16th February 2024
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week: tombs, maps, and bats.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, Xbox Series X
Nothing says Valentine’s Day like launching someone you dearly love off of the side of a cliff, which is exactly what I did. Before you get all concerned, my husband is fine; I am of course talking about the one and only Lara Croft.
I spent my last couple of evenings with Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, and I’m loving it. Yes it has its issues – I took a good half an hour trying to get onto a platform set over a pool of water, with Lara spending the majority of the time swimming because I could not make the jump. This is because the camera would shoot upwards, leaving me looking at the ceiling from within Lara’s head, which made lining up the jump trickier than ideal. The controller tutorial is also more or less non-existent, so a lot of my learning has been through trial and error. I only discovered the camera mode because I got a shock and accidentally pushed in the two joysticks on my Xbox controller.