How to Traverse in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis

Siqueira lists the base: jumps, sprinting, climbing, wall scramble — original and Survivor trilogy combined. New: a wrist grapple to swing, ascend, rappel, and yank the world. The climbing axe returns as a practical tool, not only a reboot souvenir. Horizontal poles require a timed release. PlayStation preview: X to leap and hang, Triangle to grapple, Circle to dive while swimming. Camera sometimes pulls back on cliff climbs to sell scale. Adams describes a sympathetic loop: you sprint, she leans into a saving grab, success depends on that reach.

Markings, color pops, and focused lighting replace neon climb meshes. Handholds look like jagged rock. If you stop for half a second, Lara may turn toward a point of interest. If you swing on the grapple, she may reach. Those tells are easy to miss and easy to over-trust. Read them, then verify with a jump you can survive. Independent traversal difficulty exists if the Folly-style shafts feel like 1996 homework.

The game asks you to slow down. It also refuses to stop a speedrunner from chaining moves. Siqueira even asked for times that beat the devs. Choose a lane per session. Sightseeing finds artifacts and herbs. Chaining finds routes the walkthrough will care about after launch. Either way, movement in combat should match movement in tombs — that was a design requirement, which is why Focus exists. See Focus for the gunfight version of a cartwheel.

Peru's valley is the gym: pool dives, cog swings, muddy T-Rex slide. Greece will add height. Egypt adds beams you must stand in the right place to see. If a jump is actually a puzzle, you want puzzles. If a jump is actually a dinosaur, you want dinosaurs. Button-level detail sits in controls.