Much like Ex Machina, Annihilation is science fiction tinged with plenty of realism, and as it turns out that familiarity makes the differences all the more unsettling. This is still Earth, and not some crazy futuristic dystopian version, either. The technology, the characters, the location, all of it is immediately recognizable and relatable, and that serves to ground the more fantastic elements in a sense of reality.
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One of the movie’s strengths is keeping the humour coming without becoming overly manic with the delivery. There are enough lulls to give the best jokes space to breathe, and there are a number of silly one-offs (like rich person fight club or the fertility doctor) that get played out as we go. It ends up being a very well-paced mix of clever lines and slapstick physical comedy.
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Speaking of gritty, there are no punches pulled here. The violence is intense and realistic with choreographed fight scenes replaced by blood-soaked desperation. There’s sexual assault and multiple scenes of gruesome torture where the perpetrators of these acts don’t bat an eye.
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In Omensight you play as The Harbinger, a supernatural warrior dispatched to ward off the coming apocalypse. Your task is to unravel the murder of the Godless-Priestess and locate her soul, which is needed to stop Voden, the would-be destroyer of the world.
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Easily the best part of the film is the train attack itself. It’s well done, not sensationalized — there’s no back story for El Khazzani or any of terrible “villain building” that hurt 12 Strong — and depicts a true act of heroism for which all involved deserve tremendous credit.
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Dragon’s Crown Pro has been remastered to take advantage of the PS4 Pro’s 4K capabilities, and running on that system it looks richly coloured with sharp spell effects and attack animations. It’s not a quantum leap over the original, but that’s a testament to Vanillaware’s quality art design and beautiful environments than a knock on Pro’s quality. It looked good then, it looks great now.
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Each run is procedurally generated, shuffling around rooms and enemies to challenge your survival skills as you look to ascend the three pyramids. For the first several hours odds are you’ll meet with limited success, forcing you to turn you hard-earned loot into things like more health, increased damage and, as your level increases, additional skills.
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