Shadow of the tomb raider, 3
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requiemsSo, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, are you going to acknowledge or address the canonisation of another plane of existence in your universe, which the Yaaxil returned to? No? Alrighty then.
I did the rest of the DLC tombs :') It turns out the first one just really, really sucks in terms of level design - you can tell for several of these that they were designed with co-op in mind, there's a lot of needless back and forth. The last two also had a bit of this, though one of them was more so, damn this puzzle would be ten times easier if I had someone to stand on this platform so I didn't have to force the game to let me stand on a winch which I don't think is the solution but after half an hour and countless failed attempts somehow jumping on a winch twenty times until it let me stay on it for the additional height seemed the best idea.
The rest did have some timed sections - one is an almost level long raft ride - but they played more like classic 90s platformers, so I did the score/time attack trophies on those too. I should do the other three I did not like. But I'll have to look up how to do those puzzles quickly...
For the most part the DLC is weird. Some pad with missions outside of the tomb, some don't. A lot of the things you do are superflous and have no effect on the story or its outcome at all, you leave as you start. One did have a fun nightmare sequence which culminates in a shadow version of Lara telling her to end the pain and Lara being confused, because she's not in pain, and the shadow saying no, don't be so selfish, not your pain, theirs, you ruin the lives of everyone you touch so just end yourself, and I gently pressed my hands together like oh this is another catgirl with Esteem moment absolutely.
Otherwise the only thing left is Deadly Obsession. We'll see if I fold and give it a go: I need to pre-prepare for mogtomes by taking 3-5 alts through the start of HW so they can access Coerthas Western Highlands and Sea of Clouds to be eligible for Ultimog, so once I've done that and I've settled in to the Gold Saucer, maybe I'll take breaks by having Lara plummet to her death from cliff jumps.
I did the rest of the DLC tombs :') It turns out the first one just really, really sucks in terms of level design - you can tell for several of these that they were designed with co-op in mind, there's a lot of needless back and forth. The last two also had a bit of this, though one of them was more so, damn this puzzle would be ten times easier if I had someone to stand on this platform so I didn't have to force the game to let me stand on a winch which I don't think is the solution but after half an hour and countless failed attempts somehow jumping on a winch twenty times until it let me stay on it for the additional height seemed the best idea.
The rest did have some timed sections - one is an almost level long raft ride - but they played more like classic 90s platformers, so I did the score/time attack trophies on those too. I should do the other three I did not like. But I'll have to look up how to do those puzzles quickly...
For the most part the DLC is weird. Some pad with missions outside of the tomb, some don't. A lot of the things you do are superflous and have no effect on the story or its outcome at all, you leave as you start. One did have a fun nightmare sequence which culminates in a shadow version of Lara telling her to end the pain and Lara being confused, because she's not in pain, and the shadow saying no, don't be so selfish, not your pain, theirs, you ruin the lives of everyone you touch so just end yourself, and I gently pressed my hands together like oh this is another catgirl with Esteem moment absolutely.
Otherwise the only thing left is Deadly Obsession. We'll see if I fold and give it a go: I need to pre-prepare for mogtomes by taking 3-5 alts through the start of HW so they can access Coerthas Western Highlands and Sea of Clouds to be eligible for Ultimog, so once I've done that and I've settled in to the Gold Saucer, maybe I'll take breaks by having Lara plummet to her death from cliff jumps.
