<story><title>Tomb Raider</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2023/06/tomb-raider/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teddyh</author><text>Any discussion of classic &lt;i&gt;Tomb Raider&lt;/i&gt; is incomplete without mentioning that the first Tomb Raider games are essentially exact copies of the original &lt;i&gt;Prince of Persia&lt;/i&gt; game, translated to 3D.  Not the level layout or story, but the control scheme – very distinct and not used by any other games – is &lt;i&gt;identical&lt;/i&gt;.  Also the standard traps are replicated, like collapsing tiles and spikes emerging from tiles.&lt;p&gt;Tomb Raider does add some flourishes, like the swan dive and hand standing ascent, and some necessary additions for 3D, like the ability to turn and jump sideways, but the rest is straight up &lt;i&gt;Prince of Persia&lt;/i&gt; (the original 1989 one).</text></comment>
<story><title>Tomb Raider</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2023/06/tomb-raider/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cubefox</author><text>My problem with the Tomb Raider design is that they swapped out Lara Croft for someone else.&lt;p&gt;Lara used to have the same consistent design till Tomb Raider 6 (The Angel of Darkness). Her iconic face, known from countless magazine covers, posters, ads, and even music videos (in German speaking countries she appeared in a &lt;i&gt;Die Ärzte&lt;/i&gt; music video which topped the charts for weeks [1]). Her trade mark braid hair style, too. It was never just the boobs.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately Tomb Raider 6 was a medium flop (due to poor gameplay). The next title, Legend, was a reboot, and they decided to change Lara&amp;#x27;s face. In subsequent titles they changed her more and more. By the time of Tomb Raider (2013) she was replaced with a completely different person. Not even her signature braid was preserved. It was just some generic looking woman of a similar age.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s like Nintendo deciding, after the 6th Super Mario title, that Mario should now look like a more realistic man and lose his big nose and his outdated hat. Or as if Capcom had decided, for Metal Gear Solid 3, to swap out Solid Snake for some other guy with the same name.&lt;p&gt;I would have been okay with changing Lara Croft&amp;#x27;s not-very-realistic body proportions to something which fits the zeitgeist better. If it is so important for those people who love to complain about such stuff. Though I suspect most of the people complaining about her proportions didn&amp;#x27;t even play the games themselves. But please at least keep her &lt;i&gt;face&lt;/i&gt; and don&amp;#x27;t change her into a completely different person.&lt;p&gt;(And in my opinion, keep her braid. No other character has it. Without it she is like Mario without hat, or Sonic without his red&amp;#x2F;white shoes.)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=404oPn6tudE&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=404oPn6tudE&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>