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This review is done aftear beating TR I: NG and half of TR I: NG+, since TR I was the game I was hyped the most.

First of all acknowledge the amazing work of the devs (Members of the TR Community were hired to build this project). Thanks to all the team for bringing back Lara to us, in the way fans wished, you're awesome.

Experience wise, this remaster is the perfect example of how to bring back the joy of old games. The mastery craft of the original games is intact, adding new visuals, new functions (like Bosses HP and new controls tho Tank Gang for ever) and the atention to detail and love showed throught the whole experience.
There's some bug here and there and that's reasonable considering they've kept old code, TR Community knows they're going to be fix and this guys are going to work non stop to bring this games to perfection.

Achievements are a feast to my soul, giving the game more replayability, including also the NG+ function which bring an even more hardcore experience for those with the guts and the will to go through the games with a difficulty increase.

If you've doubts about buying this remaster, please do yourself and all the TR Community a favour and buy it. You've at least 60 to 70 hours of gameplay throught the 3 amazing games featured in this remaster, reaching even the 100+ hours if you're going for the completionist path and trying to unlock all the achievements.

If you're an old fan take in consideration this remaster brings back all the extra experiences of each game, as we call them now a days DLCs, that are not able to buy in any other digital mean.

If you're new and don't know what to do, changes to the games have really make them more enjoyable for new players, specially the Modern Controls if you find hard the old tank control system.

If you come from new-era Tomb Raider games, please, give them the benefict of the doubt. This is the real Tomb Raider experience, this is the real Lara Croft that we all fell in love with in the '90s. There's no more real way to experience what really is to be a Tomb Raider and to explore Tombs filled with secrets, traps and puzzles for you to solve.

All I have left to say is: Welcome back Mrs. Croft, we've missed you.

The game is awesome. Combat and systems are great, it has a few bugs here and there but overall is a great an awesome experience, kept me in for almost 6 hours on the first gameplay.

I highly recommend it, there's also a free to play demo, Railroads & Catacombs: Prologue, that last for around 30 minutes and is a great introduction to the game, give it a try I promise you won't regret.

I've been playing long enough to be able to say this:
IdleOn is the BEST idle game in the market right now. It has a ton of cool features, game feels good in progression terms and the p2w exists, but you can still work around it through playtime and in-game bosses and monsters gem drops.

Why is this review negative then?
Well, recently we've faced a bad situation as a whole community, including the Dev.
A weird 1 in a million chance (LITERALLY) bug happened, some people exploited to crazy levels, some people abused it to gain some quick progression, some people had fun with it, others misunderstood the whole situation and thought it was a feature and others ignored the thing 'cause they thought it might be a bug.

While I consider that actions must have been taken, and they have been taken, to fix the situation; I honestly believe that punishment was dramatically tough, making people leave the game and others stay but with a bad mouth taste. I believe that most of the players, I include myself, that played around with the gold trade were expecting a rollback of the progression for the same duration of the bug, or maybe a day. And I believe that was the right choice to take.

Yeah, people messed it up with the trades, none rejects that, but also there was a code issue, a game issue... While we, as players, have to be adults enough to recognize that we messed it up, it's also Lava's labor to recognize that there was this bug and take his part of the blame, addressing it in a way that it's a tie for both sides, dev and players. I don't believe that even 10% of the players exploiting it had malicious intentions.

Game has been doing amazing content wise, Lava's been invested with the community giving us QoL updates and other long awaited features. But with this whole situation, It just didn't felt like that. The punishment has been done and I personally take the L while thinking this could've been better addressed and could've had a less negative impact for the game, as overall player feedback I've read.

If you reading this, Lava, know that I love your game, I think you're a cool dude and I can understand the whole situation, that's why I've been playing and I'm going to keep playing... It just has felt really tough to lose a month or 2 of progress for a couple of minutes fooling around...

I'll eventually update this review, probably to a positive one when this whole deal has been lost in my mind
Vee you in the Rift guys.

This game early is perfect. The only bad thing is that you'll only experience this whole game for first time once.

The original experience brought back with a fully upgraded artistic design.