TheKleesh
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As someone who grew up playing a lot of Tomb Raider II and thus has a lot of nostalgia for it, this game hasn't aged particularly well. The controls are clunky and weird and levels are needlessly huge and kind of confusing to navigate. I understand how big of a deal this game was when it was new and I appreciate that about it, but that doesn't retroactively make it better.
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This review contains spoilers
On one hand I get what it's going for about being a commentary on war video games, the glorification of violence, and how there are no heroes in war, and that's all fine. On the other hand it has this very contrived narrative where it spins the idea that you as a player should be ashamed for even playing through it. Any time something less-than-desirable happens during the campaign the whole game stops to look you in the eyes and go "look what YOU did" as if the player has any choice in the matter besides turning the game off. I'm not being convinced of anything at that point. I'm already able to partake in the violence presented in video games while simultaneously understanding that real violence is awful and destroys lives without this game trying to make me feel guilty about it. All fictional media works that way.