Tomb Raider FIN

So I finally finished the game at 100% I might add. So let us quickly grade it!

First off I have to say that the gameplay was pretty easy to get used too. The controls were pretty good. I didn't have to resort to trying to use a controller like for some games *cough* Dark Souls *cough*. The enemies were pretty challenging themselves. The AI was decent enough that I could not just leroy all of them and live. I had to take the environment into consideration as well as try to stealth a lot of them. The "mash" sequences were pretty entertaining as well as the random even scenes. Id have to say that the puzzles though were overly simple. The AI for enemies has some derp moments and it bugged me how much they knew where I was with a simple long range kill despite me still being well hidden. The game also could have used more battle scenes rather then just a majority of my time being used to try and complete all the hidden objectives and finding loot. In any case overall the gameplay was positive.

The music was kind of meh, but I still enjoyed it a bit. The ambience was there in a lot of places but in some parts such as during enemy attacks it would loop and annoy me. Think of that one bgm in the movie Jaws. It was like that but over and over. Regardless the music was still pretty good enough that it didn't make me question a lot of it and made it feel like it was a part of the whole scenery rather than distract me (aside from the battle bgm).

Now the graphics was stunning to say the least and I didn't even play on Ultimate. Though all I have to say about it is that what made me enjoy the game so much is the overall look of everything from the terrain to the overlooks and so on. It was amazing looking through the whole environment and I didn't get bored of exploring at all because everything looked so interesting.

Now the story seems like your typical adventure story. Adventurers come across ancient place. Bad stuff happen. Damsel in distress. Save her. Win. Escape. So nothing out of the ordinary there, but I did enjoy the whole concept of Himiko and then throwing in bits and pieces of information from survivors through the years via artifacts and journals. The characters as well fir your typical adventure archetypes. I don't want to explain them all, but it was somewhat obvious about what type of role each of the characters would play and even if you didn't, the way the scenes panned out you would probably guess their fate a scene or two later. But I'm not dissing them at all. I think this new Lara is very refreshing compared to the old Lara. She's not so Kaboom but more Load, Click, Pew Pew meaning to say shes not so aggressive and is a bit more on the OMG we could die or you could die and I have no choice.

Overall I'd give the game a 4/5 and I would definitely recommended buying it if you wanted it. The game itself would give you a good amount of time to play unless you are like me. I'd say if I wasn't absolutely lazy at times I could clear it in 2-3 days.