Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

it's a short game, had a fun time with it but I wouldn't buy it full price

les jeux et trop bien

proper review coming later. good game, but there are some very annoying gameplay mechanics that limit movement for no reason. still it's a good third game in the franchise, but previous two felt better to play. ...screw it on "later", i'm pissed now. i'm on my second playthrough for the difficulty achievements and YOU CAN'T SKIP MOST OF THE CUTSCENES AND WALKIE-TALKIE CONVERSATIONS!!! plus you can't even let the damn things play out while you're ALT+TABed because the cutscenes and dialogues pause if you do that. good thing if you have a second monitor/TV so you can spend your time watching something else while you wait, but you're screwed and glued watching entire things play out if you don't. and the walkie-talkie parts slow the game to a crawl, not to mention Lara doesn't even use the thing most of the time, just puts her hand up to her ear so players who are stupid would know she's talking to someone on the other end and not her own split personality. just let the players RUN and talk at the same time. and no, the "time to load next section" excuse doesn't work in 2026 with modern hardware. perfect example is the end boss. after he's dealt with there's a 10 minute cutscene you CANNOT SKIP, even though nothing loads after it except the credits, so nobody can tell me the game "has to load the next section of the game" when it's literal CREDITS that follow. if you're not doing side missions and not exploring everything but just instead following the main story then the game is 70% slow walking, talking and cutscenes and 30% gameplay, half of which is scripted running and jumping and avoiding earth splitting open. ridiculous. and you can't change running to holding down the SHIFT key. that is one of the most dumbest and annoying things a game can possibly limit for a PC playthrough. every little bump on the ground slows Lara down and you gotta keep pressing the damn SHIFT constantly for her to pick up speed again. why???? just WHY???? running should always be holding the key down, not a single tap, or at least have an option to change it. and the movement? omg the movement. so many times Lara would go where she's not instructed to go or the game won't let you make a certain jump because it wants you to do it the way they want you to do it even though there's a perfectly good alternate path to take. the game is hand holding you the entire time. it's the most console game i've every played on a PC and the game suffers because of it. it's so limiting, so narrow, so punishing. other console games play just fine on a PC, but this trilogy doesn't. all that being said the game is still good. the story continues where left off from previous, adding more gadgets and weapons with so much easier way to upgrade them all. all the new characters are done well and most of all there's no multiplayer achievements. i started playing the third game confused why people like it the least in the trilogy because i was having fun exploring the tombs and spending less time in combat which, for a person raiding tombs, should be a given, but having experienced the annoying traversal, forced movement and unskippable CUTSCENES GALORE i have to agree. the weakest in the trilogy by far, but still worth playing. just be prepared for the eye-rolling because you'll be doing it a lot.