Sentences with phrase «other than the protagonist»

And don't forget about characters other than the protagonist — in Silver Smoke, the protagonist Brie was a little unlikable but the two guys (Pilot and Rykken) captured people's interests and hearts.

During character creation selectable features include, gender, hair style and color, eye shape and color, body type, skin tone, and, for characters other than the protagonist, vocation (the game's term for character class).

Not exact matches

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

The fact that Corvo is also a silent protagonist means that any NPC interaction is pretty much trimmed to a minimum and so your ability to care for anyone other than yourself becomes quite limited.

Yet unlike so many of the director's previous cinematic puzzle games, Redbelt cares far less about tricking its audience than about plumbing its protagonist's psyche in a way both viscerally exciting and intensely analytical, a nifty trick that's aided by a host of uniformly sturdy but tonally divergent supporting actors (dainty Emily Mortimer, chilly Rebecca Pidgeon, hammy Rodrigo Santoro, goofy Tim Allen) who don't, at first glance, seem well - suited to coexist with each other.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

Most notably, fans have theorized that the guy on the far left is none other than John Marston, protagonist of the first RDR.

There's really not much to the plot other than for the protagonists to be chased around by the monster horde, while Stine seeks to write an all - new novel in the manner he wrote his old one (in manuscript form on a Smith - Corona typewriter that may have magic powers) with all of the characters he ever created on the hope that he can capture lightning in a bottle (or, in this case, a book) again.

The simple - sounding horns and piano work meld together to form the kind of music that protagonist Philip (Jason Schwartzman) would listen to if for no other reason than his idol and mentor, Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce), told him it was great.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

At a key moment, the characters recognize each other, not as protagonists in the midst of battle, but as human beings and the film becomes more about the complexities of the human condition than the eccentricities of its colorful characters.

In King's stories, their existence always serves to highlight the cruelty and arrogance of the tolerated white American male, and perhaps no other King protagonist is more unsympathetic than the main character of Thinner.

As the full title suggests, Benson nurses a greater interest in one of his protagonists than the other.

Maybe one of the protagonists is more charming than the others and can talk his way out of crimes.

I didn't like the execution of the ending, but other than that, I was fully engaged in the fate of «Our Man» (as the credits list the protagonist).

As good as Ejiofor is in the role, Northup is more of an observer than a traditional protagonist, usually giving way to others — like Fassbender — to steal the show.

-- comes courtesy of none other than Roman Polanski, and this finely detailed, impressively mounted Oliver Twist instills in its audience a rooting interest in both its scruffy protagonist and the film as a whole.

Comic book artist Ben Caldwell shares an image of Prez protagonist Beth Ross sporting none other than Thanos» prized Infinity Gauntlet.

There's little point in discussing the plot, other than to say that hot lesbian sorceresses, animal - masked doomsday cult members and predatory hot - tub designers all play supplementary roles in the procession of surreal events that befalls our protagonist, sexually undecided art - school freshman Smith (Thomas Dekker, looking and sounding distractingly like Jared Leto circa 1995).

I would have liked to see something other than bug - catching used as a pathway into catching Yo - kai this time, or maybe for the game to start with the protagonist visiting their grandmother in Harrisville.

Exhibit C is none other than the biggest gimmick World to the West, has to offer, four protagonists.

Almost no action that either of the protagonists do throughout the plot of the film make any sense other than for an excuse for pretty people to be amazing and be in the same scene together.

Chuck is easily distinguished from other boxing movies, because its protagonist is more antihero than hero.

Battle of the Sexes is that rare Hollywood film that, along with I, Tonya, affords its female protagonist the opportunity to be something other than a girlfriend, wife, or mother.

Both are set mostly in one building, both feature gruesome violence, both have a lonely bachelor for a protagonist, and both were made in the UK — but other than that, they've got basically nothing in common.

WEISMAN: On a more serious note, middle - grade protagonists often face hardships, but I don't think I've ever come across two characters (here Alice and Laylee) who realize that their parents» love for each other is much stronger than the affection they feel for their daughters.

