Sentences with phrase «great narrative character»

She has potential for being a really great narrative character like Samus, but I'm afraid she's probably always going to be overshadowed by the fact that Link is the main character of the Nintendo - created Zelda titles.

Not exact matches

Yet, what I found instead were a few great moments in an otherwise choppy narrative with a distinct lack of emotional connection (amongst most of the characters, and between the characters and the audience).
It has a great villain, great visuals, great performances, and a great narrative that tests the morals of every character.
It's fun, with great art and enjoyable characters, but lacks narrative depth and gets repetitive.
But while the movie's gorgeous visuals do a great job of portraying the distressed state of the town and its characters, Green fails to deliver a compelling story, instead opting for a non-linear narrative that lacks focus or coherency.
It's important to keep pushing for the types of characters people want to see on screen, and Black Panther has done great work in giving the world a cast of crucial black women whose lives are full and whose actions define the narrative.
Gone are the days of forward - moving plotting, character build - up, and narrative cohesion — the building blocks of nearly all great works of fiction.
It's not hard to imagine Depp as Wiseau, especially with the former's knack for being able to play odd - type characters who are still grounded and relatable - something that would have worked great with the narrative that The Disaster Artist is trying to tell.
Although it was likely utilized to greater effect in the book, the decision to jump back and forth between their characters causes the narrative to feel fractured.
His surprise at winning it was almost as great as mine; Last Ride «s a good film, but far from a great one, and the downward spiral traced by Hugo Weaving's character in the film is not done justice by a soundtrack that hits an elegiac pitch at the very outset but never modulates it in concert with the narrative.
There's still a great degree of theme park sized adventure to be found at sea, but it comes packaged with a disjointed narrative introducing a plethora of new characters while bringing back a number of heroes and villains from past entries, cramming everything into «THE FINAL ADVENTURE» which we all know is a bit of marketing BS from Disney.
Mind you, it's also a film I think is great too, but it also uses violence as a dramatic crescendo whereas «Bluebird» is much more honest and less melodramatic about the organic and natural direction where the narrative needs to take these characters.
With impressive narrative structure, this black and white buddy film carries great emotional resonance as character arcs reach thoughtful conclusions.
Because of Scorsese's attention to character, the internal tensions in the family promise a great deal, but nothing gets delivered; the telegraphic leaps of the narrative never give these people a chance to grow or reveal themselves beyond the plot points they're designed to articulate.
Great costume design furthers the narrative and reveals character.
With loads of content, great graphics, customization options, and a strong narrative, Injustice 2 has done justice to the genre and characters it utilizes.
The narrative fairly rattles along with a focused momentum that recalls the great hard - boiled Hollywood thrillers of the 70s, with Shannon and Edgerton like dual Clint Eastwoods in their characters» laconic determination to get Alton to his prophesied destination.
She isn't great yet with characters on the periphery — Bill is a one - dimensional corporate bad guy / insensitive husband, and it's depressing to see the great Chloë Sevigny cast in a generic role as Owen's mom — but Amos, Diane, and Owen are all vivid and credible enough to support a less - hokey, more rough - hewn narrative.
The best documentaries have the same qualities as excellent narrative films: the equivalent of great screenplay, first - rate direction and cinematography, superior «characters,» and whatever it takes to emotionally engage viewers.
An activity to rank order characters / objects in the narrative and to create a Great Chain of Being.
eLearning be scripted and driven by a great narrative and characters the learners can relate to.
Even when you can't interview your characters or directly observe them in action, you can still write great nonfiction narratives from the rich materials of history.
The Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement of the»60s in America and the Ashanti nation's geopolitical machinations with the British (see Beyond the Book) all play out here, but the characters are always central to the narrative.
Even as a mysterious benefactor helps to shape Pip's life into one of fortune, success, and self - discovery, the unspeakable secrets of his unrequited love continue to haunt him — and promise to change his life once again.With its indelible cast of characters, immersive epic narrative, and startling dramatic twists, Charles Dickens's powerful classic continues to enthrall generations of new readers.Revised edition: Previously published as Great Expectations, this edition of Great Expectations (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions...
by Anne R. Allen Creating compelling narrative takes more than great characters, sparkling dialogue and exciting action.
