Tomb Raider: Legend

Game is great in many ways but unfortenately there is a section in the game where you ride a bike chasing a train and have to fight enemies which is horribly unbalanced at least on hard difficulty I was playing at. No you can't change difficulty setting as you would have to restart the game from scratch. I did get pass it eventually but so many deaths in that section. That section I can imagine will make people quit the game and never look at it again. It ruined the experience of the game that I enjoyed otherwise. Game was fine otherwise but that section just ruined the full experience of the game for me.

Tomb Raider Legend tells the story of Lara Croft searching for the truth to what happened to her mother after and incident at a relic sight as a child. Its a failry straight forward story that ends on a cliffhanger. Lara is full of personality and manages to be a great combination of charming and badass that suits her perfectly. The gameplay is very smooth especially the combat which is the biggest upgrade from Core Designs games although the platforming holds your hand a bit too much which would only get worse with the survivor trilogy but here and in Anniversary and Underworld it is still satisfying. Graphics look good and hold up nicely of course showing age but the style and art design holds up well across the whole trilogy though. The soundtrack is great especially the main theme. Voice acting is quite good too no real complaints here.

This is another fun addition to the roster of TR games. The story is fun, Lara is a badass, and the gameplay is engaging. My only gripes are the presence of QTEs, which I've never liked, and the somehwat heavier combat focus. Still, if that didn't stop me from loving TR2, it won't stop me here either. Highly recommend.

Tomb Raider Legend is a fantastic nostalgia trip for me as the 2013 TR reboot was the game that brought me in contact with that medium even before playing myself. Of there's one thing I cannot stand in the older TR games it is this "anti-sprint" when pressing on Shift and she gets slower. But after reconfiguring the keys and getting used to it, this isn't a too overapering mechanism in this game. Actually having to wait until you jump when she does a flip though was a welcome change up from todays standards. The worst and most frustrating thing though was the stiff camera during the bike sequences. They can be a lot of fun but when I am nearly not able to move the camera behind her it gets quite frustrating in some scenes. The same goes for some jumps or climbs when the steering isn't fluent enough to perform the actions like intended or the camera makes a 180degree flip and you can fall off due to the confusion. Pushing crates can also be quite annoying, as Lara doesn't push straight but always has a slight sway to the sight. It is probably the easiest to drag them to a certain point and then turn and try to manover it to the exact location. And I've had several crashes and freezes. One time I had to replay the level twice, because it crashed bevore the point it froze last time. But then it luckily worked. This is of course massively fruatrating, but I am happy that it still works. Storywise and as of writing, this is the usual somewhat overnatural but quite intriguing hunt for ancient artifacts. This Lara is by far the "coolest" and most chill I have encountered. It fits perfec here. Though the best Lara is and will ever be herself in Rise of the TR. -The owls approve.

this game introduced me to the tomb raider saga back when in 2010 and now i've finally replayed it kind of a shame that it doesn't last that long, the worst part about it is how clunky the climbing feels and the camera angles randomly turning and making you jump into the void