Tomb Raider: Legend is still the best Raider

[@louisfacade]

Everything about the Legend Lara is perfection, her story, her voice, her personality, her design ("hair, body face). And the gameplay is sooooo fun. Best Lara Croft Game and best character model and personality hands down. Fun fact the guy who designed Lara for the first Lara Croft game and the game itself (Tobi) was involved in this game so one might argue The Legend Lara is the actual Lara.

[@Emilytea]

This made me feel so seen. Lol. I played the original PS1 TR games, but I was honestly too young to be any good at them- Legend was *my* Tomb Raider game, the first one I ever finished. Dynamic levels, a solid and heartbreaking story, combat that feels impressive but wasn't too difficult, and a mansion to wander around in wearing pretty outfits, discovering secrets. I've replayed it so many times.

[@charmingpeasant9834]

Nice to see more Tomb Raider Legend appreciators. It really was the peak of the series in so many ways. Best written and looking Lara to date.

[@ifrit05]

Legend has the best title screen and arguably the best plot. Also, "WHERE. IS. MY. MOTHER?!" (That scene gave me goosebumps on my first playthrough)

[@Skylerjones624]

This trilogy was peak Tomb Raider for me Lara's whole serious to sarcastic personality was the best was my 1st ever Tomb Raider game and the music to this game omg especially the music in Bolivia Japan and Kazakhstan

[@empress7086]

for me the new lara doesnt look like the old lara. She looks so soft and the old lara just said savage with only looking at you

[@jrbattista193]

Totally agree. Fans like to call it tomb raider light but it’s a great game imo. The London and Nepal levels are quite challenging. I love collecting the bronze, silver, and gold rewards to each level. Lars’s home is excellent in this game, especially the gymnasium part. Replay value is high overall.

[@DUDUDISCH]

9:35 Exactly this. Her rizz is gone in the newer games 😢 I hope it’ll return

[@unsavourylittlerunt]

I strongly suggest you open the setup launcher (also applies to anniversary and underworld, but the latter includes the option in the in-game menus) and enable V-Sync, otherwise you'll have bugs like very floaty hair, super fast outfit preview animations in Croft manor, Lara's direction glitching out (like in one of the japan clips you showed, the buggy 180 degree turn while hanging from a pole, also ladders) 18:52 Check out that 90 degree turn 18:11 Exactly, it's because on consoles it runs at the originally intended 30fps (except for PSP which can *sometimes* reach up to 60 max), and your PC version has no limit, while also being way too fast for this game. Enabling V-Sync on PC would make it more or less like the PSP version at 60Hz (which should be default anyway)

[@alessandramorganva3631]

Good to know! Ty

[@iamahuman3134]

Or just set the FPS limit to 60

[@unsavourylittlerunt]

@@iamahuman3134 In a universe where these games included a proper frame rate limit option, sure, but as it is you need an external tool like Rivatuner or going into the nvidia control panel

[@BlinkyB23]

The nostalgia! I loved this game, too.

[@SFlare1]

I my word, do we share the same brain? I couldn't agree more with this video. To me, Legend represents Lara Croft at her most beautiful, badass and charming. They took everything that worked for her as a character from the Core games and added smooth controls. I love the way the subtly updated the classic costume as well. And in my personal opinion, "Nepal 2" is a frickin MASTERPIECE of music. It's so beautiful.

[@agnuswulf]

Loved the energy of the video! Also, Legends have a special place in my heart. I played the classic ones first, but Legends was the first I played when I were a not (too) stupid kid, so I could enjoy it more. And I share your feelings with the modern trilogy. You earned a subscriber!

[@angiovannie2798]

ABSOLUTELY AGREE OMG

[@crystalkirby]

When you said "SLAPS" and clapped? Chef's kiss. Liked the video. When you did the double "Eh.... EH..."? Subbed 😂 Thank you KZbin algorithm for recommending this superb little gem, and thank you Alessandra for this MASTER CLASS video 💖 Truly a joy to watch! Legend always stuck out to me as one of the crowning games in the franchise, from a life long, OG Tomb Raider fan. Having played the reboots they honestly don't even feel like Lara Croft anymore... ALSO! I've got the original Legend on PS2, and it's flawless, whilst the Xbox 360 version, played on the Xbox One, is actually really buggy too?? Missing textures are everywhere, and one time Lara's outfit was just white. No texture, only white.

[@robsonpommer7464]

Agreed

[@treflorez3092]

100% agree! I’ve played this game a hundred times!

[@apebblemaster4570]

8:30 Hah, me too! My Mom actually calls her Laura just to get a reaction out of me! (But it's all in good fun!) 14:30 Wait, it is??? So this song is not sung in Hindi like I thought?

