Not sure how they can fit it into the introductory cutscene when even in the animated series she’s auctioning off artifacts and other things in season 2 (not sure if you watched, not spoiling it but it’s annoying, lol). This is the crux of concern of this unification to me.

A huge question is what causes Lara to go from “I’m one of their many protectors” (in reference to artifacts) to “sure, I’ll find the artifact for a multimillionaire business woman for fun…” because if they take out the “I only play for sport” line, many fans will be furious.

The braid joints were animated via a rudimentary physics engine, rather than hand animated like rest of Lara.
The physics engine used spheres and boxes to represent solid objects like her backpack and neck to collide the braid against. Ergo, independent of polygon count.

It just needed tuning...

Not sure how to feel, if this is real. I love TR1 and I hate most of what they did in Anniversary, and I fear that Anniversary would be a big inspiration for another remake instead of TR1. (I want sci-fi Atlantis, I don't want Natla to be a god, I want no parents, I want complicated levels...)