TRA - St. Francis Folly Designer's Comments

The game designer's comments to the first Tomb Raider Anniversary Greece level called St. Francis Folly. The designers comment about what changed between the original Tomb Raider 1 and the remake TR Anniversary and talk about what they _wanted_ to do in TR1.

Credits
TR1 video http://youtube.com/louischou
Neptun image http://witchhunter.net
Poseidon & Damocles img http://wikimedia.org

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• folly

[7039TS]

In a way it's interesting that toby didn't know the names of the greek and roman gods as in the original TR1 there is a room called Thor when Thor is actually a norse god, not greek or roman and in the remake the thor room is now the hepheasteus room. hepheasteus is the greek god who gave sophitia a sword and shield to destroy soul edge in namco's soul blade / calibur series.

Also when this video shows you pictures of poseidon and neptune side by side, neptune is spelled neptun lol

[lkjkorn19]

@7039TS Yes, as posted somewhere below, it doesn't have an ending E in German, so it didn't occur to me that there would be one in English. :P

[kdgreer0]

You misspelled Neptune!

[lkjkorn19]

Oh, true... Great observation! That's a spelling error from German as it doesn't have an ending E in that language.

[Kizuii]

"You know that I just realised ? we renamed this room" "What did you rename it to ?" "It's Poseidon" "..m0ah its good..."

You can literally tell by Tobys Voice that this was a ">_>" moment xD

[QueenLeTigre]

That was really interesting, but they forgot to mention that they changed Thor to Hephaestus! lol

[leptoceratops]

@limbobbins Yes, he does (at least he has a very attractive voice, though! XD). While the name of the room was corrected, the idea behind it was completely ruined and failed to reproduce the gaming experience of the original: that claustrophobia and feeling of doom as you're sucked down a narrow passage underwater. Now it's just kind of a big swimming pool.

[limbobbins]

I dunno if it's just me or does the american guy always come off as a smug idiot that thinks cuz you make a level a million times bigger and it makes it better? The original tomb raider has atmosphere of isolation and claustrophobia that has never been captured by any of the sequels, especially not the crystal dynamics games (or anything after TR2)... and it was terrifying because you didn't want to kill Lara and she was easy as hell to kill.

[videogamenostalgia]

Im loled when he did a mini laugh when he realised the innuendo in 'rifling through Natla's drawers'

[marakisweety]

yes...i'm from Greece and we're learning about them(poseidon and the other Gods)from the age of 8 until the afe of 10..and.I don't learn anything about...''Neptune(?)''...(lol)­PLEASE be more careful with Greece's history!!(lol)hahahah...anyway­..you correct it now...so...all right...!!!i like that Tomb Raider original and anniversary have Greece..I am very proud(hahah)anyway..all tomb raider games are beautiful!!!!!i can't stop playing!!! xD :DGREETINGS FROM GREECE!!!!!