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Summary
These games have excellent female protagonists.
Here are some of the most egregious ones.
8Lara’s Magical Dress Change
The first episode of Chronicles opens with a gorgeously animated FMV.
The cutscene shows Lara attending a party in fancy dress, when suddenly she runs across some thugs.
As soon the gameplay starts, you’ll see Lara wearing herclassic tank top and shorts.
How did she change her outfit so quickly?
Where did she get it from?
She wasn’t carrying a handbag.
Is she a magician as well as an archaeologist?
The FMV cutscenes were animated by ExMachina, who also worked on Final Fantasy 9.
The only people Lara runs into are the regular enemies and exactly one allied soldier.
Did they see Seth’s swarm of bees and decide to go on vacation in a neighboring city?
Lara goes through vents and sneaks up behind enemies for quick kills.
It’s fun to have options, and these action games let you try your hand at stealth.
No matter how much you run, jump, and roll around behind guards, they’ll ignore you.
Yet this was still early days, so the RPG elements make no sense.
If Lara pushes a box around, it somehow makes her able to jump higher.
These are two completely different muscle groups.
Nobody except the voice talent, apparently.
These guys were having a blast.
They ham it up as much as possible.
Larson sounds like a Texan doing a parody of a Texan.
It’s downright cartoonish how she keeps feinting about whether she’ll push him off a high ledge.
Rather than show some mercy and retain her human element, she actually does it, too.
Here are some of the biggest retroactive continuity changes that we’ve had to endure in gaming so far.
Von Croy decides to remove a treasure despite Lara’s protests.
This isn’t just tomb raiding, it’s straight up grave robbery.
Lara, did you not play through your own prologue chapter?
1How Do Those Skeletons Move?
The skeleton enemies in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation areamong the creepiest.
While they’re not deadly, they do spend a lot of time chasing after Lara and being nuisances.
They’re immune to bullets too, so there’s no need to waste ammo on them.
We’re willing to accept that these skeletons have been reanimated by some supernatural force.
Where we draw the line is their complete defiance of biology and physics.
Bones cannot move by themselves - they can only act as fulcrums for muscles.
No matter how spooky-scary a skeleton is, it is impossible for it to move by itself.
