Positively Amazonian

Tomb Raider Fan. Core Design era (1996-2003). Fanfiction writer.  Autistic. Catastrophic gamer.

[positivelyamazonian]

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[positivelyamazonian]

I don't hate what I've seen about Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, but I don't love it either.

Far from me to ruin some hypes out there, but that mention of Kurtis Trent in the magazine's cover is nothing but an Easter egg. Fortunately, because lore wise it makes zero sense. Kurtis was always a man of low profile, being anonymous is key to his survival. Appearing in a cover magazine would mean his impending death.

The mention of other characters belonging to different timelines strongly reinforces the idea of this being just a detail to catch classic audiences thirsting again for some crumbs.

I don't want crumbs. I want the whole bread. And we're not getting it anytime soon (it doesn't matter when you read this. 2006? 2016? 2026? You name it.)

But overall I have a heavy heart seeing people pre-ordering those brutally expensive collector/special-ish editions before even having seen the thing. As cool as it looks, whatever we saw was just a cinematic trailer. We haven't seen actual gameplay, and people is already buying and preordering like there's no tomorrow.

They're literally preordering a wrapping gift paper and the bow that comes with it (the statue) without having seen what the gift actually contains. Capitalism at its finest.

And don't get me wrong, I respect everyone's personal choices. You do with your money what you want to do. It's just I don't know at which point people started accepting that a merge of three absolutely incompatible timelines would be a great idea.

The price you pay is the erasing of lots of lore belonging to each era, sacrificed in the altar of unification. They already did that to Lara. Now even if not being present, to Kurtis, who would not allow his name being public at any point.

And don't get me started with the erased dubbings and the AI generator disclaimer. I'm too tired now.

As for me, I will stalk and watch from afar the unfolding of events. Shame I lost the passion and hype for this saga 20 years ago. The remasters were a surprise, though.

[ohthetombraider]

It’s been pre-ordered. Should I have done this probably not but oh well.

[bellaaldamas]

Are Crystal D seriously giving LoARa a Kr*stoff-esque moment where she pushes her guide to safety to show how "selfless and equipped and capable all at once" she is, to contrast with her classic self who literally was all those things already without virtue signaling.

Is she going to tell random engaged people they can't "marry men they just met" and get psychotherapy sessions from her reindeer?

Also the fact that they have Kurtis's name appear on the cover of a magazine in the timeline where he was supposed to be freelancing as a lone demon hunter in NY and sleeping in his car and trying his best to maintain a low profile and they're reducing him to the very things he was trying to escape shows the flanderization goes a long way with Crystal D hacks.

Just skip to the part where LoARa realizes her destiny is to die for the good of mankind and Kurtis repents for not realizing earlier how being a Magical Boy TM is the only way he can be ~~~Empowered and Special and how his toxic daddy was right all along. That's how far Crystal's imaginative skills go.

[refinedstorage]

and then there was this:

[potkanice]

It's cool to see the name Kurtis Trent again, but I hope it's an easter egg and nothing else. Because story-wise, it makes no sense, unless the unified version of AoD somehow takes place before LoA.

Kurtis should be unknown, not a name to appear in a magazine. Unless him using his changed name means that he feels safe from the Cabal? And anyone else who might be after him? But even then, anything mentioned about him could lead to something he wouldn't want revealed.

Assuming the events in the unified timeline take place in the same times as in original timeline, this is the year Kurtis would leave the Foreign Legion. So what is "the unknown" mentioned here? Random demons? (Or it's a name, The Unknown, an actual monster he has to fight?)

Yes, so, anyway, I feel like this is just an easter egg for the fans, with "the unknown" being that we don't know what's going to happen with him (if anything) in the franchise, and not what he's currently facing in the TR world during the time Larson was looking for Lara.

[litoperezito]

Tomb Raider III shirt design

[playstationpark]

Vultures! ‘Tomb Raider III’ PlayStation

[siljewolfe]

tomb raider the angel of darkness - 2003

[toot-tr]

by ThatNorskChick

[devoteeofthetombraider]

Art by Pago666

[devoteeofthetombraider]

Les Collines tibetaines by DarkLara28

[devoteeofthetombraider]

Art by Wickellia

[justmoone]

Stop milking that poor woman

[varcarus]

Sm0l floor turret, custom based Cone-Trigger area made entirely in LUA, not half bad really.

[seashell-bikini]

Lara's favorite food is beans on toast, so I wonder what Kurtis's fave food could be.

imo he has a thing for all things hot and spicy: curry, chili, Lara. Maybe some home-made navajo dishes his mom made like mutton stew, or navajo tacos, or something german because of his father. I can also imagine him being secretly a sucker for home-made comfort food.

Or maybe he lives off exclusively of takeout food, pizzas and frozen food.

Or better yet, the american equivalent of beans on toast: peanut butter and jelly

[playstationpark]

Official UK PlayStation Magazine #13, December 1996 - ‘Tomb Raider’ cover.