O tempora is a series of retrospective posts where I play games from ages before to see if they stood the test of time.
I’ve been meaning to replay the classic Tomb Raider games for years now. I could – I own the PC versions on GOG and while there are some nuances about running them on modern systems, those ports are solid. But I never had time or desire, as all Tomb Raider games are quite long and slow. I used to love The Last Revelation and quite enjoyed most of Chronicles and played them a lot as a teen. But the first three? I’ve never properly finished the first, stopped playing the second at around midpoint and remembered next to nothing about the third, despite completing it decades ago. There were also three PC exclusive expansions – Unfinished Business, Golden Mask and The Lost Artefact for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd games respectively that I never even saw.
With the release of Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (Starring Lara Croft), I couldn’t delay this any further. A definitive package of the three games I was least familiar with, with the mentioned expansions and a bunch of quality of life and visual upgrades? Sign me up. A entire month of playing them later I can finally share what I think of the collection and the games themselves.
