Finished a playthrough of this great little game and loved it. Feels like classic Lara Croft: solving puzzles, platform jumping, and kicking ass in Mayan-like dungeons with Lara's smart British accent and original (starting) outfit.

The gameplay was varied enough to be fun, and the art design and graphics hold up well. The controls using the DS4 were straightforward (played it on the PC), with nice rumble feedback. Tried it a while ago with KB/M but it put me off for a long time and I wouldn't recommend it. Also enjoyed the sound design, playing with the music score at around 25% volume.

Throughout the game there are new weapon upgrades, improvements in the form of relics, optional challenges and unlockables. Enemies are fairly easy to kill, with some stronger types being mostly bullet sponges but nevertheless the combat still felt fun mowing them down and roll-dodging around them. With a local and online co-op mode and the DLC I could see it being a a nice choice for two person play.

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Would recommend. It's not too long and can be breezed through in a few hours if you skip most of the optional challenges and upgrades.

Yup its great !

You should play Temple of Osiris.

I'm glad they got Keeley Hawes back for this. The best Lara

I played this and Temple of Osiris as local co-op playthroughs. Wonderful games, very fun.

I like the DLC packs and seeing how they rejiggered old dialogue from the Legacy of Kain games to match what's happening in this game. Kain becomes the straight man to Raziel's hysterical, rambling lunatic~

So good.

Check out Temple of Osiris for more goodness. Some of the boss fights and escape sequences are grand.

Grisby said:

So good.

Check out Temple of Osiris for more goodness. Some of the boss fights and escape sequences are grand.

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I wanted to check this out but the Steam reviews make it sound buggy and unoptimized. Was it fixed later?

Coreda said:

I wanted to check this out but the Steam reviews make it sound buggy and unoptimized. Was it fixed later?

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Don't know about PC bud, was speaking from console experience.

So...maybe?

It was a nice surprise to find after completion all levels unlock and replaying them allows you to continue locating remaining items and complete missed challenges, remembering the number of items collected in a level so the next attempt can be a completionist run in addition to beating the previous score. Considering in general I only play through titles once it's an appreciated feature (I believe a few in the series did this).

Grisby said:

Don't know about PC bud, was speaking from console experience.

So...maybe?

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Over on the Steam thread Amzin posted they didn't experience any major performance issues, so I may pick it up on sale. Fingers crossed it runs decently downsampled

Got the chance to play Osiris after buying it with the season pass (which doesn't include the bonus costume DLCs for the curious). After reading all the criticism heaped upon the game you'd think it was buggy mess but it ran fairly steadily at 60fps on ultra using a 970 with DoF disabled and the graphics are often beautiful with the changeable weather, time of day and new level of detail. They really nailed the daytime.



The boss battles are more flamboyant this time around, and I like the addition of the swimming ability and shoot-'em-up challenge obelisks (aka gem pinatas). The intuitive control scheme is the same and they kept gameplay familiar. The Twisted Gears DLC included one of better levels of the game so I'm glad I spent the little extra.

Not sure how I feel about the sprawling open design that connects all the areas together, or that most amulets and rings have to be bought from chests using gems rather than unlocked through scores/achievements. The freedom to roam around is nice and the Egyptian theme ties everything together but post-game there wasn't same incentive to revisit the levels that I felt with Guardian's different chapter-based locales and DLC, in part as everything is so spaced out. Co-op probably breathes new life into it.

During gameplay little things did become annoying such as the lack of a 'You are here' map marker, harder to judge jumps, respawns forgetting the previously selected weapon, no single place to check challenge completion, among others. It's strange as most of the issues didn't exist in the previous game. I also miss the more arcade-y weapon fire.

It's a decent title in the series but Guardian feels more satisfying and replayable overall. It's certainly better than the hyperbolic Steam reviews would suggest. Hopefully they continue the series as I'd love another fun title that was as tight and rewarding as the first .

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Going through a local coop Gaurdian session right now and it REALLY shines, glad to know Osiris is worth it as well. Really love how tight the controls are and how fun the puzzles end up being.

I want to play Osiris, but I don't know how it would play on my aging computer. The first one played mostly well, and was quite enjoyable with friends.