Lara Croft Go (2015)

Lara croft GO es un rompecabezas bien diseñado, con características muy similares a Hitman GO pero enfocado mucho más en la interacción con el entorno es un juego de una estética que permite apreciar los pequeños detalles como el brillo de las gemas o el contraste de colores en las cavernas.

La brillantez del juego radica en la manera de introducir nuevas mecánicas de manera similar a juegos como Portal o The Talos Principle, las nuevas mecánicas del puzle van siendo introducidas poco a poco y con guías visuales de forma que cada vez que vemos una palanca o una serpiente por primera vez el juego nos enseña como es la interacción de este elemento de una forma muy intuitiva.

El juego base es posible de completar sin necesidad de guías y promueve que el jugador pruebe sus teorías y forme el pensamiento fuera de la caja necesario para completar los desafíos más difíciles. Por otro lado los desafíos incluyen mecánicas adicionales y una dificultad realmente elevada, y están más diseñados para los fanáticos de este tipo de juegos.

You know I absolutely LOVE the modern Tomb Raider trilogy. The element I like the most about those games are the tombs, because I'm a sucker for puzzles that make me feel like a fantasy archeologica explorer in the vein of Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake or, of course, Miss Lara.

This game feels like take this misterious and intriguing puzzles everywhere. I played it for several months in waiting rooms, boring visits, power outages and sleepless nights and I finally watched the credits. I loved every second and how smart it make me feel when I finally resolved a puzzle that resisted me for a few tries.

Actually, the puzzles are not really hard. Some are tricky and requiere a lot of thinking, but are not really complicated and that's perfect. I didn't wanted to get frustrated, just to keep my brain busy with something insteresting for a dozen minutes at the time. The difficulty has a nice rhythm and the game introduces new elements before the others get tiresome or predictable.

It also has an amazing artstyle and, even if it has the most barebones plot, I just enjoy playing as one of my favorite video game characters.

I said I finished the game, but I haven't completed the DLC. Those proved to be actually difficult. That's great for people who wanted a greater challenge, but it's not what I want from a mobile game I play in 'slow' moments of my day.

Also started this one on mobile. (I was bored during about 30 minutes of trailers and ads waiting for 'Creed II' to start and had to do something to pass the time. I hate when theaters do that).

You already know I love Lara Croft and this style of short puzles is filing the void 'Monument Valley' left in me. Loving it so far.

Most mobile adaptations of console and PC games are, in a word, terrible.

Hitman Go seemed to buck this trend by distilling and abstracting the traditional Hitman formula into a mobile puzzle game. Lara Croft Go goes a step further for Tomb Raider, and this time adds some more narrative elements.

Each of the game's 40ish levels takes place in the same adventure - from discovering the tomb, to finding keys to enter its inner sanctum. dealing with a major threat, and even an escape sequence. Like the game itself it's a very simplified experience, but it really works.

Levels gradually introduce new elements, and the difficulty curve is largely based on how well you can master how each element interacts with each other. For example, a snake will kill you if you approach it from the front. However, if you can find a torch then the snake will move back a space, potentially onto a floor plate to solve the puzzle you're on.

I played it on the PC and it still clearly felt like a mobile game - as in, you'll be using your mouse like it's a virtual finger. Still, it didn't take away from the experience all that much. It's short and sweet, but that's the point

The were also two bonus levels that came for free. I appreciate that they added them, but they were way harder than the base game and that's not really what I was looking for.

Ive been gaming a very slight amount. Currently in an airport getting ready to come home from vacation.

Played this game a bit in a cabin before bed and plan on delving deep into it during the three hour flight. So far so good. Nice puzzles, challenging baddies at times, fun levels.

Can't wait to get back and continue building my retro machine. Already made a list of parts i need to buy and work left to do.