Sentences with phrase «brooding heroes»

It's easy to see why a developer would choose this path given that wanky focus groups and game sales indicate that audiences gravitate more towards brooding heroes, rather than cheery ones, but let's be honest, serious shooters are ten - a-penny.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a cute, bubbly, young (usually white) woman who has recently entered the life of our brooding hero to teach him how to loosen up and enjoy life.

I don't have to say good - bye to my brooding hero, but that doesn't make it easy to finish book 1.

DARK LOVER A brooding hero and a determined heroine find love during the Victorian era in The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne.

Heir to the Lucian throne, Noctis is a brooding hero who must stand firm in the face of ground - shaking challenges to his homeland.

Take Final Fantasy 15, for instance, the role - playing video game setting allows you to take on monsters as you guide Noctis, heir to the Lucian throne and a brooding hero from one challenge to the next as he tries to save his homeland.

In Valkyria Revolution, you still have the same heavy themes of war as the country of Jutland experiences a revolution, but it's played out with lifeless characters who are a caricatures of tropes, from Amleth (brooding hero mourning his lady) to the supporting cast of heroes and villains.

An action game starring the dark and mysterious Vincent Valentine, the gun - toting bonus - character from the original FFVII, Dirge unveils new details on the brooding hero and treats fans of the series to some exquisite cutscenes with cameos aplenty.

Not exact matches

You might think that if you're not a brooding beefcake like Christian Bale or a smart - mouthed Scarlet Johansson-esque master assassin, then you can't be a hero.

It's also not just the players and their broods enjoying the day; rarely do golf fans have the chance to stand within arm's length of their heroes.

Featuring a unique single - player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II presents a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci - fi story filled with adventure and intrigue.

From playing the beta, I found that while the new heroes and units were extremely fun to discover and use at first, they get old pretty fast - the new units and heroes don't bring the same spice to warcraft that brood war brought to starcraft, disappointingly.

Director George Tillman Jr. «s filmography is a bit all over the place («Soul Food», «Men of Honor», «Notorious»), but he proves to be a good fit here, keeping things moving fast and faster when they need to, but also allowing for quieter moments of doubt and brooding for our (anti) heroes and villains.

Set during a brooding post-apocalyptic future when language seems to have betrayed us, Stephen Fingleton's masterful, uncompromising feature debut has no charming quips — no heroes or leather outfits.

The ideal candidate for this material would be David Fincher or perhaps Steven Soderbergh; Stone's corny, indiscriminate direction recasts Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) as the brooding, fist - clenching hero of a bogus spy movie, complete with a couple of fictional mentors played by Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.

Jason Statham is an incredibly likeable action hero, but his brooding presence just doesn't feel right for the title character, while Jennifer Lopez is terribly miscast in a part that serves little purpose to the overall story.

Nighy sneaks in some necessary laughs, too, with his sheer antipathy to Clarkson's character, and makes Mr Brundish, in his brooding isolation and principled rage, come over as exactly the reluctant riff on a Brontë hero the author had in mind.

Kirkbride: Her motivation is something we think should be simple, but seems to be presented as incredibly complicated and strange in these days of angst and reluctant heroes and 24 - hour brooding: if you can help out, help out!

With an industry full of dark and brooding violent games, Lego Marvel Super Heroes is an amazing palette cleanser and an extremely fun time.

Machina is your archetypal tragic hero, brooding through a series of revelations.