You've heard legends about a Tomb hidden inside a cave deep in the jungle. You decide to venture in and find the golden idol, arming yourself in a combat knife and a pistol. Good Luck! This is a rather short mod with 9 maps. Have fun!

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The first thing you see when you boot up this mod is an unintentional jumpscare at the splash screen :)

The mod is about discovering ancient ruins and finding an idol, not unlike Kasperg's old works (Vilcabamba / Sandscroll / Idol Hunt). The idea is fun, the mapping and brushwork are a bit basic but not bad, looks like something that came out in early 2000s. After walking a while you get hit with the unintentional scare number two: Falling off the cliff makes the main character make a blood-curdling scream. The last time I've heard that scream was from Penumbra years and years ago, way to give me flashbacks :)

The hands and enemies are re-textured. Hands don't look that good, but the enemies are fine. I liked the new zombie but didn't get what the houndeye is supposed to be. There are fun ideas but they're not implemented that well. You have to jump across platforms with swinging boulders but they don't hurt you or push you down, you can just stand in front of and block them. There's a stealth section but it's not set up to fail when the enemy sees you, I think there's a trigger you touch instead. What that means is you can just shoot all enemies from afar, they'll never attack or you'll lose the stealth section as long as you don't step in that trigger.

There are other strange design decisions here. For example you can select training and it'll load up a black screen with the text "Sorry but there's no training map yet." But there is a map, you've specifically created it to display that text :) Why not completely disable training instead? Another example, the first map takes five seconds to complete, you just walk down a corridor and the second map loads, weird stuff.

I mainly focused on the negative aspects for feedback but that doesn't mean the mod is bad. It's a fun but short tomb raiding adventure that you can complete in one sitting. I'm adding a couple of extra points to my actual score because I think the creator is talented and just needs more practice. Also, thank you for creating a fun and different adventure instead of yet another Black Mesa escape story. We need more like this these days.