Talk:Samantha Nishimura/@comment-99.53.208.63-20160229211454/@comment-29952513-20160229222147

I'd much rather see Sam defeat Himiko and destroy Himiko's soul once and for all and be the one who ultimately defeated the Sun Queen once and for all. Also I would much rather see Sam as Lara's partner and equal instead of her sidekick in Tomb Raider 3.

One thing I would love to have is for a mission where Lara gets captured and the villain is dangerously genre savvy and puts Lara under constant watch AND handcuffs her to a rail and has ALL her weapons put in a different building. So with Lara believably captured its down to Sam to save her so the player takes control of Sam and she is able to not Lara and the two escape.

Also, I would love to have it where Sam Allows herself to get captured so she can "Join" Trinity to acquire information and once she learns all she can she is able to escape with Lara causing a distraction.

This would be a good way of getting Sam out of the Damsel in Distress and show that she is every bit as awesome as Lara, like she was in the comics. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if I hadn't read the comics and just went from Survivor to Rise I probably wouldn't have been so annoyed by Sam's absence.

But I did read the comics and thanks to the comics Sam was fleshed out as a character and she was very well written. While she may have been kidnapped a few times like in Survivor she didn't come off as annoying or useless, she outsmarted Trinity at one point and was the one who came up with the plan to save "Grim".

Her relationship with Lara was also fleshed out with the two of them having some really great moments and which really highlighted how much their love each other and yes Lara states that she loves Sam more then anyone else in the world. Which is why Lara seemingly abandoning Sam to her fate is so frustratingly out of character for Lara.

After everything she went through to save Sam she just leaves her and does so with a smile at the end. I don't blame Pratchett for this as I know that it was Crystal Dynamics who ordered and not her idea and Pratchett did the best she could with what she was given.

I do like that the first issue in the most resent comic book shows that Sam is still on Lara's mind. Though I find it weird that Sam's hair is just as long as Lara's now, if not longer, when she's always had shorter hair then Lara.