Sentences with phrase «battles over characters»

The series is at its worst when it decides to focus on loud explosions and CGI battles over characters and story.

Not exact matches

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

All the principle characters in the drama that is the latest Senate leadership battle aren't poking their heads over the trench wall this morning, suggesting either they're all trying to size up the situation, or as Tom Precious suggests, a deal is at hand.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: Civil War) have managed to take their balanced approach from Civil War and The Winter Soldier and inject even more characters into the mix; we're talking well over 30 big names all mashed into one nearly three hour film that briskly flies by as characters we've grown to love over the years embark on their most important (and personal) battle yet.

SoulWorker's Key Features (during Open Beta) Include: Action - packed cooperative gameplay for up to 4 players, using the Soulum Sword, Mist Scythe, Gun Jazz and Howling Guitar character classes A dark post-apocalyptic setting with a captivating story and impressive cel - shaded animations Customize your battle style with personalized combos and abilities affected by a unique emotion system — madness, euphoria, vengeance and sadness Large PvE content with over 100 dungeons and a PvP Zone for massive battles

This can also be said on the performances of the three leads, Cassavetes again seems to hold no control over the characters, allowing Mann and Diaz to battle for screen time in an array of repetition and clunky improvisation sequences.

And not in the Fire Emblem way where simply keeling over in battle has consequences — choices made throughout the story can cause certain characters to bite the dust.

The game features a variety of characters from the series and allows players to create a team of up to three fighters to battle it out over a campaign or online in multiplayer mode.

In some of those, characters from one frame even stand in top of the other frame — showing the battle in action as one player attempts to gain power (i.e. great players and privileges) over another.

In the Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle video, creative director, Davide Soliani, and lead producer, Xavier Manzanares go over character abilities, weapons, and tactics players will use when the game releases later this month.

It's true that The X-Men films have always spent more time talking, character building, facilitating relationships and abilities over battling.

The character lives in a dystopian world where the Church rules over the last remnants of humanity left after a centuries - long war against the vampires - a battle which is anything but over.

I spent somewhere between six and seven hours working my way through the game's story mode, slogging through chaotic battles, fighting predictable bosses (wait until they're vulnerable, hit, repeat) and fretting over puzzles that couldn't be solved until I came back through with different characters in Free Play mode.

While the battle scenes can only be viewed as impressive from a visual standpoint, where the film finally shows its fatal flaw is in the utter lack of emotional grip, as characters live, love and die, and yet no tears are shed among a viewing audience despite following these hearty heroes for over eight total hours of film time.

As Thanos smiles and stares out over a sunrise, at peace with his devastating decision to commit mass slaughter in order to prevent the galaxy's resources from being used up via overpopulation, it's difficult not to wonder how Marvel would resurrect some of these characters, not to mention have them battle back against the despotic conqueror.

He's very likable as Barnum, even though the screenplay rarely characterizes the character as anything more than a nice guy who's still battling some «respectability» issues left over from a tough childhood.

Over the course of the downloadable content, players can gradually accrue followers — allied, AI - controlled characters — who will help them in a battle against a tough boss character.

The first, «Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making Daredevil» (58:51), is a highly entertaining and comprehensive making - of doc, covering how Johnson got the reins, the battles over the suit and its prototypical design variations, the cast and characters, fights, wire work, editing, effects, and music.

Over the course of ten years and 18 films, Marvel Studios has slowly built up its cinematic universe, putting vast amounts of time, money, and effort into introducing and developing its plethora of characters, all of which has been leading up to the point where they would finally come together to do battle against the most dangerous foe any of them has ever come across.

And, as in other Fire Emblem games, each character levels up through battle over time.

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An RPG featuring «a new strategic take on the Active Time Battle system that features stacking characters and monsters,» World of Final Fantasy will include a story that's over 100 hours long — and that's not counting Mirage training or side elements.

With a space - spanning storyline that takes Batman, the Justice League, and over 150 total characters far (as the title says) beyond Gotham City, there are plenty of chances for change, from all - new space battles reminiscent of a PS4 hit to «BigFigs» as seen in other franchises and a whole lot more customization / selection than ever seen before in the entire LEGO series.

The game even adds more realism to battles by showing dirt accumulate over time on clothing and sweat dripping down a character's face.

The martial artist and actor, who served in the Israeli Defense Forces, not only thrills when she boldly wades into battle, but she also perfectly plays the character's fish - out - of - water naivete about humans, whether Diana is delighting in her first ice cream cone or grieving over mankind's nastier shortcomings.

Torn over whether they should kill the herders or let them go, the characters face off in the film's rare scene of verbal battle.

That director Peter Jackson was able to consistently sustain such a complicated — and, frankly, potentially dull — story over nearly 12 hours, juggling at least two - dozen characters over criss - crossing storylines and massive battle sequences, is something of a minor miracle.

In other PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale news, you can find out which character you are by heading over to their Facebook page.

He is another character who suffers from Cruise's supremacy over the film and he tries to battle the writing, obviously meant to make Cruise a funny everyman, with his natural charisma and the few comical anecdotes he's allowed.

