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I completed the two (similar) puzzles to gain the keys to get into the Sphinx. I think I chose the easier of the two puzzles last (unintentionally), making the first one I attempted harder than I expect it would have been had I done them the other way round. Once in the Sphinx, there was a puzzle with lowering a raising water, and then a long corridor leading to a room with loads of baddies. It took me a fair …

Didn’t play for too long today, just long enough to finish off the bit I was on (all the bridges are sorted now) and end up in a room with a huuuuuuge Sphinx. I’m guessing I have to get inside it or something, and there’s two keys needed to do so. I have to say, I’m getting a little fed up with “you need to solve X puzzles to get keys to progress” bits in the game. I know they’re …

I hate spinny blades, and I hate crushy doors. So imagine my under-enthusiastic response to the bit in the game I did today. Jumping from pillar to pillar, avoiding crushy doors and spinny blades. Joy! Had loads of Anubiseseseses to kill as well. I do wonder if “hard mode” means “kill three baddies instead of two”. Individual baddies are still easy to wipe out, and jumps can’t really be made any harder than not-quite-impossible, so it isn’t that. And I …

Completed all of the first bit of Egypt (up until the first “suggested” save point), and haven’t really had any problems yet. The pumas are quite difficult to kill (if they’re in packs, anyway), and the jumping and climbing here seems to require speed and timing more than anywhere else previously. I’m now in a large room with a big obelisk in the middle, and four bridges leading to it – only one of which actually reaches, currently.

Although it was large in size, the room I ended up in on my last play was actually pretty easy with simple puzzles. Well, one puzzle. After that, I was through to a submerged area, and finally to the next bit of the Scion. And a boss. Or rather, two bosses. Two centaurs, in fact. It took me ages to figure out how to kill them (you need to pull off their shields with your grapple), and I died a …

I’m still in Greece, but only because everything seems to take ages to do there. I’ve done the puzzles associated with Midas, a couple of which made me scratch my head a bit, swum through what appears to be some flooded sewers, and ended up in a huge room with crocodiles in it. I’ve killed them, but there’s a load of puzzley stuff to do now.

Played this quite a lot today, and my 360 didn’t crash at all. Which is most odd. The game did glitch once though – I fell down a hole, but Lara’s death scream never happened, the screen went black, and I could still shoot and bring up the inventory, but not do anything. Very strange. As for how I did today, I killed the T-Rex (without dying, so got an achievement for that!), completed Peru, and have just reached Midas …