Never again. I refuse to beleive anybody has ever finished those London levels without a walkthrough. Or the last boss for that matter.

What a flawed, brutal clusterfuck of a sequel. It has some of the best art, locales and music of the series, but it’s also a meandering pain in the arse. It’s full of fuck you moments and poor level design that at best frustrate and at worst full on block your progress.

Kayaks can piss off. Super dark swimming levels can piss off. And so can Aldwych station. A thousand times over.

Still, delighted to have seen it through - even if i did have to use a walkthrough way more than I’d like to have done.

The worst of the trilogy following a 9 for TR1 and a forgiving 8 for TR2.

Now remaster Last Revelation.

They did a better job remastering this game than TRII. Though it is taxing to play these games back to back. Makes me think they should have released each game for 12 bucks. Especially since I have no feelings towards TR1. TR2 is much easier to figure out without a walkthrough, and I have beaten it a long time ago as a kid without cheats. The map layouts for part 3 are ridiculous. A switch in London opens the case for ANOTHER switch, AND that switch turns off the heater.It's really stupid set up. I mean, that's like going to your mom's house to press the switch that opens your closet ar your home. So you can press yet another switch so your sister's toilet can work. TF EDIOS?

TRIII was my favourite of the original games back in the day and now, having played through all three of these in succession I think it still is my favourite, even if I think TRI is the superior game overall. TRIII remains as frustrating and obtuse as ever ( I relied on guides more for this game than either of the other two) and while the level design is more ambitious then it has ever been up to this point, I think the devs hadn't quite figured out how to make non-linearity work in a TR game yet.

Still, I LOVE the atmosphere in III. The sound design especially does a lot to make this game extra spooky. I love that the games have steadily introduced more horror- elements as they went on. III especially feels very influenced by the X-Files and of course there's the final 3 hours and change that's spent basically running around the set of The Thing. It's brilliant!

To speak exclusively about the remaster for a second, the modern graphics do this particular game a disservice the way they didn't for the other two. TRIII has such wonderfully weird and spooky lighting design and there was no effort to recreate it here. It's not a problem in every area; most outdoor sections still look very nice. But once Lara is indoors everything just looks so flat. London was my favourite section in the original game because of it's use of purple and green lighting where it shouldn't exist. It really enhances this game's lean towards outright horror and it's just gone now.

The racist portrayals of certain cultures were inexcusable when this game first came out but the remaster really pulls all that stuff into very sharp focus. It stick out so much and makes some sections of the game fairly unpleasant. I don't really know how Aspyr could have gotten around this, short of not remastering III at all. It's baked in to the game's DNA and it's rubbish.

Lara is very fun in this game even though she's at her most murderous. There's more cutscenes than ever and she gets a lot of good banter. And I like that she's kind of a dope in this game too.

I guess my final word on this whole game is that it's a mixed bag that I have a lot of nostalgic attachment to. I'm happy to have finally played it from beginning to end and I hope to revisit it again as the years goes on.

I think the remasters for 1 and 2 turned out pretty good, but III has been messed up pretty bad in this remaster. The lighting and atmosphere is almost entirely wiped away with the new graphics: what was once a lot of very beautiful, painterly locations with incredible mood lighting is now a big flat nothing. That's not even mentioning how bugged some areas are, including a wall in the Lost City that is just not there at all. I encountered a ton of visual bugs in the remastered graphics, so it's not only ugly, but broken.

The modern controls are still almost incomprehensibly bad but in the more winding levels of III they might as well be the Master Ninja difficulty option: beat Tomb Raider with a hand tied behind your back.

Also, as of writing this, All Hallows is bugged and won't load, so if you want to play the cool secret mission for getting all 60 secrets you'll have to use a cheat engine. I still recommend this Remaster for 1 and 2 but know this version of III is not as polished as the others in the package, and I seriously doubt this is ever getting an update.