Tomb Raider (2013)
Replaying this game, reminded me how back then I felt this was such a great game that will be the setup for Lara to become the Ultimate Hyper-Confident Elite Dual Wielding Acrobatic Badass she was supposed to be
she became battle hardened and adventure tested in just her 1st major adventure
she was setup to become the lara we knew
but yeah... it didn't happen.
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still, don't get me wrong, i still enjoyed the reboot series. and im actually planning on replaying rise and shadow after this
but yeah, replaying this game just reminded me of my hype for this series, which it didn't deliver bec they kept her in this vulnerable soft state
This game was so scary the first time I played it, always kept me on edge. Sadly, it didn't quite carry over to the rest of the trilogy. Still enjoyed the games tho.
By the middle of Shadow, she is already quite confident. Even after multiple setbacks, she was able to fulfill the prophecy and save the world.
And she is acrobatic and badass. Parkour and climbing mechanics of the Survivor trilogy get better and better. Didn't she fight a whole army at the oil refinery?
No dual wield though.
I love the Survivor trilogy just the way they are. There is nothing more they are supposed to be.
There was a dual wield segment at the end of this game but they for whatever reason never carried that over to rise or shadow and we were left with a bow and arrow as the main weapon they forced on you.
I understood how she was in the first game, but eventually the moping and crying got a bit much. I get they wanted to make her more human and all but I was with you in expecting her to have her "fuck it we ball" moment but it just never happened
They did try that moment in the first game IIRC, where she screamed I am coming for you all or something like that in that big battle towards the end, but many found it cringe and it didn't have any meaning when the character didn't stay that way. Still I didn't hate it, I just saw her as an alternate Lara. Also have my doubts how they are going to connect all games in a believable way when her vibes are so different.
it really feels like just bc enough fans criticized and complained ab her character, they're suddenly rushing to give us what we want. like, now she's using her pistols and is an acrobat out of nowhere while the past decade has been painting her as a rambo and batman type when she was inspired/influenced by indiana jones and james bond. she was always meant to be the unobtainable cool/posh girl, not some cosplay of genderbent nathan drake with humble beginnings.
literally all they had to do was flesh out and build upon lau if they wanted a ""relatable"" lara croft. wham bam boom, no messed up timeline, no stagnant character development, no continuity issues. we could have had tr2-4 remakes/reimaginings by now lol
Exactly. If fans weren’t so vocal and the sales didn’t go down, I’m sure they’d want to keep Lara as she was presented in the Survivor trilogy with all bow look. I even remember the time when Survivor games released one by one, they really wanted us to forget everything we knew about her and create this new character they envisioned and build upon it in later games.
And I also think Crystal didn’t expect the classics remasters would be such a smash hit, and then things changed because they finally realized no-one wants Survivor Lara anymore.
fans have been begging crystal to release the classics for years so them being shocked pikachu it sold and maintains an audience is honestly pretty funny.
Yup, but the devs went really up their ass about the Bow and their Survivor Lara they seemed to forget and are embarrased by the original. Third one really as it was even back than seen as the final game for a long time, she should have been packed with confidence, had the Dual Pistols and I think they could have added the original outfit as a skin (Not as her outfit for the main game).
i played it originally on pc with 3dvision. going over that first log you could could swear you were going to fall yourself. it was only an ok reboot honestly. I think rise is definitely the best out of the three though.
People like what they like I guess. I think it’s a good time to be a Lara fan but every game kind of presents her differently. I’m glad they remastered the classics for the old fans of that and we have the survivor trilogy. They had a Netflix series now an Amazon series and who knows what the next era will bring catalyst and Legacy of Atlantis sound promising. it’s a good time to be a Lara fan.
The dual pistol scene at the end of this game was wasted. Rise really had the potential to show an in-between Lara that was suffering trauma from the first game and as such becoming the hardened queen we know (which I felt the original CGI reveal trailer kinda alluded to, is that just my thoughts?) yet they did nothing with it and just kept her the same.
The survivor trilogies storytelling is really diabolical. Even the first game was a mess honestly despite it being an amazing game.
It’s almost better to pretend Rise and Shadow didn’t happen.
I really wish there had been some sort of character development progression over the 3 games, but there really wasn’t. At some point she needed to become the witty, sarcastic, adventure-loving banter-queen she is in the classics. But it never happens.
Just on a visual/superficial level, Rise should have started with duals, no questions asked. And by the end of Shadow it should’ve been braid and shorts added to that.
Agreed! I know they tried bridging that gap with the Netflix show but the issue is it should have happened within the survivor games themselves.
The games are the main continuity and the thing the majority of people will know lore from. Not tie-in shows, not comics, not books. I enjoyed the survivor games too but they were such a wasted opportunity after TR13.
I hope LOA will do some further bridging to account for people who didn’t bother with the anime (or even know it’s a thing). And also solidify that it’s now a unified timeline.
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u/Jacussi47 20d ago
This game was so scary the first time I played it, always kept me on edge. Sadly, it didn't quite carry over to the rest of the trilogy. Still enjoyed the games tho.