Lara Croft is one of the iconic characters in the history of video games, who It arrived in 1996 from Core Design to give a complete twist to old action adventure games. It is probably one of the releases that most impacted all of us who lived through that time –already working on this– but, was it really necessary? remake like this at this point?
A few months ago, Microsoft gave its Xbox Game Pass users a remake –it would be better to call them games made up– of Quake II that, for some reason, someone thought that users would be interested. The nostalgia exercises last as long as they last, which is the initial moment of downloading the game, the next of opening it and the last, which is discovering that those images that we kept in memory had higher quality than the ones we see on the screen.
Three remakes in one game
As we tell you, the same thing Quake II It is applicable to these three tomb Raider which were announced yesterday afternoon for Nintendo Switch via Direct of the Japanese, and we don’t know if anyone was waiting for them. Because you have to let the classics rest, especially when the main character, our Lara, is still in force thanks to the latest and superb trilogy. survivor.
The fact is that the first three tomb Raider appeared between 1996 and 1998 They will arrive remastered and with top graphics, both to Nintendo Switch and PS5, PS4, Xbox and PC. It will be February 14, 2024 and it seems that you have reservations open in case you are impatient and want to spend the nearly 30 euros that it will cost you.
As you can see from the video that you have just above, what the game has done is inflate resolution, include small upgrades visuals (they say it literally) and hide some unpublished secret levels in each of the games.
Too expensive fashion
We will not be the ones to take away the enthusiasm of the true fans of tomb Raider about whether this compilation is of interest or not, and if after purchasing it someone is going to endure finishing them for all the hours they contain inside, having as there are so many alternatives on the market. What’s more, even in the remote case that we wanted to go through the same phases that we already played in 1996, surely It would be more faithful and nostalgic to do it with the same original installation on a PC of the time, to truly complete that trip to the past.
Let Capcom make a remake of the resident Evil from 1996 like the one he launched in 2015 is understood, understood and appreciated. Or those that came after the second and third installment. But bring these Tomb Raider, that They are practically the originals but made up and updated to the graphic quality of 2003, from PS2, does not seem like the most correct way to enjoy a classic.
So if you want to recover old emotions, don’t hesitate: install the original release of tomb Raider for PC or PSX and play it. It makes more historical sense than what they announce for 2024.