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Over with Nintendo, the Spring Sales are starting to kick off. If you're looking to play the new school Tomb Raider trilogy, the whole thing is more than half off for the first few weeks, so be sure to pick them up on either PlayStation or Xbox. A big one involved the continuing Tomb Raider 25th anniversary celebration, as Square collected all three of Lara Croft's modern adventures and put them all in a single package. Honestly, I prefer the old Lara, who spent more time actually raiding tombs.We're coming off some exciting announcements from Thursday's Square Enix Presents. That's my biggest issue with the Survivor Trilogy: having to reckon with Lara the survivor on a journey of growth and discovery, and Lara the deadly predator who sneaks around in the shadows snapping necks. But it feels more incongruous in a game where the writers are also trying to make this character feel like a real, nuanced person. Plenty of games suffer from this kind of dissonance, Uncharted being a prime example. In cutscenes she's quiet, thoughtful, and kind-in the game she's a blood-splattered butcher with a body count to rival John Rambo. Related: It's Been 21 Years And Shenmue's World Still Feels More Real Than Most Games
Early in the first game she's traumatised by having to kill a single wild deer for food a few hours later she's casually mowing down hundreds of pirates with an assault rifle, suddenly transformed into a hardened killer. There's nothing wrong with the concept, but the sheer amount of violence and torture porn in these games often feels gratuitous. Developer Crystal Dynamics wanted to make Lara feel less like Indiana Jones, able to survive any hardship with only a few scuffs to show for it, instead making her more of a fragile human being, moulded by harrowing experiences, before emerging as a stronger person.