For the first time we wrote about this project exactly a year ago, and even then it was clear that the success of the game in many ways, if not in everything, would depend on the release date. If the work is delayed, the project can, sorry for the expression, knock. However, time passed, similar in mechanics has long been released Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light And Enslaved , And Hunted will get to us only in June.

However, upon closer examination, it turned out that the game has a lot of trump cards and, in addition to cooperative mechanics, and its heroes not only quarrel, not only kill the monsters, but also, for the company, sit on the witchcraft drug.

Duet "Nepara"

For a long time, Hunted: The Demon ’S Forge seemed to us an exceptionally gloomy and pathos action movie about how a brave man and a beauty-woman cleanse the dungeons and understand the ancient evil. And in a conversation with Chris Kinan, the inxile entertainment design director, it turned out that the game was not limited to this. For example, sufficiently frivolous relations are promised between the main characters-a warrior groaned by steroids and an elf-hunter Ilara.

“Kaddok is a hardened and experienced mercenary that is used to being careful. Ilara, on the contrary, is impudent and impulsive. In addition, he wants to protect the girl, but it only annoys her, and therefore, there is, let’s say, very interesting relationships, in which there will be many jokes and tugs over each other, ”Chris smiles.

Nothing reminds? Well, of course, something very similar was in Enslaved, only exactly the opposite. However, with regard to laughter and jokes, Brian Fargo can conduct a master class for anyone. Here Hunted retains continuity with his first game, cult Bard’s Tale 1985, where, in addition to stripping caves (yes, Fargo always pulled underground), there were a lot of irony and drinking.

However, the story itself in Hunted does not give special reasons for jokes. It all starts with the fact that Gaddok and Ilar, by order of an unnamed magician, are looking for a precious mana and a powerful artifact Deathstone in the dungeons. When they get to the goal, strange events take place: a warrior and a hunter get the opportunity to communicate with the dead and are inextricably linked with some ancient evil.

On the needle

According to the design director, this story will be quite chamber: it is no longer about the salvation of the world, but about the fate of two specific heroes and how everything that happened is reflected in them. By reflection, oddly enough, this refers not to the spiritual side of the issue.

So, during adventures, both characters will use a stimulator called Sleg. After drinking it, the heroes temporarily gain incredible power, which will allow you to pass especially dangerous places — but, like any drug, Sleg will have, so to speak, side effects. Its frequent use will lead to terrible (but not yet voiced) consequences, and the final of the history of the game will depend on just who and how often drank this muck.

In addition, the heroes, recall, will have to communicate a lot with the dead. Using Deathstone on some corpse, Gaddok and Ilar will be able to find out secrets from the ghost or get a new quest, a reward in which will be advanced weapons and armor.

Research is an important element of the game (we will later explain why), because the developers could not afford to lock us in the catacombs alone. “You will see everything: from small settlements and besieged cities to ancient stone quarries and green jungle. A variety of locations allow us to play unique gameplay situations. However, the game about the dungeons could not do without dungeons, so the main events will nevertheless turn out underground, ”Chris Kinan winks.

Underground cooperative

In addition to conversations with corpses and stupefying, the heroes will still fight monsters. The most combat mechanics Hunted resembles the already mentioned Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. That is, heroes, one of whom personifies power, and the other — dexterity, fight more efficiently when they help each other. They can impose various useful auras on each other, remotely revive the fallen partner with healing magic, cover it with arrows or protect it with a sword.

In addition, everyone has unique skills, and we will have to competently use and combine them. So, Gaddok can raise the enemy into the air so that Ilara, using the moment, stuff him with arrows. Chris cited another example of such interaction. Among the enemies there will be zombies, which can be impressed only in the flesh not protected by the shield. To do this, you will have to go to the trick: Ilara should aim the creatures in the head — those, noticing this, trustingly lift the shields to cover the remnants of their rotten brains, and, accordingly, expose the navels. Here already his good word should say the Sword of the Gaddok.

Romance with stones

Another game whose author signed in his boundless love for dungeons.

It is customary to call the dungeons in games not only caves or, say, wine cellars, but in general all closed spaces with monsters. This has happened since the table Dungeons and Dragons, has been assigned to Rogue and Diablo, and now Hunted is released, which pays tribute to this very popular RPG-Location.

There is another game in which the dungeons are erected to the Absolute. They are figured there. If you drive the word dungeon into Google, then the first link will be, oddly enough, to Dungeon Keeper, the second-on an article from Wikipedia about dungeons, but the third is just for this insert, indie-RPG Desktop Dungeons.

We already wrote about this amazing game in an article about IGF 2011 and cannot miss the chance to tell about it again.

Edmund Makmillen aptly compared it with single -user chess. This is a step -by -step role slave, the average party time is fifteen minutes. The playing field is very compact — only twenty for twenty cells, but this tiny space is naked by gameplay under the eyeballs. Needless to say, because it’s not like a blow or there is a Faerbol throw, but even the hero’s step is already a tactical action that you should break your head.

At the time of the start of the batch, the player stands on one of the four hundred cells of the game field and sees another 8 cells adjacent to it — the rest are covered with fog of war. As he moves, he opens new cells.

It is here that the main gameplay find DD lurks: every time the hero opens new cells and the fog of war scatters over the sections of the dungeon, he receives health and mana points.

