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Cave Story [b] is a 2004 Metroidvania [1] platform-adventure video game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed over five years by Japanese independent developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such as Metroid and Castlevania. After its ...
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film.It was the final film featuring star Peter Sellers and David Tomlinson.Based on characters created by Sax Rohmer, the film stars Sellers in the dual role of Fu Manchu, a megalomaniacal Chinese evil genius, [3] and English gentleman detective Nayland Smith.
"Ponies" won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, [1] (tied with "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" by Harlan Ellison), and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story [2] and the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. [3] Strange Horizons called the story a "grotesque". [4] Lois Tilton considered the story to be "Highly Unsubtle."
The story is set in the Star Wars universe, five years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. It follows Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis , who becomes a target of the Galactic Empire and is hunted throughout the galaxy by the Imperial Inquisitors while attempting to complete his training, reconcile with his troubled past, and rebuild the ...
Toy Story 3 was followed by Toy Story 4 (2019). [135] It marginally surpassed the box-office take of Toy Story 3, [136] becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 2019, [137] and received a similarly positive critical and audience response. [138] A fifth film, titled Toy Story 5, is in development for release on June 19, 2026. [139]
The train and saloon help to set the period. A time where trains are a major form of transportation and in Yellow Sky's case, one of the only ways to get there. The saloon acts as a way to give insight and backstory to the two main characters, Jack and Scratchy. We get a perspective on the two from side characters in the story.
The setting is fixed in a particular place and time, the mood is set, and characters are introduced. A backstory may be alluded to. Introduction can be conveyed through dialogues, flashbacks, characters' asides, background details, in-universe media, or the narrator telling a back-story. [49]
Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a ...