Sentences with phrase «plot forward»

It's there, driving the plot forward, but it's not the raison d'etre as in games like Bioshock (which a lot of people seem to be comparing it to, for reasons that escape me).

So, yes, amnesiac protagonist is one of the plot points that drives the plot forward.

While story missions move the plot forward and open up new areas, there is plenty to do on the side — so much so that you can be occupied for days.

I feel like most games, and generally all AAA games, streamline narrative into a single resolution — ie, it all has to do with the one, major plot (even if its a subplot, it's in order to resolve something to carry the major plot forward).

The dialogue interactions between the characters are the most often used device to move the plot forward, and it mostly works.

Players will actually approach Shelob as something of an ally, and she'll provide visions that help push the game's plot forward.

The design was such that every area of the game meant something and had a purpose involving driving the plot forward.

Being an always online action RPG, players are tasked with completing missions — both of the main story kind that push the plot forward, and side missions and encounters which provide experience and extra goodies like additional loot or resources.

While previous entries of the series relied heavily on text to move the plot forward between missions, the cutscenes really do a great job at filling us in at what's going on before and during battles.

At risk of going over decades of Metal Gear lore, FOXDIE has both threatened and saved Snake from death, and there always seems to be a different version waiting in the wings to drive the plot forward.

David has a bit to do with the nightmare sequences in the game that act as seminal moments of discovery in order to push the plot forward.

At least the game doesn't pull punches when it comes to the way it balances fanservice with actual content: the vast majority of cutscenes do absolutely nothing to move the plot forward, instead focusing on another silly way for the girls to please the audience («boob - grabbing» or «butt - splitting» contest, anyone?!).

Various Guardians get named, and then sort of glossed over in favor of dialogue which moves the plot forward but which rarely ever stops to establish character traits.

Write strong dialogue that moves the plot forward, supported by narrative that reveals underlying tensions and motivations.

«Dialogue is used as a tool to move the plot forward, describe a setting, or even express a mood.

For those of you writing romance, read Thomas's book for an example of well - written intimate scenes that not only further the plot, they shove the plot forward with gusto, making you feel everything the characters feel and more.

While certain important details seemed clumsily glued together towards the end, and Flora's far - fetched opportunities in her new role as top forager are plainly used as devices to rush the plot forward to its preordained conclusion, the sheer breadth of her adventures outside the hive, the domestic drama, and various personalities kept me glued to my seat.

Taylor - Johnson completely transforms in this role, inhabiting the demonic redneck driving a revenge plot forward.

In many ways, the movie plays out like the first Harry Potter film adaptation, a hyper - aggressive checklist of events that must happen to propel the lengthy plot forward as well as hit all the story beats fans of the source material would expect.

Once again Disney and Pixar Executive Producer John Lasseter follows the studio's mantra: «You MUST kill - off a character early to move the plot forward!»

Hannibal's latest entry advances the Season Three plot forward, hopefully silencing all of those who have complained that the show has been too focused on character development.

Spielberg took a deep - rooted fear (a monster in the sea, a la Moby Dick) and somehow managed to make it even more frightening, buoyed by performances that drive the tense plot forward and an iconic soundtrack.

Just because it doesn't «move the plot forward,» many think it doesn't belong.

That's partly where the stupidity that moves the plot forward comes into play, but it's mostly in how limited Leah's view of what's important is.

Here, too, as in other recent films, Allen relies heavily on expository dialogue and voiceover to impel the plot forward.

It's supposedly super smart scientists become incredibly dumb in order the move the plot forward.

Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard - boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations between them that were meant to entertain above push the plot forward.

The movie is a slippery, serpentine thing; a single cut can propel the plot forward by days or weeks, but the overall progress feels disquietingly circular.

The trouble is that with so much to do, this is the closest that the show gets to letting him do it, with Peggy doing just as much to move the plot forward with slightly less screen time.

Little happens as far as pushing plot forward, save for the recurring mention of a villainous character named Vicuña Porto (Matheus Nachtergaele), who we won't meet until the film's final half hour, though plenty of doubt has been planted whether this truly is Vicuña by the time he appears.

During the chase scenes, he fires up John Powell «s score and goes to work keeping the momentum firing, although a bit of fatigue sets in during the Tangiers chase since it runs a little on the long side and doesn't push the plot forward.

The story unfolds in an even fashion with the threat of Jack Hyde driving the plot forward.

Each and every second of this production is either developing great characters, or moving the plot forward.

Why is curiosity an important element in moving the plot forward?

But just as this set introduces us to what could be a riveting story, even the film's seemingly mundane details that might have given character and depth, such as Joe's quip about so - called T.K.'s (telekinetics) being «assholes who think they're blowin» your mind floating quarters,» are really only expository moments designed to move the plot forward.

Perhaps the film needn't have encroached close to the three - hour mark to tell its tale, as side characters played by Cuba Gooding Jr (Daddy Day Camp, Norbit), who portrays «Mr. Untouchable» Nicky Barnes, and Kevin Corrigan (Superbad, The Dog Problem) feel more like pit stops for character contrast than crucial characters to push the plot forward.

As a result, the movie becomes unwieldy at times with some moments forced to push the plot forward.

As Greg, Dave Franco (James's real - life brother) has the much harder job, driving the plot forward, convincingly being Tommy's friend, and being in his shadow, and he does all this admirably.

To propel the plot forward Naberius has a plan involving the monster and the journal of Viktor Frankenstein, and has Dr. Terra Ward (Yvonne Strahovski) working on experiments to resuscitate dead tissue with electricity.

You can distinguish when the characters are behaving realistically and when they're just trying to move the plot forward.

And outside of a few characters that serve little purpose than to move the plot forward, the rest are treated with just as much care as Kendall.

So many characters are introduced in this one film that all mutants can not possibly have their proper time in the spotlight so we are left with spot fillers, empty vessels meant to look cool but in no way push the plot forward.

It's moments like this — and the brutal deaths that transpired at the earlier attack on the G.I. Joes — that should carry emotional weight with them but never do because Chu simply moves the plot forward without showing the consequences of these big events.

Mulan, on the other hand, is not a product of this heritage and therefore has a more direct agency in driving the plot forward.

I do agree with most of your comments, although I was perhaps a little more insulted and disappointed by the formulaic elements, particularly the unsurprising «surprises» that so clumsily and artificially shoved the overburdened plot forward.

Matthews was fascinated by the softer side of espionage, and as a result, Red Sparrow is a film that uses emotional drama instead of violence to move the plot forward.

In between the admittedly excellent musical moments, no character in the film speaks except to deliver the exposition that moves the already thin plot forward, and the pace moves forward so quickly for everyone except August.

The typical Disney princess has her roots in fairy tales and thereby pantomime, in which the main characters very rarely drive the plot forward.

And there is a lot of that particular family dynamic here, reduced by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug and the screenwriters to a series of flashbacks and discovered notes that clunkily try to round out her humanity while moving the plot forward.

There are plot holes big enough to drive a truck through and completely far - fetched coincidences that don't even work to move the plot forward.