Shadow of the Tomb Raider reinvents Lara Croft with lessons from Deus Ex
You’d think Lara Croft had undergone her biggest recreation back in 2013, when Tomb Raider was rebooted by longtime series custodians Crystal Dynamics. At the time, it was a genuine shock to see those razor-sharp cheekbones on the magazine covers softened, instantly turning a ‘90s caricature into a real human being. Perhaps Shadow of the Tomb Raider represents a more fundamental change, though. While to the naked eye Lara appears as she did eight years ago, unweathered by the many, many graphic lacerations she’s endured, the tomb raider of today is a shattered facsimile of her former self, the face she presented to the world torn apart by the revelations at the end of the last game. Major spoilers for Tomb Raider (2013) and Rise of the Tomb Raider follow. “Her father was butchered,” narrative director Jason Dozois reminds us. “And in the post-credit sequence she seems like she’s ok with it, but for someone like Lara who’s lost her mother already at a young age, then lost her father a few years later, her whole identity was built on imagining what they would’ve been like.”
Shadow of the Tomb Raider reinvents Lara Croft with lessons from Deus Ex
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August 10, 2018
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