Sentences with phrase «fantasy tropes»
"Fantasy tropes" refers to common and recurring elements or themes found in fantasy literature, movies, or other media. These can include things like magical creatures, heroes on quests, epic battles, or enchanted worlds. They are often used to create a familiar and recognizable fantasy setting or story. Full definition
Nothing groundbreaking or new, but it was a nice Card - based / RPG blend with all your usual fantasy tropes.
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Meanwhile, Bastion and Transistor composer Darren Korb cooks up another killer soundtrack, combining fantasy tropes with electronic beats and the occasional grungy guitar hook.
Truth be told, your quest to save Hydeland is a painfully dull yarn whose central concern is seemingly to ensure that as many fantasy tropes are name checked as possible than crafting a meaningful or engaging narrative.
Superstar Rowell smartly turns classic fantasy tropes upside - down.
This is, to this day, one of most unique and exciting RPG games you'll get to play, and one that really makes use of the high fantasy trope in a brilliant way.
It may be that From Software was left with fewer dark medieval fantasy tropes to play with and things just felt less fresh.
The story is unconventional in many ways, but it also sticks to some tried and true fantasy tropes (big heroine, big stakes)-- in just the right balance of being both different and familiar.
Most are common fantasy tropes — who is Kelsea's father?
The story is largely familiar fantasy tropes with your character being the chosen one who will save the world from a mysterious threat, although this time you do get to play as the son of a treacherous mage in a story that acts as a prequel to the previous two Spellforce games.
If disney had a game letting me travel their worlds battling enemies without being bothered by the cliche final fantasy tropes Square injects in their rpgs, i'd play that over this in a heartbeat.
King's Quest games have always included fantasy tropes such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Bears, Dracula, and Rumplestiltskin — in fact, series designer Roberta Williams used to keep a list of the tropes she had used, to ensure that she did not use them more than once.
This game is, above all else, a narrative triumph: a nuanced hero's journey that blends tried - and - tested tribal fantasy tropes to a particularly poignant and humanistic brand of post-apocalyptic sci - fi.
Still, what this game ends up actually being is the same thing most RPVGs end up being: a fantasy - themed romp through various fantasy tropes.
A work of true creativity, Saga dispensed with most of the standard fantasy tropes that defined RPGs over the years and instead dug deep into its own mythology to create an experience that was challenging and literate.
DieselStörmers isn't based on any fantasy setting in particular — we are taking established fantasy tropes and twisting them through a tongue - in - cheek petrol punk setting full of smoke, grime and roaring engines.
But they were never satisfied with doing armour the same way that everyone else was, or following traditional fantasy tropes when it came to clothing, and every character always had their own distinct look while remaining cohesive to the world as a whole.
You're rarely short of things to entertain yourself with in The Witcher 3's quasi-open world, then, and all the better that you're in a universe that involves the supernatural without leaning on the same old Tolkien fantasy tropes.
The plot possesses most if not all of the conventional fantasy tropes and execute them in a serviceable manner while introducing character customization, battle mechanics, and item management in a very simple way.
Sykes's Aeon's Gates Trilogy uses all the usual fantasy tropes but with inventive, vivid energy.
Truth be told, your quest to save Hydeland is a painfully dull yarn whose central concern is seemingly to ensure that as many fantasy tropes are name checked as possible than crafting a meaningful or engaging narrative.
Starting with a classic fantasy trope (awkward heir far down the line suddenly comes to power) The Goblin Emperor knows what it does well and sticks w
South Park: The Fractured But Whole picks up where The Stick of Truth left off, but takes aim at superhero movies rather than high fantasy tropes.
Maybe you missed the surreal subversion of fantasy tropes the first time around, but its finally time to rectify that.
Agent Kristin cited the fantasy trope of gathering herbs in the forest.
Final Fantasy VI trades in the Tolkien for a healthy chunk of Jules Verne, replacing the fantasy tropes we'd accepted as standard — elves, dwarves, medieval castles — with a desolate world that blends machinery and magic.
Bungie, the developer of the game, and the team responsible for the epic Halo series of shooters, has clearly done a lot of research to build its fiction - the Destiny world is a rich amalgam of myths and fantasy tropes; the alien races that you fight — the Fallen, the Hive, the Vex — all have military hierarchies and back stories inspired by Tolkien, Asimov and a dozen other genre writers, as well as Roman and Medieval history.
As the logo suggests, the story is set to focus around dragons, that most underused of fantasy tropes, and this latest tale is set on the war - torn (naturally) continent of Glynnwood.
Other post-Ren Fest topics include sexual attraction to fantasy tropes and Shovel Knight.
Like the fantasy trope of a «bag of holding,» it's easy to carry, it's miles deep, and it's got everything I need inside.