Sentences with phrase «key story characters»

Appropriately, the game plays in a similar style to The Tribez franchise, as players assign tasks to their workers and complete quests for key story characters.

Not exact matches

Neuroeconomics professor Paul Zak explains: «Character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.»

For example, my experiments show that character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.

The story behind SIL's rise and of Kenneth L. Pike, the key character in that rise, is one of the most interesting episodes of the modern missionary movement.

In this way, the key characters were given life and expression and the story was animated from within by the thoughts and speech of the various characters.

DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games.

A lame and not really challenging story combined with repetitive levels and replaceable characters are the key elements of Quantum Theory.

During this first hour, the story introduces several key characters who set the expectation for more.

Where «Roots» and «Roots: The Next Generations» were extensive studies on, not one character, but a series of members in a bloodline that spans about a century or so, this series centers around one character, thus the unevenness that plagued this series» sisters has been thinned out tremendously, though unfortunately still not quite to the point of dissipation, because as generally comfortable as this story's flow is, Halle Berry's titular Queen Jackson character extensively faces several dynamic events and characters, yet still doesn't take the time that it should to meditate upon the full exposition and depth of this story's range, thus leaving certain key story aspects to come off as unnecessary and, of course, supplementary to focal inconsistency.

SoulWorker's Key Features (during Open Beta) Include: Action - packed cooperative gameplay for up to 4 players, using the Soulum Sword, Mist Scythe, Gun Jazz and Howling Guitar character classes A dark post-apocalyptic setting with a captivating story and impressive cel - shaded animations Customize your battle style with personalized combos and abilities affected by a unique emotion system — madness, euphoria, vengeance and sadness Large PvE content with over 100 dungeons and a PvP Zone for massive battles

Of course, the nature of the game means that you will be losing these key characters as you progress through the story and it is easy to get attached to them making you feel the emotional weight when one of them is found to be guilty during the class trials.

It was fun to see some key character story arcs get resolved, and it was nice to finally get some answers to questions left hanging after the TV show was canceled.

Peach and Bowser held even more integral parts in this iteration as playable characters who would regularly unlock key elements of the story inbetween each of the game's eight eventful chapters.

Another oddity is the lack of information on each class; despite background stories being given for each character, players aren't told how each class works or their key abilities before purchasing and leveling them up.

A detour involving a kindly widower (Michael Parks) who takes the couple in brings the story to a screeching halt, and the key character of a trigger - happy pharmacist (Stephen Lang) is highly unbelievable.

Though best known for her arch dialogue, Cody has a knack for location, setting stories in sharply sketched places and clearly defined moments in characters» lives — qualities that sometimes make Ricki And The Flash feel like a throwback to the minor - key American filmmaking of the 1970s, when Demme first arrived on the scene.

The story is relayed to the player through flashbacks as they are interrogated by a bounty hunter and follows the basic premise that was the driving force behind the previous Borderlands games — Searching for vaults that contains a priceless artefact, sending our characters off on a quest to find keys to unlock them.

His desperation to smooth the choppiness of the story and format is palpable in the short - selling of the Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) character (and Aragorn's horse who, without much in - text warning, becomes a key character) and the desire to infuse heterosexual romance (with both Arwen and Miranda Otto's Eowyn) into Tolkien's sexually sterile universe.

And I wasn't trying to put my own stamp on it, because the real key to acting is to respect whatever voice it is in the script and try to do something new that's beyond yourself yet still in service of the story and the character.

From there the story expands on a few key characters in the town causing you to love characters one minute and hate them the next.

Grander in scope than any previous film in the series, the story spends most of its first 45 minutes globetrotting to catch us with all the key characters, and introducing us to the new ones, including the young Jean, Scott and Kurt, played winningly by Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Kodi Smit - McPhee, respectively.

A film that deftly weaves several well - developed stories and characters, and manages to strike a great balance between humor and drama, as its key players fight for family, respect and journalistic integrity.

That dominant theme of respect is a key element to the film and adds a certain mystique that makes you curious about the back story and past relationships of the characters.

Key Features: Three game modes - full sandbox, story mode and quests Island map exploration Character Hunger / Thirst Mechanics Base Building Ferry Mechanics to travel from one island to another Hunting Crafting Items Food Cooking Mechanics Power / Electricity Mechanics Gathering Resources Mining and refining of ores Quests Trader Arms Dealer Kill AI Enemies Animal Husbandry Farming Day / Night Cycle

Like Highsmith's remarkable novel (the rare lesbian love story of its time with an optimistic coda), it neither unduly ennobles its key characters nor confines them to butch / femme sexual archetypes.

In a first for the Sonic franchise, a character the player creates will be a key part of the story, appearing not only in cut scenes, but by being a crucial element in helping Sonic reclaim the world from Eggman's domination.

