After setting a lot of things in motion in the first episode, with critical decisions aplenty and a surprising ending, Game of Thrones’ second act (The Lost Lords) does little to advance the story in meaningful ways as it crams four separate plotlines into less than two hours of game time.
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Time travel isn’t just used as a chance to rethink decisions, either. It’s also necessary to solve the game’s various puzzles. For instance, at one point you need to recover a flash drive that’s in another girl’s dorm room, but it’s being blocked by another student for boy-related reasons. A conversation between the two of you may go nowhere initially, however you’ll pick up information that can be used in a second attempt at the same chat, which gets to the root of the issue.
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While the broad strokes of the turtles’ origin have been retained — a leaked mutagen covers the four turtles, who are then raised and trained in the sewers by their rat father/sensei Splinter — many of the details are different. This includes the introduction of a new villain, Eric Sacks (played by William Fichtner), who bioengineered the mutagen along with the deceased father of news reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox), as well as the omission of Hamato Yoshi, the rival of Oroku Saki (AKA Shredder) and master of Splinter.
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As good as KH II is, however, Birth by Sleep might be the best game in the series. Despite being a PSP game originally, it never feels technically inferior to its PS2 counterpart. More importantly, the prequel features the best, most coherent story in the series, dealing with more interesting themes and concentrating on a cast of original characters (Terra, Aqua and Ventus) along the way. If you’ve had trouble following the story arc of the two main entries, this helps clarify some of the lore.
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Collecting and unlocking loads of content has long been one of the LEGO series’ top draws, and on that front Batman 3 features an embarrassment of riches. There is a ton of characters to unlock, hidden items to find (including rescuing Adam West, the original Batman), bricks to hoard and inside jokes to the DC universe to uncover — and that’s written as someone that’s hardly a denizen of the comics, so those that are better versed in the fiction should get even more out of it.
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There are things to like about The Dark Below, but it ultimately feels thin on meaningful content — this is especially true if you don’t take part in one or more aspects of the game since additions are sprinkled throughout the campaign, vanguard and crucible. Here’s hoping March’s House of Wolves offers more bang for your buck.
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While all the puzzles and temples can be completed alone, Temple of Osiris is meant to be played with other people (it supports up to four). That means the game actively changes things up in terms of layout so that teamwork is a necessity. For instance, in single player, Lara may be able to grapple over a chasm to advance. In multiplayer, she’ll no longer be able to reach the other side alone. Instead, her grapple becomes a tight rope that another player can walk across.
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