Talk:Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline)/@comment-75.97.115.25-20150608163012

Just my two cents about the 2013 game...I liked all the character development in the beginning but towards the end of the game, Lara I feel like just became a mindless killing machine to the point that she even taunts the men that she is about to kill. Speaking of the men that she was killing, I get that Square Enix has always been a straight up "there's the good guys and then the bad guys" type of game developer that never really had any characters in the grey, but the members of the Solarii were just like Lara I feel like. They wanted to get off that island just as much as her, I just feel like there was the capacity within some of them to side with Lara instead of keeping their allegiance with Mathias. I mean, the one time I remember there was two Solarii brothers taking about how all they wanted was a burger and a cold beer and then when they saw Lara they suddenly went into full "THERE'S THE GIRL KILL HER" overdrive.

I don't know if that makes sense or not but it's just like The Arbiter in Halo. He ends up siding with Master Chief along with the rest of the elites. Square Enix wouldn't do that. They would have just looked at it and gone "oh they're with the convenant...they're full on evil and must be destroyed." I would like for Square to possibly drift away from that concrete "Good and Bad" division and give some characters the capacity to go either way. On top of that, I would like them to possibly delve deeper into Lara's character with ROTTR and really explore the fragile mental state that she is in and continue to develop her character. What Square has going right now is actually quite rare with video games today: a good storyline, a relatable character (in general aside from the end of the 2013 game), as well as managing to have beautiful graphics and  smooth game engine. That's what most game developers (in my opinion) seem to lack. Everyone is so focused on multiplayer and graphics now that nobody can deliver a good story. Square Enix has always been a great game developer--Final Fantasy 7 and 10 are debatably the greatest games of all time--and I understand that the 2013 game was their first attempt at making a Tomb Raider game so I know that they are going to improve upon what everyone said they should. It's all just a matter of waiting for November now :)