Ahhhh.Scott Meslow, GQ culture critic: I’m comfortable calling myself a fan of the Tomb Raider franchise. I'll show you what this little rat can do! Coward! Kill the girl and I'll stop shooting! Hahaha! Hold still.ĥ: (sees Lara) What's this! A little rat! now you die! Come on, you piece of shit! Hahaha Shoot now! Fire! Don't let her get too close! She's got a grenade launcher! Take her out before she gets too close! Keep it up, we almost got her! You're not stopping me! What the hell happened here? Oh shit, it's the outsider. She killed Nikolai! Where did she get that thing?' Ahh shit, she's got a grenade launcher! Run! That's right! Run, you bastards! I'm coming for you all! I'll shoot it off! Come outta there! No, no! Don't come any closer! No hiding now. Just keep at it, alright!? She can't stop us all. She's trapped! Surround her! There's nowhere for her to go. get down! She's tearing us to pieces! Help us out!. If they decided to make a Tomb Raider or even any other game of game with a narrative where the main character is shitty and flawed then sure, why not? I'm cool with protagonists being flawed or downright awful people (see Joel from TLoU), the problem really is that the writing doesn't really commit to it like someone else said. When it turns out that Jonah is still alive (because honestly Lara you should have seen that coming you silly cow) she does kind of have a little breakdown and has a bit of a cry. I actually thought the voice actress sold it really well, mostly i think she's boringly nice but the venom dripping from the way she said "You are fucking dead!" actually took me back. Now, the whole sequence is done in a way that is a bit too "Look how badass she is being" with the way it's shot and all but i respect the idea that she just snaps and loses her shit. In fairness, Lara just thought she had got Jonah killed and this is right after Unaratu got gunned down, which sort of indirectly was down to her along with all the other deaths because she couldn't stop nicking stuff from ancient tombs. She knows what she's doing is wrong, but Lara is beholden only to Lara, so whatever, time to kick over their pillars and steal their statuettes. They pay lip-service to her realizing what she's doing is problematic by having her talk with the locals about how bad it is when outsiders come into their home, steal their artifacts, trash their cultural sites, and generally impose their own desires on them, but then Lara goes and does all those things herself. Now, rather than giving the character a satisfying arc, they explicitly called her an awful person (specifically framing her and her actions as being harmful and bad), and left it at that.Įven worse, they made her come off as incredibly two-faced. The problem is that the developers and the game itself say "we're going to tell a story about how an awful person realizes they're being awful and seeks to grow and change", told that story for about an hour (just until the awful person does a huge terrible thing that's set up to be the catalyst for that change), then promptly basically forgets about it and tells the same story they've already told a couple times. I think it's okay that she's an awful person. I'll be the big sister to your bereaved son. I'll put on your clothes and do it for you. That destiny that will decide the fate of the world that's been thousands of years in the making, that you've trained for since birth and has split your family down the middle? It's my life now. That whole rebellion and battle for the soul of your village that you've been doing for your adult life? I'll win it all for you in a few days whilst you hide in a cave. Your king's coronation that needs 3 champions to obtain some legendary artifacts? I'll do all 3 because I need all the attention on me. That ancient legend of the demon that lives in the jungle? It was a puma in a funny hat, dead now. Your father took you to be a ritual sacrifice? I killed him. Those looters that have been harassing your town for ages? I killed them all, all done. Guess all that familial connection you would have felt is mine now? That secret map your dead grandma left you that reveals your destiny and heritage? Oh, I just solved it all for you whilst you hung around at the bar. All their problems, opportunities, feats, legends, she takes them all and makes them about her. Every town, Lara descends on it and makes everything about her.
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