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Tombraider Rebooted
LTK:
This article on Tomb Raider is really touching. The author does a really good job of relativising the violence against Lara with the story about survival.
I really want to play this game now.
Method of Madness:
Damn. I played it on easy, so that's probably why I never saw that scene (but I did go to Youtube and found it and...damn). One of the best video game related...no, one of the best articles I've ever read.
Masterpiece:
I regretted playing it on normal and not on hard mode. I would have had such a better time playing it on hard from the start.
Masterpiece:
That being said, I'm now halfway through my third hard playthrough, and I'm planning to 100 % that one, just like I did my previous three walkthroughs.
satsugaikaze:
Woop woop finished my first playthrough, 22 hours with 76% completion. I'm slow, sue me.
I really, really like almost everything about this game, from the fluidity of the animation to the character development. I don't think it would have been nearly half the game it was if it wasn't for how smooth and intuitive the platforming was. The quick-time events bugged me at a lot of places but they were minor and never really disrupted the flow for me (although I could imagine it doing so for other players less clued-in on the QTE-heavy sequences of the game). Lara's contextual death scenes are also quite unsettling for me, which is wierd because I normally brush off death scenes in horror media all the time.
They dramatically up the ante on the supernatural angle towards the end of the game which is a tiny bit jarring but for me not a deal-breaker, but it's a nice thematic shout-out to the supernatural elements from the previous games. Otherwise it's a very well-grounded action game and for me a shining example of what reboots should be like. Definitely a personal GOTY contender.
I will just say one thing though; holy hell Lara wear something with sleeves. Her body looks absolutely mangled by the end of the game. The only other character I've ever seen that many scars on was Vash the Stampede.
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