Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft

For people who don't like this kind of achievement, good news because this is fairly straightforward as speedruns go. gobey17 says this now unlocks in NG+! To meet the 5 hour target:

• You do not need to learn speedrunning strategies or glitches.
• You can just follow the standard routes through the levels.
• You do have time to carefully take out enemies.
• You do have time to make small diversions for items.
• You do have time to carefully line up jumps and plan your movement.
• Time taken does reset upon reloading an earlier save or dying and restarting the level. The time is tied to the save, not to the playtime.
• You can combine this with less than 86 saves. It will be a bit more difficult, but still not that bad. If you do this, bear in mind you get a 'free' save at the start of each level, as you can choose to restart if you die early on (don't mash A though or you'll load something else by accident!)
• Courtesy of oONeonDemonOo, photo mode + pauses the timer while allowing you to look around

Based on my times I can suggest you use the following to check your pace. In practice you will probably shave several minutes from these times which will act as a buffer for later levels. Some levels can be done much faster than this using speedrun strats (eg Natla's mines), but it is not necessary!

• Caves 10 minutes
• City of Vilcabamba 12 minutes
• The Lost Valley 14 minutes
• Tomb of Qualopec 12 minutes
• St. Francis' Folly 22 minutes
• Colosseum 18 minutes
• Palace Midas 26 minutes
• Cistern 18 minutes
• Tomb of Tihocan 22 minutes
• City of Khanmoon 16 minutes
• Obelisk of Khanmoon 22 minutes
• Sanctuary of the Scion 26 minutes
• Natla's Mines 32 minutes
• Atlantis 28 minutes
• The Great Pyramid 22 minutes

I came in at just over 4 hours, combining this with the <86 saves. If you find this kind of achievement intimidating I'd suggest you at least try the first couple of levels against the benchmark, you'll be surprised how much leeway you have.

***THIS DOES NOT UNLOCK IN NEW GAME PLUS***

You must complete the NORMAL game in under 5 hours. I found this out the hard way so am warning you all of this.

Like the other guide mentioned, this is way easier than it might seem.

I finished my collectathon-run (all kills+collectibles) with 5:21 and kept saves just before the Detonator-skip in Natla's mines and Atlantis since I had no clue how close to 5 hours I would get.

Either way - reloaded the Detonator-save, finished the level, skipped a majority of Atlantis with a final time of 4:15 and final time was 4:40 and some.

There's another skip in Egypt that skips an entire level listed below - there are probably more, but just skipping secrets and/or stuff like defusing all of Damocles swords should be more than enough for a comfy time-buffer.


Unfortunately I was only able to find one of those pesky shorts that shows the jump to the detonator
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LXuihfHDf3o

For people who don't like this kind of achievement, good news because this is fairly straightforward as speedruns go. Note, does not unlock in NG+! To meet the 5 hour target:

• You do not need to learn speedrunning strategies or glitches.
• You can just follow the standard routes through the levels.
• You do have time to carefully take out enemies.
• You do have time to make small diversions for items.
• You do have time to carefully line up jumps and plan your movement.
• You can combine this with less than 86 saves. It will be a bit more difficult, but still not that bad. If you do this, bear in mind you get a 'free' save at the start of each level, as you can choose to restart if you die early on (don't mash A though or you'll load something else by accident!)

Based on my times I can suggest you use the following to check your pace. In practice you will probably shave several minutes from these times which will act as a buffer for later levels. Some levels can be done much faster than this using speedrun strats (eg Natla's mines), but it is not necessary!

• Caves 10 minutes
• City of Vilcabamba 12 minutes
• The Lost Valley 14 minutes
• Tomb of Qualopec 12 minutes
• St. Francis' Folly 22 minutes
• Colosseum 18 minutes
• Palace Midas 26 minutes
• Cistern 18 minutes
• Tomb of Tihocan 22 minutes
• City of Khanmoon 16 minutes
• Obelisk of Khanmoon 22 minutes
• Sanctuary of the Scion 26 minutes
• Natla's Mines 32 minutes
• Atlantis 28 minutes
• The Great Pyramid 22 minutes

I came in at just over 4 hours, combining this with the <86 saves. If you find this kind of achievement intimidating I'd suggest you at least try the first couple of levels against the benchmark, you'll be surprised how much leeway you have.