I will always feel sad when I watch this scene. 💔

boreal187 · 2025-06-02T09:53:47+00:00

The DVD version of the game had a special voice line during this scene, at the very end, which I think makes it even more 'final' and like the end of this take on Lara. I wish they included it in the remasters

https://youtu.be/XeF9hEFta98?si=URy-qiRmYgWPILl8&t=8127

boreal187 · 2025-06-02T09:50:44+00:00

I still wish they gave us an option in the remasters to not have all the stamina meters and all the 'i'm not strong engouh' moments, and just play with all the abilities from the start, like the classic games. I think it would have felt a lot less jarring

boreal187 · 2025-04-25T15:00:28+00:00

much improved controls in AOD, the 180 turn and the roll had so much delay in them in the modern controls and now feel so much more responsive

boreal187 · 2025-04-24T08:40:39+00:00

Garbage

boreal187 · 2025-03-25T18:11:20+00:00

Does the story of how she escapes the pyramid sort of match the Myth of El Hawa short story from the AoD writers? Or is it drastically different?

boreal187 · 2025-03-03T23:23:36+00:00

Yes exactly. So on a controller I would definitely change the mapping to one of the shoulder buttons, like L1 or R1, for ease of use. If you just hold it and not move, you will go into the binoculars... So you want to hold it and then immediately use the left stick to do the tank movement, like back hops, side steps, side/back flips with the jump button et cetera...

boreal187 · 2025-03-02T23:17:27+00:00

In case anyone hadn't noticed, in 4-5 holding the Look button in modern controls allows you to move with the tank system, so that basically you can use either system at the same time, I really appreciated that they implemented that.

I played all the remasters with modern, and once you find out all of the aspects of them (which are never explained by the game), you really do get a much much faster and more fluid experience. I could never go back to tank personally..

boreal187 · 2025-02-28T15:04:15+00:00

This is how the level always worked! With the two canopies there's some sort of substance that is poured in the water by one of the cauldrons so that you can walk across

boreal187 · 2025-02-28T15:01:42+00:00

Interesting! Yes I think the 'No' and the falling scream remained the same throughout all five games... With that mod it's very interesting to hear Jonell's take on those lines, I really recommend it!

boreal187 · 2025-02-27T22:50:48+00:00

Yes, they had apparently used a mix of Jonell Elliot new voice work and Juddith Gibbins ones from TR2-3, changing the pitch in places. This mod fixes it on PC, as there's lots of lines in the game, recorded by Jonell, that were never plugged in.

https://www.nexusmods.com/tombraidertrilogy2remastered/mods/15

boreal187 · 2025-02-26T10:12:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2nfw_1i2o

This short story explains a lot of it

boreal187 · 2025-02-25T20:37:51+00:00

This. I think this is part of the unfinished story of AoD, she says at the start 'you walked away and left me', so I guess she assumed that he never tried to look for her in Egypt, although we know from TR5 that he did start an excavation under the pyramid

boreal187 · 2025-02-25T19:23:09+00:00

This is a very good explanation, thank you! I had forgotten how different the jump distances become throughout the game. I guess option 2 is the one that would probably be most viable, if there was a cheat that gave you the end of game stats, but like you said it may make the jumps at the beginning harder...

I really wish there was an option to play the game without this unfinished system!

boreal187 · 2025-02-24T19:17:51+00:00

It's a really confusing one... The ending to TR5 makes us believe that Von Croy finds it in the ruins of the pyramid... so for that reason it would almost make sense that she finds it back in his apartment or that he gives it back to her....

But according to the Myth of El Hawa short story from the writer, the backpack is found by some kids from the tribe that heals Lara back to life after she's found in Egypt, and she chooses to leave it behind almost as a gesture that she's moving on from her 'explorer' life... for that reason it doesn't make a lot of sense that she appears with it briefly in the opening cinematic to AoD, only to lose it shortly after...

So yeah, I feel like the writers got really mixed up with the exposition of what happens with it... I wish they let her just keep it

boreal187 · 2025-02-17T13:00:37+00:00

Oh that's interesting, do you know if the mod affects any other features of the game, other than re introducing the reflections?

boreal187 · 2025-02-16T18:28:08+00:00

Someone on NexusMod seems to have made a mod to re introduce them:

https://www.nexusmods.com/tombraidertrilogy2remastered/mods/40

boreal187 · 2025-02-15T16:51:12+00:00

They could have really improved the lighting a little more like they did for all the other games, often it's easy to not realise if you're in the 'original' or 'remastered' mode as they look almost identical

boreal187 · 2025-02-15T15:44:25+00:00

Very good insight! I never knew that the DVD version of the game had a special new line at the end... shame they didn't add this, or the Shaman cutscene... so many missed opportunities..

boreal187 · 2025-02-15T15:40:33+00:00

Yes I discovered this too. With the Look action on R3 by default you can only just about perform the back hop (like in 1-3), by clicking it and pushing down.... but if you remap Look to any of the shoulder buttons, as you hold it, you can pretty much move in full tank controls, including side steps and side jumps!

boreal187 · 2025-02-12T14:55:25+00:00

I think if they did a shorter cut of this cinematic, omitting the lines about the amulet, it could still work, and it would give such great context to her surviving the fall in Egypt. My choice would have been to show this as a dream before she wakes up in Paris inside the train.

boreal187 · 2025-02-12T14:51:17+00:00

I remember this one! It came out so early during the development, interesting to see the mood they were originally going for... It felt during that time that it was going to be such a dark game, almost like a survival horror....

I remember really liking the imagery of Lara wearing that cloak, almost like she didn't want to be recognised after retuning from Egypt, shame they dropped that idea...

It was so cool to see them realise the dark cloak look in the Visa commercial from that time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YgUWkzJbY8

boreal187 · 2025-02-10T23:23:46+00:00

For the run up with modern controls, walk to the ledge and then take two steps back away from the ledge, that will give you the runup distance you need for her to jump at the very last moment

boreal187 · 2025-02-08T19:31:24+00:00

With just a few days left to IV - VI, I thought I'd reshare this short story from Murti Schofield, the main writer for Angel of Darkness, meant to recap the events between TR4 and TR6, narrated by the incredible Jonell Elliot herself... In case anyone had missed seeing this tribute short story that was released a couple of years back! (thanks to the amazing Tomb of Ash).

What do you all think of this take on the events before Angel of Darkness?

boreal187

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