This is how it works: you fight with the monster, win, and then go for a walk in unexplored territories, restoring the reserves of life and witchcraft energy. Then you also deal with the next monster. And with one more. On the tenth killed enemy, the wounded hero confidently is going to improve health and faces an unpleasant discovery: the whole dungeon has already been investigated, there are no more dark cells (there are only four hundred of them, remember?). Having once realized this, the player begins to relate to cells (that is, the very dungeon!) just like the hero Hugh Jackman from the film "Fountain" — to the tree of life. That is, with incredible trepidation. You need to walk very carefully, in no case spending excess cages, if there is a different way to restore strength.

A lot of subtleties are strung on this basic mechanics. So, monsters in the game do not know how to walk at all — the hero decides when to attack them. There are many classes, and each has very specific, very useful skills. For example, a warrior sees through the fog of the war of monsters of his level, and the magician — scrolls with spells. This allows them to calculate the path to the goal in advance and not spend extra cells along the road. And let's say, the berserker receives a bonus to attack when he fights with monsters whose level is higher than his (on the berserker avatar — a naked man with a iron and without weapons).

Finally, the gods who need to be pleased in every way to please the game. So, the patron saint of warriors cannot stand magic and sorcerers: every time you kill a monster-black manner or get rid of a magic scroll, he will give you all kinds of bonuses. There is also a vampire god who will quietly suck your blood, the goddess-colle, encouraging abandonment with fireballs, or the insane goddess of pain, giving adherents their blessings when they receive wounds in battles.

All this is the player’s starting position, the location of monsters, scrolls, altars of the gods, gold and valuable objects — each time is shuffled and dumped on the screen in random order. Desktop Dungeons is one hundred percent-we will not be surprised if it is once included in a set of standard Windows-games. Until this happened, we urge you to download it from the network. The preliminary version weighs four and a half megabyte and is completely free.

Shield and onion

Even if you leave interaction with a partner beyond the brackets, the battles will not lose the tactical depth. And this is by no means a fashionable system of shelters, which will also appear. It is more important that in battle you can use the elements of the environment, apply point damage, look for vulnerable places of the enemy, and most importantly — as in a thoroughbred slasher! — you need to correctly block the blows.

“Understand what a blow you can or, conversely, cannot be blocked — this is the key to success in our fights. It is impossible to win here by selflessly by force of the attack or by going into a blank defense, ”our interlocutor warns.

Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the shields will constantly break, both your and enemy. You can choose a new one from the corpse of a defeated enemy — but only if you just did not turn it in exactly the same pile of rubbish with your own blows.

In addition to shields, arrows will be a constant cost item. The authors with special care implemented the main weapon of Ilara: the game will have a lot of various bows, each of which differs in the speed of the shot (the lower it is, the more precisely the attack and higher damage). If a slow bow shoots in the same way as any normal onion from RPG, then fast frying with arrows, like a natural machine gun.

The tears of the dragon

However, Gaddok and Ilar will be able to use not only ordinary, but also magical weapons (each it has its own), as well as combat magic (for example, throw lightning, freeze enemies or activate a certain runic trap). Such an abundance of types of equipment, magic and skills, multiplied by the unique features of each enemy, will allow the use of a variety of tactical options in the battles. “Every time during Hunted's presentations, we are amazed at how many new combinations of skills people find in the same situations,” Kinan shares his impressions.

And of course, all this can be pumped. To improve ordinary skills (in a harsh man, they are clearly connected with a near battle, in the eared girl — with distant) there are collected magic crystals, and the so -called tears of the dragon are spent on the upgrade of magic; they will have to look for them too.

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Research and search for valuable resources in the best traditions of the Dungeon Crawler genre becomes the most important part of the gameplay. In addition to crystals, dragon tears, hands and shields, you will constantly need to replenish the reserves of various potions. Moreover, you will not find the most valuable equipment, according to the authors, performing exclusively plot tasks and moving directly to the credits. Well, but about talkative corpses with side quests behind the bosom, we have already told you.

We will wait? The old-regime stripping of the dungeons with a truly steeply implemented mechanics of archery, inventive cooperative and heroes who have fallen on the witchcraft drug.

Percentage of readiness: 90%

About the nomination

As we have already noted in the selection of films, 2020 turned out to be completely crazy and violated all possible rules of the film industry. So we decided to abandon our usual scheme: this time we will not compare the series among ourselves and arrange them in places. Instead, we offer a selection of the ten best projects last year. It presents a variety of genres, styles and formats-so you will probably find something to your taste.

"Starger"

Once a channel The CW , And in the soprene "Sidab", he released really good superhero shows. The first seasons "Arrows" And "Flash" They did not claim masterpiece or a new word in the genre, but they performed confidently in their niche. However, the creators lost their way when they began to please everyone at once: both geeks and warriors of social justice, and lovers of melodramas.

"Starger" — This is their return to the roots, in times "Smolville". Although much more it resembles the first "Spider-Man" Sam Raymy and, oddly enough, "Super family". And all because they, like Stargers, are inspired by the sixties comics: bright, naive and not a drop of their own absurdity. At the same time, a costume booth in the series successfully adjacent to a teenage drama: it does not pull attention, but adds depth characters, and events — weight. In addition, with all the ease of the tone of the narrative, the creators are not averse to killing one of the heroes-and without any wonderful resurrection.

Surprisingly, at the time when, when all the superhero shows are used to honor only "Boys" , Where they are frankly staring over the genre, the “Stargers” manages to revive the old plot, without pouring it with darkness and cynicism. This is a series in which there is everything that you love for or once long loved a superhero.

