Sentences with phrase «of narrative choice»

Even though this trend has been omnipresent ever since the original Donkey Kong, Squaresoft has long been considered the pioneers of this tend with Final Fantasy 7 being described as the first video game that make this type of narrative choice into a possible reality (whether this is true or not is debatable).

The first was the almost flawless score whilst the second would be some of the narrative choices — namely, who lives and who dies.

The story is reportedly very non-linear, similar to what you can expect from the Mass Effect games, and most of the narrative choices and decisions made in the game will affect the outcome of the story.

Lots of people played Other M and just didn't like it, in large part because of the narrative choices rather than the mechanical ones.

Not exact matches

In these moments, as we are faced with the choice of whether to release the narratives we have built to others or to simply forget them, there is one question that we must ask ourselves: Am I complaining or am I critiquing?

121:8.14 — While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

Narrative is not a choice I make when it comes time to tell the truth; it is the way that truth comes to me — not in crisp propositions but in messy tales of encounters between people and people, between people and creation, between people and God.

The sheer length and complexity of great novels, their patient playing out of the consequences of our moral choices, make them infinitely more useful than the brief schematic narratives that are commonly employed by moral philosophers to illustrate their claims.

The Fourth Gospel had little choice but to follow this pattern too, even though it could be said that John the Evangelist had developed such a view of Christ and the resurrection that resurrection narratives were really superfluous.

The Choices We Made (Angela Bonavoglia, 1990) is the latest collection of sympathetic abortion narratives, a genre Gloria Steinem refers to as «populist truth - telling,» «the heart and soul of movements and revolutions all over the world.»

An open mind must still engage in some process of choice and selection, and it would take a very rare kind of atheist to select Gregory's narrative, however persuasive it might be on its objective merits.

If people truly believe the narrative that «tough choices have to be made» they are ready to accept the kinds of egregious policies we are witnessing with the Welfare Reform Act 2012, and continued privatisations of public services.

The gameplay consisted of not only moving the character through the game environment, but also making a dozen multiple choice decisions about the character's actions in an unfolding fictional narrative.

It's a smart choice, allowing cinematographer Ben Seresin and production designer Ben Scott to entertain us with sumptuous color and light even as we cringe at the sound of the narrative wheels laboriously squeaking.

The premiere episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne has all the qualities of a stellar TellTale Games series: the combat is enjoyable, the narrative is engaging, the choice system presents difficult options, and the episode is entertaining from start to finish.

The choices you make may not change the overall outcome of the story but it is huge fun just being absorbed in the gripping narrative and

The narrative is clearly more important than the game's mechanics, and that shows at times, but the combination of mechanics, dialogue choice and acting help to push the message about how devastating depression can be for an individual suffering from it.

Almost non-stop hackneyed dialogue about the nature of art, delivered with bizarre accent and performance choices, in a cumbersomely arced dual narrative about the power of one - dimensional women to inspire and enable spectacular men.

Shadow of the Beast might not be exactly what true fans were expecting, especially with a few strange gameplay and narrative choices, but there's still something here for everyone.

It is a beautiful game that promises much in terms of open - world freedom of choice, but then belies that promise continually throughout its narrative.

He's so wrapped up in his crazy ideas of why he made this decision, and Hayden Christensen is so wrapped up in it with this stoned, demonic look on his face, you almost forgive his questionable narrative and acting choices before hand.

Shot on wide - angle lenses in South Africa (which is skillfully made to look like a road trip from America to just across the border into Mexico), Smith's choices of color and set dressing are key to the ever so slight differentiation in the two narratives.

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Kindly and almost unbearably intellectual and autodidactic, Seligman listens as Joe lays out the narrative of her sexual awakening, budding promiscuity, and compulsion, the two often digressing into literary, musical, and fly - fishing references that provides Joe's story a contour, unfolding (as in much von Trier's recent work) in discrete chapters marked by their own title cards and sets of aesthetic choices.

That skepticism is actually one of the interesting narrative choices that Wan and his team have incorporated into this sequel.

