Topic: Games you've recently beat

With me wrapping up The Lost Artefact, that’s the original Tomb Raider trilogy done. Wow, that was a very good expansion. The levels were definitely a bit shorter than the main game but that’s a good thing, the content felt much denser with basically zero filler. The Scotland levels are properly top tier Tomb Raider, great environment with some interesting platforming pushing your pathfinding skills. The Chunnel levels weren’t quite as fun as I’m not a huge underwater level fan but the quad bike section was brilliant and basically encouraged you to skip sections by pushing the limits of fall damage. The Paris levels were good too with a decent final boss but I admit that I probably skipped loads of It’s A Madhouse because I massively sequence broke. That’s part of the fun though!

I’m trying to decide whether to move onto TR4 or give it a little time to avoid burnout, which probably happened to me the first time I played these games. I think playing on the TV helps though, often I wanted to play more games on the Vita in short bursts rather than committing to a methodical platformer.

Ranking wise I’d probably go so far:

Tomb Raider 2: The Golden Mask
Tomb Raider 3: The Lost Artefact
Tomb Raider 3
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider 2
Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business

It’s honestly very hard to pick between the 3 main games of the trilogy, they all have highs and lows but I more consistently enjoy TR3 the most out of all of them, it’s only really the RX-Tech Mines I struggle with. Tomb Raider 1 has lower highs but is also very consistently great across the board other than probably the mines and Atlantis. Tomb Raider 2 has some brilliant levels like all of Venice and Barkhang Monastery (arguably the best level in the trilogy) but the Maria Doria levels and the Rig massively set it back. Plus Floating Islands still makes no sense to me. The quality of the expansions though is super impressive, they feel like they push your knowledge of the base games to their fullest. Apart from Unfinished Business which is just not very fun and reuses all of the assets.

@Werehog It’s been fun replaying these, you really don’t get this sort of platforming anywhere else!