Sentences with phrase «novel than a game»

So maybe it is more of an evolved graphic novel than a game..

More like a novel than a game, Firewatch features a mystery that slowly unfolds based on items the player finds and through Henry and Delilah's conversations.

More visual novel than a game.

Not exact matches

But we wanted to step up the game, by providing thiamine supplementation in the form of Benfotiamine — a novel, lipid - soluble analogue of thiamine that research shows is over 3.5 x more effective in raising bioavailable thiamine levels in the body than regular Vitamin B1.

The fields of personal representation are actually a bit more novel than most dating sites, asking things like where you're most likely to be found, the most played song on your iPod, and your favorite board game.

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This episode also brings more puzzle elements than before, making it feel more like a traditional adventure game than an interactive graphic novel.

The only novel thing here is that the game is played in the portrait orientation rather than landscape, a change that makes it resemble Square Enix's iOS Dragon Quest games in what I'm sure is a total coincidence.

Correction: Under Night In - Birth Exe: Late is more of a fighting game than a visual novel.

Silent Hill has sold more than seven million video game copies worldwide, earning more than $ 100 million at the box office with the first film, Silent Hill, and spawning a hit comic book series and graphic novels.

But I still struggle to discern a reasonable artistic argument for having Hobbs hit a game winning home run at the end of The Natural rather than deliberately strike out as he does in Bernard Malamud's novel.

MORE THAN A GAME In her debut novel, The Last One, Alexandra Oliva delivers a pulse - pounding psychological tale of survival.

I am hoping that the novels Move Books publishes will provide that pleasure, and will encourage boys to pick them up rather than turn to a video game.»

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Why is it so much more ridiculous or ignorant to read and write romance novels than something like Game of Thrones or the latest gory offering from Patricia Cornwell?

HP, which has also had a long love / hate affair with desktop Linux, is also back in the desktop Linux game with its new Mini 5102 While the 5102 also includes a multi-touch display, it is more akin to ordinary netbooks than to Lenovo's more novel offerings.

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

Yeah, I'm too old to play that sort of game (even 2 - 3 years is way longer than I'm willing to sit on a finished novel, now that there are alternatives).

Rather than using traditional proteins like chicken and turkey, however, they formulate many of their recipes around novel protein sources, particularly wild game meats like venison, wild boar, and bison.

Rather than using traditional protein sources like chicken and turkey, the brand formulates many of its recipes around novel protein sources, particularly wild game meats like venison, wild boar, and bison.

The game's design is highly - stylized, with looks similar to a graphic novel, which allows the game's snow - covered setting to shine more so than it might have with realistic graphics.

While Van Helsing may not be at the top of most people's lists for characters to base a game upon, there's no denying that he does have some great potential for an action - RPG, as the many adapations of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel have often portrayed him as more of a professional vampire hunter than the doctor that he actually was in the original story.

Playstation 3 and Vita owners can pick up both the gruesome horror visual novel game Corpse Party and is its sequel Corpse Party: Book of Shadows for $ 10.00 each, fifty percent less than their normal asking price.

For the uninformed, of which I am very much a part of, The Banner Saga is seemingly more like a visual novel than a strategy game.

This «game» is more like reading a graphic novel than an actual video game with all the text you have to read.

Star Wars novels never appealed to a broader audience than existing Star Wars fans, Harry Potter contributed little of value to the game space, and Clancy never brought anything to the table that was appealing to kids or families (though that's probably a wise omission).

Throughout the emotional roller coaster ride this beautiful visual novel takes you on, the art style and graphics are not breathtaking but just pretty average and not anything different than other visual novels along with the music in the game.

However, it's still so different than how most platformers behave that it helps the game feel more novel and unique than it may actually be (I promise that's a compliment).

I wasn't expecting to see quite the volume of cut - scenes that the game ended up having, and the game feels more like a fully - animated visual novel with RPG side - quests than an actual RPG.

Is it because of they are more game than novel?

And of course, if you're not a fan of the visual novel genre, the game will probably leave you disappointed, as all you'll be doing here is wading through tons of text, and there's no real gameplay elements here other than the sporadic choice selection.

There's already a massive amount of content and background information for Wing Commander through previous games, novels, cartoons and even a less than stellar movie.

The only novel thing here is that the game is played in the portrait orientation rather than landscape, a change that makes it resemble Square Enix's iOS Dragon Quest games in what I'm sure is a total coincidence.

The game was a bit of throw back to an earlier age when RPGs were exacting dungeon crawls rather than elaborate interactive novels.

Games Workshop designs, manufactures, retails, and distributes its range of Warhammer ®: Age of Sigmar ® and Warhammer ® 40,000 ® games, miniature soldiers, novels and model kits through more than 469 of its own stores (branded Games Workshop ® or Warhammer ®), the www.games-workshop.com web store and independent retail channels in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Games Workshop designs, manufactures, retails, and distributes its range of Warhammer ®: Age of Sigmar ® and Warhammer ® 40,000 ® games, miniature soldiers, novels and model kits through more than 469 of its own stores (branded Games Workshop ® or Warhammer ®), the

Targeted towards women, these novels feature dating - sim scenarios and involve more than simply finding love, with some games turning typical tropes on their heads.

The result is games like Woka Woka, a superficially familiar casual puzzler adventure that's packing several twists to make it far more novel and addictive than it looks.

The developers want to call it a survival / management game, but really, it's closer to a visual novel with a very number - intensive stat and crafting system than what I think of as a survival game.

BlazBlue is one of the few fighting games that really made narrative a large focus, and it manages to tell a more interesting story than the XBlaze visual novel spin - offs.

Playing as some other characters, more like a short story with multiple endings than a full sized light novel, I think will add a lot of color and fun to the game as well.

Weirdly enough, in a game that mixes your mom's favorite mobile game and one of the best graphic novels ever created, Candy Crush manages to be more entertaining than the Sin City coat of paint.

Rather than opting for this approach across the game (which would be expensive) they jarringly return to visual novel form for an excruiatingly long time.

More Marvel is never a bad thing, but Disney Infinity makes this more than a novel addition with great looking figurines and engaging ways for younger gamers to play.

Why it was chosen: At their heart the Ace Attorney games are little more than fancy visual novels: although the aim is to defend numerous clients and help them avoid prison sentences, you don't actually have much room for experimentation here and the story follows a strictly linear path.

The use of the graphic - novel style narrative delivery is superbly effective in this type of game when you'd rather have the budget go on making the game run well than on fancy cinematics.

This isn't the promise of goggle - based computing that William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and even former Gizmodo EIC Annalee Newitz have espoused in their cyberpunk novels, but it's the first mixed reality experience that feels like more than a gimmick or a tool for gamers alone.

Based on the popular Ernest Cline novel, Ready Player One is set in 2045, a dystopian future where the impoverished populace spend more of their time in a virtual reality video game called OASIS, than they do in the real world.