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She also, as she has throughout the series except a brief moment of reflection in the first game, kills hundreds of people without guilt, remorse or apparent difficulty. SheвЂ™s a superhuman who survives the likelihood of death, both from the elements and other humans, on an almost constant basis. However, the Lara that the gameplay presents us with is the exact opposite of that. These elements include murderous mercenaries, the generically-named doomsday cult вЂTrinityвЂ™ and some protected wildlife. The narrative presents us with Lara as this seemingly sympathetic woman who is searching for the truth behind her fatherвЂ™s killer, and is an imperilled survivor flailing against the worldвЂ™s elements. This is about as problematic as you think it is.ДЄ huge problem with this generation of Tomb Raider has beenВ the dissonance between the gameplay and the narrative. And thatвЂ™s less a problem with this game, and more the games that precede it. (ThereвЂ™s also, thankfully, a similarly robust array of accessibility options for otherly abled players, and its a series of options that every game ever should implement.)Д«ut the problem with this conclusion is thereвЂ™s no bang. Shadow of the Tomb RaiderВ wants you to play it, and wants you to enjoy it. As someone who proudly plays a game on Easy Mode and will continue to do so for the rest of my life, itвЂ™s a genuine pleasure to start a game up and have many options for difficulty вЂ“ not just combat, but the difficulty of puzzles and exploration. The best thing the game implements, and truly the one thing from this game that should be implemented into every single game from now on in вЂ“ are the robust difficulty options.

The tombs, as ever, are the highlight, and the one thing this series still manages to do better than any other вЂ“ so much so that it makes you wonder why the whole series doesnвЂ™t focus on this. The combat remains great fun, with the switch between stealth and run-and-gunning being more fluid and tight than ever.

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The open worlds are full enough with detritus without ever feeling alive. Playing as Lara is incredibly fluid, without ever feeling necessary or compelling. The gameplay is solid, as this trilogy has always been. Unfortunately, this continues with Shadow of the Tomb Raider.В As the last act in this trilogy of Tomb Raider, one that went explicitly dark and gritty about five years too late for it to be on trend, Shadow of the Tomb RaiderВ aims to go out with a bang, and resolve a narrative that it regards as epic. The games are always good, never great, and the reputation, or at least the fame, they hold far outstrips the actual quality of the games.В This has been true since the first games and both continuity reboots вЂ“ theyвЂ™re rarely ever bad games, but theyвЂ™re never truly amazing. The Tomb RaiderВ series is the Maria Sharapova of gaming. This generationвЂ™s Tomb RaiderВ trilogy comes to a close вЂ“ and itвЂ™s with a limp, not a wild leap into the future.

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