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Originally Posted by 66Sexy
It's been forever since I played any of them so you might be right but those controls really are dated. How would you say 1 holds up to Anniversary?
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Yeah, the controls are clunky, but I've been playing some TR earlier this year - both old and new games. You get used to it fast enough, really.
Anniversary was a game that I was pretty impressed with back when I first got it, but in retrospect, it doesn't have remotely as interesting level design as the original. It's actually 100% different layouts with only slight thematic connections between the levels of the new game and the original.
The original will have you checking walkthroughs and cursing at the screen much more than Anniversary, but I feel like the price paid to get that more streamlined, easy to play re-interpretation of the old TR has been too high.
TR1 was basically way more creative and cleverly designed in terms of level layouts. Anniversary looks good and plays smooth, but the soul is missing. I really do prefer flawed and dated but interesting over something strictly speaking more playable that is also more safe and bland.