Rebooting
The ratio of good to bad reboots is mostly edging towards the latter, so much so that when news of one emerges, the first reactions are dread and exhaustion. It comes as no surprise that people would feel that way about Tomb Raider as well, especially given that she already had gone through a reboot not too many years earlier. Also not helping was the fact that for a series about raiding tombs, first glances of this new title were decidedly not about that, and seemed geared more towards Uncharted territory.
Even though Lara isn’t cracking off jokes a mile a minute, she does share Nathan Drake’s penchant for bad luck. As much as it can sometimes border on overkill, especially in her death animations, it underlines what makes her strong in the first place. Sometimes when life is kicking the crap out of you, you have to keep on trucking, even if that means pulling out the spear you impaled yourself on.
