Laura Croft's Change

Apparently the new Laura Croft game has drastically changed the series, and it sounds like the changes are ones I don’t like. Gone is the large-breasted, kick-ass woman I fell in love with. Apparently, they decided to go with a smaller, slender woman who:

[quote:3mfqj42l]“They’re more like ‘I want to protect her.’ There’s this sort of dynamic of ‘I’m going to this adventure with her and trying to protect her.’”[/quote:3mfqj42l]

Instead of her defending herself, you want to save her. If you fail, well…

[quote:3mfqj42l]In the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft will suffer. Her best friend will be kidnapped. She’ll get taken prisoner by island scavengers. And then, Rosenberg says, those scavengers will try to rape her.

“She is literally turned into a cornered animal,” Rosenberg said. “It’s a huge step in her evolution: she’s forced to either fight back or die.”[/quote:3mfqj42l]

I like rape fantasies, but I don’t want my games to rape people (unless I’m actually playing a rape game). For me, Laura Croft, rape should be in fan fictions, not the game. It’s kind of sad because one of the premise of their ideas is that I don’t picture myself as Laura Croft, I want to defend her. Which is bullshit, because I always put myself in the place of the main character (except for Sukioden IV). I even would love to look like A. Jolie (from the movies) if I could because she is a lovely woman.

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