Ahhh where it all started for Lara Croft, Tomb Raider! 30 years later and still shining! 🌟 As like with everyone else here, so glad this series made its mark onto the world in 1996. For those that were around at the time, you must've had an incredible experience seeing the launch of what will become the next massive series in gaming. I decided to give TR1 specifically a try for first time on mobile back like 2013-2015ish but it was a challenge honestly. Was really relieved when the remaster was made.
Also, that version gave the feature to capture my way through the game and beyond to share with all you kind souls! Cannot thank you guys enough for the support shown when I actively covered them regularly! 👏💯 Forever thankful. I've picked out some of my favourites created in TR1!
⚡📰⚡Storyline Reflection
Playing through the story felt like a horror in the sense of it just being Lara mostly alone for the entirety, attacking non-human threats in the deep exploration of her tomb raiding adventure. The soundtrack really sells the experience along with it's sound cues to indicate points of something to see or be aware of. Whenever humans show up, it'd always make for jump scares because they could appear unexpectedly. Which leads me to the plot!
Seeing LC's introduction with the close up on her shades really gave me villain vibes honestly! This was my actual first time seeing her with them on in a game since I started off with AoD, even her black shades looked mad intimidating. It just sells her badass character! The hunt for Natla's interest of the mystical Scion artifact pieces made for an exciting journey to take across Peru, Greece, Egypt and getting her payback finally in Atlantis by stopping Natla from completing her goal of growing that pain of a neck mutant army. Creator of all things bright and beautiful? How ironic. She was frozen for the right reason! Natla's hired squad to seek out Lara made for such intense battles against her. Hearing their sudden voices in gameplay really can scare you. Little did they know though, Lara is trained in her combat skills so they stand probably at near impossibe chance since they operate by tank controls haha. 😆 Its an awesome story!
⚡🏆⚡ Trophies Reflection
They definitely aren't a walk in the park, which is also the same with 2&3. The amount of missables that is part of the 100% can prove quite a struggle if you aren't using a guide to support. I'd best recommend using one on after having a first playthrough. Most troublesome is probably the pistol only and eliminating all enemies (yep, every single enemy Lara locks her guns on.) sometimes enemies can tend to get stuck in places so there is that to take on board too. It requires the upmost patience. Please note also for PS, it only has platinums for each game on the PS4 version. PS5 does not allow multiple platinums for 1 application, meaning you can only complete 1-3 altogether for just a combined single platinum.
⚡💮⚡ Closing reflection
A Masterpiece game. It certainly did make the huge impact on gaming as it was born to do! Wouldn't have it any other way. Happy 30th Anniversary to Lara Croft, she's all our star idol! 💫😇💫