Tomb Raider 2 (1997) 14 Ice Palace

Playthrough restraints: ~ All items and Secrets ~ No healing ~ Pistols Only ~ 2x unavoidable fall damage - the big one at the gong is reduced by steering the fall ~ Pacifist where possible (mostly applies to animals) 97% accuracy based on stats screen As with my TR1 playlist, I feel these restraints are more inline with Lara's character as a Lady of High Standing and Reputation. Played on Arsunt's tr2main v0.9.0 Original cutscenes, no scanlines. from the Extra Options folder: AlphaBlendAdvanced enabled LightingContrastHigh enabled ReflectionsHigh enabled CustomWaterColorDisabled LoadingScreensDisabled RemasteredPixEnable (likely only for menu and credit artwork). BarefootSfxEnable ViewFogRecommended (not sure if it did much) UnderwaterMusicMute (none for this level) & InventoryMusicMute enabled Wondershare Filmora settings: audio +5 temperature -15 vibrance 40 saturation 40 brightness 30 contrast 80 highlight 30 shadow -50 white 30 black -15 sharpen -2 *settings vary later in the level, micro-managing brightness and contrast, trying to get it dark for being underground, but also bright enough to see some detail. Notes: AGAIN, we have unavoidable fall damages, two of them, marring what would have been another perfect damage-free level. At least here there are no Bartoli grunts, inline with Lara being the one 'in front' (at this point in the story anyway) in the race to the Dagger. Talon (my name for him, but you could also call him Murika, the bald eagle), the guardian of the Talion (the doorknob), would have been scary except there are too many safe zones you can pop him from. Nabbing his items without getting hammered seems to be random chance whether he hits or not. 'Talion' is an unusual word to use for the doorknob, as it actually means punishment in kind, or 'an eye for an eye', apparently originating from the Latin word 'talio' meaning retaliation.