Sentences with phrase «episodic story of»

The third - person perspective game has players interact with their environments and complete a series of scenarios through its episodic story of investigating a ghost ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

What makes things worse is that the four, episodic stories of Holiday Star don't even feel particularly genuine.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, the pause between the two films» release would have given Tarantino ample time to address some of the criticisms that were made of Volume 1 - its episodic story, lack of three - dimensional characters, needless editing gimmicks and so on.

Recalled in Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 book and here made grandly episodic in the manner of cinematic versions of the Bible and The Hobbit, Louie's story is ideal for such epic scale, yet it's also too complicated to be reduced to such notorious generic confines.

When you do episodic games one of the first, or rather, main objectives is to create a story compelling enough to make you want to play the

When you do episodic games one of the first, or rather, main objectives is to create a story compelling enough to make you want to play the rest of the season.

Landline being a zippy and friendly episodic comedy and coming - of - age story from the director Gillian Robespierre, whose well - received 2014 Obvious Child starred Jenny Slate.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

If Polyarc can follow through with their (apparent) plans for timely episodic installments to the world of Moss, and continue building on this foundation, this could be the start of a world you'll look forward to losing yourself in any time there's a new story to be told.

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated adaptation of Satrapi's graphic - novel autobiography about a young girl growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and Iran's war with Iraq, episodic stories give Western readers and many others a glimpse into a fascinating world during a tumultuous era, and the author's illustrations express the caricatured, exaggerated impressions of a young child.

Any one of the stories might merit its own film, and yet, this feels like one of those recaps played in the first minute of an episodic TV series, except that it goes on for over an hour.

Broken Eagle is the first of four episodic DLCs entitled Untold Stories of Los Perdidos.

The Edwards - helmed movie marks the first time that the Star Wars story has been told on the big screen outside the confines of its episodic structure.

A New 2D Animated Series — Sonic Mania Adventures features story elements from the Sonic Mania universe and the first episode of the episodic series speeds onto the Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel within the next month.

There's no political meat in its satire of the British government or any real story in the episodic succession of events, and its portrait of the (pop) culture of the time is really just a movie fantasy.

Originally an episodic game in Japan, this newly localized release offers the complete story as one cohesive package that most closely resembles the likes of Ace Attorney or other visual novel mystery - solving games.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures «Brave» «Frankenweenie» (Walt Disney Pictures) «ParaNorman» «Rise of the Guardians» «Wreck - It Ralph» Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures «A People Uncounted» «The Gatekeepers» «The Island President» «The Other Dream Team» «Searching For Sugar Man» TELEVISION Producer of Long - Form Television (David L. Wolper Award) «American Horror Story» «The Dust Bowl» «Game Change» «Hatfields & McCoys» «Sherlock» Producer of Episodic Television, Drama (The Norman Felton Award) «Breaking Bad» «Downton Abbey» «Game of Thrones» «Homeland» «Mad Men» Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy (The Danny Thomas Award) «30 Rock» «The Big Bang Theory» «Curb Your Enthusiasm» «Louie» «Modern Family»

Fellows will work with an exciting group of creators, showrunners and episodic producers to develop their stories in an environment that encourages risk - taking and innovation.

Unsurprisingly, «Fantastic Beasts» amplifies both the strengths and weaknesses of Rowling's storytelling approach, which unfolds in the episodic style of vintage serials — a cliff - hanger - oriented tactic that works well in novels, where readers might otherwise be tempted to put the book down after each chapter, but feels less elegant on screen, since viewers invariably commit to taking in the entire story in one sitting.

Others have said episodic (derisively); I say all - of - a-piece, because of the way all the elements in the story are linked, as the gang of five that we follow from North Africa to Czechoslovakia holds together.

Unfortunately, Miller and Rodriguez devote much less effort to the story — an episodic tale of temptation, lust, murder, betrayal, revenge and vigilante justice.

Serving as a sequel to both Dishonored 2 and the episodic story DLC from the original Dishonored, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider sees mysterious pirate and former assassin Billie Lurk rescuing her former master — and murderer of Empress Jessamine Kaldwin — Daud, the Knife of Dunwall.

It helps that the framing device cleverly makes the episodic nature of the film feel not only natural, but essential in telling the story.

