Crysalis introduced the setting and
characters in a fascinating way, but this second chapter really kicks off.
Not exact matches
Iron From Ice is a strong start to the series, with some promising narrative setups, a believable atmosphere, and one particularly shocking moment that made my jaw drop... I do hope we see the playable
characters get a bit of a personality injection, but I think we've got a favorable introduction that lays out its pieces
in such a
way that Episode Two is only going to be
fascinating.
There's also a great amount of context and a number of additional
characters that all play into the story
in fascinating ways.
And Valkyrie is a
fascinating, damaged, complicated
character, imperfect
in ways Female Heroes don't usually get to be.
There's no shortage of themes here — particularly
fascinating is the
way service
in different wars affect how the veterans perceive one another — and the Thornton / Epperson team write a lot of nice, long scenes between the
characters that make the most of the stacked ensemble.
Yet his brutish vocal presence tends to fit Javert, who is
in many
ways the movie's most
fascinating character, a man who plays an instrument of blind justice when he's really carrying out a lifetime of revenge for the sins of his parents.
Even when a
character's status as a writer feels incidental to the plot at hand — such as
in 2016's Hush, wherein the heroine's writerly profession comes into play mainly as justification for her later resourcefulness — the fact that such a vocation was chosen at all tends to shift the viewer's dynamic with the film
in fascinating ways.
A loose remake of Jacques Deray's La Piscine (1969), this
fascinating character drama is alive
in a very sensual
way, zeroing
in on atmosphere and environment and the
way they react with humans.
They are
fascinating characters in their own right (particularly Fuller's mother), but what is most compelling about their story is the
way in which they have finally come to embrace, rather than fight against, the Africa they live
in today.
Getting to see these iconic
characters and creatures
in a new
way is simply
fascinating, and it has me delighted at the prospect of future Final Fantasy virtual reality titles.
During one of the many
fascinating presentations that took place at this year's Game Developers Conference
in San Francisco, California, game designer Hirokazu Yasuhara and
character designer Naoto Oshima explained exactly why the emblem is designed the
way it is.