Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness é o primeiro jogo da franquia na era do PS2. Um jogo que tentou trazer a imagem da Lara Croft de volta após o ultimo titulo lançado até então, na era do PS1, não ter sido bem recebido. Tomb Raider: AoD é um jogo que traz os elementos clássicos dos jogos anteriores mas tenta se modernizar na era em que lançou porém não tendo total êxito, o jogo falha em muita coisa e torna a experiência parecida com o titulo anterior. Sua jogabilidade é muita parecida com as dos jogos clássicos mas com mudanças e novidades que servem na sua medida mas nem tanto para tudo. O desafio na gameplay de ação fica mais por conta do controle em si e os comandos que as vezes não parece responder corretamente e pode atrapalhar a experiencia, e também interação com cenário que pode falhar as vezes. Os puzzles foram simplificados, nem todos são fáceis mas a maioria não demora muito pra se entender o que tem que ser feito. Há também uma novidade com questão de escolhas em diálogos ontem você precisa escolher as frases certas para poder avançar num trecho. As lutas são as partes menos interessantes, sendo o combate armado muito simples e desnecessário em alguns trechos e combate corpo-a-corpo quase inexistente. A adição de outro personagem não ajudou muito também, sendo bem descartável sua presença e com peso 0 na trama do jogo. Se enredo é simples e mesmo que mais "sério" que os anteriores (tentando trazer a questão das consequências e decisões) ainda sim é um roteiro que não surpreende com nada, não tem peso dramático, os vilões são esquecíveis e a própria Lara Croft fica séria a todo momento perdendo o charme dela ter várias expressões e emoções no jogo. O plot final do jogo é quase inútil de certa forma e de certa forma confuso visto que ele puxa pra algo que promete ser grandioso mas no fim nada demais. Visualmente o jogo é até bem feito mas comparando com os jogos antigos, esse fica devendo pelas localidades e cenários, pois se passa no meio urbano boa parte do tempo e pouquíssimos são os cenários para admirar e aproveitar (quase não há locais secretos para querer desvendar também). E sua trilha sonora é boa mas fica devendo um pouco pelo fato de não ter algo memorável e também pelos trechos silenciosos.

This is basically like the Doom 3 of the Doom franchise. There's a leap in graphics and they've experimented by giving the story a more focused experience and adding some RPG elements. Overall feels like it excelled in some parts, while others felt like a step back from the previous TRs. The addition of strength as a stat was cool, although, I'm not 100% sure if the strength level ups are scripted events or if you can actually discover some extra secrets to increase it ahead, but in general I mainly got stronger whenever there was a barrier I wasn't strong enough to overcome. Having a currency was interesting at first, however, I managed to find only one vendor throughout the whole game I could sell items to, and there was only one NPC I could buy "things" from, so it didn't play a part throughout most of the game. Something that I liked, was that you no longer have to hold the button while climbing and it felt a bit safer to do, however the automatic attaching to ladders and climb-ables feels like an overkill, that can be annoying at times, to be honest, and just being able to latch onto them with an interaction would've been way better. Also, feels like a downgrade in the movement that you can't sidestep left/right with just a button now, but you can only do it while you're holding walk and the first second of holding it doesn't trigger the sidestep, so you end up turning, so you just gotta readjust and it's a whole hassle, as well as the button for looking around, which also takes a second to kick in, and feels weirder and clunkier than previous installments. Also, I got a bit of beef with a couple of the boss fights. In the first one, there was no "beating" the boss, and the solution was extremely subtle, because the boss didn't have an explicit animation that he's in that stage, and also the time-frame you have until he resets and you need to trigger him again is about 5 seconds. Second one, wasn't a bad fight, it just didn't feel that fitting to how the game works. Boss was cool, but keep in mind there will come a time when you'll have to switch targets and the keybind for that is same as for Roll. The story-telling has been greatly upgraded, though, being able to pick from 2-3 lines in conversation every now and then, which actually ended up in the difference between dying and not getting shot once, but there were also more side NPCs you could chat up with for some extra info, and one really cool thing was being able to play from a different perspective at times.

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Blown away by how amazing this game was to me. Yes, I did encounter some technical hiccups and very rare gameplay stuff that was weird but overall, this game is by far my favorite Tomb Raider game and the game that made me really love the franchise! TR4 got me to really like TR but TR6 is extremely good. The intrigue and mystery throughout the game along with the darker themes really stood out to me. Some new things to Lara's kit was extremely welcoming and I wanted more of those upgrades early on in the game! I really REALLY wish that we would've gotten that Angel of Darkness trilogy. This game DESERVES it and this is by far my favorite iteration of Lara Croft! What a QUEEN and BADASS!

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