Thoughts on Tomb Raider

I never played the original Tomb Raider games.  I wasn't a big fan of action 3D platformers, and there were enough other games to keep my attention besides "that one with the woman with the big chest."

I did play some of the later games by Crystal Dynamics, though.  Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Underworld, and the reboot Tomb Raider were all games I enjoyed, but there was something that bothered me about Lara Croft in particular.

In the end, she's always alone.

"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the- okay, now you go!
Oh.  Right."

Review: Tomb Raider

I've always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Lara Croft.  Actually, considering I was sixteen when the first game came out, it was a bit more of a lust/hate relationship.  One the one hand, I wasn't a big fan of the gameplay or the visual style of the first game.  I had difficulty with blind jumps from platform to platform, I wasn't able to shoot a T-Rex if it sat on me, and my then-unfamiliarity with 3D level design had me standing directly under platforms I had to jump to wondering where I was supposed to go.  I wasn't even that interested in the character and her freaky polygon chest.

On the other hand, in 1997 the first Tomb Raider comic book came out from Top Cow publications, featuring a crossover with another character I had little to no interest in, Witchblade.  Two characters I cared nothing about in a comic? What could possibly grab my attention?