It's a guilty pleasure, this game, these Tomb Raider games... it feels to me like they focus grouped legions of long-time Lara Croft afficionadii to determine what it was they really enjoyed about Lara...
So the boobs bouncing up and down is one thing - breasts, we love'em. New Lara has to have a decent, but really realistic rack. Done and done.
And they like how she grunts when she jumps and lands or grapples things. Unh! Ok so they really ramped this up for New Lara. She's whimpering, crying, yelling, "oh God..." almost constantly. It's awesome.
And we come to feel protective of Lara in the previous games, she's your little parkour marionette and you're guiding her through under and over dangerous obstacles. This new game ramps up that protective puppeteer-puppet relationship to the max. She is SO vulnerable in this incarnation. She gets the shit kicked out of her and you really, really want to help her survive. Of course, we also enjoy ramming her into submerged spikes and burning her up and throwing her off cliffs and such just to see how she dies over and over but that's a darker corner we go to... but our primary objective is to see her through and watch her go and go... And we love watching her go...