Legendary game developer Tim Schafer of Double Fine fame responded by saying that the box should be forced to make a critical choice from which a narrative would branch out.

We became friends during that year and we were friends on the first day of shooting, so all of the big narrative adjustments in the story, but also some of the choices that Daniel could have made and other characters, other actors, these choices were available for them to make as well.

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The team discusses the unique setting, deep narrative and some of the moral choices the player has to make while venturing deep into Dubai in Spec Ops: The Line.

If anything can happen, nothing is surprising — it is that struggle with the basic rules of narrative in narrative filmmaking that makes Howard a poor choice for fantasy (Willow, The Grinch) and an even worse choice for serious drama.

Not all of it works: Recurring ghostly appearances by the dead Orlando are a hoary narrative device, and Aretha Franklin's «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman» is a slightly jarring soundtrack choice.

Although in one instance — a party sequence featuring a rather clichéd depiction of Catherine's feelings of claustrophobia in a crowded space — the film falls victim to a heavy - handed narrative choice and unsubtle execution, more often, smaller moments such as Catherine's interactions with Rich, or her reminiscences about the past with Ginny, become crucial in expressing her emotions.

A French trailer hit at the beginning of the summer, but a new set of clips give a better sense of Denis» choices in unfolding this narrative, and also the claustrophobic, bleak cinematography utilized as well.

We thus begin to doubt Theo's critical diagnosis of the world around him, while the narrative space of attention begins to widen and allows the spectator more choice in what to see, freed from the protagonist's gaze.

I wish he had also made the narrative choice to cut Dakota Johnson's role, because the entire first act of the movie is useless.

A few inspired cinematic choices — a roving camera, an unexpected book - ending of the fourth act — help to breathe life into a stodgy narrative.

OKO ASHEWO A Nigerian sandwich of Pulp Fiction and Taxi Driver suffers from some dodgy narrative choices and pacing issues, but knocks out some compelling footage of a taxi cruising around Lagos (with a Gandalf The Grey hood ornament).

Interestingly though there is some welcome innovation in the form of dialogue choices leading to slightly branching narrative paths.

The mechanics of balancing weapons fire with energy shielding make for an engaging fighting system and its narrative tries to surpass expectation with creative choices, but it ultimately lacks the environmental detail and moments of awe that would have made its adventure a memorable one.

It's a wildly impressive fusion of a director, Robert Zemeckis, at the top of his game, a screenwriter, John Gatins, expertly blending personal experience with an array of creative narrative choices, and a tremendous lead performance by Denzel Washington.

There is an undeniable familiarity with many of his visual and narrative choices, yet he stays away from common cliches and he's not afraid to hold a magnifying glass to subjects glossed over in similar movies.

Annihilation unfolds via potentially unreliable flashbacks told exclusively from Lena's point - of - view, a nod to VanderMeer's novel (journal entries), but an ill - conceived narrative choice, since it robs Annihilation of the present - tense suspense necessary to adequately sustain Lena's exterior and interior journeys for the better part of two hours.

A debut narrative feature from writer and director Margaret Betts, Novitiate explores the secret world of nuns and would - be nuns, and of what motivates their choice to stay in convents their entire adult lives.

Admittedly, some of Johnson's narrative choices didn't exactly click, but there's still Abrams» Episode IX to bring it all home.

The world is little but a mechanism to advance his narrative — to make him a better filmmaker, to make him a better friend, and perhaps to get him into the college of his choice.

Other aesthetic choices are ace too: Carter Burwell's beguiling score is clutch, gently persuading out the underlying melancholy of the narrative and lead character.

(T) ERROR unfolds with the narrative kick of a great TV show — perhaps Homeland, which Shariff recommends to his mark, in a moment of comical fecklessness — but Cabral and Sutcliffe also make startling moral and ethical choices that shape the story they're telling.

Don Miguel — the leader of a full - scale heroin production center — whether by choice or by narrative framing is someone who's ostensibly searching for peace and the ability to provide for his family in his chosen way.

You're never presented with something that could truly change the outcome of the paper thin narrative, but rather with choices that actually open or completely close out quest opportunities.