Tomb Raider: Underworld

NOSTALGICO

She finally found her mom! Slay queen! It's a shame that the DLCs are not on Steam, though. They were really good as far as I remember.

This game holds up surprisingly well as a whole. I have 2 main complaints 1. the game doesn't always communicate things well. Where to go, how things interact, what you need to do. This can result in backtracking to do something that realistically you couldn't have known you should be doing, or going to an area that you can't do anything in yet. There are times when the environment is not entirely clear what you can and can't grab. There is an in-game hint system that is... fine, I wish there was even more granularity to it. Sometimes it'll tell you what to do, but you're stuck on the "how" but it doesn't tell you that. 2. the combat is mediocre. You lock onto enemies and just spam the shoot button, most enemies in this game are animals that are either one-shot or massive bullet sponges. This isn't particularly engaging, at least for me. The Survivor Trilogy and the Uncharted games both made their combat in the style of stealth and cover shooters, which was a significant improvement imo. If you look at the timelines for Gears of War (cover shooter) and Uncharted (cover shooter + stealth) and such I don't think it's reasonable to expect this game to have adapted in such a way, but it is something that I felt playing this game. Despite those 2 (large) things that I have problems with, the game is quite fun overall, I'm a sucker for action/adventure games. Uncharted and TR are both weak spots for me. Some of the puzzles are good, some of them are just go fetch this thing and press Y. Overall, a fun, wacky adventure that holds up surprisingly well despite approaching being 2 decades old. Physics were broken until I turned on vsync, after that, it was fine. Needs more yellow paint