Sentences with phrase «of narrative exposition»

As expected, students will start turning up dead, driving Hajime through the daily life sections where players build rapport with classmates, give gifts, and receive peices of narrative exposition.

Little floating heads are the games only source of narrative exposition (what little narrative there is)

Not exact matches

For a fuller exposition of the consonance between the Zeus myth and the Wiltshire story, see James F. Hopewell, «The Jovial Church: Narrative in Local Church Life,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry, 68 - 83.

Allen P. Ross, in Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988, 744 pp., $ 29.99) states that his book is not a commentary of Genesis, but a guide to help teachers and preacher appreciate the richness and complexity of the narratives and to organize the theological teaching for presentation to a contemporary audience.

Using narrative, parable and exposition, Eiseley has the uncanny ability to make us feel that we are accompanying him on a journey into the very heart of the universe.

Stanley Kubrick shuns common narrative crutches such as voice - over narration or back - glancing exposition in favor of a strict antiseptic license that necessarily utilizes classical music from the likes of Johann Strauss to serve as an inner - connecting emotional aural fabric upon which the filmmaker balances mesmerizing outer - space sequences that have been copied ad nauseam ever since.

It's just that the film feels so unusually empty; even if he has subtly snuck his usual hallmarks into the mechanics of the narrative itself, he's populated the foreground with characters who never come alive as anything more than archetypes, who trade in so much exposition it's hard to see how any audience member could be overwhelmed with confusion at the story being told.

The central couple of «The Strangers» has now been replaced with a family in crisis — Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson as beleaguered parents Cindy and Mike, Lewis Pullman as golden boy son Luke, and Bailee Madison as troublemaking daughter Kinsey — who arrive at the park after an exposition - heavy introduction that soon gives way to a lean, mean narrative.

The Imitation Game, however, is crystal clear, lockstep in narrative and exposition and careful to leave no child behind as it explains how Turing and his team of irregulars managed to build the first computer and defeat the Nazi war machine by intercepting its communications.

But there are traitors, both human and metallic, which makes things complicated in the sense that more exposition is required, and plot twists need to be handled with screaming instances of narrative torque.

The narrative framework for the story is clunkily handled, giving the audience a barrage of exposition, and the switches between the courtroom scenes and the flashbacks that make up the bulk of the film are also slightly heavy - handed.

The final act is a slight copout; It's a pet peeve of mine when films end in a exposition - fueled narrative explaining what happened in the aftermath.

Telling a story so rife with exposition and characters, saddled with the narrative weight of six previous chapters, Deathly Hallows is likely to confuse uninitiated Muggles.

It's a mediocre movie with a muddled narrative and an incredible sense of constant confusion due to its similar - looking supporting characters, poor exposition, and overly convoluted plot.

Storytelling in video games can be a hit or miss endeavor, with the best games nailing the basic tenets of good narrative, and the subpar games dying under the strain of too much exposition.

Rather, there's the breezy compression of information, the casual throwing - away of character exposition and streamlining of plot progression that seems directly proportional to the kinds, and duration, of input one encounters in comic book narrative.

A chase film with tinges of science fiction in the margins, this is a thriller that does not burden its audience or overcomplicate its narrative with extraneous exposition, allowing you as the viewer to piece many of its mysteries together yourself.

A strong sense of style, an observant screenplay, and the sort of performances that elevate standard fare into the realm of memorable buoy the picture over many of its rough patches and redundancies, but Lin needs to squeeze out his narrative with greater urgency and balance: long periods of high school drama and exposition separated by badly justified epiphanies undermine the picture's coherence and flow.

In the time since, the rise of exposition, convoluted narratives, and thinly drawn character arcs have overtaken the marketplace — ... [Read more...]

The employment of several narrators isn't as confusing as it sounds, although the decision to stick all that exposition at the front of the movie is just the beginning of its narrative issues.

He makes smart use of minimal exposition and narrative ellipsis, and he embraces the inexplicable and the uncanny.

You will learn more about their childhood and how both became close friends however this is mostly done through narrative exposition in the form of Chloe's journal that you can access at any point in the game.

Seeds are planted early on so that this manipulation works, but for all the exposition thrown our way, none of this matters as we're invested in the narrative and the characters pretty much from the get go.

From the second it hits the ground (running), Into Darkness reaches for the stars in terms of narrative, acting, exposition and flow.

With his theory of language as narrative raging with a staccato fury, exposition is discarded and what's left is the mean gristle on an overworked bone.

Gone are exposition - heavy cutscenes, long - winded fits of dialogue and various other tropes most commonly associated with video game narratives.

Modern narratives rarely reflect the type of bookish descriptions articulated by human game masters, extending oft - sterile cinematics for exposition.

Exposition is still there, as that's how we learn about the world and narrative of Cave Story, but it's never inane, trite, or obtrusive to the game, as the story is layered and feels meaningful as it quickly puts forth a mystery of what's happening and why, and sets up a dark tone to the proceedings that contrast quite heavily with what many may see as cute visuals.

On top of that exposition for the book's main narrative is also wedged into the pages as well, and the end result is prose and dialogue that often feels awkward and stilted.

All the narrative exposition is conveyed via both the action of the player, and those of the world around them.

After the defeat of each Jotun, you are returned to the hub world and are fed narrative exposition in the form of Thora's backstory regarding her family, history and personal thoughts.

Before and at the finale of each mission, you're given a brief introduction and conclusion piece of exposition that helps lay the foundation for parts of a narrative.

She lamented the role of exposition in narrative games.

Having all the exposition in supplemental data logs outside of the narrative is an amazingly amateurish mistake.

Doodle sets up a quick layer of exposition for the game's simple narrative, provides quick tutorials only when needed, and interacts with Noodle by picking up his tail to save Noodle from a fall or make a puzzle a tad bit easier.

Rendering of the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will be located in LA's Exposition Park

Today, CAAM sits among the many major institutions transforming Exposition Park and South Los Angeles, including the California Science Center, the Natural History Museum, and the proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.»

Combining their individual practices and shared interests in performance and narrative, Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth's collaboration, Les Lettres Tristes, was a thoughtful exposition on the art of distraction.

+ George Lucas finally settled on LA's Exposition Park as the location for his $ 1 billion Museum of Narrative Art, which will include Norman Rockwell paintings, Mad Magazine covers, photography, children's art, and Hollywood props from Star Wars.