Hopefully one of the things they "cut" is the still tying this story to Lara's origin: it's not needed. Even if this is still Lara in her early career, let the sequel just be Lara's next adventure, outside of being her origin.
I mean, even the reboot sequels already work like that, it was basically just how they were marketed that connects them to being an origin story. But by what is actually written in the games, they are more of a Trinity duology than anything else, really.
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