By allowing his characters» irrational emotions to influence events and instigate key turning points, Cretton capably masks the film's finely calibrated story mechanics.

the character was a key link between the two stories.

To drive the story forward and unlock a wider selection of characters, you'll need to participate in key battles.

This new character is key to the story, but he never really clicked with me on release.

In a properly cryptic fashion, certain yellow key missions need to be taken while others ignored if the player wants to reach the true ending with their chosen patriarch unless they want to finish up the story mode quickly and start anew (carrying over character levels and other important stats, of course).

When it comes to a story, Disney Infinity 3.0 features a brilliant Star Wars tale and as the galaxy descends into chaos, an old enemy rises again with Darth Maul and his nefarious allies as key characters from the TV series, Star Wars the Clone Wars are thrown into the mix that include favourites such as Anakin Skywalker, Obi - Wan Kenobi and Ahskoa Tano.

Jurassic World Evolution tells an all - new story that touches on key characters and events from across the Jurassic World film franchise.

For a group of eight people, most characters only register through some expository dialogue, while Antoine's own journey is similarly underwritten — the key crisis in his character arc is ostensibly his separation with his wife, but we don't get any grounding in their relationship to invest in that story at all.

That theme is set into motion when Bogue first attacks the Church and remains a key point of the story as the main characters help rebuild it.

The movie's story is mostly under wraps, but will see several of the lethal creatures hunting humans including Boyd Holbrook and Trevante Rhodes» military men, Olivia Munn's scientist and Keegan - Michael Key's character, who teams with the others to fight the alien hunters.

Director Paul McGuigan is much better known for cheerfully low - rent genre silliness (Push, Lucky Number Slevin, Victor Frankenstein) than for penetrating character studies, but Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool finds him helming a much lower - key story.

There's more than a whiff of the Coen Brothers in this telling from director Craig Gillespie («Lars and the Real Girl»), who takes a docu - drama approach to the Harding story, weaving in - character interviews with the key figures into the narrative.

This is one of those low - key, character - based, slow - burner horror stories, but it leads to some very creepy places.

Compared to the fantastical worlds that were created for earlier films such as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, which were all inspired by elements of our world, The Incredibles took place entirely in locales where humans were the key characters, and the scenes were shot from the perspective of humans.

Blu - ray exclusives will be familiar to loyal Universal customers, beginning with three core U-Control features: a Picture in Picture option that includes cast and crew interviews, set footage, and pre-production art (like storyboards); the Bourne Dossier, which give access to high - tech superspy information technology (like pop - up Agent Status, Character Dossiers, Field Reports with «GPS - enhanced satellite views of the locations,» and other «top secret training material»); and Bourne Orientation, which jumps out of the film to provide literal orientation (globally speaking) and figurative orientation: information about what's driving Bourne at key junctures in the story (answering that eternal actor's question: «What's my motivation?»).

Despite outward appearances, Fracture isn't quite the fast - paced legal thriller that one might have expected from the film's promotional materials (there is, in fact, only one courtroom sequence of any real significance); screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers have instead crafted a story that generally has the feel of a low - key drama - with Gosling's character ultimately forced to choose between his ambition and his morals.

The world set up in these stories is thrilling and loaded with ingenious surprises, along with perils that have severe consequences for key characters in this game.

Blu - ray exclusives will be familiar to loyal Universal customers, beginning with three core U-Control features: a Picture in Picture option that includes cast and crew interviews, set footage, and pre-production art (like storyboards); the Blackbriar Files, which give access to high - tech superspy information technology (like pop - up Agent Status, Character Dossiers, Field Reports with «GPS - enhanced satellite views of the locations,» and «the technology behind the spy gadgets through visuals and 3D animations»); and Bourne Orientation, which jumps out of the film to provide literal orientation (globally speaking) and figurative orientation: information about what's driving Bourne at key junctures in the story (answering that eternal actor's question: «What's my motivation?»).

More than half the story unfolds in the Oasis, where key characters are represented by stylised avatars that owe their visual origins to fantasy comics and Japanese anime and are definitely not realistic.

Exchanging the old progression system linked to Gym Leaders in favor of the far more interesting and varied Island Trials, adding Totem Pokémon, making Wild Pokémon battles less predictable, filling the world with detail and secrets to discover, and giving story and characters an expanded role are the key features that make Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon so refreshing that they may even be enjoyed by those who didn't like previous Pokémon games.

The story follows key characters in the conflict and demonstrates what happens to families caught in the war.

A couple of story strands are left hanging for no apparent reason and the sudden change of behaviour by key characters - not least drug squad office Johnno (Hugo Weaving) and Jay's alcoholic ex-wife Mary (Tasma Walton)- just doesn't really add up.

While most of the story up front deals with certain key characters in certain situations, the entire background is one of a complicated coup to bring a galaxy to its knees in the guise of an Empire, and a rebellion that seeks to end that.

As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships.