This Latest Tomb Raider Developer Diary Is All About Survival and Combat

First things first: this looks to be a fun game, and I'll play it.

But ... why so much combat? Why can't combat be incidental? Why can't the gameplay revolve around survival against natural obstacles, and keep the combat primarily to wildlife? Why must Lara kill dozens and dozens of people? Other games do that fine. It's a complete screw up with the tone. She's supposed to be struggling for survival, but she's slaughtering people left and right. It just doesn't compute. If you're going to have death and killing be thematically relevant, it can't be happening all the time. If they'd kept it to just a few moments where she had to choose to kill other people, then it would have more impact.

Tomb Raider is best when it's about explorations and puzzles and surviving against the elements. Not when it's all about killing some rogue army.