"Hunters"

Many critics smashed this series for tactlessness, because in "Hunters" A serious drama about the Holocaust is intertwined with an openly comic fighter. Relatively speaking, this is a hybrid "Schindler list" With the already mentioned "Boys". As in the hit Amazon Prime , The protagonist after the death of a loved one joins the detachment of the Avengers, who are fighting a threat hidden from most people. Only instead of the supervillains here are runaway Nazi criminals, and instead of Karl Urban — the great Al Pachino. This, by the way, is his first large serial role.

Like "Inglorious bastards" Tarantino, "hunters" — a fantasy about revenge and restoring historical justice. And this is also a reflection on the topic of a very ambiguous attitude of the States to Nazism. But, which is more important for us, it is just damn fascinating spy thriller, flavored with irony and brilliant acting.

"Dracula"

Having somehow finished with Holmes, scriptwriters Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatisse immediately took into circulation another star of Victorian literature-Count Draculus. Everyone who saw at least out of the corner of their eyes "Sherlock" , they perfectly understood that it is not worth waiting for the usual film adaptation of Bram Stoker. However, this time the showranders experiment went even further than usual.

In fact, "Dracula" BBC for only three episodes manages to cover the entire history of horror films. The first series is a costume Gothic horror with recognizable references to "Nosferatu" And to the studio paintings Hammer. The second is the slasher pure water of those that were flooded with cinemas in the 70s and 80s. Well, the third is a modern postmodern farce, where everything is not what it seems. At the same time, each of the series is almost self -sufficient as a full -length film, so instead of one adaptation of the classic novel, the audience received three completely different ones at once. The only thing that unites them (except for not such an important through plot) is the charismatic British Dolly Wells and the Danish class Bang. The latter without the slightest exaggeration can be called the best Dracula since Gary Oldman. This is an insidious predator endowed with devilish charm and sadistic sense of humor. After the galaxy of the tragic-romantic or caricature of the villainous interpretations of the most famous vampire in the story, seeing a kind of immortal Hannibal Lecter is a pleasure.

If you love vampire cinema and are ready for an unexpected reading of the classics, the “Dracula” of Moffat and Gatiss will surely please you with at least luxurious decorations and no less luxurious count.

"Queen's course"

Creators "Fersomed Gambit" — or " The queen »In official localization — you can applaud at least for how excitingly they managed to show the least spectacular sport — chess. In absolutely all the parties shown by the parties, the ordinary viewer has no idea what is happening on the board, but still cannot tear himself away from the screen, because the course of the game is perfectly read from the faces of the heroes, directing, installation and music.

Although, in fact, the series, of course, is not about chess — it is about genius, loneliness, obsession and self -destruction, which almost always go in a connection. Beth Harmon could have the same success to be a rock star or astrophysicist-and her path would run along the same spikes. Anya Taylor-Joy Divo is so good in this role and is obliged to collect all the possible awards, but not only she pulls the “queen gambit” on her shoulders. An excellent ensemble got in the series: here and the matured Harry Melling from "Harry Potter" , and not wanting to grow up Thomas Sangster, and charming Mariel Heller.

“The Queen Gamba” does not invent anything fundamentally new, but he shakes the stagnant genre of sports drama. It is not only for the sake of Ani Taylor-Joy to watch it, but one cannot but admit that the show won its popularity with her efforts.

"Creations"

Alex Garland was a kind of gray cardinal fantasy for many years. He wrote scenarios of a revolutionary zombie-chorror "28 days later" , cult "Peckla" And "Judges Dredd" , as well as games Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. And then Garland sat down in the director’s chair and took off "From the car" And "Annihilation" — One of the most praised fantastic films of the past decade. But "Creations" — This is perhaps the most risky project in his entire career.

In the center of the plot, a talented programmer girl Lily, who is investigating the mysterious suicide of her young man. He was accepted into the department of secret developments of a large IT company, and a day after entering a new position, he doused himself with gasoline and settled right in the courtyard of the office. But the intrigue is not how or why this happened, but in what the same department actually does. As soon as the viewer finds out the answer to this question, the true scale of what is happening is visible — and the scale of the plan of Alex Garland.

In the "development" he reflects on the topics of the world order, fate, free will, the device of time, reality and a lot more. Sometimes the brain boils from this or hefty goosebumps begin to run along the back — but, as it is in science fiction, all high concepts only framed the human drama. And here the show shamefully steals Nick Offerman: in his broken, truly tragic hero it is simply impossible to identify the character of memes from "Parks and recreation areas".

"Rasfrozes" is a deep and complex series, the creators of which definitely do not hold the viewer by the idiot. But in order to justify this credit of trust, you will have to pay the show maximum attention.

"Dyatlov Pass"

In the last couple of years, Russian TV shows are rapidly crawling out of the swamp and conquer restrained approval even among skeptics. Recently, we devoted a whole selection to the most worthy projects, but we did not include the most high -handed and praised domestic series of recent times — "Dyatlov Pass". We hasten to improve, because the show really turned out worthy, albeit heterogeneous.

In fact, we have not alone in front of us, but two as many as particularly similar to each other in the series: one is dedicated to the investigation of the death of the “Dyatlovites”, and the second — the group itself and the ill -fated campaign. They are shot by different people, in different styles and even in different genres. And although the neo -ore detective with Peter Fedorov came out pretty good, albeit not without scenario jambs, he is far from the second “Dyatlov Pass”.

The creators turned out to be just brilliant stylization for Soviet cinema. Operating work, music, actors play — everything refers to the ribbons of the time of the Khrushchev thaw. The illusion is destroyed only by the clarity of the picture, mustachioed, but still recognizable Yegor Beroev and, of course, the plot. Something, and the mystical thrillers were not shot at that time. Each series dedicated to the "Dyatlovites" is saturated with an oppressive feeling of close disaster. The guys together experience dangers and pour out to each other, although the viewer already knows that they are on slaughter. And the finale, although it is based on a rather controversial version of events, cannot but break into emotions.

