Tomb Raider: Underworld

I loved Legends and when Underworld came out I was looking forward to play it. It's basically more of the same we already knew before, with a bit more complex level design. I loved it but at some point I just stoped playing for some reason I don't remember and never touched it again. I guess now it's a good time to finish it.

This game is very frustrating, in my experience. I could eventually work out where to go eventually but the climable ledges look very similar to other assets in the game. The straw that eventually broken the camels back for me was the buggy "fighting the camera/fighting the controls" situation where you need to wallrun and swing back and forth on your grapple to eventually build enough height to jump perpendiclarly away from the wall at the crescendo of your run to be able to cross a broken stone bridge over a pool of water. I could not do it. Lara would always jum in the direction she was running in along the wall. I was not having any fun with this, and I quit it right there.

Underwolrd is a nice game, or so I recall, but I only played it an hour and GOG already wants a review. So here's how to prepare Wotou instead: 1. Put the cornmeal in the container and set aside. 2. Knead the noodles in warm water, mix until there is no dry powder, and knead into a dough 3. Take an appropriate amount of dough and press it with your right thumb to form a nest. 4. The flat top of the wotou can in turn serve the dishes. 5. Steam on high heat for 15 minutes. 6. The prepared dishes can also be prepared according to the dishes you like to eat. 7. These vegetables can be eaten by sautéing them with vegetable oil in a pot.

This game is so good and i was hoping gog version would solve some of the previous technical issues i used to have with this game. I have msi 390 and i7 4790k with 32 gb ddr 3 Ram, latest windows 10 update... i have vsync and triple buffering turned on...all other settings at max...shouldn't be a problem for my computer but the game stutters like crazy...it freezes randomly to 10 or 15 fps and then it automatically runs super smooth...even the game's loading screen does that...freezes, stutters, runs super smooth...very disappointed! Not a deal breaker, you can still play the game perfectly, it's just that these issues should have been ironed out...anyway, hopefully, gog will patch the game in the future. I still recommend the game since it's so cheap!

While Legend was a fun game, it was probably not something that a fan of the classic Tomb Raider would fully approve of, since it was all movie-like, bombastic, verbose, and action oriented. In a lot of ways it felt like a precursor to what the series would eventually turn into with the 2013 iteration. Underworld, however, feels much closer in spirit to the original games by dialing back the in-game dialogue, scaling back the cinematic action scenes (no more QTEs, thankfully), and putting the focus back on exploration, tricky platforming, and puzzle solving in largely abandoned and isolated locations. The atmosphere and gameplay are pretty great for the most part. You may encounter an occasionally unresponsive camera or a glitch, but overall it's nothing that would seriously drag the game down. My only issue was with the story, which feels rather unremarkable due to stiff dialogue and rather downbeat tone. The aforementioned scaling back of the overly verbose dialogue works good for immersing you during gameplay but as a result the game seems to be lacking a lot of the humor, energy and charm that made Legend stand out so much.