Sentences with phrase «more narrative drive»

But they deserve a movie that tells their tale of defiant resilience with less fuss and more narrative drive.

I'm hoping for more narrative driven play.

The American is a far more narrative driven film but to an extent it shares with The Limits of Control a focus on the process, waiting and build - up rather than being a guns blazing action film.

Some games are more narrative driven, while others focus more on the visual side of things, but it's usually a combination of both to create a compelling story that ends up creating a «Walking Simulator».

Not exact matches

And the thing about narratives is that they drive behavior in ways that are more powerful and profound than people readily acknowledge — for good and bad.

More analysis (below) that shows conservative narratives were driving pack journalism in Canadian media to attack Trudeau with false premises... again I'm no Trudeau fan, but the Canadian MSM reporting and editorials are largely being driven by conservative partisans.

Whether it be Wieman's general appropriation of James's «knowledge by acquaintance» in Religious Experience and Scientific Method, Meland's «appreciative awareness,» or Loomer's more narrative forms of gathering evidence, each purports merely to describe, but then evinces that the description is driven by rather specific personal and / or contextual definitions of what counts as religious experience.

I believe this is absolute nonsense and driven more by personal emotional narratives rather than analysis.

We also need to remember that there are many more «good schools» than our rankings - driven cultural narrative suggests.

Many narrative - driven games today are criticized for being nothing more than «walking simulators».

Though the scribes don't stop the narrative from being as chaos - driven as the first, they spare the slow start and allow the visceral thrills to take over more quickly.

Though the biker drama's penultimate season has plenty of things worth celebrating (including a larger role for Mark Boone Junior and excellent guest stars like CCH Pounder, Donal Logue and Walton Goggins), a lot of the conflict this time around seems to be less about driving the narrative than shocking the audience, none more so than the death of Maggie Siff's Tara.

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In fact, it's probably a little overdone — the two parts of the narrative can't be more than 6 years apart, surely — but it certainly drives home the point that they're completely different people from when they first met.

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

The career mode in the NBA 2K series took a turn two years ago when it became more of a narrative - driven interactive story.

The film concludes in a more conventional manner, perhaps, than might be expected, in that it's a flight to freedom — or maybe a fool's errand — but remains gripping and tense, balancing suspense and narrative drive with emotional entanglement and an unerring sense of dread.

Fifty Shades Freed, more so than the other two entries in this absurd yet undeniably enjoyable trilogy, has almost no narrative drive until the last 30 minutes.

The second half is more story - driven Jamal's school writing competition goes from being a far - off contemplation, to being the central narrative drive.

It is slightly jarring as we are so used to the comedic timing of a witty ex-cop John McClane archetype, that here Washington plays a somewhat introverted, more pensive and less charismatic character which takes the film from an average action thriller to a suspenseful character - driven narrative.

In fact it might be more appropriate to describe it as a mature, narrative - driven, traditional point and click adventure game, without the pointing and clicking.

More than half the films of my list share stories that focus on women or girls: Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn, Inside Out, Room, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Far From the Madding Crowd (Additionally, I would argue that Ava's narrative in Ex Machina also drives that film and that Domhnall Gleeson's character primarily functions as a stand - in for the audience).

This time he's considerably more focused, letting McDormand's ferocious mother - bear of a performance, her best since Fargo, drive the narrative.

There is a clear commitment to grounding the narrative here — Lara's motivations are more human and they've all but eliminated the supernatural MacGuffins that drove the Jolie films.

But what it might lack in narrative drive, it more than makes up for in a beguiling, melancholy mood not quite like anything they've made, abetted by photography that's among the directors» most beautiful, despite the absence of usual collaborator Roger Deakins.

Rather than narrative drive or monumental landscapes (DP Roger Deakins favors storybook color and perspective over nature's own beauty and depth), the Coens seem more fixated stylistically on words than images.

Opening this week at Tivoli Cinemas, Loving Vincent is sometimes a bit flat with its narrative thru - line, yet more than makes up for this with its earnest and engaging approach to discovering what drove Vincent van Gogh as a man and an artist.