For the domestic industry "Dyatlov Pass" — bold and, which is much more important, a successful experiment. To make such projects more, they must be supported.

"Bangs of London"

Director Gareth Evans made a named dilogy for himself "Raid" , who glorified the Martial Arts of Martial Arts Iko Wais throughout the world. Then-already in the mid-2010s-the director returned from Indonesia to his native UK, where he removed for Netflix horror "Apostle". The picture turned out to be a good, but never outstanding. However, two years later, Evans finally created something that corresponds to his reputation: "Bangs of London".

According to the plot of the main mafia boss of England, they suddenly kill, and the entire giant criminal empire is once in his unbalanced son, who is obsessed with a thirst for revenge. Not all vassals agree with such a state of affairs, and a real war is flared up on the streets of the British capital.

London gangs suggest two comparisons. The first is the early films of Guy Richi, in which all humor was replaced with bloody shootings and brutal hand -to -hand contractions. And the second — "Game of Thrones" In modern setting. Here is the confrontation of powerful houses, and the death of important characters, and sudden betrayal. Associations strengthens the presence of Lady Stark herself — Michelle Fairley, and here she again plays a decisive widow.

London gangs are the most stylish criminal series after "Sharp visors". And in terms of action, in principle, little will compare with him, because even without the participation of Wais Evans perfectly copes with the staging of cruel battles.

"World! Friendship! Chewing gum!"

For our country, the nineties are not just a decade, but a whole era, moreover, extremely contradictory. In Russian cinema, it is customary to portray it in exceptionally gloomy tones in the manner "Brother" Alexei Balabanova: As a time of troubles, chaos and a rampant crime. However "World! Friendship! Chewing gum!" takes the courage to violate the prevailing tradition. The series depicts the nineties from the point of view of adolescents — and here not gangster showdowns come to the fore, but gatherings on the roof, "Dandy" , First love, as well as adventures that simply could not be in more calm times. Although the dark signs of that time, the series does not bypass: death from a knife or bullet is a common thing, teenage drug addiction at a peak, and ordinary people are ready to trade at least in the market, at least get into fraudulent schemes to feed their families.

At the same time, "World! Friendship! Chewing gum!»Looks great and sounds even better — among Russian projects, an equally atmospheric and adhesive soundtrack can boast "Method". But the main decoration of the series is actors. Sergey Stepin is especially distinguished in the role of the harsh grandfather San Sanych and the rapidly gaining popularity of Yura Borisov. The latter plays the noble bandit Alika-Afghan and the vnagoy is stealing every scene with its participation.

"World! Friendship! Chewing gum!" — the most sincere and nostalgic story about childhood of those that were shot in Russia over many years. And a little nostalgia is exactly what the doctor prescribed in the current strange time.

"Alien"

Due to phenomenal success "It" Hollywood again became obsessed with Stephen King. New film adaptations dripped like mushrooms after rain: here you and you and "Cemetery of pets" , And "Dr. Dream" , And "KASL ROCK" , and a bunch of projects at the shooting stage. True, due to the fact that the main incentive for the creation of these films and series was fashion, their quality turned out to be quite heterogeneous. However "Alien" From the HBO channel, you can confidently classify the successes.

A small town is shocked by a brutal murder of a boy — but even more local ones are shocking that all evidence indicates a school coach. His public arrest launches a chain of tragic events, and the policeman who is investigating, too late, begins to suspect that the real devilry can be involved in the case in the case.

"Stranger" is a gloomy detective thriller with a very viscous atmosphere and successful interspersed of mysticism. Fantastic assumption only complements the classical story about the search for an elusive maniac. But perhaps the main reason watching the series is Ben Mendelsson. In the past five years, the image of a flat villain of blockbusters has been fixed after him, but the “stranger” allows the actor to demonstrate what he is actually capable of. In some scenes, his game makes his way literally to tears.

Fans of King and terrible detectives about catching serial killers to miss the "stranger" is strongly not recommended.

"The ghosts of the Bly estate"

A couple of years ago "Ghosts at home on the hill" They made a lot of noise: it seems that the mainstream audience finally appreciated the talent of Mike Flenegan, one of the most distinctive and promising directors in the genre of Horror. And when it became known that the Ghosts will become a series of anthology "American Horror History" , Many began to look forward to new horror stories — but instead they got something completely different.

At the heart "Ghosts of the Bly estate" Lies the story "Turn of screw" Henry James is a work that periodically makes the reader question the reliability of the narrator's words. So the series constantly plays with the viewer: he throws him up the details of the puzzle, but until the last hides the overall picture. Which of the shown is real? What horrors were going on in this estate forgotten by God? What the hell is not so with these children?

As in the first season, a lot of time is devoted to the study of characters, their background, fears and motivations. But now romance also plays an important role. Yes, “the ghosts of the Bley’s estate”, like most Gothic novels, is a love story, only seasoned with mysticism, and therefore Saspensa has become smaller. So if you are waiting for a purebred horror, you will remain disappointed. But if you are not against genre diversity, then you should give the second “ghosts” a chance.

Continuations and finals

And now we will briefly go through the continuation of already known projects.

Heat "boys" acquired the second season, and he left behind a slight disappointment. Of course, we received a colorful villain Stormfront, and Anthony Starr and Karl Urban are still gorgeous, but the general plot was noticeably stalled. We hope that in the third season he will gain momentum again.

