Sentences with phrase «elements of a detective story»

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner works best when the disparate elements of detective story, alternate history, and mysticism come together, but the somewhat clumsily - applied combat system hampers the overall effect.

Also, a very delicate element of detective stories is information that only the player knows about, so I took a lot of care in that area as well.

Not exact matches

The story and journey of «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» isn't cohesive as elements, like a police detective investigation, are never realized, built upon, or returned to.

If read as an ideological tract, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue could refer to the expanding gyre that separates distinct concepts of «authenticity» — hence the detective story in this ersatz Night of the Living Dead (commissioned to do a straight ripper of the Romero classic — which was completely without a detective figure — Grau inserts an element of Tiresian knowledge) that underscores the futility of investigation into areas that, by their nature, resist clarification.

During the many lulls in the story, viewers can pick out elements from other films: The design for the Doberman evokes «Up,» one potential buyer imitates Edna Mode from «The Incredibles,» a tracking shot through the engine of a wrecking crane recalls a clockwork sequence in «The Great Mouse Detective.»

At least that's the official story passed down through the generations; it'll be challenged as the film unfolds, not through a traditional detective story (although there's a mystery element to «Coco») but through an «Alice in Wonderland» journey to the Land of the Dead, which the hero accesses through the tomb of his ancestors.

In this new way of telling his stories, Crais combined the classic «first person» narrative of the American detective novel with flashbacks, multiple story lines, multiple points - of - view, and literary elements to better illuminate his themes.