MarvelousMax
2013
Really enjoyed the first of the reboot series. I know it was thrown around way too much in the reviews back then, but it did show a more vulnerable side to Lara. Sadly the game still wants to give you a big power fantasy, so outside of cutscenes you don't notice much of it. But the bow and semilinear levels made this great for me.
Thought it was really great when I first started, but unlike many others I don't enjoy the nemesis system. All the immunities building up combined with more orc leaders joining in fights made combat unenjoyable in later stages. I finished the campaign because there are cool powers and the main missions are fine.
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2009
A different experience than the mainline games, but not THAT different in the end. The missions can be played in a slightly freechoice order, but the Rookie still handles quite like a Spartan. The game is darker in art and story, andore emotion is allowed into it, which lent itself worse to a coop shooter that we were playing on a small tv with not enough brightness.
2009
Replayed this when it came out as part of the MCC on PC. With decent contrast and some more years of experience playing videogames, we managed to beat the entire game in 2.5 hours, which is less than a third of what it must have taken me when I was younger. Had an absolute blast in that time though.
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