Ended "Darkness" -One of the main science fiction series of recent years. As fans feared, the creators were so carried away by the interweaving of plot and temporary https://sister-site.org/slots-safari/ lines that in the end they themselves could not unravel the resulting ball. I had to chop it quite rudely: the story has the ending, but it seems hasty and crumpled.

But John Favro and especially Dave Filoni did everything right-and they deserve some order for salvation "Star Wars". Together, they proved that the Fanservice is not so bad in itself — the main thing is that its quality and feed are not pumped up. Much of what they scolded mercilessly “Skywalker. Sunrise" , Raised the second season "Mandalor" to top tops.

Well, the finale "Clon Wars" , Namely, the last four episodes, is, in principle, the best that happened with the Star Wars over the past fifteen years. The animated series does not just complement "Revenge of the Sith" , But it also allows you to feel the horror of the tragedy that befell the Order of the Jedi and the distant-daling galaxy.

That's all the best series of 2020 that fell in the field of our vision. And what show did you look at last year? Write in the comments!

All the results of 2020 from gambling

Genre: Cinema Communication Director: Patty Jenkins Scenario: Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, Zach Snyder, Jason Fuchs Cast: Gal Gadot, David Tulis, Robin Wright, Chris Pine, Konni Nielsen, Elena Anaya and others Premiere in the Russian Federation: June 1 Slogan: "Justice will come with her" Rating: 16+

Goddess

It is on the island of the Amazons that this story begins. Here the baby Diana grows up, learns to fight, enters into her first conflict with an excessively defering her mother because of the desire to leave to fight with the agent Steve, whose plane (exactly above the territory of the Amazons), the Germans knocked out. Here she gets a very solid education, which she shines more than once in the course of action.

And here it turns into the most charming beauty in the entire multi -sized DC, and at the same time Marvel (crying with envy, black widow!). It seems that the “Wonder Woman” returns that era when it is not shameful for an adult, a solid man on the wall, a poster with a film actress-after all, she is not “Hot-Hot-Hot”, but really beautiful.

The design of the island’s interiors seemed to be engaged in Tarsmam Singh.

Gal Gadot is so royal in the image of Diana that it steals literally every scene, the participant of which becomes. There is something so anticoneless in it, which provides an ideal one in the image: the word "goddess" from the poster is not an exaggeration either plot or visually.

And this is great-because a difficult task lies on the shoulders of this character: the Wonder Woman must bear its feminist message to the world. Not matriarchal, not about the struggle for the rights, but that is the original, philosophical feminism, casting doubt on male values: career, power, money. Diana fights for the love, mercy and happiness of her unfamiliar people in the fields of the First World War, in one of the most difficult periods of human history.

Wonderine is so strong that it could win the war for two weeks.

The film is very deft qualities, opposed to the god of war Ares.

Moreover, if the miracle woman as a bearer of ideology-here it is, look and enjoy! — then about Ares, we cannot say exactly who he is inventing, personification of negative human qualities or a real villain who became the root cause of the world war. Each character has his own vision of this issue. Spectators do not fully know what will change in the world and in the characters themselves if they reach the intended goal. Thanks to this, the film perfectly preserves intrigue and keeps in tension.

The most important moment of the myth is the heroic of his sword.

The god of war

Scriptwriters and director skillfully construct and alternate vivid situations: amazing combat scenes, hilarious dialogs, terrible, unsightly frames of war. World War here (unlike the “First Avenger”) is not an attraction and not background — it is real suffering, injury, death, horror in the eyes of women and children. It is a plot engine, a constant source of motivation for all actors. And for each war is acting in his own way: idealist Diana is eager to save everyone and everyone, a pragmatic Steve is trying to fulfill his combat mission, and the villains revel in violence and power.

Bright armor of the miracle woman contrasts perfectly with the gray background of trenches.

The First World War experiences the strength of Diana's idealism, completes the formation of her character. And helps to open better to her companions. Then the authors were able to gracefully dance past the whole field from the rakes, on which their predecessors previously advanced. Satellites of the Wonder Woman-not superheroes who at the decisive moment will do everything for it or pull out of captivity, but also a ballast that does not flicker underfoot-these are just people. You can say about everyone what he wants, what role does the general plot play. And even in the final battle, where secondary heroes physically cannot help Diana, they have their own important and quite feasible task — their place for the feat.

Adventures in London are easy to confuse with personnel from the film "Fantastic creatures and where they live".

And since we talked about the battles: the action in the film is to match the main character — beautiful. A very spectacular slowdown in time, the camera following the bullet, inhumanly graceful movements — as if looking at the explosive mixture "Matrices" , "Three hundred Spartans" , "Equilibrium" and fatalics from Mortal Kombat. What is doubly pleasant, this wonderful action in the film is exactly as much as you https://sister-site.org/kaiser-slots/ need. The picture does not sag and tires anywhere.

Witch

And yet DC could not do everything perfectly. There are not many problems with the villains of the Wonder Woman as other multi-senior tapes, but still they are. The main bastard calmly holds until the very last moment — cold, indifferent — and it really works. He scares. It is respectful. Takes by the soul. But for the very curtain for some reason begins to yell and bulges his eyes, which pretty spoils the impression. It is clear that the director wanted to show that all this is calm only the mask behind which the fear of death lives-but it was possible to serve somehow more, without cries.

