Sentences with phrase «high fantasy series»

Based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling high fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, «Game ofThrones» has surpassed all expectations and become one of the most popular television series in recent memory with millions of viewers tuning in for each episode.

Rarely has there been a tale as gripping, or one as likely to seize the minds and hearts of a generation, as George R. R. Martin's epic high fantasy series.

Not exact matches

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

There are a series of fantasy sequences where Simon imagines his gay online friend as this or that kid from school, a Halloween party with Simon and BFF Leah (Langford) dressed as John and Yoko, and we figure out this Georgia high school has parents hip enough to not mind swearing in front of the kids and not strict enough to care when those kids come home from that party drunk.

But this world is a essentially a kitchen - sink like high fantasy adventure series with sci - fi elements that mashes up all kinds of monsters and races next to space ships, dragons, and futuristic technology.

And her fantasy series, The Fey, is a dark, high fantasy with lots of blood and death.

«In this hard - to - put - down follow - up to the Farseer Trilogy, Hobb maintains the high standards of her earlier fantasy series... What starts as a very good read shifts into a stay - up - until - 2:00 a.m. - to - finish type of book.»

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Hand's Unearthly series was a best - seller, and though this is a departure from her usual fantasy fare, her many fans will likely be eager to get their hands on this one, too.

This first book of the Fire Prophets series is epic high fantasy, though I would tend to call it lyric and even poetic at times.

European comics were historically more diverse and often higher - quality (in terms of art and story craft) than American comics; in addition to drama, fantasy, and detective books (including classics like The Adventures of Tintin), many European comic book series are historical fictions.

Charbonneau (Need, 2015) makes her first foray into high fantasy with this series starter.

Though known primarily for her award - winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as # 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, «chicklit» suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit.

Readers who enjoy Teen fantasy, paranormal, science fiction, action and adventure, with a hint of romance will like The Unaltered Series, an Amazon Bestselling series.Sixteen - year - old Calli Courtnae surprisingly breaks the 100 - meter world record at her high school track meet and is whisked off to Montana to train for Olympic tryouts.

For the Hit Man Series, I ranked higher in mystery than I did in thrillers, though I ranked consistently higher in action / adventure and science fiction and fantasy.

In the end, as a Civilization series and fantasy fan, I found myself having fun with a game that takes a slightly stale gameplay formula, slaps some high fantasy paint on top with a few new features and puts it all to good use.

We were all left pretty disappointed by Assassin's Creeed III, but by relocating the series to the Golden Age of Piracy and allowing us to live out our adventurous fantasies on the high seas, AC4 delivered a piratical feast up there with Sid Meier's classic.

It doesn't always hit the highs of the TV series, but should still offer a chuckle or two if you enjoy outright ridiculous fantasy humour and tasks such as delivering a fart in a bag to a talking cinnamon bun.

A spin - off from the popular Majesty 2 series of real - time strategy titles, Defenders of Ardania adopts the same high fantasy universe.

One of the most exciting and unique things about the xenosaga series is that you can look foward to seeing different character models with each new game because appearence of the characters change with each game, not because the characters have aged but for other reasons.There is one special thing that xenosaga episode three has that should have been in the other xenosaga games is the swimsuit mode because it allows you to watch movie scenes with the characters in there swimsuits but for some reason not all of the movie scenes in xenosaga 3 can be viewed in swimsuit mode, I guess it would have made the movie less serious or something.My favorite movie scenes in xenosaga are blue testament, white testament, KOSMOS verses Black Testament, any movie with Luis Virgil becaus ehe is my favorite character in the game because he's passionate and i don't think that he is a bad guy since he was able to brek free from being a testament and the only real reasons why he became a testament was because he wanted to be able to visit that old church on miltia and to gain power to prevent death.I also love Luis Virgil and all of the movie scenes that he appear in becaus they are very dramatic.The best thing about the xenosaga series is thst the story is very dee, interesting, and shocking and anyone who has played the game in order from episode one through three will definitely say the same thing.There is no doubt that anyone who has completed episode one and two will be stunned when every secret and mystery is unraveled in episode three.The one thing that I can't seem to under stand is why do some of the characters have to travel back to the earth in the end, will shion and the gang make it back to earth or will there descendants finish the mission and find earth in the end, Chaos and Nephilim told the group that the key to saving humanity lies on earth, what I want to know is what is it and how will it be used to save the universe, Even in the end new mysteries arose and remained unraveled.If there is any one outher who has has the awnswer to any of these questions please let me know when you write you're review or else there has just got to be a xenosaga four on the way, (crying) they just can't leave the story end this way.The only thing that dissapointed me about the game at first was the battle system because on the back of the case of xenosaga three said that the best aspect of the previous battles systems from episode one were combined to form a new battle system, If namco had really done this Xenosaga episode three would have had a better battle system in my opinion because I belive that the best aspect of xenosaga episode one were the special atacks wich are better than the those of episode three and the best aspect of episode three as the break system wich was also better than those of episode three.I think that namco should have given xenosaga episode 3 the battle system of episode 2 combined episode ones style of special attack, but doing this would have probably made the battle system of xenosaga episode three boring because the same old tactics would have to be used in a new game and the battle system most likely would not be as realistic as it is but it would probably be cooler.However the ability to summon all four Erde Kaisers including the new Erde Kasier Sgma my most favorite summon in the world at will and use new Ether and Tech attacks along with the new Counter and Revenge abilities gave xenosaaga episode three more than boost that it needed to have an descent battle systemThe E.S battle system of xenosaga episode 3 is way more better than those of episod one and two though, I must say that Namco really outdid themselves with the E.S battle system of xenosaga episode because the other E.S battle system from the two previos games weren't good, luckily they made up for it with the character battle system.In episode one I never really wanted to use anA.G.W.S, lucky for me they were optional but in episode two sadly it is manatory that you pilot an E.S to progress in the game in Episode three you piloting an E.S is also mandatory to progress in the game but the difference between the three episode is that will be sorry in episode three you will ge glad that you are using an E.S because their battle system is extremely cool.Xenosaga is most definitely one of the besrt RPG games in the world andit is far more better than any final fantasy game that Square Enix has ever made but for some reason it still score lower than Some Final Fantasy and other Sqare Enix games on this site.I bet that if xenosaga was actually named Final Fantasy and had a subtitle it and if it wre made by sqare Enix it would have probably been more famous and it would have scored higher even though it is still the same gameIn the end with every thing being written said and done all i can say is that I feel more at peace now that I have defended this underated game.All I have to say now is that TURN BASED GAMES RULE!

Bloodborne is a spiritual successor to the Souls series, a franchise that is well known for its punishing mechanics, high risk and reward gameplay, sense of adventure and exploration in dark fantasy settings.

Narborion Adventures: The Burning Trees of Ormen Mau is a young adult, high fantasy gamebook and a companion to the original Narborion series with some crossover characters.

The series setting is a dark fantasy that is a far cry from the high fantasy of Warcraft or Lord Of The Rings.

The Might & Magic series goes back almost 30 years, a series of high fantasy role - playing games spanning (now) eleven games as well as a number of spin - offs including the venerable Heroes of Might & Magic strategy RPG series, as well as a number of mobile titles.

Bloodborne abandons the high fantasy of the Souls series in favor of horror - based inspirations.

I'm not usually a big fan of high fantasy, but the character and plot development of this series really pulled me in.