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# This Reboot Needs…a Reboot
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/this-reboot-needsa-reboot/
- Published: 2020-01-04T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-04T15:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, Game, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Finding Lara Croft - Super Jump Magazine - Medium](https://medium.com/super-jump/finding-lara-croft-982e4d755f94?ref=birchtree.me)

> Sega has responded to this collision of old and new fans by releasing games like Sonic Generations and Sonic Mania, where they are offering both a clear nostalgic experience alongside upgraded visuals and new content.  
> In my view, this is what needs to happen with Tomb Raider in order to keep the fun and humour of the classic series going — to preserve its DNA.

I never played the old Tomb Raider games, my actual introduction to the series was 2013’s Tomb Raider and I really loved that game at the time. I then played the sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider, a few years later, and enjoyed it some, but with much less passion than the first one. When 2018 rolled around with a third game in the rebooted franchise, I was over it and never bought the game, even when it was on sale for something like $9.99.

I’m not sure what way the series should go at this point. On the one hand, moving the series away from it’s new super-serious tone sounds good, but on the other, I don’t want them to regress and “just make one like the old games” because that’s as sure a sign as any that there’s nothing left for a franchise.

We’ll see where they decide to go with this franchise, but I definitely share Daryl’s feeling that it can’t just keep doing what it’s currently doing.