[@AceofNatureTV]

I honestly didn’t mind the newer reboot, but I 100% agree that the King Arthur trilogy is the best by an absolute country mile! Underworld was one of my favourite games as a kid, need this Lara to come back

[@jlbwho7913]

Great game! I had it on original Xbox as a kid and 360 now. Underworld is probably my favourite of the trilogy. I love the core games and the first reboot but I agree the reboot reboot trilogy ain't so great

[@The_Gent]

Thanks for this video I never even knew about these games. I just downloaded them.they on sale on steam for 1$ each but God knows they arent patched or fixed on there. probably need to download widescreen fix and jump through a bunch of hoops to get it running via Steam. Cracked versions work great! GOG versions come pre-patched. thats why i love GOG so much more. They need more games.

[@austintopham9160]

I want someone who thinks this game is easy to try playing it on the hardest difficulty. The motorcycle levels and the last level will take hours I promise

[@valentinbonchev7485]

Great video, i rarely feel gaming nostalgia, because i have been playing league only from season 4 since this day. However ur video got me back in those careless times. My mother bought me this game and i was obsessed with lara. I was really sick and the only thing i was doing was to play this game on my laptop at the hospital and i will for sure comeback soon to play it again. I didn't know that it was a trilogy so i will play them all in the order you suggested. Thank you so much for this video ❤

[@ralph9829]

i love every lara. stay mad biggie

[@Johnny-Thunder]

Best incarnation of Lara Croft, absolutely! The gameplay in my opinion was not exactly perfect, but it had the best story (though I think it should have been concluded at the end of this game), music, admosphere, dialogue, and like I said: Lara. I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris. They're not entirely the same as a Tomb Raider experience, but they're good games and do have the true Keeley Hawes-voiced Lara Croft.

[@Maigels]

Locking the fps to 85 or less (for example trough the Nvidia control panel) gets rid of the animation and physics issues present in the Steam version

[@liamsundin5553]

i have the exact same pet peeve with her name i hate having to correct people

[@cyborgparrot1996]

The first Tomb Raider game I ever played.

[@korsakovpodcast]

This one the first Tomb Raider that was made for a people who don't like to dwell in a tomb for 20 hours looking for an exit (you know, the ones who work all day, have families etc.). OG TR games was basically a dungeon crawler on steroids with some acrobatics, but this one gave me hope. And dammit Underworld ruined it. TRL made important move to move the game out of nerds' basement to light of day (just as Lies of P doing that to souls-like games now). Sad it was dropped and forgotten like it never happened.

[@johngray6215]

Love TR legends

[@vanderhaat1470]

Love your video, thank you! Good to see theres’ so many people who couldnt get into survivor series. I hated them. Nothing about them made me feel I was playing a Tomb Raider game. I felt more like I was playing uncharted with an even more boring protagonist than Nathan Drake. Hope they bury the survivor Lara imposter and let it rest.

[@_thebowmaster_9217]

Thank you so much for making this video I played legend so many times and this really triggered the nostalgia and love I have for this game. Hope you get many more subs because this was quality edit and video ❤️

[@NostalgiaNet8]

Rise of the Tomb Raider was my favorite, I was disappointed with Shadow. I heard there were a lot of issues with development at Crystal Dynamics.

[@A2theC]

Shadow was outsourced to Eidos Montreal, while Crystal Dynamics worked on Avengers. The assets in game are even lower quality than RotT.

[@straybard_art]

The trilogy looks like it’s on sale - after watching your video, I’m gonna consider getting it ☺️

[@nicklebuh]

Fully disagree, they borrowed too heavily from the films which leaned more into her being a "nepo-baby" chasing daddy's past. It was more interesting, empowering, and made her an ACTUALLY flawed character when she did these things fully for herself. She was not a hero, and Crystal continue to fail at this core (pardon the pun) understanding of her. All this being said, the LAU trilogy is still better than the reboot franchise.

[@stevencresswell2519]

Great video! I love this game!! Especially the smooth control and all the clever secrets! But it's more baby's first raider than the best one!! 😂

[@SethMcKenzieTV]

I love your love for Legend, but I must politely disagree about Lara herself. I hate reboot Lara even more and never liked Legend Lara because she was VASTLY different from classic Lara. Her personality after Angel of Darkness was changed beyond recognition, but it seems people forgive this because she has 2 pistols, lol.

[@cosmina.m.7570]

Same here!

[@manhvu4988]

I really think the last "real" lara was the 2013 reboot. She was witty and funny then, while still being vulnerable and like depressed idk... after Rise they just made her another random white woman that just happens to steal artifacts (they removed her reading her thoughts on the artifacts which makes it feel like exploring and learning new cultures secondary to the last game) Tbh I still like classic lara, at least personality wise. It's funny how crystal dynamics are the ones crying about sexualisation of lara while making her wear that skimpy ass dress in underworld

[@gabed-vh1iv]

ITS TOO FKN EASY

[@gorofujita5767]

05:32 >"here it is really modernized, and you don't need to pay attention to precise movement that much" Thus, you yourself come to the conclusion Legend is NOT the best Raider. And never was. The best are the Classics made by Core.

[@A2theC]

I believe the title of the video is a bit oversimplified, which she implies 'the best for a newbie' to the franchise, of course the OG games are like hard mode and 'modern' is more approachable. That being said, in the comments she's admitted to not having tried the remasters, which have that mix of OG and modern controls being the sweet spot for newbie and aging fans (myself) of Core series.

