Bounding Into Comics Reports: In a move that, while an admitted step in the right direction, still signals that the Western video game industry is still much too focused on performative activism than it should be, Crystal Dynamics has announced that though their upcoming remasters of the first three Tomb Raider games will release completely uncensored, they will also feature a disclaimer decrying the “harmful impact” the series has supposedly had on players.

(Spoilers: It hasn’t had any.)

As discovered by series-centric news outlet Tomb Raider Chronicles a day ahead of the remastered trilogy collection’s February 14th release, upon booting up the game for the first time, players are presented with a one-time disclaimer informing them that “The games in this collection contain offensive depictions of people and cultures rooted in racial and ethnic prejudices.”

“These stereotypes are deeply harmful, inexcusable, and do not align with our values at Crystal Dynamics,” the Marvel’s Avengers developer’s mea culpa continues. “Rather than removing this content, we have chosen to present it here in its original form, unaltered, in the hopes that we may acknowledge its harmful impact and learn from it.”

Though the developer did not provide details as to which specific “cultural depictions” they felt warranted such a warning, an educated guess suggests it was made in reference to the various ‘local enemies’ encountered by Lara Croft throughout her first three adventures, and more specifically the Polynesian ‘Tribesman’ enemies depicted in Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft.

As noted above, there’s no doubt that this is an absolutely embarrassing moment of political virtue signaling from Crystal Dynamics.