{"id":20683,"date":"2022-11-26T03:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/25-years-on-tomb-raider-2-is-still-as-good-as-it-gets\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T03:01:13","slug":"25-years-on-tomb-raider-2-is-still-as-good-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/25-years-on-tomb-raider-2-is-still-as-good-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years on, Tomb Raider 2 is still as good as it gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Happy 25th birthday, Tomb Raider 2. Here&#8217;s a little piece to celebrate its quarter century.<\/p>\n<p>\nEvery so often I load up a walkthrough of Tomb Raider 2 and take the whole thing in again. Always a walkthrough: I have the game on Steam, but I can never get it to run quite right, and besides, part of me doesn&#8217;t want to go back in person. These walkthroughs, though! Tomb Raider was a very technical platformer back in the days of the grid system, and some of these players out there are just astonishing. Their virtuosity can get in the way very occasionally, though. More specifically it can get in the way on one occasion in particular: 40 Fathoms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n40 Fathoms is an astonishing video game level, yet when I watch it on Youtube, the audacity of it never comes across in full. That&#8217;s because 40 Fathoms is actually like a magic trick &#8211; you can only really experience it as it&#8217;s meant to be experienced once. These walkthrough artists are too good: too decisive. They know where to go and they go there. They play 40 Fathoms like it&#8217;s a video game level. Whereas what it really is, is an audacious riff on the things that video game levels aren&#8217;t meant to be.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/25-years-on-tomb-raider-2-is-still-as-good-as-it-gets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 25th birthday, Tomb Raider 2. Here&#8217;s a little piece to celebrate its quarter century. Every so often I load up a walkthrough of Tomb Raider 2 and take the whole thing in again. 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