
It includes minor spoilers about NPCs, Laras gear and abilities, game mechanics and collectibles, etc., but never any major, story-related spoilers. Shadow of the Tomb Raider takes place about one year after the events in Rise of the Tomb Raider.Playing this side-by-side with Rise of the Tomb Raider was probably a mistake.
On this occasion, Lara Croft must learn to be one with the jungle to.Resources are poorly balanced to the point where upgrades feel meaningless. Characters are stunted (Abby, Unuratu, Uchu) or entirely forgettable (did we really need a name for the Trinity commander, or could we have just left his helmet on and called it a day). Jonah's progression from the rest of the reboot was a nice exception, but Lara's character regression and the absurdly middle-of-the-road apocalypse story give little to satisfy the narrative crowd.The game also struggles to balance technical prowess/limitations with engaging gameplay. Shadow of the Tomb Raider Game Details.
The Hand-Drawn Map from the cutscene is now included in the Artifacts section of your inventory, as part of the Mystery of the White Queen Story. GARDEN & PLAYGROUND: Young Lara is on a mission, but even now you can take some time to explore and uncover a few secrets. The broad strokes (yellow=tomb, white=climbable) visual design also gets lost in the heightened textures and shading.It's not all bad - you do get lots of fun history about underrepresented mythologies and culture and the young Lara section was genuinely different and enjoyable. On the whole, though, this is a step back at worst and a middling game at best.The ugly: charging for a definitive "upgrade" to the "definitive edition" is ridiculous. I'm just waiting for them to announce the has-most-of-the-things complete edition.
Then press Left Mouse or Right Trigger to throw the ball. Adjust with the mouse or right stick to aim at any of the bullseyes. Hold the Right Mouse or Left Trigger button and you'll see a white arc showing where the ball is aimed. ( screenshot)While you're in this area, let's take on the level's only Challenge: pick up the medicine ball lying on the grass near the 3 bullseye targets. ( screenshot) There's also a document (1/3), Letter to Winston, under the archway supporting the ramp at one end of the play structure. Turn around from the starting position to spot a relic (1/2), White Queen, in a box under a tree.
( screenshots)To get the next relic, grab the medicine ball you used for the challenge and carry it up the ramp to the upper level of the wooden play structure. Toss the ball at it the same way to complete the challenge and earn an XP reward. That's 3/4.The 4th bullseye is in the corner of the garden where you found the relic, hanging from the tree above the hammock. Retrieve the ball and throw it at the other nearby targets.
Grab any of them and try again. If the ball gets stuck and the platform doesn't sink (this happened to me), there's another medicine ball down on the ground, near the rock in the middle of the wooden climbing structure, another ball near the green slide, and another ball near the corner of the climbing structure with the chalkboard drawing of the White Queen. This should cause it to sink all the way so you can reach the box with the relic (2/2), a Family Photo. Pick up a second ball, which is lying nearby, and toss it onto the platform as well. The added weight causes the crow's nest to sink partway.
She gets up to the roof the old-fashioned way! Climb the lattice just to the right of the red wagon to get on top of the pergola. ( screenshot)CLIMBING INTO THE 'CASTLE': No corner bugs for young Lara. Look for the red wagon and the document is just to the left.
Climb up it to reach the metal gutter and pull up onto the narrow ledge above. Now keep climbing up and over to the right until you reach the carved stone "C" near the top of the tower. Climb along the pipe, around the next corner, then upward again. Then continue climbing around the corner to the right across the wooden shutters, and upward again until you can grab onto a horizontal pipe. ( screenshots)Climb the wall at the end of the balcony. Then sneak along below his window.
Go inside and enter the room just ahead. Here Lara spots a way in but before she can reach it, she slips and tumbles off the roof, catching various handholds as she goes, and and eventually ending up on a balcony with an open door. ( screenshots)OBJECTIVE: Find a Way Into the Forbidden TombWalk along the ridge cap and onto the vent. Squeeze through the narrow gap and climb the ladder onto the conservatory roof. Continue climbing to the right, upward a little, then right again, until you can pull up into the opening with the flapping red flag. When Lara reaches the electrical box, the gutter she's standing on collapses, but she manages to hang onto a pipe and scramble up to grab a handhold.
Examine them at your leisure. So perhaps this is where Lara's mother, Amelia, died.There are lots of artifacts on display in this room. With light, unlock her love's release."NOTE: Kelly from Tomb Raider Horizons (formerly Tomb Raider Horizons) pointed out that these coordinates lie roughly 100 km west-northwest of Lhasa, Tibet. From her pen she wrote her heart. ( screenshot) Lara reads, "By night the Great Bat stole the Queen at thirty North and ninety East.
Turn the wheel here to spread batlike glider's wings. ( screenshots)Move around to the far end of the mezzanine, examining the various artifacts as you go. This completes the Mystery of the White Queen Story, which you can review in the Artifacts menu.
Lara comments that the knight's shield reflects the light. To get oriented, start by grabbing the knight on the right (nearer the entrance) and pushing it forward into the red beam to the right of the ladder. ( screenshots)There's no one correct solution, but here's one way. Now you'll need to maneuver the pieces on the game board so the red beams shine on the 2 shielded knights. Use the shorter ladder to the right of the wheel to descend to the lower level.

This opens a secret door behind the ladder. Grab the queen and drag her onto the circle where the light beams converge. This shuts off the first beam of light and raises the ladder so you can reach the queen. ( screenshots)Return to the globe and turn either wheel.
Grown-up Lara then awakes from the nightmare back at the campsite in Peru. When the flasback-within-a-flashback ends, young Lara goes looking for her father, only to discover a terrifying scene, which will be all too familiar to anyone who played Rise of the Tomb Raider.