The new Kenshin tale is called the Hokkaido Arc, and features none other than Himura Kenshin himself as protagonist.

Why, it's none other than Booker DeWitt, protagonist of BioShock: Infinite, making his public debut.

On the other hand, many thought Resident Evil 7 was a fantastic update of the concept of the series, but aspects as its very obvious American setting or the absence of any of the iconic protagonists made it feel like a spin - off rather than a main entry, at least for Japanese customers.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is the first game in the action - adventure series to star someone other than series protagonist Nathan Drake, a swashbuckling, devil - may - care fortune hunter.

Sure, we had other games where the player controlled more than one protagonist, but this was the first game where the set of characters you chose at the start of the adventure could dramatically change the story and its outcome.

The other characters are fairly diverse and some are more memorable than others, but it was a really nice to see a young Gale Holden - the father of Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions» protagonist - included as a connection to the original game.

The storyline is just as epic as we're used to with the «big» [i] GTA [/ i] games and Toni gets to do more damage than any other [i] GTA [/ i] protagonist; even going so far as to level several city blocks.

The Portal games got around this by having the protagonist mute, and the other characters talking at you rather than to you.

Perhaps it was due to my using a controller rather than a keyboard, or maybe it's because the protagonist is a knight wearing friggin» heavy plate armor, but it was a little difficult to get used to when most other games in the genre usually have a quicker - moving control scheme.

The following translated details come from Gematsu... - boy who lost his memory that the protagonist encounters on the Vacant Island - other than his name, Malroth, he has lost all of his memories since coming to the Vacant Island - luckily, he hasn't lost the ability to build - very good at fighting monsters and collecting materials - using the power he possesses, Malroth will play a big role in battles and material collection - Malroth will aid the hero as a relaible ally - he will fight monsters with powerful attacks - also helps collecting materials using the power he possesses for building - create weapons and equip them to Malroth - if you equip him with a powerful weapon, Malroth will play an even greater role - when the protagonist starts collecting materials, Malroth will lend a hand - use the power of two to cover more ground - while Malroth plays a big role in material collection, he is not good at building things himself

- the protagonist meets Tico, a mysterious bird - like creature - Tico leads you to the World of Icarnus, a truly magical place where the Incarnus live - monsters here are huge and they also drop a lot more items than regular monsters - in some places, you will be able to witness monsters fighting each other - use your drone to watch the fight from up close, but from a safe distance - there's a mysterious village that seems to be abandoned - there are some facilities in there run by Incarnus - there's a store run by a frog - like Incarnus, which stocks some rare items - this village has a strange structure that looks like an altar - the Incarnus are said to be pretty close to the gods

- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting points are closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting points, so there may be a gap in the progress difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.

Fortunately the only other protagonists besides Arion, Captain Riccardo Di Rigo and the villainous rival Victor Blade are more than enough to keep the player entertained in the first acts of a tale that's ultimately built to gently introduce newcomers to the weird setting and gameplay of the series.

Exhibit C is none other than the biggest gimmick World to the West, has to offer, four protagonists.

In Super Mario 64 DS, Toad expresses doubts about Wario, believing that he would rather run away with the Power Stars than help the other protagonists, and despite being intimidated by Wario, brazenly insults him by saying his cap smells terrible and telling him to wash it more often.

I would have liked to see something other than bug - catching used as a pathway into catching Yo - kai this time, or maybe for the game to start with the protagonist visiting their grandmother in Harrisville.

Hacknet has no protagonist, other than the person using it.

The third member of out leading cast will be none other than Alucard himself, as one of the series most popular protagonist.

She seems to serve no other purpose other than to be the token adult figure that brought the protagonist to the region.

Lightning, the game's main protagonist, is vitally important to the world for a reason other than her just being the protagonist (I'm sure of at least that much).

That dispute is the inspiration for a movie with the same name and the protagonist most likely by none other than Daniel Radcliffe.

0:18 - The protagonist prominently wears a mask, bringing a more practical use for the mask than in the other Persona games.

The lead character may also appeal to some gamers more than others who are seeking a more identifiable and likable protagonist in their adventure gaming.