Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (2014)

Beat solo, including all 5 challenge tombs. I did not care for collectibles and challenges; I did them if it was easy and not out of my way. I used the starting pistols mostly for the first half or so of the game because of their lack of ammo cost. As the game progressed I used a shotgun, assault rifle and flamethrower. By the end of the game my weapon line up was a high powered smg as my default weapon (replacing the pistols) due to its minimal ammo cost, a high powered shotgun, and chaingun (which I got from the gold challenge in the last tomb right before the final boss; the only gold challenge I got). After beating the game I did a combat challenge to try out my various weapons. The chaingun is the best with moderate ammo cost and damage combined with extreme rate of fire and good accuracy. The dual machine pistols and high powered assault rifle are almost as good, completely wrecking large groups of enemies. The high powered shotgun, high powered rifle and rocket launcher all do extreme damage per shot but with a slow rate of fire, and are more suited to dodging around a lot between shots; with the shotgun firing a spread that is best at close range and the rocket launcher doing splash damage that will hurt you. The automatic shotgun is pretty good. The high powered smg and dual smgs are about the same as each other, being a decent workhorse type weapon. Grenade launchers are like the rocket launcher but a bit less effective while the flamethrower has terrible range and decent damage.

Once I figured out how loot chests worked by the end of the first tomb, I only spent gems on the 1000 chests, which got me some sweet gear. I have silver amulet of treasure hunter, supply hunter, mana regen and health regen, which is awesome. Gold ring with every resistance, and bronze ring with weapon damage and bomb radius. Those are the only 2 rings I have that do not have penalties or weather restrictions. One thing that annoyed me is there does not seem to be a way to get rid of items. The game reminds me a lot of Sacred 3 though I found there to be too much emphasis on platforming and puzzle solving when I would rather be just shooting hordes of enemies. I had the most fun with the combat challenges. The puzzles were pretty good and the platforming passable. It seemed like the platforming was a bit sticky to help you not fall off when falling would not kill you, but not so sticky other times when you would die. There was only 1 time where this really annoyed me because the checkpoint save occurred right before a battle and then a tricky platforming part that I died a couple times at. But it was a simple matter of backtracking slightly to retrigger the save after I had killed the enemies.

Probably won't play again but I could see playing it multiplayer, wrecking the old dungeons with the chaingun, and maybe trying for gold to unlock more guns. I highly doubt they will be able to compete with the chaingun though.

6.8/10