Hello campers.
Just a quick mid week video to share some terror with you.
I've recently acquired Shadow of the Tomb Raider, mainly because Eidos Montreal's reboot
is one of the best gameplay experiences I've had in recent years.
And so far, gameplay is pretty darn nice.
I'm enjoying it as much as the previous 2 games.
However, it's incredibly easy to disrupt the game experience altogether.
To bring something horrifying into the fold.
To merge two worlds, which perhaps, should never be merged..... ladies & gentlemen, I
present the option of vintage game skins.
I know it was already done with the 20th Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider, but here
you get a choice right from the very start of the game - or when you get to a camp at
least.
Available are either the 1997 Tomb Raider 2, Bomber Jacket variant or even the 2003
Angel of Darkness Lara Croft... they're called outfits, but I've never known an outfit to
distort your entire face and body.... and good lord, it's a horrifying delight of confusion.
Playing the game with these skins is fairly straight forward.
It's nice to see modern lighting effects rippling on these old skins, but the main majesty here
is that these skins remain in place during cut scenes.
I mean, it's just marvellous isn't it?
It completely changes the game feel.
You completely lose immersiveness, which I actually wasn't expecting.
Especially as the lips of these skins don't budge a god damn inch.
Still it's nice that effects such as mud, still stick.
Although I would have liked to, I just can't play the entire game with any of these skins.
It just ruins the story.
In fact, just playing with them for a short while reminded me just how far we've progressed.
It also reminds me why pushing stories into any games from the 90s, was destined for failure.
You just can't take anything here seriously when
a person made of several polygons is wandering around like everything is normal.
But it is a visual delight none the less, and just something I wanted to share, just
in case you weren't already aware.
Thanks for watching.