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.

Honestly, this has my favorite locales out of the entire reboot trilogy. I think I enjoyed this one more than Rise, though Tomb Raider 2013 is, I think, the best overall. Regardless, I can't deny that this figures out a lot of what the series was trying to do, mechanically. Probably the smoothest experience, and the most fun to actually play. It's also really beautiful. For a minute, I thought game visuals had plateaued, but between this and Final Fantasy 7 Remake, I realize now that I had spoken too soon.

I enjoyed parts of the story, but it does feel like a pastiche of several ideas stitched together. It was also a little funny that Lara is forced to consider both her privilege and behavior throughout both this game and Rise, uses her orphaned status an excuse, yet walks away from that conversation unchallenged. I don't really expect these games to have meaningful writing, though it's a bit hilarious how it's really close to having a great moment, but quickly crumples it and throws it in the bin.

Zerei o Shadow novamente sem NG+ , fazendo 100%, na dificuldade mais alta dessa vez, e recomendo demais, fica muito mais gostoso jogar assim, sem dicas, sem "visão além do alcance" nada pra poluir a tela e te dizer onde ir é 1000x melhor.

O jogo é lindo até hoje, o ápice da saga em quesito gráfico, mas peca em história mesmo, é bem mediana pra baixo.

Mas o que mais gosto no Shadow é algo que mais incomodou as pessoas pelo que vi, que foi a redução da ação e focar mais na exploração/puzzles. Quem nunca jogou os clássicos e foi direto para os reboots, depois de ter jogado o TR 2013 e o Rise, sinto que realmente ficaram frustrados com a mudança, mas isso foi que o eu mais gostei, ter voltado um pouco com a pegada mais clássica, que é mais exploração e menos ação, principalmente se você jogar em uma dificuldade alta e fizer todas as tumbas, são incríveis!

Recomendo muito dar uma chance de novo, mas se quiser só tiro porrada e bomba, fique longe do Shadow e jogue até o Rise rsrsrs.

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 has a lot of Visual Spectical and not much else. It is fun to slip into a trance and just follow the level-design when pacouring/climbing and be swept away by the impressive visuals this game has to offer. But if u stop and think, suddenly you realise that you are a british girl with no achiological training destroying hundreds of important cultural sites in the name of what ever "greater good" u serve at the moment. i would really have liked to see lara more confrontet with the harm she causes and use the interest and knowlege she obiously has for something productive. all in all fun setpieces, hypnotic platforming, sometimes jawdroping visuals, with combat that exists and a bad story. So if you can turn your brain of and like smashing action dolls together this is perfect but then your brain switches on again and u realize that there is no coherent story ,characters dont get any development and nothing makes any sense. but look at this nicely renderd and framed temple or explosion.

DLC: mostly useless, but i enjoyed the haluzination sequence. it was well thought out and had great presentation. could have gone on for longer.

PS: I played on "One with the Jungle" Difficulty and it was very doable. so i wouldnt go lower if u are somewhat confident because otherwise lara feels less like an action hero and more like a super hero.