The first game, from 2013, kicks off with Lara hanging upside down from a rope. Now, okay, this most recent Tomb Raider trilogy did start a bit more grisly, I’ll admit. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a fun, dark and puzzling critique of the franchise The Tomb Raider games, however, are far more action adventure and obviously inspired by the Uncharted games - games that don’t feel the need to show Nathan Drake’s bloody corpse writhing in agony on a rusty spike after you screw up a jump. These are horror games, after all, and they come from a lineage of horror movies where gruesome violence and bloody giblets and organs flopping out all over the place are a genre expectation. And Resident Evil 4, where Leon’s head can be lopped clean off by a madman with a chainsaw.Īnd they’re horrible, and I’ll wince like the baby that I am, but they totally make sense, and I wouldn’t call for them to be toned down. I’m down for protagonists’ violent death animations that crop up in games like Dead Space 2, where Isaac can be stabbed in the eye if you balls up a particular minigame.
I never quite got why Tomb Raider has kept up this torture porny death animation thing… /6fCRV4iww5- Mark Brown October 23, 2018 These gruesome death scenes that play just before you get a “game over” have been part of the Tomb Raider DNA since 1996, when watching her rag-doll body crumple into a messy pile after a botched jump was just part of the experience.īut while the franchise has changed a lot in its many sequels and reboots - sometimes for the better, with Lara having more realistic proportions and sometimes for the worse, with actual tomb raiding becoming optional content alongside endless murder - these death sequences are one thing that have stayed the same.Īnd with all the advancements in tech - did you know there’s a real-time physics simulation dedicated to rendering Lara’s ponytail? - these scenes have become so realistic that they’ve almost tipped into being creepy torture porn. Watched her pelvis get obliterated under the weight of several boulders. Seen her writhe in pain as her stomach is pierced by a metal bar. Watched a tree branch jut through her jaw.
Over the course of the last three Tomb Raider games, I have seen Lara Croft impaled on a spike.
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