Very Good But With Major Flaws

I haven’t gotten past the giant oni and the three archers yet but it is time to comment on the game.
Perhaps my motor skills and using a trackball and keyboard instead of a game controller are the basis of the failure to kill the four opponents, even on the “easy” play setting. I’ll just have to keep trying, but it doesn’t seem fair to have to “kill” each of the archers at least three times and the giant an unknown number of times for them to stay dead and all the while being confined to an open arena. Probably it is frustrating, then boring and finally NOT FUN for many of the other players forcesd to engage in this “cage” combat.

The graphics are great and so are some of the challenges, such as going down the river and parachuting through the trees.

I also played an early Tomb Raider and found it interesting if lacking in variety—too many of the challenges in whatever the settings involved jumping and swinging; it did get repetitive. And the new Tomb Raider hasn’t changed: most challenges involve climbing, jumping and rope use. The excellent graphics and more realistic looking characters are great but this game suffers from a lack of creativity and overly hard, brutal fights.

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