She wouldn’t be pinching these relics from ancient cultures but would instead be working to protect and restore them. This version of the character would be a little more jaded about treasure hunting. Set it twenty years in the future or something, when she’s in her forties. If you ask me, I think the next Tomb Raider game should feature an older Lara. But she also keeps being rebooted, given new origins that undoes all of the development we were just starting to get. She’s athletic, a treasure hunter, and has a strong moral compass, but she has never really had time to grow in the same way. She’s an adventurer with a remarkably similar lifestyle to Nate. So it’s a little sad we’ve never been able to see Lara Croft get the same treatment. All throughout this series, you see how this growth has been informed by his relationship with Elena, and their on-again-off-again lifestyle has been caused by Nate’s incessant call to adventure. You see this gradually happen within Nate over the course of the Uncharted games: when Elena nearly gets killed at the end of Among Thieves, when Chloe and Cutter quit the adventure halfway through Drake’s Deception, and when Nate ultimately chooses to abandon his search for Avery’s treasure to save the lives of his friends and family at the end of A Thief’s End. We see this through his relationship with his friend Sully, his brother Sam, and his wife Elena.
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The Uncharted series kicks off Nate’s character by depicting him as a rebellious treasure hunter with a great amount of wit and courage, and an “ends justifies the means” approach to each adventure he goes on.Īs Nate gets older throughout the series, and has more experience under his belt, he begins to understand his limits and sees that the human cost of chasing these ancient relics is not as important as keeping the people he loves close to him (and alive). One needs only to look at Croft’s best counterpart, Nathan Drake, as an example for characters being allowed to age and grow.
Lara just isn’t allowed to age, and this feels like a massive obstruction in allowing the character to grow in interesting ways. After a few games, Square Enix reboots the character (even killing her off in one instance) and then we begin the cycle again. She’s a rich white girl from England, who enjoys the thrills of adventure and traveling the world seeking ancient artifacts. After having revisited a few of the Tomb Raider games lately, a thought occurred to me: Why is Lara Croft always depicted as a young woman in her twenties?
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