We had so much fun watching Karl, Foolish and Corpse play our game Once Upon a Jester!
The recording sessions for their characters were so creative and a good time. There are even more hilarious audience lines in the game that didn’t make the stream!
Thanks to all of you for making the release so exciting and for being so welcoming ever since Everybody Wham Wham came into the world. ♥️🥰
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
With sequels comes the temptation, the perceived need for more. A bigger impact to satisfy the itch. The Cradle of Life is given the impossible task of coming up with a MacGuffin even more crazy than a triangle that can control time. It makes a safe gamble with Pandora’s Box, rendering it in this interpretation the container for some sort of apocalyptic pathogen thing that of course some craze-o wants to access because bad guy. So where else can it go? What other options does a Tomb Raider movie have than to be more baderer. We get more globe-trotting locations, even more egregiously unnecessary acrobatics—why just shimmy along a rope when you can flip over it repeatedly? The cherry on top of it all is the awkward CGI. Its predecessor was bad enough that the clunky pixellated idol looked charmingly like something straight out of a video game. By a few years later, graphics were seemingly better and yet somehow all the worse for it. Cradle of Life peaks early with the glorious image of Lara punching a flawlessly rendered shark in order to hitch a ride. Does it take her longer to attract its attention than she rides it for? Could she have just swum upward during that time? Sure and sure, but you’re missing the point: she punches a shark. Equally seamless are things like: Angelina Jolie definitely riding on the Great Wall of China. Angelina Jolie daintily walking on top of terra cotta warriors that can carry her weight. Angelina Jolie nonchalantly riding a neon sign that nobody notices until the last second. Star Wars monsters attacking soldiers in a spooky forest. Upside down rock caves. And Ciarán Hinds getting turned into a muscle man. Truly riveting stuff. At least we had the romance between Lara Croft and Terry Sheridan to anchor us. Never before have we seen two people exist in a room together with such… existence. The never-explained vague past! The kissy time! The tragic turn at the end! Move aside, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
im very glad that bart bonte is still doing his thing. he's still over there posting about browser games, like he was when i was a kid. it's a really cool service, as well as being nostalgic... curated lists usually trump The Algorithm, and this is the only one I know of for this. i remember finding point and click games of varying quality there as a kid