Sentences with phrase «lore around»

Rather than tutorials, he has created a fascinating and complex lore around his fantasy paintings (the Angelarium).

In that time, the franchise has introduced about 20 new characters, provided detailed lore around (almost) all of them, and — perhaps surprisingly — let the characters grow, in more ways than one, from game to game.

My idea for anti-hero LoZ was actually to twist the lore around... whereas the Triforces are usually distributed Power: Ganondorf, Wisdom: Zelda, Courage: Link, my idea was to rotate them to Power: Link, Wisdom: Ganondorf, Courage: Zelda.

Before any bloodsucking is shown, Scott instantly recalibrates vampire lore around 1980s values, commodifying it and styling it into something nakedly sexy yet caged, at once uninhibited and repressed.

Adding to the Hollywood lore around Tombstone is its bizarre directorial provenance.

Lore around cephalopods goes back millennia.

Not exact matches

I bet many of you have one very similar to it floating around in your family's lore.

Dave also collected soup recipes on his travels around the world researching chile pepper lore; many of those recipes are included in this book.

From Chilean lore, it is named after the mythical ghost ship that sails around the small island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile, where it collects the dead to serve as crew.

Close observers of Marvel lore will already know where every one of these coloured rocks is to be tracked down — one's embedded in the forehead of Vision (Paul Bettany), another around the neck of Doctor Strange, and so on.

This game updates the elements of the Devil May formula — combat flow, maximizing a moveset in a personalized way and slashing around biblically influenced lore — to make it feel like it belongs in the present day.

10,000 BC embroiders the classic coming - of - age, boy - with - a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia with straight - faced, pretentiously sober spirituality, made - up mysticism and reams of voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif).

Then he whirled around, low to the ground, and disappeared downhill, draining out of their lives and leaving them to the laborious process of assimilating what they had witnessed into tribal lore.

The Growth Fund of America has one of the more legendary stories in realm of mutual fund lore, as it is a tremendous beneficiary of the halo effect created by the old management team that is no longer around.

Shelter adoption lore once held that pets acquired around holidays were more likely to be returned after the glow of the holidays passed.

Narrated boat tours of the 23 islands that make up the archipelago around Stony Creek are popular excursions, describing the history and lore of the Thimbles, as well as walking tours of Stony Creek, which tell the story of its famous pink granite and the quarry from which it is extracted.

Local lore and prior ownership of this vacation compound reports that Marilyn Monroe stayed in the cottages here in her early Palm Springs days around the time she was discovered and photographed in Palm Springs.

«By creating a game built around the central concept of co-op gameplay, we're expanding the series to new audiences without compromising the rich lore and fantasy of the Sacred universe,» is what Remy van Leeuwen, Brand Manager of Deep Silver, had to say about this focus on co-op.

They also seem to have a lot of reference and lore of the entire dragon age universe scattered around the game as well.

If the answer is no then you should seriously consider abandoning this review now, not because of my jumbled writings, although that would be a valid reason in itself, but because Pillars of Eternity is a lore - heavy RPG that pays homage to the classics such as Baldurs Gate, cherry picking everything great about grand adventures to craft one of the deepest role - playing experiences around.

Mass Effect 3 may have been the end of Shepard's story, but Bioware have made no secret of the fact that they were planning on creating more Mass Effect titles, and considering the depth of the universe they've crafted who can really blame them — there's just so much they could do with all that lore lying around the place.

Having absolutely zero knowledge of this strange world I almost immediately came to the conclusion that I was in for yet another generic fantasy RPG as the game's opening weighted me down a barrage of lore revolving around ancient demon lords and the like.

After a BlizzCon Warcraft movie panel in which, among other things, Blizzard lore maestro Chris Metzen described the film as kind of an ideal realization of stories told in / around Warcraft I (the strategy game from ye olde 1990s), I caught up with him to find out if the movie's feeding back into World of Warcraft at all.

«Since THQ owned the rights to Titan Quest, Iron Lore couldn't just shop it around to another publisher, so it was basically dead at that point.»

