I totally understand who considers this game worst than the other two, i particularly like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but the game does not learn with the past games.

First of all, it looks pretty as the others, in other words, graphics still good and i really appreciate this.

Now, the biggest problem to me: progression. In other two games of this trilogy, you can feel Lara becoming better and in SOTR you feel the same in all campaign.

Unfortunately, the story become worse than Rise of the Tomb Raider. It's very sad, a good story about legacy and discoveries becomes a cliche evil secret organization(It is a problem inherited from Rise of the Tomb Raider).

For me, it's the same level of Rise of the Tomb Raider, have a lot of problems and i didn't expected more. So i'm satisfied, but it's a okay game.

Shadow of the Tomb raider is a classical action adventure game with top quality Hollywood style plot. The game plays well and the progression is well-balanced mix of shooting or stealth sections, puzzles and platforming, talking with NPC's and quick time event style running action sequences. Most of these are well implented, and allow different play styles with good difficulty level. The most annoying I find are the quick-time eventish running scene where you are basically always running from something and have to react to falling things and stuff, they aren't real QTEs so there's no button prompts but you still have to memorise what do on each step and it's usually not obvious at all so it just becomes annoying. The camera is sometimes quite bad and especially swimming is torture. Other than that there is no big problems in the game. The music is top notch and the voice acting is passable. I kind of like using native languages for npc's but calling it immersive is quite absurd, that's not quite how it works in real world.

@choquei:🚨O que você faria nessa situação? Lara Croft se afogando num tsunami.

na minha opinião, infinitamente melhor que o antecessor dele, o rise. não que o rise seja ruim, mas esse aqui consegue melhorar muitas coisas que o rise falhou.

falando de gameplay, gostei que aqui o stealth parece realmente funcionar (e faz sentido, por causa da ambientação e cenário cheio de planta, etc, etc), fora que trocar tiro é muito mais suave e funciona muito melhor do que no antecessor dele.

a história em si me cativou bastante! não focaram tanto na trindade quanto no último e ainda deram pra gente alguns flashbacks da lara com a família, dando uma profundidade pra personagem e pra esse passado dela que até antes, não foi tão explorado.

a ambientação, cenários e principalmente trilha sonoras são muito bem trabalhados aqui, as florestas são tão vivas, por mais que o forte desse jogo não seja o mundo semi-aberto dele, eu acho que eles capricharam muito aqui, tem vezes que você só para pra olhar e fica meio encantado pelo trabalho bem feito.

não é o melhor jogo do mundo, nem o melhor de ação, mas pra mim ele cumpre bem seu papel. não é perfeito, infelizmente tem alguns bugs chatos, alguns puzzles que não fazem sentido ou que não funcionam as vezes mas no geral foi um jogo muito divertido!! só não vou ter paciência pra platinar sinto muito, muita coisa kkkkkk

I can't tell if this is the worst game in the remake trilogy or if I've just forgotten how basic the prior two were.

If memory serves, Tomb Raider (2013) as a "gritty reboot" for the series humanizing Lara Croft and giving context to her development as the titular grave robber/action badass mostly works! Rise of the Tomb Raider was Uncharted 2 with some minor open world stuff which mostly works! Which leaves Shadow of the Tomb Raider as... Uncharted 1 but with... less charm? It feels like a strange step backwards for the series that seemingly had some renewed momentum in the 2010s.

The game is gorgeous. The 15ish-hour adventure features some staggering environmental scale and especially impressive use of lighting to highlight beautiful overlooks of the Amazon. The production value of this game is the main sell. Unfortunately that admittedly impressive veneer is thin and frail. The beautiful world feels far from realized.

There are effectively four characters: Lara, her extremely patient sidekick Jonah, a proxy for the indigenous people that I wished was more interesting, and a very generic villain who kind of makes Lara look like a villain by comparison. None of the characters develop in a meaningful sense. Lara and Jonah are the only two who have anything close to a personality in the first place. It's a bummer because the game's opening section presents this tension of Lara getting in too deep--losing herself to her mission of hunting insert evil group. She's pushing so hard that she's hurting herself and those fighting to love and care for her. Neat! Make your invincible protagonist painfully aware of the toll of being an action-adventure murder machine. There's opportunity for growth here.

That doesn't go anywhere. lol There's a moment in the late game that seemingly implies that Lara was right all along, she's the only one capable of enacting meaningful change in this world, and the civilians around her need to deal with that fact or get out of the way.

I don't hate this game but it's really disappointing because it comes from a fun franchise, has a ton of polish, and stands as one of the latest steps in this style of blockbuster adventure game. It manages to feel like the most dull take on the genre at this scale in some time.

I'm open to critique here. If you liked this game, tell me what I'm missing!

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the third in the newest rendition of the Tomb Raider series, continuing an ongoing storyline from the previous two games.

The game looks and feels really good, both visually and audibly. Each location is beautifly decorated and all of the cast looks well done. Gameplay is still mostly the same as the other games, but with a few more stealth mechanics that blend really well with the new jungle setting. Also, puzzle and level design is incredible. Each puzzle felt like it was geniusly set up and it was very enjoyable to solve.

The overall story is lacking, playing like the previous games as a typical action adventure movie. After a hardcore gameplay moment, there was always a hardcore cutscene moment that felt overdramatized in some places in the story. There were also several moments of stuttering and other technical glitches, depending on the environment. Also, the lack of a minimap made certain areas difficult to navigate to find all of the artifacts and trinkets.

Overall, it's a pretty fun action adventure game that looks pretty and plays fairly well, but there's not much else going for it, although it was a fun playthrough.