Sentences with phrase «with strong narratives»

Tales studio delivers another great JRPG - albeit not as great as Vesperia - with a strong narrative and a superb battle system.

With a strong narrative that stands on its own, Origins is a game not only for series fans but a great starting point for newcomers.

Fortunately, with a strong narrative, art direction, and gameplay, Rime met expectations and possibly surpassed them as well.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 had at least four major hurdles to clear: deliver a second helping of the first game's quirky strategy and action; adhere to the cartoony, yet charming and often beautiful aesthetics; tie it together with a strong narrative; and do it all with the PSP's hardware.

Its other merits are obvious to anyone who knows what to look for in a film - a fresh story with a strong narrative, a subject of importance, and a cast that delivers both individual excellence as well as creating an air of unity that lends credence to the whole effort.

While it might seem strange that a nearly 200 - page book is just a series of questions, the plot holds together well with a strong narrative and definite hook, even if many readers might find the literary device a tad gimmicky.

Games with a strong narrative drive that only require a feature set large enough to move the narrative forward.

A video games company can apply if they are registered for at least 12 months and have produced a game with a strong narrative structure, which has been commercially distributed since the beginning of 2013.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 had at least four major hurdles to clear: deliver a second helping of the first game's quirky strategy and action; adhere to the cartoony, yet charming and often beautiful aesthetics; tie it together with a strong narrative; and do it all with the PSP's hardware.

Set in 1918 London, Vampyr promises to offer a unique, deeply immersive action role - playing experience steeped in vampire mythology, with a strong narrative.

The game seems likely to further expand on their fusion of gameplay with a strong narrative with a focus on exploration.

A game that actually allowed for emergent narratives would need a game with strong narrative blocks (like Blade Runner) to keep the flow of events cohesive, in the face of the player's actual freedom and independence.

Last Light also offers a mix of stealth and horror elements that build sections of great tension and all out action working brilliantly with the strong narrative.

Some of them are built with a strong narrative, other are more casual and just combine collections of challenging puzzles that the player has to solve one after the other.

«Melanie is one of Grayson's most recent works; a voluptuous figurative piece with a strong narrative which discusses the changing view of what constitutes feminine beauty.»

Born in a country and into a culture with a strong narrative tradition, his work departs from customary figuration, yet revels in the craft and artisanship of his chosen medium.

The paintings on view include portraits, self - portraits and works with a strong narrative component.

Marcel Dzama: With a strong narrative bent, it makes perfect sense that artist Marcel Dzama would embrace the moving image along with his signature figurative drawings, which channel the surrealistic armies of Henry Darger along with rabbit holes pioneered by Marcel Duchamp (Dzama's admitted muse) and pal film director Spike Jonze.

It began with a strong narrative, and now explores more open and abstract forms of storytelling which develop between the works of a series or the individual work and the viewer.

Her work, which began with a strong narrative, now explores more open and abstract forms of storytelling which develop between the works within a series and between the individual work and the viewer.

For example, Kenneth Chestek found that judges, law clerks, and practicing lawyers rated sample briefs with strong narrative components as more persuasive than sample briefs without strong narrative components.13 Sean Flammer found that judges rated sample briefs as more persuasive when they were written in plain language rather than in legalese.14 Similarly, Robert Benson and Joan Kessler found that appellate judges and their law clerks preferred briefs written in plain language rather than in legalese.15 Finally, Joseph Kimble and Steve Harrington found that judges and attorneys preferred plain language over legalese.16 These studies, however, measure only the judges» and lawyers» stated preferences for particular styles of writing.

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Jacobson's strong understanding of what makes a compelling narrative resonates with the authors and directors she teams up with on films.

«But the narrative seems to be changing with strong economic numbers.»

«We are not pleased with the narrative in the media that has usually reflected a purposely negative tone that has really been dictated by a small group of dissident franchisees and their advisors,» Daniel Schwartz, chief executive of Restaurant Brands International Inc., said in an interview after the company posted stronger than expected earnings, led by solid sales at Burger King and Popeye's.

When you're planning your Facebook campaigns, think about how you can create a narrative and tell stories within your ads in order to build a stronger connection with your target audience.

His strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.

