TRA: Rage attacks (PS2)

"Albert Conklin" <aconklin.TakeThisOut@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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> How long does that take when you swim down to the Switch cave? I went
> down there once and gave up after about 15 minutes. How do you know when
> one of the Centaurs are down?
> Albert


I'd say about 10 minutes. The Centaur's life-bar slowly goes down as he
takes damage from the blasts. When the life-bar reaches zero, it disappears
(and I presume that the first Centaur is dead). No life-bar shows up for
the second one, but, if you wait around, he finally stops throwing
fireballs. Then it's safe to go up and take a look.

Try moving around the platform (in the switch-cave under the water). And
try standing still at various points. The fireballs are aimed at Lara;
standing in certain places seems to make them impact the Centaurs more often
than when she's standing in others.

(I'm on a PS2, if that matters.)

You'll still have to go finish off the last one. Once he stops the
fireballs, he doesn't damage himself any more.

--cleve

"Cleve" <clevens.DeleteThis@cox.net> wrote in message
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> "Mary Clarke" <marycatherineclarke.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> I play on PS3/2 (same controls on either system). The difficulty has
>> nothing to do with console playing.
>>
>> I think from what you say you are taking your finger of the L1 button
>> (targetting). You should have the game set to manual aim I think. What
>> I
>> was doing was slightly releasing the targetting trigger and of course it
>> won't work even if you retarget immediately.
>>
>> The other thing to do is press circle and the directional stick at the
>> same time. If you don't she just crouches which is really annoying.
>>
>> With other bosses you might find forward direction or backward direction
>> a
>> better choice but for TRex a left or right flip is better. Right for me
>> as it seems more natural.
>>
>> Oh and the grass is yellower in front of the spiked drums so back up onto
>> those.
>>
>> Mary
>>
>
> Thanks. This sounds helpful/hopeful. I'll let you know.
>
> (Actually, I'm past Rex. Lara just plane shot him to death from a place
> where he couldn't get her. I'll be trying the Centaurs.)
>
> --cleve
>


Yeah! That worked. You're right: I wasn't continuing to hold the targeting
button.

So. I can DO it now -- but I STILL say it sucks. The Centaur battle is way
too complex for a game that's supposed to be heavy on the adventuring and
light on the shooter-skills. I used a combo. approach: I sat it out in the
switch cave until one died and the other stopped fire-balling; then I went
up and finished off that last one doing the shield thing.

Cool. Past it. That's all I care about for now.

NEXT time, I start the game in EASY mode.

And by the way. As I recall, in Legend, I could select a difficulty every
time a new level started. I don't see that in TRA. If you Replay Level,
you can choose -- but you have to have FINISHED it once to replay it.
Actually, it appears to be worse than that. It looks like you can only
replay levels that are in an area of the world that you've already
completed. That is, the game only offered me the Peru levels to replay --
even though I was almost done with the Grecian levels -- none of the Grecian
levels were available for replay until I finished Tomb of Tihocan. So, more
suckage; you apparently can't change the difficulty level during a
play-through; you're stuck with what you first selected at the beginning of
the game. Is that true? Anyone know a way around that? I'm not starting
over now.

But at least I'm beyond the Centaurs.

Thanks, Mary (and the others who helped, too).

--cleve