Tomb Raider (2013) Camera Analysis 04 Mountain Temple

A camera beat chart and additional analysis for the Mountain Temple mission.
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Each minute of the Mountain Temple mission, broken down into the camera types found within it (see analysis below for details)

Gameplay finally takes dominance over non-interactive sequences after the first 45 minutes of the game. The custom aiming camera used in Coastal Forest returns for two encounters during this mission, and the player gets plenty of reinforcement that guides them to look down the sights instead of firing from the hip.

A few new cameras are added, including synchronized animation cameras like the cameras for the ledge dropdown and stealth executions. The end of this mission reveals a new traversal method, ziplines, which default to a rail camera.

There is an abundance of fire in this mission, and the VFX overlay showing embers on the camera screen is present more than 60% of the total time follow cameras are used. The last three minutes have proportionally more follow cameras than most the other beats in this mission. The developers chose to remove the embers VFX for a large section of the last three minutes, reducing the repetitiveness of this effect.

This level primarily demonstrates the Follow Camera

Exotic cameras refer to the zipline and balance cameras as well as custom or rarely used cameras
Static-facing cameras are  better versions of the industry standard static cameras. Includes camera pulls and shots with movement/rotation on one axis
NIS include transitions and any unresponsive shots
Follow cameras are driven by mouse or stick input
Climbing cameras support the climbing features

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