Sadly, I think only Tomb Raider 4 is worth playing. It's very reminscent of the first game, but with more complicated level design. I really enjoyed the interconnected levels and the click and point style puzzles where you had to combine stuff in the inventory. Although the latter half of the game, specifically Cairo, is noticeably weaker with some really unclear ways to progress. But thankfully, Giza levels returned to the quality of Karnak/Alexandria levels. Overall, I really liked, it was much more fun and fair than the sadistic third game, or the too shooutout focused second game, although I don't think I would've enjoyed it that much if it wasn't for the interaction pop-up icon that remaster added. Lara opening doors by herself? Or those hatches on the ceiling? I would've never realized on my own that she can do that stuff now, which is mostly the fault of the horrible tutorial level, which is one singular linear level now, instead of the free roam style Croft manor.

Chronicles is is literally just forgettable set of short, simplistic levels. There wasn't even any exploration, because every level is basically a bunch of corridors connecting to single-room puzzles. Really disappointed. There were few good ideas here and there but overall you could tell they were truly tired of pushing out a game after a game every year. It's also like really really short, and bloated by the overabundance of irrelevant/unfunny cutscenes.

Angel of Darkness is... well, Angel of Darkness. Didn't even finish it yet so I won't say much about it, but I'm starting to think I'm not gonna finish it. Not even the supposedly modern controls help, as Lara controls in some weird hybrid of TR:Legend and Classic TR controls. It's not very comfortable to play.

When it comes to remaster itself it is very high quality, TR4 and Chronicles look fantastic, there's far more 3d models placed around, and less obvious AI upscaled textures. Even the blocky environments got more detailed geometry so they appear more natural. Surprisingly, the tank controls got some new moves, like being able to hang from ledge grab simply by walking up to the ledge and pressing action.

The remaster of AoD is not as great though, bunch of characters (not even all of them!) got new models and the textures are higher res, other than that it's basically hard to spot any visual improvements.

Overall, I recommend it only if you want more Tomb Raider after playing the 1-3 remasters.

Best game!

I don’t really understand why everyone is complaining about AOD, saying that they didn’t change much in the remaster or that it’s buggy. At the beginning, I just increased the mouse sensitivity a bit, and after that everything worked perfectly with modern controls. Bugs were extremely rare and insignificant, they didn’t negatively impact my experience at all. Honestly, I binge-played the whole thing, I just couldn’t stop until the end.


✅ Pros

• Great story, especially the intense connection between Kurtis and Lara (sad that it was left hanging without a continuation, it had a lot of potential)

• Modern controls make the gameplay experience much more fluid and enjoyable

• Level and story structure

• Mysterious elements in the story and an unpredictable, unexpected ending

• Variety in achievements, some are actually challenging

• Interesting and varied puzzles, some quite challenging

• Restored dialogue lines and Kurtis’ full abilities with his boomerang weapon

• New Game+ is a welcome and challenging experience

• Improved and pleasant graphics, I didn’t bother comparing with the original version; I just liked how this remastered version looked like


❌ Cons

• Too little gameplay with Kurtis, and his levels feel a bit flat, he’s a character with much more untapped potential; but I guess this is a con for the original game

• Two achievements are semi-bugged, you need to do more or be more precise than the description suggests: Two Steps a Hades and Hit the Floor

• It would’ve been nice to have more combat options, more variety beyond just run/jump/punch/shoot