We tried to study each of those eras of games, and pull from what makes those types of games, those types of environments, and that type of gameplay unique and decide how those characters and those worlds would be in this world.

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Watching his choreographic work, though, I noticed some not so entertaining tropes: Ashford had a tendency to present his female dancers as types vamp, ditz, and so on rather than as full-bodied characters.

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Tate, Keith David, and Bokeem Woodbine put a great deal of heart into their performances, but because the characters are little more than types the film turns into one more indict-the-system polemic with little emotional pull.

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