84

The story rips, the soundtrack rips, the atmosphere rips, the gameplay kinda rips if you play a couple missions a day, stop, turn off the game, leave your room, go down stairs, prepare yourself a nice lunch, prepare your two cats a meal as well, sit down to eat your meal, finish your meal, let out a long, hard burp of satisfaction, before getting off your ass and considering cleaning the dishes, but ultimately deciding to hold off on it till later. You decide to move your way into the living room, so you can relax on your newly bought, comfortable couch. You fall down onto the couch, and start to ponder what you should do next in the day. You could go back to gaming, but the weather is unexpectedly nice today and a walk in the park does sound relaxing right now. Oh, what the hell!" you say, as you attempt to get off the couch. Unfortunately, the comfortability of the couch magnetizes you to it leaving you unable to get up. You try again to get up, but despite all your effort and might you're unable to win. The couch looks at you with a smug grin as you helplessly attempt to rip yourself from its grip. Time goes by at a rapid pace, and you're losing your chance to take that much needed park walk. At long last you gain the strength to break free, and you lift yourself with the might of a lion. You've a taunting glance at the couch, before heading outside and getting inside your car. You drive all the way to the park, take your walk, and come back home exhausted. You prepare you and your cats a large meal, eat it, and then head upstairs to play some rounds of (Insert multiplayer game here) with your friends. After a long day, you get yourself ready for bed, before finally falling on the bed and getting yourself a nice four hours of sleep. A couple more missions of Drakengard will be pretty fun after that.

92

Tomb Raider in a few ways feel like the antithesis of Mario. While Mario is focused on fast and slick movement throughout zany and expansive worlds, Tomb Raider is more slow and methodical with its platforming and is more focused on grounded and atmospheric levels. They are wildly different in their goals, but that doesn't stop the both of them from being fun as hell.

Tomb Raider's style is not for everyone, but I never once thought the game was being too unfair. The most seemingly unfair mechanic that being the combat can be clunky, but as long as you're smart with your jumps and conserve the right ammo most combat encounters won't be that much of a problem. Everything else in this game is perfect, especially the save point placements. The person who placed them deserves a raise and a kiss on the cheek.