Recent reviews by manywhelps

such a great remake, including the Ada DLC which offers a second path like RE2.

playing it with Tracer model means you don't have to look at an old woman for hour of gameplay

kinda like an indy half life 2, but its only 6 hours long so get it when it is cheap.

if you liked the first this is more of the same but it is too long compared to the first. i just got bored after 6 hours at the start of act 3. HOGs need to not overstay their welcome; constantly having to find the next key or always being blocked by a missing puzzle piece got very old.

10 hour campaign. still holds up with the gun play except for getting stuck on small corners too much. its got the epic scale of SM2 though obviously without the fidelity.

a pretty good grid based dungeon crawler.

some issues with enemy variety and on level 7 there is a big step up in enemy health pools.

there is actually something new with enemy strikes needed to be avoided at the right time, sometimes even on the diagonal. Some enemies you need to hit early and back off, some you need to two step to the right to avoid a wide swing. it's a good iteration on combat in these kind of games.

i tried this on steam deck, but it really needs WASD and mouse for the later combat as a a few hits can significantly drain you of rare health pots.

puzzles are standard fair with floor traps, fireballs, teleporting and stuff like that but interesting enough.

weapons degrade, but plenty of weapons drop so you have three objectives to counter this: find more, increase your inventory space and choose when to use the best weapons which was an interesting meta.

if you like this genre then this is worth your time.

fun game, not too scary as it is more surreal. towards the endgame there is a bit too much 'locked in place, listen to dialogue' and in one scene there is way too much talking before progression spots appear, which makes me not want to go back for an alternative ending.

but the design, overall story and the Easter eggs are all good and i feel i got the value i paid for.

great game. needs more tuning but that's what EA is for, at the moment it is a little too hard and relies on the dodge roll too much.

with patch 1.1.3 the MSQ breaking bug i had has gone so i am now able to progress. It has been a crappy launch for a AAA game and i am using mods to tune things like repair costs, travel costs, carry weight, etc but i am enjoying the journey now and i would say it's now worth a buy with the recent patches.

it was a bit longer than the previous titles and started to get tired of it at the end. The story was kinda mid but the tomb designs were a step up in the visuals, but still easy to complete.

was not a fan of the design choice of forcing you into two outfit options for 50% of the game, especially when they give you so many outfits.

but the side quests were not too many and OK and I 100% it on this second play through. it was a good TR game.

I hope Lara cheers up in any future game.