The Tomb Raider I-III Remastered achievements are utterly bizarre (and amazing)

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A good part of the Internet has already sung high praise for the OG Tomb Raider trilogy remaster’s loving determination to rejuvenate the classic. I’m glad it has. Being alone in finding it quite a marvel would leave me feeling pretty sad and possibly stupid.

One aspect of the remastered trilogy that I believe I haven’t seen enough praise for, however, is the game’s achievements, which I absolutely adore. There’s something for everyone here. Some achievements are expected, some are difficult to find, some are hilarious, and many are straight-up bonkers.

To drive my point across, I believe that there’s no better example than the fact that there are achievements for killing bald enemies, specifically in different ways. As a man who still has hair but whose family tree hairline foretells a barren future, I could feel attacked, but the specificity at play is just too funny to get mad at. Also, we do know for a fact that bald people tend to be evil — in games and movies, that is.

Similarly, there are expected achievements, like one for killing the T-Rex, the most memorable encounter in the original game.

Cool, but expected. That’s when the game pulls a fast one on you, as there’s also an achievement for not hurting it at all. I spent most of my life thinking that just being nice to it was not an option.

I’d have never found out about this one if I hadn’t cheated and looked at Steam’s achievement list. Finding all of these achievements by oneself is, dare I say it, more difficult than all of the challenges Lara goes through in any of these games put together.

Yeah, some of the achievements are just bonkers, such as the one for finding all the different (36) ways to kill Lara in the game or the genocide run one where you kill everything there is to kill in the game. There’s also one for making Lara scream twice during one single fall, which is another thing I wonder how many players even knew was a thing.

One of my favorites is this very specific achievement called “Play