Contest: Review Your Favourite Game Week 12. Tomb Raider(2013)

Hello guys, I’m @dadylumber am to share with you the story of a game that I played in my PC with the pictures captured during the gameplay.

Tomb Raider: A Survivor Is Born

This is an RPG (role-playing game) which is an action, puzzling and adventure surviving horror game based on Yamatai kingdom mythology and it's published by Square Enix's and developed by Crystal Dynamic studios. Tomb Raider video game franchise started developing and publishing this series game in 1996 up to date on console's, personal computers and mobile phones for gamers to know the myth behind Lara Croft (An archaeologist).

In this game, Lara Croft and friends(Reyes, Whitman, Jonah, Sam, Roth, Alex and Grim) embark on research through sailing on an Endurance ship to the lost kingdom of Yamatai in East Japan island(Dragon Triangle) to discover artefacts as an archaeologist but one of her colleagues called Dr James Whitman to oppose her for selecting that location which results in arguments and the captain(Roth) intervene to follow Lara's proposal. Unfortunately, on their way to the island the shipwreck and separated into two as a result of storms and they were able to find their way out of the sea into the island.

They were separated into different groups but Lara was on her own and captured upon surviving out of the water by a scavenger. The scavenger sent her to his home(cave) and Lara managed to escape out of the cave as it was trembling which resulted in killing the captor. Upon surviving out of the cave she then explores the island to find shelter, food, weapons and her colleagues through that she finds Sam her best friend who was with a stranger(Mathias), Sam narrates how Hemico(The Sun queen) arrive on the Island and compile everyone from the Island to worship her. Lara slept by the time she gains her consciousness the two friends left and in trying to search for them she got trapped and she manage it to kill the inhabitant of the island(wolves). Then the other colleagues(Jonah, Reyes, Alex and Whitman) find her so they divided to search for Roth and Sam. Lara went with Whitman in search of Roth and they were captured by the Russian inhabitants and then separate the two of them. She manages to free herself by killing the leader(Vladimir) and the other sec of these people to meet Roth being injured in a small village.

Therefore, Lara went ahead for a first aid kit to patch Roth to heal and after that, she was told to boost their signals from a high communication tower for help. Eventually, they were successful for the pilot to track their Endurance wreck ship but unfortunately, the storm hit the plane voicing out to them that 'no one leaves in Japanese. The pilots couldn't make it and Lara was pondering that it's irrational for such things to happen. The information hit Lara that Sam was kidnapped by the island inhabitants(Solarii Brotherhood) and trying to save her but Mathias order the brotherhood to kill her luckily a samurai creature known as 'Oni' intervene to save and capture Lara to their monastery on top of a mountain and she was able to free herself by even kill some of the Solarii Brotherhood.

When she was on her way to escape she learnt that 'fire rituals' is used to select a successor to the Sun Queen, Sam had a little chance to contact Lara that they were to use her for the 'Fire rituals' by the Solarii's which could make her lose her life through burns if unsuccessful. On her way to the palace where Sam is captured, Lara saw Grim's being stuck with the Solarii's and they threatened Lara to stop otherwise they will kill her friend, unfortunately Grim sacrifice himself to clear the way for her but Lara near kill herself untill Roth intervene to aid her. Upon entering into the palace Lara made attempt to rescue Sam but she was once again captured by the Solarii's and their leader Mathias even force her to witness how the Fire ritual’s will take place. Luckily, fire was set-up on Sam and a great wind blew it off making her the rightful success of the Sun Queen, Hemico.

Lara escape and went ahead to rescue her colleagues (Reyes, Jonah and Alex) who were also in the palace trying to free Sam. Whitman was in allies with the Solarii secretly. Lara where able to free Sam telling her to head to Roth who is in the helicopter before she follows, when Lara joined them in the helicopter, she realizes the storm was dangerous whilst she was forcing the pilot to land. The storm strikes the plane putting Lara into semi-conscious which Roth revives her. The Solarii brotherhood quickly attack the plane fall site and Roth defended them till he even lose his life through the attack. In the process of mourning Roth, Lara was saying to herself this isn’t natural(storms) and there must be a relationship between it to the Sun Queen.

She meets up with her friends at the beach for them to take a boat out of the island but they need some tools to fix it first as Alex was already searching for it at the Endurance ship. Whitman joined them but Lara was suspicious of him before she goes ahead to help Alex. Solarii brotherhood attack the Endurance ship as Alex was injured inside it before Lara arrives. Alex couldn’t make it after he sacrifice himself to explode the ship to kill the Solarii brothers to secure the tools for Lara to send it back to the beach.

Upon returning to back to the beach, Lara went ahead and discovered one of the ancient tombs that has the dead remains of the general Stoneguard who committed seppuku during World war II and he left notes that say that during that time the Sun Queen needed a successor and the one who was to succeed her took her own life to avoid taking the Sun Queens powers. This compelled the Sun queen to turn into the island storm's rather than be trapped in her own dead body. Lara understands that this ceremony(Fire rituals) is not about bringing a new queen but rather conveying the actual Sun queen soul into a new host and it could destroy Sam's career.

At the beach, they were attacked in the absence of Lara and Whitman betray them and assist the Solarii brothers to capture Sam. Lara came back to the beach and they (Reyes and Jonah) headed to the monastery with the boat to free Sam, upon their arrival Lara quickily entered into the monastery just to see that the Stoneguard kill’s Whitmen. She went ahead by kill the Solarii brotherhood to the top of the monastery just to find that Mathias has already started the ritual ceremony with Sam. She keeps on fighting the guards and the Solarii until she final execute Mathias with pistols on top of the monastery. And finally destroy Hemico to save Sam and the the storms were nowhere to be found again. Lara took Sam out of the monastery to meet with Reyes and Jonah on the river side to take their boat and head back home. On their way to home Lara made a statement that she still need to discover more from this island and because of that she is not going home. This was where the game got to an end. Although, the weapons used in the game are; riffle with bomb, archer with fire and a rope, axe, mark four and a pistol.

I will like to extend my regards to @gamingsoul for bring this contest and to anyone who reads this story and not forgetting my main buddy @abdulkahargunu. Thank You All