Sentences with phrase «good story premise»

On a more personal level I'm rooting for Saltire just because I'm Scottish, but Skies of Fire is the complete package with good writing, amazing art, a brilliant original world and a good story premise.

Not exact matches

The rest of the story is that the church has always been pretty good at investigating irregularities but not so good at acknowledging the power of God that can be contained by no religious premises.

Lot's of mysteries out there... but I find working with the simplest, most consistent premises works better than making up random stories which have contributed nothing to the growth of knowledge or technology.

The game has all the components of a good leisure side - scrolling semi-strategy, with upgradable units, shops, money, grenade throwing and so on but it lacks depth: there is no story really, there is no premise, tutorials are silly as the whole writing overall, enemies are not explained (nor their skills), and strategy pretty much boils down to clicking on whatever units cools down first (to produce that unit and storm the enemy's portal).

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

This Island Earth (I'm still not sure how the title applies to the story) starts off with an interesting premise — aliens posing (poorly) as a think tank of sorts to recruit Earth's best and brightest for the scientific good.

He was adamant that the story premise of Free Fire could not be done as a feature film and was, at best, the sort of material for a 20 - minute shoot - em - up short.

The narrative might not take an ambitious route and falls into predictable patterns but the backwards premise and refreshing Napolean - Dynamitesque cast provide enough fun to propel the story forward in a sea of fairly well delivered laughs.

Many hints have been coming in the past few weeks as to what the premise of the next American Horror Story season will be, and this latest teaser for the show has got to be the best of the promotional material that we have seen to date.

There are elements of the story that push the believability of Andrew's obsession a little too far, but overall, how Chazelle is able to craft a psychological thriller out of this simple, off - beat premise, is one of the best cinematic accomplishments of the year.

Although blessed with good actors, there is still a certain stale quality to the story that makes for a less - than - completely scintillating premise, further compounded by the fact that Owen and Watts, while individually fine and appealing actors, somehow make for a bland on - screen pairing.

Never mind that this is a premise Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two already explored to similar consequence, nor that Europa Report is essentially an intergalactic The Blair Witch Project: best to focus on an unfortunate framing story that dumbs down the proceedings, emotionally and intellectually, at the exact moment the picture appears to be gaining momentum.

For as ridiculous as the premise may be (and it becomes even more so as the story progresses), «Non-Stop» does a good job of building suspension by throwing an almost endless barrage of red herrings at the audience.

Awesome, very good premise and nice to see a worthy sequel, I think they have the right idea here, the characters were cool and the effects were good, story worked for me.

As the X-Men movie franchise becomes more bombastic and unwieldy, Bryan Singer turns to the ordinary mutant's story — well, as ordinary as you can get with a story's premise being «kids get life - endangering powers» — with a new TV series on Fox.

It has a good story, better than average performances, and an intriguing premise, but its humor is forced and the dialogue is non-stop irritating.

There's a sense that the story is unravelling, which is disappointing as the bulk of the film is strong, setting up the premise well and creating a convincing and absorbing emotional landscape.

The opening cinematic does well to set up the general premise, but the story as a whole is largely insignificant.

Good for Crowley and his efforts to secure funding for the R&D to tackle diseases like this, but the premise has «TV movie» written all over it; as cynical as this sounds, the story simply isn't sexy enough for the silver screen.

Official Premise: «Fantastic Mr. Fox» is the story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well - dressed wild animal.

Best of all, it was an episode that wasn't obsessed with conveying a twisted moral — it simply used the Black Mirror premise to tell a story about two characters and the results were stunning.

Superb premise, compelling and well crafted story line.»

I write down story ideas in a document and then I'll go back to it once a week just to see which ones weren't fanning the flames to become an actual good premise.

Whether people agree with the premise or not, it is an interesting read as a nonfiction book or a crime novel, either way, it makes for a good story.

It's an intriguing premise, and the story gets told through back and forth dialogue at the beginning and end of the missions, with the occasional cutscene thrown in for good measure using a Saturday morning cartoon style that I really liked.

Just that alone makes for a good story and a good premise.

The premise of the story mode is this: Bam Margera and Tony Hawk have brought together various pro skaters, including several characters from the other games, as well as yourself, and even Eric «A-face» Sparrow to compete in a «sick as hell» skateboarding event: «The World Destruction Tour.»

The story's so big that Square Enix had decided to, yet again, explain a good chunk of the game's premise through the in - game database - a little something I like to call the Square Enix Narrative Syndrome and the previous culprit was Final Fantasy XIII, but I digress.

While it's premise and story are well done, it quickly degenerates into a fairly standard linear FPS.

In regards to the expansion based content and the premise that Destiny could have sequels in the future, it's a shame that the story presentation in the current format feels a bit compressed, with all pretty much focusing on one arc of the overall picture and not really presenting much of the background or history as well as it could.

In general, the story plays on the notion of demons using the media in order to hypnotize the masses and keep them in hand, which is an interesting premise and is executed quite well.

While the story isn't groundbreaking, the overall premise is serviceable and the writing is pretty good.

Opting to base itself around a series of central objectives rather than the classic premise of surviving as many waves as possible, this version of zombies plays more like a story - driven mission than modes of the past and it's integrated well into the gameplay despite how farfetched it becomes.

Prey's premise might be well worn, but it has produced many of gaming's most iconic settings and stories.

Following on from Sunday's big reveal — which offered up both an official campaign trailer as well as an interesting teaser on the premise surrounding its story — Call of Duty has now once again entered the realm of specs for today's press release.

The story is simple but a good enough premise for an arcade game.

While the overall premise is pretty similar, Nights of Azure 2's story is not as good as the one of the original game.

The trailer doesn't give us a lot to go on in regards to the story and premise, though the game certainly looks like it's shaping up well.

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