This is a great collaborative medium too, for example, imagine creating an animated narrative puppet show using small groups and characters created in felt.
Writing a fast - paced, character - driven narrative, Mouton's authentic Southern voice delivers a suspenseful tale of tragically flawed characters unfolding in a twisting, dark plot that ultimately shatters the great institutions of Rome.
I want to see that it works: characters, narrative voice, the opening strokes of plot — all grooving in unison like the opening to a great song, no matter what genre (though admittedly, heavy metal is not for me).
Trapped within a world of his own creation, he must step outside the bounds of his narrative to help his characters defeat an evil no one anticipated, even if he must sacrifice his greatest gift.
In general, great manga should have great characters, great world - building, great narrative storytelling, and great art.
I have a great liking for the first person narrative because I think it gets the reader into the head of the character; it's a very immediate style.
This is the Empire Strikes Back of the Mass Effect series; the dark middle - child with amazing narrative depth, a host of great characters, and a willingness to punish mistakes with a severity most games shy away from.
+ Excellent narrative + Entertaining live action show + Great set pieces + Not too hard to follow - Mediocre shooter gameplay - Some characters aren't well developed - Choices don't change the plot much
It's great seeing some loose narrative tying together characters like Chun - Li, Rocket Raccoon, and Mega Man X into the same story; but the haphazard nature of the story is all too apparent.
With one small exception Persona 5 does a great job at what the series has been doing best for years now, providing a gameplay experience where players have to balance their dungeon progression with the main character's social, academic, and work life while progressing through a strong character based narrative with a host of fully fleshed out party members and npcs.
The characters are deliciously dark and the narrative is great and the open world is a pleasure to explore.
Forgetting the bland overarching narrative we are instead invited into several mini adventures spanning across multiple levels, these see random characters introduced who we simply follow for the level or a greater expanse of time and each are a joy to meet.
I enjoy entertainment that provides a great narrative and memorable characters, and although I believe the games medium does this a lot better than movies these days; my default I would have been attracted to films more if gaming wasn't around.
The game delivers a superb story with a great cast of characters, and while important side - characters in the series don't get much screen time, the compelling narrative makes up for it.
Like past Yakuza games, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life delivers a superb narrative supported with a great and likeable cast of characters, and filled with plot twists and turns that will keep players entertained throughout the whole experience.
Beyond the engaging narrative and its great cast of characters, Yakuza 6 allows players to explore two different locations: Kamurocho and the small seaside town of Onomichi.
Like its spiritual predecessor (Planescape: Torment), the game will feature a great emphasis on storytelling, with a rich personal narrative and complex character interaction that will paint a vivid image of the complex world created by Monte Cook.
However, it does a great job at keeping each area feeling fresh — different goals, different playable characters, different weapons (or lack thereof), different enemies, different story, different points in time in the narrative.
With the additions of two - character combat, hyper attacks and a compelling narrative that spans multiple army perspectives, Samurai Warriors 4 is a great addition to anyone's library.
Final Fantasy IV is considered to be the first in the series to have a truly great narrative and a strong cast of memorable characters that took the series to new heights.
Suddenly not being completely in control of your character took a backseat to a great narrative.
Inspired by historical greats like Warhol, Motherwell, Still, Sultan, Pollock, and Lichtenstein, he assembles disparate fragments from his iconic source material, digitally altering characters via Photoshop to create a new narrative within his densely layered compositions.
While in the past, Cotton has seen his figures as representative of a generalized archetype so as to place greater emphasis on their utopian surroundings, this new body of work begins to explore more specific characters, with an interest in emotion and interior narrative.
On the first floor, the studio space contains three great, large scale paintings by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye — there is a fourth in the space next door — with her characteristically enigmatic cast of characters conjuring all kinds of narrative imaginings, while hidden away up a roped - off staircase is a work by perennial provocatrice Klara Lidén; Untitled (Trash Can), from the group of works with which she won the German blauorange Art Prize in 2010.
Lastly, if you're just looking for something with a solid story, TellTale games like The Walking Dead series (Free for episode 1, $ 4.99 for subsequent episodes on iOS, Android) are like interactive narratives that suck you in with great characters and voice acting.
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