{"id":20245,"date":"2013-06-28T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T23:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2013-06-28T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T23:46:33","slug":"tomb-raider-ep8-the-colon-of-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20245","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider EP8: The Colon of Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XTopaDPrrc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9XTopaDPrrc'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I agree with the rest of the cast: The tomb puzzles are where the game felt the most Tomb Raider-y. It feels like a slice of the best part of the earlier games. <\/p>\n<p>The game is at its strongest when it moves away from the shooter stuff and embraces the platforming and puzzles. It&#8217;s not that I dislike the combat, either. I just think the game would have been thematically stronger if we had, like, half the fights and a third the body count. <\/p>\n<p>I also like this particular puzzle. It presents a timing obstacle and your first instinct is probably to assume you&#8217;re supposed to do it as fast as possible. But the timing is actually really slow. Open the shutters, wait, THEN act. It&#8217;s obvious once you see the solution and it&#8217;s not hard to execute once you get what you&#8217;re supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>Man I wish the game had more of this.<\/p>\n<p>And then a few minutes later you get punched by a guy standing just off-screen and suddenly I hate the game again. I think this &#8220;captured in the cutscene&#8221; moment needs to count twice, since you get captured by one group in the middle of getting captured by another. <\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m in this tumultuous relationship with Tomb Raider. One minute we&#8217;re holding hands, laughing, and platforming and three minutes later we&#8217;re screaming at each other and she&#8217;s throwing things at me. I tell her we&#8217;re going to break up, for real this time. No seriously. It&#8217;s over. Then she starts talking about how she knows about another hidden tomb around here someplace and suddenly I go all spineless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I agree with the rest of the cast: The tomb puzzles are where the game felt the most Tomb Raider-y. It feels like a slice of the best part of the earlier games. The game is at its strongest when it moves away from the shooter stuff and embraces the platforming and puzzles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-20245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}