As gimmicks go watching an octopus attempt to navigate the rigors of everyday life is a brilliant one, but it's the kind of gimmick that's absurdly funny for a while until you hit a certain point where it just stops being amusing.
While the perspective is unique and positioned behind Toki / Towa in battles, that's about as far
as the gimmick goes.
Not exact matches
Going the route of advertising
gimmicks such
as jingles and mainstream celebrity endorsements is a bygone method most savvy shoppers no longer fall for.
The
gimmick where every «business lesson»
goes back to something she experienced
as a child did get slightly irritating at times, but overall, this is a great read.
As conceived, there's just not enough
going on once you cease being amazed at the xxxtremity of the
gimmick.
«Unfortunately, if this budget is passed
as is with these fake cuts, these phony
gimmicks, we're
going to have problems and we're
going to have to fix it and I will fix it.
Think of it this way... a diet that focuses on natural, unprocessed foods such
as whole grains, quality lean proteins, healthy fats and lots of fiber, regardless of the media and advertising
gimmicks and hype that are used to promote it, is
going to be a very effective diet.
But Cassavates
goes to extreme lengths to add
as many cliche
gimmicks as he can to the film.
If we are
going to continue to get movies with this central
gimmick, let them at least be the result of someone being smart enough to see opportunities such
as this one.
I remain unsure
as to how, exactly, I was supposed to use this gauge, but
as needless
gimmicks go, at least it's sort of interesting.
Supplementary
gimmicks abound with the
Go Keyboard, such
as smiley faces, a handwriting input option and voice notes, but ultimately, we didn't think any of these items were indispensable.
Amazon is renewing its «Prime Day» July sales
gimmick as Wal - Mart also tries to
go after online shoppers.
And
as long
as you're set on e-ink
as your preferred means of digital reading — and it's still the choice that's easiest on the eyes and the battery — you're
going to need a reader that isn't crapped up with
gimmicks that supposedly compensate for the slow display.
But no
gimmicks on Sony side like Move or VR that they support so much that they
goes as far
as to close doors & lose jobs over it!
It was heavily advertised in 3D, even
going so far
as to have it in its name, something which most folks view
as a
gimmick, while the R - rating, while completely necessary for bringing Dredd to the big - screen, limited audiences further.
They are all
going down the same road; make it more accessible, add a few
gimmicks, strip out what you can so it can be sold
as dlc and poof!
As for Nintendo I'd say sure, but again they are
going with a
gimmick of their own design, and I don't see this system recapturing the success of the Wii.
If it's somewhere close to the PS4 in terms of power and can be picked up and taken on the
go, includes the next generation of DS games
as well
as Nintendo's console titles which both carry an incredible jump in visuals and you then throw in some new hardware
gimmicks then to me they've got an ace in the hole.
As Todd Howard put it: «As far as stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.&raqu
As Todd Howard put it: «
As far as stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.&raqu
As far
as stupid gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.&raqu
as stupid
gimmicks go, this is the best fucking one I've ever seen.»
So long
as these games have some exotic visual presentation or clever
gimmick that entertains out of sheer novelty for a couple of hours, we're good to
go.
The game might not be
as short
as its
gimmick may suggest, but it's not very long either; the game lasts for an hour and a half if you're just focused on the main storyline, and about three hours if you're
going for a 100 % completion rate.
However, I do fully believe that we'll get an «ALL NEW» Mario Kart game
as far
as tracks and battle areas
go, just one minus any new major «
gimmicks» or introductions.
I wouldn't
go so far
as to call it a «
gimmick» but people are perfectly fine without it.
Well, you're not
going to like the Perfect Run then, it's about
as hard
as anything, has all the annoying
gimmicks, is 3D, has Hammer Bros and has to be beat with one health throughout the whole thing.
This would allow the user to make a movement or gesture that would do something in the game, such
as hit a button,
go to a home screen or anything else Nintendo can find use of such an interesting
gimmick.
I think Nintendo realizes that they are by and large really, really, really bad at both conceiving stories
as well
as telling them, so Mario rarely gets anything too taxing other than «Peach got kidnapped
as a result of this game's
gimmick; here's 70 some - odd levels of fun to
go through before you get her back.»
Yeah, Erik the Red actually started calling it Greenland
as a PR
gimmick to get people to
go there.
I have to say that
as far
as advertising one's divorce practice
goes, it's a great
gimmick, second only to having Tony Bennett sing «I Left My Heart in the Law Offices of Stein, Stein, Jacoby, and Stein.»
Dessem said he views the rankings
as a sales
gimmick and that he «would question any purportedly scientific study where a school could
go up or down 20 or 30 places in a year.»
Before you
go ahead and completely dismiss fast charging
as a
gimmick though, do note that it has its own advantages.
The era of pointless software
gimmicks is
gone (or should be) and no one wants to see a Nokia phone cast in the same mold
as the ill - fated BlackBerry Priv.
Gimmick or not, it made for one interesting device, so much so that Samsung had a «companion edge» to
go along with their Samsung S6 unveiling... in fact, the Galaxy S6 Edge is selling
as fast
as the normal Galaxy S6.
You don't need to reinvent the wheel,
as far
as your resume formatting
goes, and you don't need any
gimmicks to hook hiring managers or recruiters.
(When Fitzpatrick
goes to a fishing camp, she often brings along a «tickle trunk» that's filled with such
gimmicks as a fake arm and hand that can be strategically placed throughout the camp, rubber eggs and a set of fake false teeth that adds to the conviviality of the occasion.)