it feels like that).

Unlike most episodic adventure games, the PC, PS4 and XONE release of The Council features quite elaborate gameplay mechanics and (apart from exploration and dialogues) offers multiple logical challenges.

Star Trek Beyond, in its own way, is the most episodic of the rebooted Star Trek movies.

Not exact matches

After all, emerging market (EM) equities have trailed for most of the past five years, outperformance by Europe has been episodic, and despite some good years, Japan is once again frustrating investors.

Much of Carter's most intelligent analysis concerns the reasons why this move has not yet taken place, or at least why lapses toward imperialism have been episodic and momentary, rather than irreversible.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

The study focused on improving episodic memory, which is the most common type of memory loss in people with Alzheimer's disease, stroke and head injury.

One was to look at what emotion does with episodic memories — our ability to consciously recollect the events of our lives, what most people call «memory.»

The most vulnerable form of memory is episodic.

It's episodic memory that is most affected in Alzheimer's disease.

Is an episodic history about Elliot Ness, with a noir style, good script, nice graphics, wonderful music, and the most important thing, a game that you can not begin without finish it.

For the most part, however, these moments are lost in a narrative which remains episodic, distracted and needlessly non-linear.

The games I can compare this most to are Life is Strange and The Walking Dead since they too were episodic and focused on your choices.

No, it doesn't present identical gags — not most of the time, at least — but they both go with the same episodic structure that essentially abandons plot.

The film's pervasively underwhelming atmosphere is perpetuated by the inclusion of several eye - rollingly misguided sequences (eg Santa and a few elves are trapped inside a child's bedroom), with the resulting lack of momentum ensuring that the episodic midsection, which revolves primarily around Arthur's ongoing efforts at finding said little girl's house, fares especially poorly and is, for the most part, nothing short of interminable.

So rousingly well done that it seems to come from a different solar system than most contemporary episodic television shows, and yet too many rapturous panegyrics could spoil some of the fun.

But what most makes the show entertaining are Pete's episodic adventures with characters who will help form him, challenge him and wake him from his self - satisfied sleep into a better sort of happiness.

Despite an episodic first act, this is Tarantino's most linear picture and as such, offers less in the way of surprises, especially in the second act that telegraphs a confrontation but takes its sweet time building up to it.

Bright and genial, it lacks the cruel edge of many of their comedies (in particular their most recent, 2008's Burn After Reading), and its moderately haphazard, episodic plotting is a far cry from the clockwork precision typical of their films.

The episodic structure works and, most importantly, I grew to love the characters, particularly Lady Bird.

With a see - sawing episodic rhythm that visits some starkly different locations and play styles, a wealth of incidental and hidden detail, more gameplay mechanics than you can fully explore in a single playthrough - and above all, an epic, elegiac, arcane storyline that seeks to tie up every last loose thread and honour the passing of a classic videogame hero - Metal Gear Solid 4 is, in most senses, the biggest Metal Gear yet.

Despite these shenanigans spanning the universe, Infinity War is shockingly short on memorable images, with most scenes composed in the banal shot - reverse - shot coverage familiar from episodic television.

Originally an episodic game in Japan, this newly localized release offers the complete story as one cohesive package that most closely resembles the likes of Ace Attorney or other visual novel mystery - solving games.

His second feature is on a par with Everything you Always Wanted to Know... in its episodic structure, but most importantly its absurdist comedy is pushed to the extreme.

Low - budget horror fans will find little to complain about in the straightforward first half - hour, which stacks up an entertaining series of episodic mishaps — an overpowered Pec Deck machine pushes a guy's ribs out through his torso; ceramic tiles fly off the walls of a fully - occupied women's locker room as steam blasts out of the shower heads; and, in the quickest and most brutal tableau, an unfortunate patron gets a Friday the 13th - style arrow through the back of the neck.

The Wolf Among Us is one of the most inspired Telltale Games episodic series, based on the Fables license and inspired to its unusually noir world of fairy tales and beasts.

Tales from the Borderlands is a hilarious episodic adventure game from Telltale Games that's based on Gearbox Software's Borderlands franchise, and it's perhaps the most underrated title in Telltale's library.

Best known for taking episodic TV and giving it a cinematic feel, MacLaren most recently executive produced and directed the pilot of the critically acclaimed series «The Deuce,» starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco.

It is ultimately little more than an episodic patchwork of over-burdened vignettes that among them share only a desire to manufacture unearned pathos and manipulate events towards the most expedient solution.

In its episodic structure, Warlock sticks to the most common trope of the horror genre circa 1989.

The sentimental and episodic third act compounds the movie's progressively uninvolving atmosphere, and it's disappointing to note that the film has, by the time the abrupt conclusion rolls around, squandered most of the good will generated by its opening stretch - which ultimately confirms Dom Hemingway's place as little more than a showcase for Law's consistently engaging performance.

Broken into chapters and taking place over the course of six years beginning in 1936, its episodic structure elides most of the biographical details that bog down similar films.

Some viewers found the star - wattage of the film distracting, and we'll acknowledge that Brad Pitt's late - in - film appearance isn't the most successful, but it can be useful to see familiar faces to delineate a narrative that's decidedly episodic.

What do you do when, in a span of two years, you direct some of the best episodic television as well as one of the most popular television movies of all time?

Most of the concept's promise goes unrealized in this episodic, rarely funny outing, which still isn't bad enough to have flopped as grandly as it did.

While we noted minor performance and control niggles in our review, this is the game episodic console classic in arguably its most intuitive form yet, and $ 0.99 for the first episode is a great price to try the series out for anyone on the fence.

The film spends most of its running time inside the car, and is quite episodic in nature.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

It's still a lively watch, especially in the way its meandering, episodic first half emphasises the highs of pub fights, drugs scores, casual sex and a sub-aqua, Eno - scored mission down the world's most disgusting lavatory bowl, only for the second half to condemn the drug culture that so many claimed it was glamourising.

The professional learning most US teachers receive, explained Darling - Hammond, is episodic, often fragmented and disconnected from real problems of practice.

The authors that will benefit the most from the KDP Select restructuring are those who publish episodic or serialized fiction.

But what I'm most excited about in our collaboration with MZPtv is the fact that these guys understand serial, episodic storytelling.

However, at this time there is no cure for the condition, and most cats will experience episodic discomfort even when owners follow all of the above guidelines.

Symptoms are often episodic, but most pets have symptoms that worsen with age.

The most common is heart disease, but they also have trick knees (luxating patellas), hip dysplasia, a disease that causes paralysis of the spine, another disease similar to epilepsy called Episodic Falling, ear problems and deafness, many types of eye problems, and about half of them have a severe blood disease.

Symptoms are often episodic, but most dogs will have symptoms that worsen with age.

- Generalized progressive weakness (often episodic; waxes and wanes; comes and goes in waves; worsens with activity or exercise and resolves with rest; usually most pronounced in the hindquarters)

=) «I'm unhappy about how little the content is per episode» You're getting multiple hits per ep and the location count and even hit count is still around the same as a normal Hitman game so I'm not entirely sure I can say that is based on being episodic as Metal Gear Solid is made in this same format in terms of being in parts, in fact MOST GAMES are made with that layout so I can't really say until more releases.

Most recently, they have brought us downloadable episodic titles based on other franchises such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Borderlands, with a huge focus on story and characters.