The action platformer puts all its focus on controls as the player is to try to make it down a well without losing all of
their precious life points.
Not exact matches
It's time we Americans woke up to the fact that our desire to be «tough on crime» has gone way past the
point of fairness and usefulness and is now just ruining
lives and consuming
precious resources that could be far better used elsewhere.
She understands that she has not been brought to this
point in her
life for the sake of accumulating an exquisite wardrobe,
precious gems, and exotic fragrances.
However it notes that, there are examples of good gay relationships «in which mutual aid to the
point of sacrifice constitutes a
precious support in the
life of partners.»
The time will come when time will run out for us too, and once we see that, we see also that for the 18 - year - old at McDonald's as well as for the old crock in the retirement - home cafeteria, every one of our suppers
points to the preciousness of
life and also to the certainty of death, which makes
life even more
precious still and is
precious in itself because under its shadow we tend to search harder and harder for light.
A man who stands up for a bit of Britain's
precious greenery might be hailed as an idealistic environmentalist preserving our national heritage... right up to the
point people discover he
lives in the country, next to a field even.
That raises the question as to why the opening text
points out that
living in outer space is Earth's most
precious resource, and the wording of that information raises even more questions about screenwriters Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback's grasp of syntactic logic (If these
living spaces are outside the realm of the planet Earth, they can't technically be a resource of it, now can they?).
As they
point out, friendships become more
precious than ever at this stage of
life, since it's not quite so easy to tap into work social networks and the built - in network children provide once you've left the full - time workforce.
Random lumps and bumps are likely to surface on your
precious furkid's body at some
point in its
life, so you want to be prepared when they appear.
Clearly the only circumstance in which death through euthanasia can serve the interest of the animal itself is when the animal's experience of
life has degraded to such a desperate
point that the essence of what we all know makes
life precious and desirable has vanished, and there is no hope for recovery.
There is not much
point in choosing a puppy that has been raised in the relative social isolation of a backyard kennel, basement, barn, or garage, where there is
precious little opportunity for interaction with people and where a puppy has become accustomed to soiling her
living area and yapping a lot.
When
life = travel and travel =
life, everything in your pack has to have a purpose, and bonus
points if that
precious, occupied space can fill more than one void.
If you're standing slightly under an awning your character won't grab the edge, which sounds like a minor complaint, but when you're in the heat of the moment, seconds away from losing your
life, and more importantly
precious survivor
points to a herd of Zombies.
Once your stamina bar is depleted you essentially lose a
life, which can cost you
precious points, which can be used to purchase items such as food and drinks which boost your stamina, healing items, and items to regain your focus, which highlights clues in the environment to aid you in your investigation.
A combination of having no real -
life reference
point and a racing line I couldn't completely comprehend meant I'd either brake too early and lose
precious lap time, or fail to notice the transition from green to yellow, out brake myself and crash into the trackside barriers.
It's generally from this
point onwards where the game's generous supply of extra
lives quickly starts to dwindle, to the
point that they'll become just as
precious as the gems you're seeking.
Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my
life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive
life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my
life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the
point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not
live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a
precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day
Yet, in the end, there's a
precious lesson here in the midst of all this imaginative imagery: these paper works will eventually fade and decay,
pointing to the mortality and fragility of
life in all its short -
lived wonder.