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Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered review - you were never going to smooth these games out


Our review of the new Tomb Raider collection.

Its stark and nested blocks face every age with the same eternal silence, while the impulse to organise and tidy that they inspire is so deeply rooted in living things that it probably transcends species. Reader, in the real world, I am learning to swim at the moment, and I am lost in this period of breaking all these movements that should be graceful and smooth and completely mindless down into little pieces that I have to carry in my head and think about, very artificially, in sequence while I'm underwater. Not just the way enemies will run in circles shooting blindly or the way every window shattering feels like a sound effect played jarringly over the speakers in regional theatre, absolutely removed from what's happening on the stage.

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