Posted July 26, 2025
Right now I'm playing Tomb Raider: Legend. Please note that I played Tomb Raider: Anniversary first before playing Legend, meaning I didn't try to approach this trilogy based in the order of the dates at which those games were released. So any downsides I see in Legend might have already been fixed in Anniversary (or they should have been I suppose).
So the biggest changes I've noticed immediately are definitely the cutscenes and the lack of puzzles. Almost every level in Legend has more than a few cutscenes connecting one area to the next, like quite a lot of them. And as much as I appreciate the quality of each one (the cutscenes), I can't help but fear that this affects the length of the game. I've played this game only for a few hours, and I'm already having a feeling that this game might end sooner than what I had initially hoped. I haven't finished the game, but based on those few hours alone and comparing it to the progress that I'm currently at within the story, I think I'm nearing the end.
As for the puzzles, compared to Anniversary, they're way fewer puzzles to encounter. And although in terms of difficulty they fare pretty much the same with the second game, I still think there are more combat sequences in this game than there are puzzles. Still, I enjoy the story, especially at the dialogues. I pretty much enjoy Lara's quick-wittedness when conversing with the other characters in the game, whether they are friends or foes. One thing that I wish could've been reduced are the exclamations Lara's colleagues shout whenever she does a stunt. Like the,"Woooo! Yeah!" etc.
So the biggest changes I've noticed immediately are definitely the cutscenes and the lack of puzzles. Almost every level in Legend has more than a few cutscenes connecting one area to the next, like quite a lot of them. And as much as I appreciate the quality of each one (the cutscenes), I can't help but fear that this affects the length of the game. I've played this game only for a few hours, and I'm already having a feeling that this game might end sooner than what I had initially hoped. I haven't finished the game, but based on those few hours alone and comparing it to the progress that I'm currently at within the story, I think I'm nearing the end.
As for the puzzles, compared to Anniversary, they're way fewer puzzles to encounter. And although in terms of difficulty they fare pretty much the same with the second game, I still think there are more combat sequences in this game than there are puzzles. Still, I enjoy the story, especially at the dialogues. I pretty much enjoy Lara's quick-wittedness when conversing with the other characters in the game, whether they are friends or foes. One thing that I wish could've been reduced are the exclamations Lara's colleagues shout whenever she does a stunt. Like the,"Woooo! Yeah!" etc.