for a game that comments on its white savior thing and colonialism quite a bit Shadow of the Tomb Raider sure lets me steal resources from people's homes and sell them to the village merchant
I guess it's a disadvantage of making a massive game with layers upon layers of systems and tons of writing
on Shadow of the Tomb Raider writing
I really like the writing when it's about Lara and Jonah and all the other interesting fleshed-out characters talking and learning and having the occasional emotional moment but then the game just kills of way too many unimportant side characters in the side missions and even gives them like, full-on heroic death scenes and I'm like? why? just keep them alive, maybe they get wounded but like, having them die in a cutscene doesn't add anything to the story, especially if the mission is "save this side character"
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in one of the side missions Lara finds out that some guy wants to sacrifice his daughter for some reason that isn't really explained, so she goes in, kills the guy and a bunch of other like, priests or sth? and saves the daughter and everyone's like "ah yeah well done you saved her"
I guess the guy and the priests were part of the main bad guy's cult but like… what
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it reads like "ah yeah we needed some flavor text for this side mission and also uh something to make it stand out from the other "find three of these and then fight for a bit" side missions… maybe some stakes? ok
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@noiob the whole thing in the new reboots where lara just goes and kills loads of dudes is weird
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@pup_hime idk in the first game all the dudes on the island were just extremely out to get her, and in the second and third I guess the antagonists hired a small army of henchmen and also those cultists? I feel like they're explaining it away well enough, also it's a video game
it sure does let me pet a lot of llamas