So i just finished Tomb Raider 2013, the subtext with strong in this one. Game's a 9/10 and subtext just made it even better. <3 Now I'm literally devouring LaraxSam fanfictions.
I think my main criticism of TR2013 was they went a bit overboard with the Ms. Shooty Woman set pieces, and most of the actual exploring tombs got pushed off to optional sidequests. I kinda got gun fatigue pretty quick. Did like at the end where she picks up the dual pistols though, that was a nice nod.
Well, a lot of old fans didn't like the reboot because of that, but i tried to play it like a whole new game, without comparing it with the old titles, and i loved it (even though i agree with you.. the whole fps thing was a bit boring in some parts).
Oh, I'm not a player of the old games. I played a little of the first one, and a bit of that action-RPG style one, but that's pretty much it. It's just...after a while it got kind of boring, and I wanted to go explore and fight dinosaurs instead of yet another wave of doodz.
That, and it went a bit overboard in the physical punishment department. It was so over the top, that by the 15th or 20th awful thing that should cripple or kill her that she just shakes off, there wasn't any impact any more. The death scenes, those are fair game. They're a tradition right from the start. But even they got a little much with that river scene, where it's like wrong timing, get impaled, try again, get impaled, try again, get.....