An expanding list of states has joined in legislative battles over the future character of collective bargaining, a territory that was completely uncharted six months ago.

By 11 o'clock, the battle was won, with enough time left over to show readers a little Afterglow (ie: the state of the character's world after the fact, what was gained / lost or achieved, a snapshot of what life now looks like.)

I wouldn't have thought that after book after book of wacky sexually - frustrated comedy that I'd be reading the characters fighting over control of Hell and the Goddesses coming together to battle the lord of Demons.

As the three main characters approach the burial day of the Unknown Soldier, they are forced to assess - as people who never saw battle but nonetheless suffered - how they will recover from a trauma that continues to hold sway over their lives.

The characters in The Realm of Hungry Spirits, while permanently connected to one another, battle tooth and nail over just about everything: women against machismo, family against family.

On show at the company's booth at Mobile World Congress, Nvidia has shown off a quad - core tablet prototype that runs 1440p video content running on a 2560x1600 panel, as well as a modified PS3 game with over 300 characters battling it out on screen at the same time.

In order to advance, players battle in turn - based, head - to - head «match - three» style puzzle games in one of three distinct gameplay modes: Single - player allows gamers to battle against the computer AI as they embark on over 150 challenging quests, Instant Action allows gamers to jump in and immediately play continuous battles to level - up characters without participating in quests, and Multiplayer allows gamers to battle live opponents via wireless connectivity.

- includes elements from the movies, spin - off shows and comics - over 100 new characters in addition to returning heroes and villains from the last Lego Marvel game - hubs include Barton farm from Age of Ultron - play the climactic Battle for New York - Hulk can now charge up his jump - Hawkeye now has more trick arrows - each character portrait now includes a meter on the rim - executing a finishing move on an enemy takes up about one - third of your power - once filled, you can trigger a team - up move that wipes out many of the enemies in the vicinity - each duo has two different moves, depending on who triggered - when playing as Iron Man, switching up suits pulls players into the suit - each armor set has a different animation - the Mark I calls in Stan Lee to weld it on - the Mark V entombis Tony from its portable briefcase storage - Stanbuster suit includes a typewriter, lamp, and pencil cannon

Another thing worth mentioning is that Shovel Knight is going to be supported by a raft of free updates over the coming year that add in a four - player battle mode, playable campaigns for many of the boss characters and even a challenge mode.

Loner's Insult Tournament Mode: Battle your way through numerous unique situations and verbally assault your CPU Real - Life Friends Mode: Belliger your actual friends on a couch, ottoman, or whatever else you like to rest your fanny on Imaginary - Friends Mode: Verbally take down strangers from all over the world online, and bring the witty pain across any device using the game's Cross-Platform Multiplayer 5 Hilarious Playable Characters: Each with their own unique voices, quirky traits and hilarious «insult bits» Legendary Potty Mouthed Unlockable Heroes: Lay down some verbal carnage and unlock renowned potty mouthed special guest fighters, including Shadow Warrior's Lo Wang, Serious Sam, the infamous Postal Dude, with more additions to follow soon.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

These little irritating things like the music score playing over and over (the same guitar riffs on a loop will eventually drive you insane), characters repeating themselves, and saying things like: «My role is to see the hidden truth that lies beneath each battle» just seem a little bit silly to me and decrease the overall experience of the game, unless you turn the music off and skip most of the dialogue.

This exceptional (and increasingly hard - to - find) JRPG is one of the highlights of the DS, providing a unique battle system, relateable characters and a time - hopping storyline, and the region - free US version is currently available over at Play - Asia.

This has included painstaking work from our combat designer to iterate over and over on the feel of Senua's moves in battle, the blending of motion - captured stunts with hand - animation to bring through both character and realism in Senua's movement, and the building of an environment in which to demo Senua's new skills.

The title also sports a score attack mode, allowing you to replay campaign battles as any of several unlockable characters and character variants; a boon for superfans, as this lets you control some B - side brawlers such as Raditz, Captain Ginyu, a Saibaman, and Nappa, aka «Mr. Over Nine - Thousand.»

That being said, you're not embarking on your quest all by yourself — this time, you have a few friends you will meet and battle over the course of your quest — the energetic and sweet Shauna, the aspiring dancer Tierno, Trevor, the shy intellectual, and the other playable character (Callum is the boy, and Serena is the girl).

After going over both the story and the characters, today we're going to take a look at the real meat of the gameplay in Valkyria Chronicles II: The BLiTZ battle system, and the new improvements the team has made from the first game.

What does help alleviate the time during battles though is the ability to repeat a character's actions, or even the entire party's to save you rapidly pressing the select button, just to get the battle over and done with as quickly as possible.

If the wrong character dies — the one with all the Trimates — because the game wouldn't let you heal them, you may as well start the battle over.

* Story mode takes you through Auro's first Quest, with plot twists, memorable characters, and a final boss battle * Single - player competitive PLAY MODE lets you build up your Rank over time, like an online matchmaking ladder!

In the story of this game, two of the story characters from the previous game, Roxxy and Nereida, are battle against each other over the ability to use magic in our world.