The Paradise Island is somewhat reminiscent of the Marvel Asgard. Well, the abode of Elrond at the same time

Or here's another problem: the evil chemist Dr. Poison is in no hurry to share his motives with the viewer, she just behaves as if she likes to do nasty things. In one place, she even laughs at the next dirty trick, like a doctor evil. When one of the characters calls her a witch, you vividly understand that this is a very accurate definition for this villain. But I would like to know more about her — who she is? Why is her face disfigured? Who gave her this strange porcelain half mask?

There are enough some logical bloopers, some of which, probably, arose at the installation stage. The Amazons, having superiority over the enemy, for some reason get off the rocks, from where they could fire the Germans from the bows almost without loss. The warriors are cool, no doubt, but they are not friends with the strategy at all. The ship of the Germans — it seems that the island has hidden — does not try to attack it or send new landing groups. Well, or at least somehow notify the big earth about the find. What-well, you think the magical solar island was found, business!

And the fact that the heroes get from the island to London literally overnight on the sailboat, it seems real magic — and the presence of a tugboat does not clarify in any way. It remains only to dream of a directorial version that would remove similar oddities, but at the same time could reveal in more detail Dr. Yad.

Anti-squad of suicides

Since the film was shot when producing Zak Snyder, there were not without religious references-here are the branded shots “The Savior of Humanity against the Sky with open hands”, and the reasoning about whether a person is rotten by his nature, or after all this nature someone spoils.

Separately, we note the curtsies to the side "First Avenger" : flight on a huge plane at the end of the film, a trip on a motorcycle through a gloomy forest, and the very name of Steve — the hero of Chris Pine constantly wants to call Rogers. In principle, he is Captain America — what would he be without a superhel and with England as a homeland. And in the film there is, so to speak, a gun that hangs and does not shoot. Would have told in more detail, but you yourself understand — spoilers.

Villains as they are: love themselves, hate the world around them.

In addition to the fact that the “Wonder Woman” is full of internal contrasts, it is still perfectly opposed to other creations of mass culture. Even within the framework of the most film outstanding DC. In fact, before us is an ideal antipode "Suicide detachment". Instead of a bunch of poorly open characters — one exemplary hero. Instead of infantile and vulgar Harley Quinn, adult Diana with impeccable taste and education.

The crazy love line of Harley and Joker is easy to contrast the restrained military field novel (oh that you, what spoilers, it was obvious from the first shots of trailers!) Wonder Woman and Steve-None-Coroders. The comparison can be continued and developed until a full -fledged article, but you have caught a general thought.

Diana could just crush the hand of this bald brawler. But this contradicts her values.

The film speaks with the viewer at different levels, and it's very cool. “Wonder Woman” and an allegorical parable about the struggle of female and male values, and a solid thriller with elements of the detective, where you don’t know what to believe in, and even a good comedy of positions, which begins every time they leave Diana alone with Steve or put in in New cultural environment.

In addition, the film works perfectly on a visual level — the picture sets the mood perfectly for each scene.

We got the best female character in movie comics, the best film in the multi -senior DC and a great occasion to talk on serious topics. Damn, I want sequels from this woman!

Pikmin 3

50% pikmin 2

20% The Legend of Zelda

20% of charming picmins

10% juicy fruits

Pikmin 3 went to release for a very long time. For nine years of development, the game managed to change forty times, including moving with a technically modest WII to a fairly powerful WII U. In the desire to bring the project to exceptional quality, the developers did not hesitate to postpone it for almost a year — from the start of the console until the summer of 2013. And now Pikmin 3 goes out in very difficult times, when the new “Big N” console is trying his best to find his audience, but so far it is not successful in this, and competitors are already breathing in the back.

But the expectation was worth it. Pikmin 3 is the typical game from Nintendo. In the best sense of these words — bright, colorful, cartoony, but with a completely expensive, deep gameplay.

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Picmins are small funny creatures living on a distant planet PNF-404. In an amazing way, they combine the features of plants and animals: a small humanoid body crings a petal or a bud. Like ants, Picmins are damn hardworking and have a collective mind. They also know how to obey the teams from the outside well, which the astronauts use, from time to time falling to the surface of the planetoid.

This time the guests lingered in order, but they appeared in the amount of as many as three people.

New faces

The expedition arrived from the distant planet Kopye in search of fruit stocks that its inhabitants feed on. The spacecraft crashed annoylessly on the approach, and therefore, in addition to juicy fruits, it will also be necessary to look for the key-an important part, without which our heroes will not be able to leave the PNF-404.

By the way, the characters this time are all debutants, and very non -trivial.Alf, a ridiculous bastard guy with blue hair, is a simple and slightly forgetful guy who admires the captain of the ship. Captain Charlie, with all the harsh appearance, turns out to be very romantic and not indifferent to Brittani, the only woman in the crew. But Brittani herself prefers … food! Each time it strives to snatch the largest portion of fruit juice. Here is a completely unusual love square for games from Nintendo!

► the main characters assembly. It would seem so cute and unpretentious, and after all, each in the skeleton in the closet!

The entire trinauts of the astronauts falls under the control of the player, between which you can freely switch. They, in turn, already with the help of whistles can give commands directly to the picmins. Why are the expedition members the help of these tiny creatures? Yes, then, that otherwise they will not stretch for a long time! Who, they can, will be able to overcome terrible monsters with a large number? Or move objects to open a new path? Take fruits to the ship? Not the Cosmos researchers themselves do this!

