Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Temple of Osiris finally get Switch release date
The Nintendo Switch versions of both Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and its sequel the Temple of Osiris be released as one package on 29th June.
These editions were previously announced for Nintendo's hybrid console back in October 2021 as part of the series' 25th anniversary, but were quietly delayed at the end of last year.
The two games now come together, as The Lara Croft Collection. Anyone interested in taking to the tombs with her ladyship can pre-order the game now via the Nintendo eShop. The collection will cost £20, $25 or €25, depending on where you are.
«Whether playing alone as Lara or teaming up with friends for up to four-player local co-op, The Lara Croft Collection is packed with exhilarating run-and-gun combat against undead hordes and creatures of dark myth, as well as fiendish puzzles and intricately designed Challenge Tombs to test players' wits and reflexes,» a press release on the announcement proclaims.
Eurogamer enjoyed both of Lara's spin-off adventures on their initial release.
In our Guardian of Light review, Keza MacDonald was impressed with the game back in 2001:
«Guardian of Light's 14 levels are surprisingly vast, full of hidden areas and collectible gems, and they're mostly real, honest-to-goodness tombs: musty, vine-covered tombs, volcanic tombs with falling rock and bubbling magma, vertiginous spider-filled mazes, all full of traps and pressure plates and tantalisingly inaccessible ledges,» she wrote.
«They're unfailingly well-designed and easy to read; despite the fixed camera, it's always easy to tell whether or not you can make a jump.»
Meanwhile, our Donlan called Temple of Osiris a «welcome throwback» on its release in 2014.
«For the five or six hours it took me to barrel
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