Recent reviews by Shuriken

Played single player only. Balance is crap. Standard difficulty (Pilot) is already quite hard and last mission impossible for me. Story mode on the other hand boring. Also the controls are convoluted. Why the hell can I select my team members as "target"?? It's already hard enough to follow the enemies without accidently selecting the wrong ships. Don't pay more than 2€/$ for this game!

NOW ONLY WITH EPIC ACCOUNT? NO, THANKS!

I don't care about crossplay, just remove that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Epic Store crap from the Steam version!!

I really liked it. Unfortunately, the story ends with a cliffhanger and Face Noir II will most likely never be released.

Really atmospheric game with an interesting story. Only weak point is that sometimes it is hard to find the right direction to progress with the story.

I really don't get all the praise this game receives. It was a pain in the ass to finish!

The graphics are already outdated when the "next-gen graphics" setting is activated, but I had to deactivate it since the game crashed constantly. (Win 7 64-bit)

However, that is by far not the worst about this game! The controls are like a really bad console port. Lara can't even run sideways and the standard configuration for weapon switch, binoculars or medi packs are set to the six keys above the arrow keys! The camera often points in the wrong direction and makes some jumps very hard. Also, Lara often doesn't grab ropes which should be clearly close enough to grab. The game has additionally many glitches on stairs and cliffs. Like this, I died many times. Apart from the bad camera and controls, the overall difficulty on medium is OK, except for the motorbike sections, which are ridiculously hard. I tried to switch to easy mode, but this is not possible mid-game. You have to start from the very beginning if you want to change that!

The story has B-movie quality. That wouldn't even be a problem if the characters and their dialogues wouldn't be so horrible. Laras "sidekicks" Zip and Alister, a muscular computer nerd wearing an undershirt, and a snobby bookworm, are watching her over the headset which has a camera attached to it. Their comments were so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying! Some of their comments would fit better in a game like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater after I make a cool backflip and the like, but not in this game. These guys are annoying as hell and don't serve any real purpose. You could tell the story easily without them. Other characters are also very shallow. It often feels like a lot of dialogue that could give the whole story more context was left out.

Conclusion:
Play Tomb Raider (2013) or Rise of the Tomb Raider and not this crap, unless you are a masochist.

Rating:
4/10 - Would throw her off the cliff again!

Best Bag-Throwing-Simulator ever!

Ein sehr atmosphärisches Spiel mit einer grandiosen Story und tollen Schauplätzen, dass mir trotz der kurzen Spieldauer wohl für immer im Gedächtnis bleiben wird!

Auch von technischer Seite gibt's nichts zu meckern. Keine Framerate-Einbrüche oder Abstürze!

Ein Controller ist Pflicht, denn man steuert beide Brüder gleichzeitig und braucht daher auch beide Sticks. Das mag am Anfang sehr gewöhnungsbedürftig sein, aber ich hatte keine Probleme, da ich darauf geachtet hab, dass der Bruder, der mit dem linken Stick gesteuert wird auch auf der linken Seite bleibt und sie sich somit nicht überkreuzen.