Picminology

Simple ability to lead the tiny wards is enough to survive the planet at full dangers. To give the Picmin command, you just need to whistle and point out the object with which you need to interact, whether it is an object, fruit or enemy. Here are just an approach to their minions. There are five of them: red, yellow, blue, pink and stone. Everyone has their own characteristics, and they have to take into account: some individuals are not afraid of fire, others pass electricity through themselves, others feel great in water, and so on. In other words, you will not find universal assistants — you will have to carefully consider which fighter to use and at what point. The number of picmins can be increased by bringing special chips or bodies of killed enemies to the spacecraft, but only a hundred assistants can be on the field at the same time.

► Each large territory in the game is made in the style of a particular season. There is, of course, winter.

The main goal of the game is to explore five vast territories using the help of newly acquired wards. Many places will be initially inaccessible to you: to get there, you will have to kill enemies, move objects, learn to cut the path and so on.

Most obstacles on your way are nothing but puzzles. Here, for example, is one of the ordinary situations: the fragments of the tiles from which you can build a bridge for the inaccessible part of the location are under water, and all the picmins in your subordination are afraid of it. We'll have to go to the other end of the location, find a new type of picmines, bring their number to the right amount (and for this you have to crank up a few more difficult pieces) and only then move on. There are a lot of such tasks, and variations are very different. You can even say that each of the five vast territories is a complex and carefully thought -out puzzle in itself, comparable to the "Zeldov" dungeons.

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A consistent solution of problems leads to battles with bosses, which you can’t just defeat either: you need to study the behavior model and look for gaps in defense. Pikmin 3 It seems to be a strategic game as Metroid Prime — The first -person shooter, but all this is pretense. In fact, both projects are based on the adventure.

The time that the heroes spend on the surface of the planet must be disposed of with the mind. The fact is that the entire gameplay is crushed for short, about fifteen to twenty minutes, days. Each of them begins with landing on the planet and ends with departure into orbit. It is simply impossible to study any location in one day, it will take at least five days, and often even more. Therefore, every day should be as productive as possible.

Fortunately, all gaming days are fucked in a common log, and you can replay them at any time. In other words, if you are, say, on the thirtieth day of the study of the planet and suddenly realized that they “constructed” the game on the thirteenth, you can try to fix everything.

This is important: At sunset, try to collect and bring all the picmins to the ship. The representatives of the local fauna left on the planet will be used to feed immediately after darkness, and this heartbreaking process you will have to see in a special short cut-scene.

Although the gaming mechanic does not contain any fundamentally complex elements worthy of competitors for Pikmin 3 is not easy to find. Closest rivals (in the person Overlord, Little King’s Story And Army Corps of Hell) significantly lacks integrity and variety even to just be in the same league with the series from Nintendo. A little pulling away from the usual formula of the strategy genre, Pikmin 3 finds his approach to the console audience. Therefore, he deserves the title of one of the brightest representatives of the genre on prefixes over the past few years.

► The first serious boss in the game. First you need to break its shell with stone picmins, and then attack the vulnerable places with brisk red.

What happened to purple picmas?

[[Bullet]] That is exactly how Regina Fiz-Eme felt a little over a year ago on E3.

During the announcement of Pikmin 3 on E3-2012, the head of the American unit Nintendo -Reggie Fiz-eme-admitted that he feels right like a violet picmin. This type of creature appeared in the second part as “tanks”: lilac soldiers were bulky, unhurried, but very strong. In the main campaign of the third part, however, you can’t find them: stone picmins came to replace, which also break crystals in a couple of blows. Violetov has to be content exclusively by multipleor, where they can still be found in some missions.

Such a story about evil irony and rapidly passing folk love.

It’s a little annoying that the game turned out to be simple — you won’t find any special problems in a solitary campaign: the sales of juice are growing before our eyes, ordinary enemies can only take a large number, and the bosses are killed maximum on the second attempt. Of the entire Pikmin trilogy, the third part is perhaps the easiest, and therefore ends quickly-you can see the final credits after eight to ten hours of the game. One hour of gameplay for each year of waiting? It will be not enough! There is, however, what to do after the completion of the plot campaign — for example, collect all the fruits (half is enough for passing) or sit down for a multi -user regime.

► Separated screen is not the best solution for the local multiplayer. You can easily get confused at particularly tense moments when something is constantly moving on the screen.

Together fun

Although a single campaign cannot be passed in a cooperative for three (insulting!), the developers have created a separate mode for two players. There are two modes, cooperative and competitive, divided into separate missions. Oddly enough, it is during the joint passage that you can feel a real challenge: due to the specified parameters (like restrictions for the duration or number of picmins) from the scalcent of local tests not to overcome. In addition, you can try to get platinum medals at all stages — the task is even more difficult. In general, multiplayer is perceived as a pleasant supplement and prolongs the pleasure of the game for a few more days.

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During the development of the project, Siger Miyamoto tirelessly repeated that Wii U was the perfect platform for Pikmin 3. Therefore, it is very strange to see that the tablet controller of the console is used by anyway. An interactive map, which allows you to look around on the ground with a simple movement of a finger according to the touchscreen, really helps out, but does not pretend to be the status of a “revolutionary invention”. The rest of the gamepad is used for a number of pleasant chips, such as studying the intra -game encyclopedia, short video messages, photographs and other things.

In Pikmin 3, you can play on the built -in touchscreen bypassing the television screen, but this is not very convenient: the bunch of WIIMOTE and NUNCHUK for the gameplay is suitable much better. By the way, we advise us to use it — you will save a lot of nerve cells during especially saturated battles.

Pleased

Sharped

• beautiful graphics;

• interesting characters and entourage;
• A fascinating gameplay combining strategy elements and adventure.

• The game is short and easy;

• A solitary campaign cannot be held by three;
• modest use WII U Pad.

