Recent reviews by Scarecrow

A great sequel to one of my favourite worlds. Great characters, style, gameplay, humour and visuals.

One of my favourite games. Super interesting and unique art direction, good sound and music and fun parkour. Love me a Ciggy.

Always great fun to return to.

Fun combat, good customisation, decent quests and a fairly fleshed out base building system. Graphically not to bad either.

Easily modifiable as well.

Pretty buggy but its Bethesda what do you expect. Its part of the charm.
8/10

Very enjoyable game. Interesting concept and well executed. Short and sweet and priced accordingly. Some extra scans which reveal extra text at the end. Good atmosphere however the scares are expected. Audio is good, crawler sounds do get a bit annoying though. Good simple game play which gets progressively more interesting in what you are finding and what they are described as. For the price it is excellent.

8/10

An amazing sequel and mod.

Story is great with fantastic characters and good dialogue. Some things off the path to discover, just more supplies and some audio recordings. There are some extra weapons to spice up the gunplay as well. Challenge maps are a bonus after beating the story.

Couple bugs here and there which is expected, and one corner in a level would instantly crash my game, luckily it wasn't necessary to go there.

8.5/10

Its pretty decent. I 100% completed the single player in around 14 hours or so.

Story is fine but I didn't find myself invested in the characters more just the plot. Didn't like how you never really travel with a friend outside of a cutscene. I didn't care for anyone when they died because I didn't spend any time with them. The plot is interesting and unique however.

The combat is fine but is quite boring. Also the visuals on the Assault rifle for example are awful. The gun itself has no recoil on Lara but the bullets just come out the barrel in random directions. it looks terrible.

The climbing and platforming is pretty fun but can be glitchy. Too many times I fell when I pressed climb or was going for a zipline. QTE's are really bad at the start but happen less often later. The small world environments on the island you can explore with secrets are a nice touch to give more for the player to do, but why allow the player to do everything the first time they are there? You get abilities later like the rope ascender but only use it in the place you unlocked it and beyond. Why not have puzzles or areas only accessible by going back after the story with the new abilities to keep the player interested after? The tombs are literately just one puzzle that takes like 2 mins to figure out and do. Way too short but sweet enough.

I actually managed to find my way to a story section you are not meant to access after beating the story and my 100% save is just bugged at some place I can't escape because it saved when I got down. Pray this doesn't happen to anyone else going for 100%. Not a bad reboot for Lara in the end.

7/10

The game crashed like 8 times before I gave up. Managed to get through the assault prologue which was boring and the combat was not fun. No recoil on weapons and no weight to them.

Cant even rate the game if I cant play it.

?/10

A slow start but it got more enjoyable as it went on.

Why would you add infinitely respawning robots to repair the robots I just killed 5 seconds ago. let me explore this world you have made. I didn't do any of the side content because of this. Just skipped right passed it.

Graphics are great and the robot designs and world environment are fantastic.

Story and writing is alright but why does the protagonist have a stupid catchphrase is so obnoxious.

Combat is decent but with some downsides. Encounters got boring, especially with the Plyusch. Just melee spam and dodge for like 3 mins. Because you cant block or parry, its all just about spamming left shift which gets boring. Need more glove powers. There are 4 you can change. Bioshock had 12. Decent weapon variety but didn't feel the need to experiment, just upgraded the weapons I had.

Music in some parts was good like in the upgrade stations, albeit repetitive, but awful in others. Like some random rock song and then it fades into calm ambient music and then there is 1 enemy and its back to rock in a matter of seconds. Didn't flow at all.

Encountered quite a few bugs. The Belyash boss got stuck in a loop half way, got stuck in geometry sometimes and fell through the map. Got stun locked in a corner by 5 enemies as well several times.

I don't feel like this was the game they worked on for 5 years at least. I can see the passion in the art direction but the gameplay feels a bit lacklustre. The open world section feels like an after thought and is a pain to get through. Also the protagonist needs to shut up.
7/10

Really enjoyed this game. The story is really sweet and emotional and follows a father and son with a great message. The puzzles are fun and the visuals are excellent each LEGO element looks great and clear. Creative mode offers something outside of the story and is a nice addition but it isn't too deep. Only downside for me is its a bit expensive for the game length.

9/10

Amazing game.Very fun gameplay, great movement, many unique enemies, decent weapon variety, tons of secrets and some secret levels. Level design is excellent and can be very tense. Levels are also quite different from each other from a factory to a red skied island with a church.Bosses are great. Fun and challenging.Designs of enemies are fantastic and are going to stick with you.Story is there but takes a back seat.inclusion of multiplayer and endless mode are a plus too. 9.5/10