The film is episodic in nature, alternating between watching the main character (presumably Sands) at different points in his life, and the story of the fall of Adam and Eve.

Days of Being Wild and Chungking Express are both episodic — closer to story collections than to novels — and even this movie, which unlike these two doesn't derive from material originated by Wong, breaks up much of the story into discrete segments.

The remainder of the film is a highly episodic, cliché father and son bonding story.

Indeed, evidence of this comes from the fact that the screenplay by Robert Gordon (Galaxy Quest, Men in Black II) adapts not one, not two, but the first three books into one episodic story.

Each story feels too self - contained, too episodic, for the franchise to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

Usually we'd say that Telltale Games, famed for The Walking Dead, Minecraft: Story Mode, Wolf Among Us, Batman and other series, was the king of episodic games, but IO Interactive has very much stolen that crown with its novel take on the Hitman franchise.

Dreams do not necessarily come true in Chabrol's tawdry and brutal world, however, and his loose, episodic story offers a clear - eyed portrait of frustration and self doubt.

There is a repetitive and episodic progression to the story, and not all of the players and / or moments are as crucial as the story seems to think they are.

Narrative drive is hardly her strong point - what she achieves in this episodic study of a dirt - poor Glaswegian upbringing is tenderness, lyricism and unpatronising humour, which successfully lifts a story inspired by tragedy into something universally appealing.

Developer Laser Guided Games and design studio Hollow Earth Inc. continue the episodic story campaign that adds new content to both single - and multiplayer modes of dark fantasy real - time strategy game (RTS) Golem Gates with Book II of The Harbinger's story of redemption, which unlocks on February 28, 2018.

Tucked within the 175 pages of this story are enough ideas hinted at for several seasons of episodic television, perhaps even a century - spanning epic, rooted in the realm of Upstairs - Downstairs - style domestic intrigue.

, which could arise from omnibus collections of 2 - 3 novels of 50 - 70k each as distinct and time - separated parts of a trilogy or simply a bunch in a series; or, are a collection in a continuous narrative as a long story (episodic; serial) as if runs of Homeland or 24 or Marvel Agents of Shield or House of Cards or Breaking Bad were novelised.

Some agents give feedback along the lines of «the story felt too episodic.»

I used its unusual episodic format as an example to encourage storytellers of all stripes — traditionally - published writers, self - published writers, publishers and more — to thoughtfully examine the ebook marketplace and spot opportunities to tell and sell stories in new ways.

I have long believed that a shorter, episodic story, filled with cliffhangers, is perfect for the millennial generation of readers.

There's a great story attached to a mixture of point and click and QTE gameplay, but with the added options of either your Kinect or controller, and it all plays out in an episodic format that makes it feel like a cheesy but very Japanese Boston cop show.

Season One of its highly anticipated episodic Story mode, featuring the voice talents of Mark Meer, Jennifer Hale, David Hayter, and Elias Toufexis, has been shrouded in secrecy, but will be free to all players who purchase the game through Game Preview on Xbox One when the Story mode launches later in 2015.

Where the best of episodic games manage to make each chapter feel fulfilling on its own while still contributing to the overarching story, Bear With Me Episode One feels incomplete.

Soul Dimension is an episodic story that mixes elements of exploration, light puzzle solving and an out of this world type mystery.

Not only did it reinvigorate the point - and - click genre (take a look at the number of episodic indie games released since) but it brought much - needed emotional impact back into gaming, courtesy of strong writing, excellent voice acting and an interesting story.

Tech Specs: • Episodic Gameplay: The story and gameplay of Saturday Morning RPG takes place across several episodes, each of which tells a complete self - contained story.

Telltale will be working in collaboration with leading developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K to create an all - new story driven episodic game series that will explore and expand on the stories of existing and new characters from the world of Borderland's Pandora.

All of these excellent pieces culminate to make a great story, which I would argue is the most important part of these episodic games.

No spoilers here on the story, because that is the main point of these episodic games, and heck if I know what is going to happen in the next few releases!

Episodic Content — Shroud of the Avatar will consist of five episodes that will tell a series of virtue based stories created by Richard Garriott and Tracy Hickman.

Dragon Quest IX is almost episodic; each portion of the game acts as an almost standalone vignette, a small story sometimes involving a single person, related only to the main storyline in the reward you receive for your troubles.