Tomb Raider: Anniversary

TRA is a very cute and funny game.

Tomb Raider Anniversary is a magnificent reboot.

I never played the original Tomb Raider, or any of it's sequels. I always thought that all it had to offer was "big boobs polygon girl", and I just wasn't interested. But a while ago, I picked up this Anniversary re-release, and today, for the first time, I booted it up (I have quite a game backlog). Wow, was I impressed! Even making it into the first real area of the game felt like a small achievement. The controls are a tiny bit janky, but considering other titles from the era that I have played, they feel tight and responsive for the most part. The environments are beautifully rendered, the platforming and exploration are fun, and the combat sequences are suitably tense. If ever there was a reason to internalize the lesson "don't judge a game by its cover", Tomb Raider: Anniversary is it. If, like me, you've been sleeping on this franchise, I highly recommend you jump in, and I highly recommend that you make this the first title that you play. If you're at all a fan of puzzle platforming or action games, it's likely to be right up your alley.

An amazing, timeless classic game with a fantastik good gameplay. from an amzing time and era,

The game honestly falls into mediocre categories from most aspects, even if the gameplay is flawless on most scenarios, but on late stages in the game there are serious bugs I have encountered and I needed outside help to outplay the bugs occured during the playthrough. The camera angle is horrible and only by memory you can tell where are the objects you have to use while you are flying around like in any Prince of Persia games. Using free aim look feature is strongly recommended at such times. It took me a while till I realized I even have a grapple hook that changed everything to me. (I mean almost everything) Sometimes auto hooking objects are not enough you either have to be airborne or straight up aim look at the given object before hooking it. Basically that does the trick every single time There are however pesky ways to use advance on puzzle solving areas where the game really tells you to rely on your own senses to solve them and I mean it really punish you at that, sometimes even more than it should. So the game is really a time investing journey before you can finally finish it till the last stage. The combat is getting tougher and tougher by each level as you get better, but you must cling to a slow motion headshot trick to one shot kill the monsters trying to tease you to death without a brief moment for you to get up and try to prevent slopes or cliffs that Lara will get up the wrong way anyway so you fall to your death eitherway. Luckily the game is not that sadistic toward you so it's forgivable. Later stages of the game requires you to improvise more than usual. I mean when you felt like you solved a puzzle situation entirely, you should always think about that it's not over, it was just part of your suffering. The game story-wise is decent, nothing more nothing less. Not gonna lie, I liked the quick-react events during the cutscenes. They often caught me off guard as well. Overall: it's a fairly consumable title and yet I still recommend it.