Thread:Winter77/@comment-3526639-20180412125422/@comment-2038153-20180428095517

The thing of it is I would have been okay with a character taking 1 or two MINOR things from Lara as it's an adaptation so things have to be changed. In that fan film I mentioned before Sam does do one thing that was done by Lara which is her finding Mathias' journal which contains all the information Lara needs to figure out what the Solarii are trying to do.

But here's the thing, that's all she does, she finds the journal, picks it up and gives it to Lara. And the reason this was done was likely to give Sam a bit more to do but the film still has it were LARA is the one who figures it all out Sam just cut out the middle man to help get the film done in about 48 minutes.

In Legacy, Lara is still the one who figures out where Yamatai is, it's Sam who convinces her to trust herself and tell Whitman, it's still Lara who saves Sam from the Solarii. Still Lara who figures out who and what Himiko is and she is still the one who finishes Himiko off. The film didn't have Sam doing most or even half of the work because it was still mostly about Lara and knew the characters well enough to make good use out of both of them.

One thing Legacy did that was rather smart is that it cut to Sam and showed use some of the things she got up to while trapped with the Solarii. Again Lara is the driving force and the one who we focus on most but the fans making this film made the smart choice by giving Sam just enough screen time to focus on her development and relationship with Lara to get us to care about her.

In the 2018 film, despite being the real main character who has to clean up after Lara's mess we spend barely any time with Richard and yet the film has the gall to give him everything Lara and Sam did and then tells us we should care about him. Urge I HATE THIS FILM!!!

Thanks for letting me rant for a bit it has been a really bad couple of days which is not helped by the fact that I set up a Twitch account to ask questions about Shadow and the fate of Sam which I was unable to use due to life so that was wasted!

I hope Shadow is a good game on it's own and that TR 18 gets thrown into the wast bin of history where it belongs and fades from pop culture knowledge.