Sentences with phrase «much of a throwback»

The combat system used in the game is as much of a throwback as the source material, but it too has some interesting tweaks that.

Not exact matches

This is much more of a no - recipe recipe than the bowl of peanut butter filled pretzels I ate with a few chocolate chips while finding myself in an iTunes throwback vortex that consisted of How Bizarre on repeat.

The Strangers: Prey at Night, however, changes the gameplay so much, the only thing that remains of the original film's effectiveness is the look of the strangers themselves (and a few throwback lines of dialogue).

This series, created by Suzanne Martin and inspired by her own life, has a throwback feel, with lots of quick gags and not much depth.

«Hostiles» itself wants to be both a throwback and an advance, not so much a new kind of western as every possible kind — vintage, revisionist, elegiac, feminist.

Despite the occasional tonal hiccup, so much of Unsane feels fresh and new, using bold formal techniques to spice up a complex throwback to B - movies of the past.

Raid mode: too much Resident Evil 6 — A large majority of the maps were level designs from Resident Evil 6 including three of the four DLC maps in the Throwback Map pack.

The sequel is a throwback to the days when a much younger Donna, played by Lily James, survived her days of pregnancy without the support of any man.

Itself owing much to such lone - man - of - action hallmarks as «Die Hard» and «Speed,» this welcome throwback to an earlier, more generously entertaining era of summer blockbusters delivers a wide array of close - quarters combat and large - scale destruction.

by Walter Chaw Self - consciously a throwback to supernatural softcore lesbian exploitation as indicated by the films of Jean Rollin and, specifically, James Kenelm Clarke's The House on Straw Hill (with bits of Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love in there), A.D Calvo's Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl has a pretty good feel for time and place, but not much more than that.

A Walk in the Clouds is a throwback film to a more romantic and innocent area, and how much you enjoy this film will greatly depend on how much of a hopeless romantic you are, and you'll especially find it pleasing if you yearn for the romantic movies of yesteryear.

The movie looks like a much welcome throwback to some of the early John Landis comedies — «Kentucky Fried Movie», «Amazon Women on the Moon» and so on.

Most of the «1970s throwback» / grindhouse - style movies that we all love so much are pretty broad, tongue - in - cheek affairs.

This isn't a film striving to be a masterpiece; it very much enjoys being a b - movie throwback, with all of the qualities, both good and bad, that such fare would imply.

Although «Okja» features a large international cast headed by Tilda Swinton (much like Bong's recent «Snowpiercer»), its disarming blend of corporate satire, environmental cautionary tale and girl - centric creature feature suggests a throwback of sorts to the director's 2006 smash hit, «The Host.»

While we haven't heard much on the subject of DLC for Sega's Sonic Mania throwback title, post-launch content is hardly going anywhere.

«Superman Returns» — in all its throwback, John Williams - scored glory — is a much more apt point of comparison, and it runs circles around «Man Of Steel.&raquof comparison, and it runs circles around «Man Of Steel.&raquOf Steel.»

Although I very much enjoy throwbacks and tributes, I haven't touched a video game controller in 3 decades, and of course have not read Ernest Cline's popular novel — the source material that inspired Mr. Spielberg to veer from his recent heavy dramas (the exception being THE BFG).

However, the most accurate precedents for «Happy - Go - Lucky» date farther back still: the film is not so much a new direction for Leigh as a throwback to the gentle character - oriented comedy and wispy, free - form narrative of his breakthrough features «High Hopes» and «Life is Sweet.»

Much like screen size, the iPhone and BlackBerry are the only throwbacks to the days of dual core processing.

Because it's a thing to do, and due to the renewed interest in Sonic's early days because of the throwback aesthetics of Mania (which looks terrific), and this weekend's big Summer of Sonic get - together in London, I've put together this (unranked, so don't even) top ten without overthinking the whole thing too much.

But at least we can re-live a little bit of that magic with what feels very much like a throwback to 1998.

Introduced as «Xbox One S» (a throwback to its slimmer, much older cousin), it builds upon the original Xbox One in a number of important areas the original system was lacking.

In what is a definite throwback to some of Sony's old - school PlayStation advertising, the commercial goes big on style rather than showing much of what the PS4 Pro is capable of.

For most of the game, he's a refreshingly light hero after the gruff Cloud and the mopey Squall, but I guess Final Fantasy 9 wouldn't be much of a Final Fantasy throwback if it didn't fulfill the need for main character melodrama.

One of the original games that caught my attention on Kickstarter, it seemed very much like a throwback to the old roleplaying games that I grew up with on the Super Nintendo and original PlayStation.

Resident Evil 7 did so much right in terms of throwbacks to previous games and really taking the franchise back to its more survival horror roots.

A throwback to the old days like Serious Sam might be fun to check out for a few minutes, but shooters like Halo and Call of Duty have been much better at holding my...

Much like the retro throwback consoles of Atari and Sega, the NES CE will have 30 built in games.

They're seen as dated throwbacks, he says, saddled with undeserved baggage in much the same way that indie games featuring pixel art have been accused of lazy bandwagon - jumping.

This is because numbered sequels were considered the «bread and butter» of the franchise and the game was very much a nostalgic throwback to the older games.

Gameplay is as mentioned, a throwback to some of the older arcade titles like Asteroids, where you steer your ship around the vast land of space ranging from 8 different galaxies each different than the last fending off enemies and using your left trigger to sweep around a planet in a «lasso» formation to put the planet under your control through the different rounds of that level taking as much territory as you can from the enemy.

Risk of Rain is a pretty decent game that's made in GM: S, but I'd probably say Shattered Throne — which I recently got to play, which is a nice indie game throwback to the Advance Wars series on Nintendo DS (Miss that series so much: c)

The relationship between visual art and science is at the heart of Fryer's eccentric but highly engaging body of works: «An artist like P.A. Fryer is as much a throwback to the enlightenment of the 18th century as he is prescient of the new.»

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