He is less concerned here, unlike, say, «Secrets & Lies» and «Vera Drake», with following a driving narrative than with minutely observing Poppy through her relationships with others, whether it's the kids she teaches at her primary school, her repressed driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, excellently playing a heavy - duty bag of hang - ups), her close friend and flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman) or her older, more settled colleague Heather (Sylvestra Le Touzel), whom she joins at flamenco lessons after work.

After some brief moments of Bruce's act during his brief prime and more of the film's frequent Kane - like interview - driven narrative, the film starts in earnest — not with star Dustin Hoffman recreating the comic's early nightclub days, but with Perrine recreating the early career of Honey Bruce, a.k.a. stripper Honey Harlow.

2017 will bring even more narrative - driven games, like Walden, a Game, based on Henry David Thoreau's book, and Ever, Jane, a multiplayer game that takes place in the universe of Jane Austen.

His firm, Simpson Coulter Studio: Architecture & Planning, has turned to the next phase of the school design narrative, and he's convinced that the push for a more open, accessible classroom design is an extension of the philosophy that drives the reorganization of the Clark County School District.

With the rise of erotica and YA, first - person narratives and character - driven series are becoming much more acceptable in contemporary romance.

It's simple left or right choices struggle to keep you engaged for more than a couple of hours, but it doesn't need to because in that time you'll have played something rather special with a fun overarching narrative that most people will find themselves driven to uncover.

It's a trend we're seeing more and more of now, in games that are driven to committing the player to their worlds over anything else — Half - Life 2 planted the seeds of player - reliant agency in the minds of consumers and developers alike, and now we're seeing game - makers really take advantage of how they can give the end - user a narrative experience that feels shaped by them, the whole way through — and not just in the setpieces, and not just with QTEs and button prompts, either.

Completing missions weakens enemy control on the region, raises civilian moral, bolsters the resistance's numbers and opens up more story missions that drive the narrative along.

But for years now, the conventional narrative has been that The Sims became the best - selling PC game of all time in 2002 after dethroning Myst, the graphical adventure game that sold more CD - ROM drives than every other piece of «multimedia» software combined.

It also confirmed that the new God of War will be more narrative - driven to appeal more to European audiences:

«I think they've somewhat spread into more broad narratives over the years, but shooting, driving fast... those were big maxims for a long time!»

Hotline Miami almost immediately garnered praise from both gamers and press for its distinct visual presentation, driving soundtrack, breakneck action, and schizophrenic narrative that leaves players with more questions than answers.

Neverwinter aims to create more of a narrative driven experience, moving away from the packed landscapes of most MMOs in favor of a more intimate experience.

It is called «Alien Hunters,» and features a new narrative - driven mission, three new «Ruler» aliens to combat, and much more....

Square Enix has announced the release date for the upcoming episodic Life is Strange: Square Enix and DONTNOD Entertainment today announced the release date of the brand new, episodic, narrative driven adventure game LIFE IS STRANGE ™ that is coming to the PlayStation ® 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all - in - one games Read More...

Capcom's decision to follow Telltale's hugely successful episodic format bred some surprise among the gaming community, which previously recognized the episodic medium as aimed towards much more narrative - driven games.

The story feels less like a single compelling narrative and more like a series of situations in which Reyes and crew foster new bonds and reinforce old ones in order to drive home a message about the perils of war: People you like are going to die.

The narrative, more player - driven, is focused around a rookie police officer who goes with a U.S. Marshall to arrest Joseph Seed.

Murdered: Soul Suspect is a supernatural tale that strives to be like other, more successful story - driven games, but fails to achieve this by simply being an interactive movie with no consequences and a forgettable narrative.

Its somehow been a staggering 10 years since Metroid Prime took the franchise 3D but only two since Metroid: Other M shifted the series focus more towards character - driven narrative.

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a really fun game narrative - driven game that doesn't feel too heavy as an RPG, but still provides that tactical experience if you want a little more control over combat environments.

Despite the complexity of the narrative and its presentation, combat only happens when it needs to, and puzzle solving and set - piece moments often drive the story forward to reveal more about Senua's motivations.

Voice actors are becoming increasingly important in our industry, and perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in narrative - driven action titles such as inFamous: Second Son.