laurita
11-26-2008, 11:40 AM
Thanks you guys
TR1 and TR2 were my very favorites of all. TR1 was perfect, TR2 was a over the top but in the best way. I thought nothing could recapture that spirit of believable exaggeration, having grown very disappointed with the series over the years.
For the first time in YEARS, and I have never said this about any TR game since TR2, I actually had that old tomb raider feeling. I'm glad you stopped taking Lara so literally with that cringe-inducing drama, and you didn't fall into the trap of casting her as a crybaby or bimbo. You simplified her message to what she is, a symbol of strength, fun, beauty, intelligence, danger and inner reliance.
I've seen the good reviews you are getting and they are well deserved. I know it must be easier said than done to capture all of the elements I mentioned into a game but you sure did it right this time. I'm barely at the third level but I had to come and tell you. BTW the God of Thunder - Realm of the Dead level near the beginning was when I KNEW. It was like being in a movie yet, wow, actually in it! Agh! She's intelligent again! Self reliant without being a b-ch or the female equivalent of a dopey Vin Diesel knucklehead! Yay. Things like having to wait for the tide to come up before you can climb onto a ledge in the surf. It's true, that's what you do in real life. That one moment of watching her floating in the water, carried by the surf again totally suspended my disbelief and the whole world seemed real for a second.
Believable. That's the word I was looking for. She's believable again. That's what was missing.
BTW if there is one thing I'd recommend its to make her calves a little wider, the proportions she had in TR1. Give us large boned ladies a little more of ourselves to see in her pls
TR1 and TR2 were my very favorites of all. TR1 was perfect, TR2 was a over the top but in the best way. I thought nothing could recapture that spirit of believable exaggeration, having grown very disappointed with the series over the years.
For the first time in YEARS, and I have never said this about any TR game since TR2, I actually had that old tomb raider feeling. I'm glad you stopped taking Lara so literally with that cringe-inducing drama, and you didn't fall into the trap of casting her as a crybaby or bimbo. You simplified her message to what she is, a symbol of strength, fun, beauty, intelligence, danger and inner reliance.
I've seen the good reviews you are getting and they are well deserved. I know it must be easier said than done to capture all of the elements I mentioned into a game but you sure did it right this time. I'm barely at the third level but I had to come and tell you. BTW the God of Thunder - Realm of the Dead level near the beginning was when I KNEW. It was like being in a movie yet, wow, actually in it! Agh! She's intelligent again! Self reliant without being a b-ch or the female equivalent of a dopey Vin Diesel knucklehead! Yay. Things like having to wait for the tide to come up before you can climb onto a ledge in the surf. It's true, that's what you do in real life. That one moment of watching her floating in the water, carried by the surf again totally suspended my disbelief and the whole world seemed real for a second.
Believable. That's the word I was looking for. She's believable again. That's what was missing.
BTW if there is one thing I'd recommend its to make her calves a little wider, the proportions she had in TR1. Give us large boned ladies a little more of ourselves to see in her pls