There are collectibles lying around the game world that do a fantastic job of filling in some of the gaps in lore, while also serving to reveal some of the motives of a few of the key players in the story.

Here, you'll be granted the opportunity to raise your team and enjoy all the central mechanics of single - player league play, tightly woven around the fabricated lore of this venerable franchise.

While being chased you will need to think and reconsider your strategy and open hidden shortcuts, while the world and its lore will unfold around you in a non-linear way making each playthrough diferent.

As you climb out of the well to the forest around the Witch's House, next to the overlook is a Lore Marker missing its text.

This is a great way to kill dead air, but since stories stop if you exit the boat, I was left to awkwardly wait around in it until the story ended if I was interested in the lore.

You don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of Trek lore by any stretch, but if you don't know the basics of the interplay among the Federation, Klingons and Romulans around the time of Nemesis, the story will make very little sense.

All of this is themed around Eastern lore with an anime style to the visuals.

The story mode comes in at a decent length, around 6 + hours, the lore itself isn't anything special really, borrowing a little bit from Half - Life 2 and Call of Duty games, but adding more than enough of itself to keep it fresh.

That's part of why The Legend of Zelda is near - and - dear to so many around the world; its games have a lasting impression, and spark endless conversations about hidden easter eggs, the encompassing lore, and where future instalments ought to focus on.

You might find yourself hunting a few of the same beasts multiple times in optional side quests, but the game's story makes it very clear that none of these monsters are fodder and important to the lore of the world around you.

As someone who's only ever flirted with the wider Batman lore — anything that isn't featured in the Hollywood movies or Rocksteady Studios» Arkham series of games (I own a couple of the more renowned comics, but no more)-- it's tough for me to really get a read on whether its slaughtering of some fairly central characters is an exciting, unexpected turn for games - makers who only tip - toed around the murderous potential of the Game of Thrones license, or a disaster for those really invested in Bob Kane's most famous creation.

The game itself is single player campaign focused and my first play through took around 15 hours as I took my time clearing out every nook and cranny and soaking up all the bits and pieces of lore scattered throughout.

Hello Games is encouraging players to try and reach the center of the galaxy, which involves dealing with some automated defenses when they affect the ecosystems around them too much, and there are also interactions with aliens and other lore - driven moments.

Better still, Alola is formed around Hawaiian culture and legend, and Game Freak successfully funnels all that lore (and even some island biology) into Sun and Moon.

Uncover the Past to Save the Future of Mankind — Find answers to many questions around the whole Dead Space lore including the origins of the Marker, the existence of the Necromorphs and how the two are related.

I'm constantly clicking that right stick to highlight what's around me — what's useful, what's not (but obviously I'm picking up every digital watch left over from the Old Ones, and scanning all the audio / holo - logs I find, building up that lore and collecting tat to sell to traders).

«By creating a game built around the central concept of co-op gameplay, we're expanding the series to new audiences without compromising the rich lore and fantasy of the Sacred universe.»

But the big draw for me with the original Destiny was: the sci - fi setting, interesting mystery around the Traveler and it's lore.

The way the narrator describes the setting of the game, explains lore of the town, and details what is going on around you helped to drive the game forward; It almost felt as though I was playing through a mystery novel, which was a very cool aspect of KONA.

Artwork for Destiny 2's first two expansions point to them centring around two big parts of the series» lore - Osiris and Rasputin.

For the past two years, Christopher Kline has been working on, «O.K.», an ongoing project based around the history and lore of the artist's hometown of Kinderhook, New York.

That American painting abruptly turned modern with Abstract Expressionism, around 1950, is common lore.

According to family lore, «someone» around here had a taste for slugs when she was a toddler.

Now, there is even lore emerging around a local hero named Jimmy Joe Johnson, an employee of the city Street Department.

John Bolch at Family Lore writes: It's not ALL nonsense around here... — surveying the many and varied services he provides free for practitioners and students.