[@dariuscoates894]

Nah- it’s still better than the core games- better story- better multi faceted Lara- better puzzles that have more variety than lever pulling. The classics are great too

[@gorofujita5767]

@@dariuscoates894 Crystal Dynamics trilogy's story is cringy and straight out of a predictable early-2000s mid-budget blockbuster. Nothing interesting to it, and nothing too meaningful to extract from the succession of events. Core (especially with TR1 and TR4) stays at the level of having a simple story with less convolution, but with lots of foreboding and tension to it, being more adjusted to budged and hardware limitations. A "simple story" can actually serve to illustrate deeper themes btw: Silent Hill 2 has a "simple story" _("find missing wife in creepy city...oh snap things aren't what they seem!!!")_ and is much deeper in its themes than Tomb Raider Legend Lara's character is also downgraded with Crystal Dynamics, going from battle-hardened fearless explorer of mysterious intent, to snarky nerd Mary Sue who doesn't keep stop talking to herself. The puzzles are seemingly "better" with Crystal Dynamics because technology evolved to allow for some basic playing around with physics and boxes and whatnot. Level design is much better with Core's games, ESPECIALLY in the games where they were given breathing room as devs (like TR1 and TR4). Angel of Darkness even with its many flaws (due to little time to develop it, mostly) is a testament of what Core would pull if they were given more leeway and time to properly work on things.

[@HimslGames]

Wanna join us for a podcast reviewing remastered?

[@alessandramorganva3631]

I haven't even touched Remastered yet...too busy with lots of other stuff rn

[@jenkem69]

As lara croft would say "No"

[@MiArcangel]

They should have made a remake of all the original games for PS1 like Catcom did with Resident Evil instead of making the last 3 "Tomb Raider"😢😢

[@A2theC]

Crystal Dynamics seems to have had their entire staff replaced since these older games, all the reboots have completely different idea of what the franchise is about, different ideals and motivations with somewhat distasteful attitude towards paying fans of the series. Without getting into a heated discussion about social issues/politics, fanboy preferences etc, just as she said in the video, this 'new Lara' is an imposter. For whatever reason they didn't even seem to want the recent remasters made, as fans have begged for them since Anniversary, those were outsourced to Aspyr with the help of fans to create. *You are aware of the recently released TR I-III Remastered games, right? With massive sales, there's incentive and confirmation they'd like to continue to remaster the next few classics in series.

[@Schnipps]

To save the new ones a bit, I like to believe that that Lara Croft became this one. So young version was new and not confident, she went through some crap and then became this one. I know it isn't the actual thing as they each have their own time-line for her, but look, it's the only way I can do it lmao

[@gabed-vh1iv]

It feels like a childrens game version of tomb raider

[@RealGroove163]

legend was ass, simple as fuck just like uncharted. i much prefer the survival trilogy 😍

[@MaxStoryTeller92]

We need a proper remaster of this trilogy. They remastered Legend and Anniversary for PS3, but even that's too old now.

[@Thinkiworkfordelta]

Why though ? The hd remasters for xbox360/ ps3 are perfectly fine. It’s the jump from ps1 to ps2 that needs all 6 core games remastered so we just need TR LR CHRONICLES & AOD next. The LAU trilogy was just too recent and has the hd upscale already anyway. The technology hasn’t even changed/ evolved enough to show a massive difference from LAU original to if they was remastered with todays tech. They don’t need more remakes ! Keep the classics classic and playable with / on / in the latest technology.

[@MaxStoryTeller92]

@Thinkiworkfordelta I said remaster, and maybe TRU doesn't need it (I think it does) but TRL and TRA does. Yeah Xbox and PC have access to them, but on PlayStation the trilogy is stuck on the PS3. There's no way to play them on PS4 and PS5.

[@charmingpeasant9834]

@@Thinkiworkfordelta I dont like the 7th gen visuals of Legend, especially how weird they make Lara's model look. They need to remaster Legend with 6th gen graphics as the base.

[@SSJ4Vegiito-e2h]

Nah, far from it

[@22monkeychops]

Lol. No it's not

[@frankbrodie5168]

The Legend trilogy is playable. But poor. Everything past that is bad. TR1/TR2/TR3 (original releases.) are basically the best 3 TR games. The other 2 Playstation ones are playable. But poor. AOD is actually perfectly acceptable. On an emulator with save states. Otherwise.. It's poor.

[@kacperzimowski4626]

Tomb Raider 1-5 games are the only TR games. TR Legend is barely a game, let alone a TR game. More like an interactive movie with non-existent exploration and a lot of spoonfeeding to the player. Yes, I completed your favourite trilogy on my PS2 & PS3, including Underworld and Anniversary with those checkpoints every 15 seconds where dying has zero consequences.. Those are alright experiences if you are really bored (just like that funny Indiana Jones and Staff of Kings)

[@Thrillseeker8922]

Probably the worst after AoD.

[@pigdog8228]

No just no 100% dont want another reboot making the last 3 games pointless we already have 3 completely different lara orgins we dont need another 1