It is further bound together by Hopewell's strong theological convictions about how narrative functions as God's work with congregations.

This section of the book represents history as it should be written — with a sagacious use of sources, a strong narrative drive, and an authentic whiff of the charged atmosphere of the times.

When you start 3 - 0 and end 3 - 7, it's easy to come up with a sort of «They started strong and collapsed» narrative.

Denise Pope, one of the co-authors of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids, puts much of the blame for this failure - is - forever narrative on parents who are obsessed with marks and achievement.

Labour has had a successful party conference, Ed Miliband made a powerful speech with a strong commanding narrative of Labour's objectives for government, but the only let - down was in the crucial area of economic policy.

But it's actually rather impressive, combining plenty of specific policy ideas with an overarching political narrative (predatory capitalism), strong, real - life anecdotes (see 11.14 am) and a nice new buzzword («stewardship banking»).

The news story may have been small, but it played on strong narratives, such as the Home Office's policy of preventing controversial figures from coming to the UK and frictions with the Islamic community.

Stronger firearm laws are associated with reductions in firearm homicide rates, concludes a narrative review published in the November 14 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

I always try to still write a strong narrative with those posts, and since so many of you like the wear - to - work posts more than general outfit posts, I will try to show you more of my work wardrobe when shooting looks.

There's nothing wrong with Paranoia that a stronger director, livelier leading actors and several hundred fewer narrative conveniences wouldn't cure.

Iron From Ice is a strong start to the series, with some promising narrative setups, a believable atmosphere, and one particularly shocking moment that made my jaw drop... I do hope we see the playable characters get a bit of a personality injection, but I think we've got a favorable introduction that lays out its pieces in such a way that Episode Two is only going to be fascinating.

The game boasts a strong narrative that shows the dangers and strains associated with gang membership, and promotes a strong sense of morality via game elements inspired by classic gang movies, such as «New Jack City,» «Boyz»n the Hood» and «Menace to Society.»

What he lacks in strong narrative skills he makes up for with a brilliant performance and some terrific mise - en - scene.

Detective Pikachu moves far away from the main series, boasting a strong narrative and a charismatic protagonist that bears little to none resemblance to the Pikachu we're familiar with.

Josh Brolin and Daniel Kaluuya also are strong supporting actors, both providing the film with a heightened sense of urgency as well as a balanced level of comic relief which doesn't take away from the films overarching narrative.

With this, the film becomes more sure on its legs — particularly after what should have been strong performances from heavy hitters Buscemi and Sevigny, but instead served mostly to run narrative paces (Buscemi as a surrogate father, Sevigny as a surrogate pragmatist) for Charley and Pete.

While «The Kid with a Bike» didn't rock the boat of their established narrative and visual aesthetic, it's hard to quibble with the results when they are this consistently strong.

Perhaps the film's strongest narrative points involve Mosab's relationship with his father and Mosab's explanation that his allegiances remained with his imprisoned father all along.

Sometimes, building a strong narrative with believable characters can be enough to transport you into the fiction and help the viewer empathize with the characters» plight.

«What I wanted to do with «Strong Island» and the portrayal of my brother was to add back the dimensionality to him and his life that had been compressed into almost nothing during the investigation,» he said, noting the historical narrative about black people being dangerous.

Granik will go to Cannes with «Leave No Trace,» her first narrative film since the Oscar - nominated «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and a film that received strong reviews when it premiered at Sundance in January.

Danny Strong, well - known for his work on HBO tv biopics, teamed with Lee Daniels to pen the screenplay that manages to somehow balance the epic sweep of the narrative and the more subtle intimate social commentary.

The largely interior, dialogue intensive picture sometimes veers into feeling like a TV movie (not helped by Howard Shore «s often overbearing, obvious score) with its static visuals, but strong turns by Del Toro and Amalric (who thankfully ditches a sea of quirks early on and settles into the part) at least keep things engaging, even if the narrative remains stuck in neutral for large chunks of the film.

Though the narrative shares some obvious similarities with the three - act structure of the first movie, «Catching Fire» is superior in just about every way, including stronger, emotionally - charged performances from Lawrence and Hutcherson and better character development for the other tributes, who are more than just numbers and faces this time around.