The remastered edition of the “classic” Tomb Raider trilogy was released a few days ago: The polished version has been available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X as well as the Nintendo Switch since February 14, 2024. The start was quite decent, if the press and user reviews are to be believed.
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The development studio wanted to make a promise with the new edition: the timeline between the reboot parts from 2013 and 2018 should be linked to the original one (via PC Gamer). A small note has now appeared on the official Tomb Raider Remastered website that is intended to show this link. For safety We warn you about spoilers at this point – in particular the plot of the games originally released between 1996 and 1998, which were re-released with the remastered edition.
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In the course of the events of the first Tomb Raider spin-off, it turns out that the businesswoman Jacqueline Natla – who commissioned Lara Croft to search for the Scion of Atlantis in the first place – is not an ally, but rather belongs to the ancient kingdom of Atlantis itself. As in every good hero story, Lara Croft manages to defeat Natla even after her mutation. The note mentioned at the beginning on the official website for Tomb Raider Remastered now reads as follows:
In 1945, in the midst of the disastrous Trinity Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the explosive birth of the atomic bomb released Natla from her eternal slumber. After regaining her freedom, she took the name Jacqueline Natla and founded Natla Technologies to finish what she had started centuries ago.
According to Eurogamer, this little line about the Trinity Project is not only intended to be a reference to the first nuclear weapon explosion in history, but also to refer to the Trinity Order. This is in turn the main antagonist in the reboot series; According to the theory, the Trinity Order sets several events in motion across two different timelines. However, Eurogamer has taken its article with the claim offline again, so it is important to show a healthy level of suspicion here.