With the first Tomb Raider Collection being so recently released, it felt a little premature to be getting Tomb Raider Collection 2.

Especially as, in my opinion, the series peaked with Tomb Raider II, and what followed just became somewhat more convoluted without necessarily becoming more enjoyable, and by the fourth game, the series was really starting to need to move on from its 32-bit roots.

That fourth game, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, and the fifth (Tomb Raider: Chronicles) are the games included here. They haven’t aged particularly well, and they were already feeling dated even when released in 1999 and 2000, respectively.

Also, just look at the screenshots included here. If you didn’t know what games they were from (The Last Revelation above and Chronicles below), would you be able to tell? Of course not.

So let’s start with The Last Revelation then. The fourth game in what had been an annual event since the first Tomb Raider was released, it was solid, but unspectacular; it did feel as if, despite one or two nice narrative touches, that developers Core Design were just going through the motions for the sake of their yearly moneyspinner. It’s worth noting, however, that the version on the Evercade includes a previously PC-only bonus level, and it’s great to have access to that after all these years.

Chronicles does something different; a necessity given the climax of The Last Revelation. Intended as a sort of epilogue of the original series, Chronicles is an episodic series of adventures with flashbacks to Lara Croft’s escapades in her earlier years.

Don’t get me wrong; both of these games are competent enough, and it’s great to have the entire run of PS1 Tomb Raider titles on the Evercade. However, with only two games on the cartridge and with them being the weakest, in my opinion, pair of Tomb Raider games overall, it’s difficult to properly recommend them unless you’re an Evercade completist or a die hard Lara Croft fan. Especially as, with this being a higher capacity ‘Giga Cart’, it’s more expensive than cartridges with more, and better, games included.

You can buy Tomb Raider Collection 2 from Amazon.

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