27-06-17, 12:23 | #11 | |
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I'm thinking that because they had already planned to do a reboot they weren't invested in this game at all and just wrapped it up in the laziest way possible. Last edited by Nigel Cassidy; 27-06-17 at 12:24. |
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27-06-17, 15:08 | #12 |
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I don't think so . Reboot plans and concepts started to emerge only few months before the launch of Underworld , and I believe they had the plot planned and established in place very early in the game's development cycle , like sometime in late 2007 , Reboot or not , we would be getting the same story/ending .
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27-06-17, 15:23 | #13 |
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I always had this question: If Lara pulled the sword before Amelia, then Amelia would still be alive? It's interesting how Legend makes Lara seem as an anti hero.
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Despite that she never really hated Lara or sought revenge during Legend. She spends most of the game trying to avoid her. She never harmed her friends when she broke into Croft Manor. Even in the Kazakhstan fight she warns Lara she only unleashes the monster and has no control of its actions but continually warns her to stay away from it. When they return to Bolivia its Lara who's threatening to murder everyone while Amanda is the calm levelheaded one trying to diffuse the situation. And even after her boyfriend is killed and she gets her ass kicked - she still tries to help Lara get to Avalon before the dais explodes. It was only Underworld where she wanted to get even, but in her defense everything that happened up to that point that caused her friendship to fall apart was entirely Lara's fault. There was never really anything villainous about her and its kind of sad to see some fans can be so quick to label her character as "an evil bitch" or even think the deleted Underworld cutscene is a satisfying end to her story. Its like they never got her character at all. |
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28-06-17, 15:27 | #15 |
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^ I never actually thought about it like that. Great analysis!
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28-06-17, 16:25 | #16 |
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I like the analysis but you forgot about something, Amanda was the one who attacked Lara first in Kazakhstan. She ordered her men to throw a grenade at her in the lab so she really was being evil. Apart from that, she took control of the same stone that killed their friends in Paraiso. She even thought it how to fetch. Amanda's mad.
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Compare that situation to Natla in Egypt when she says "Well? Kill her!"/"Kill her quickly! We have work to do!" or Ana in the Cathedral when she orders "Shoot her! Now"/"Kill her and bring me that goddamned Atlas!". There's no misinterpreting their orders - they both want Lara dead. If Amanda wanted to harm Lara she would have been much more direct about it. She wasn't being evil at all in that scene. Regarding the stone - while it may have killed their friends, Amanda also made it clear controlling it is also what saved her life in Pariaso. It wasn't as black and white as her going mad. |
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