The main ratings

9/10

Gameplay

9/10

Visual series

8/10

Interface and management

9/10

Sound and music

"Achivka" of the editorial office

Cold heart

Survive the death of all the wards of the picmins without breeding neither a tear.

Special ratings

9/10

The soul lives here

There is a category of games from which the soul becomes easy and pleasant, and Pikmin 3 is a wonderful example. Starting from the design and ending with the voice acting of the characters, she does everything to charm the player and make him smile.

9/10

Waited not in vain

Longerings from the gaming industry are very rarely able to adequately leave the long development cycle — we recall at least Prey or Duke Nukem Forever. Fortunately, Pikmin 3 turned out to be an excellent game that almost fully justified nine years of waiting.

Verdict

Site assessment

9.0

PERFECT

Pikmin 3 — The same game that was necessary for the new prefix from Nintendo. A beautiful, fascinating and kind adventure perfectly demonstrates how games should look on Wii U. And if such a project came out at the start of the console, the situation could have developed differently.

I recently met my friend Mark. He said that his wife has a novel and they get divorced. I was upset: they seemed a harmonious couple. But, having thought out, she came to the conclusion that in their relationship one could notice signs that increase the risk of treason.

Despite the fact that betrayals happen quite often, you can protect yourself if you find a true partner. For this, already during the first meeting, you need to evaluate a new friend.

A few questions to assess the risk of betrayal

1. Does he or her like a person who can change?

This question seems naive. However, the first impression may be very true. Moreover, you can determine the tendency to betray even by photography.

In 2012, a study was conducted, during which men and women showed photos of faces of the opposite sex. They were asked to assume what is the likelihood that a person in a photograph in the past cheated on the partner.

Women almost accurately indicated incorrect men. They believed that the courageous appearance is one of the signs that a man could change. Brutal men are more likely to be incorrect spouses.

Men were sure that attractive women are cheating on their partners. It turned out that in the case of women, external attractiveness does not speak of infidelity.

2. Is he a sexual voice?

Voice is one of the signs of attractiveness. Men attract tall, feminine voices, and women are low.

At the same time, men suspect the owners of a high voice of frivolity, and women are sure that men with a low voice are capable of betrayal

And these expectations are https://dreamgroundworks.co.uk/spark-oficialnyj-sajt-obzor-2023-i-bonusy-demo/ justified. Men and women with pleasant voices have more sexual partners, they more often change spouses. It is interesting to spend time with them, but long -term relationships with such people often turn around by disappointment.

3. Does he have problems with alcohol and drugs?

People with alcohol, narcotic or other dependence often turn out to be incorrect partners. Dependence speaks of problems with self -control: it is worth a person to drink, and he is ready to flirt with everyone in a row, and often flirting ends with intimacy.

How to find a true partner?

If the signs of potential infidelity are noticeable immediately, then understand that before you is not a person inclined to treason, is not so easy.

The risk of betrayal is reduced if partners have similar religious views and an equal level of education. If both partners work, there is less chance that the third will appear in their relationship. And finally, confident people are less likely to cheat on partners than those who have problems with self -esteem or signs of narcissism.

In the current relationship, the listed features are not so indicative. About how likely infidelity is, the dynamics of the development of relations is best said. If, over time, satisfaction with both partners does not decrease, then the probability of betrayal is small.

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Colorful funny pillows with prints, cozy checkered blankets are laid out across the hall. We are located right on the floor on multi -colored yoga rugs, propping their backs with pillows. Someone is half-pasted like a Roman at dinner. Someone sits in Turkish, like on the beach. For us, tablets with handles have already been prepared — for records. There are still no things and mobile phones with you.

Two of the included coach Lena, small and pretty, meets, like Chichikov, with exclamations of BA! Buddy!» — these girls have already visited many trainings here.

Now we need to tell why we are here and what are we expect from the training «Development of orgasm».

• “Everything is fine with the new man, but I have nothing. I felt everything with the old one, but I don’t like him. But I don’t want to lose new. «.
• «I try to arouse sensations, it already turns out, but not everywhere».
• «I need immediately and quickly, and if you do not have time, then nothing needs to be» «.
• «Three children, now you can think about pleasure».
• Another girl in the evening is waiting for girlfriends with a detailed report.
• Well, finally, I: I want to write an article, because I know that this is a problem for many.

Wigwam and stranger without clothes

The first task is excitement. Options are possible:

1. “I remain indifferent to the prospect of sex”;
2. “My body does not light from its touch”;
3. «I want, but I do not reach discharge».

In the first case, Lena advises to heat the atmosphere, allowing herself the most frivolous thoughts. We will not make diagnoses, but it happens that we simply are not in this forbidden sphere of life, because we are “not like that”, we are afraid to let go of control and lose our face. It happens.

«Treatment» — plunge into the traction atmosphere of passion, live it. Watch erotic films, perform an exercise called «stranger»: imagine some-the main thing, safe! — A stranger who sits nearby, without clothes. Since the habit is set in 21 days, three weeks to exchange messages with a partner, sending him a description of your fantasies (and he is yours) and even what you consider dirty and “too much”. So write: “Can you imagine how this is possible. «

If the body is naughty and you don’t really feel anything during sex, start getting to know yourself: after a hot bath, a languid look in the mirror, slow massage, search for what is pleasant for you. The strength of orgasm, in addition to psychological causes, is associated with purely physiological. The more signals from the body enter the brain, the stronger the excitement. So, the more erogenous zones turned on, the stronger you want. To our happiness with you, our skin is also an erogenous zone.