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...possible combination of poisoned, miniaturized, or turned into a frog. (In this game, turning your opponent into a poisoned, miniaturized frog was a major tactical coup.) Dialogue, like the martyrs’ fateful incantation, “Stone!”, appeared in poorly translated English in little blue text boxes...
...Japanese artists, this is a news flash from Planet Obvious.) The landscapes of the previous games were richly-rendered flat canvases, but Final Fantasy 10 has a three-dimensional world shot by an agile, spiraling camera that skates smoothly between close-ups and long shots. Gone is the blue text box, banished with other dear quirks of the series. The characters speak...
...down, lift his head, and turn around to tell his commander that, no, he wasn’t going to steal any more elemental crystals from innocent mages. Given a few-well chosen cues, your mind supplied the rest. The fact is, I wouldn’t trade the text boxes, even for stellar acting. Playing was a perfect combination of reading a book, watching a movie, and, to a lesser extent, playing an actual video game...
Titus Andronicus is not an easy play to tackle. When a show is most present in the public consciousness from a recent film version remarkable for its breathtaking visuals, there’s much to live up to, both in terms of respecting the text and creating something aesthetically memorable. Perhaps that pressure is what inspired this production. Nevertheless, the answer to what the director was searching for remains—much like the arbitrarily costumed actors beneath the dim lights—elusive...
...strangeness of this premise is only part of what sets Notable American Women apart, as Marcus discusses this world not only in his own voice and the voices of his parents, but in a third-person documentary style as well. The text is scattered with brief historical accounts of important events in the history of the Silentists, which also provides descriptions of experiments concerning the essence of women’s names. (These are remnants of the book’s initial conceptualization: Marcus stumbled across Jane Dark while writing fake historical accounts satirizing the patriarchal and condescending ones...