Rise of the Tomb Raider: A Great Trailer

Despite being a brand new trailer from the most recent E3 conference, this Rise of the Tomb Raider trailer brings me a great deal of nostalgia because Lara and I have shared a lot of time together. When I was 8 or 9 and still so impressionable, I was watching a lot of bad ass ladies do some bad ass stuff, so between Buffy, Lara, Sailor Moon, and even Halle Berry's Catwoman (yea, yea, I know bad movie, whatever. I adored it.) I was sure I was destined to be one of them. While I haven't had many (any) propositions to fight vampires or bad guys or raid ancient tombs, I've learned to create those instances for myself in other ways.

Playing any Tomb Raider games is one of those ways, so imagine my surprise when I found out that the last Tomb Raider game was less about actual tomb raiding and more about Lara's first experience with life threatening adventures. At first I wasn't excited at the prospect of being Lara at her least skilled, but as soon as this trailer was released for the sequel I understood that the developers were giving players the most intimate look at Lara ever, and that they were giving her humble beginnings more importance. This trailer is skilled in the way it handles Lara's newfound craving for adventure, comparing the mundane life in therapy with the death defying life of finding ancient, lost secrets. For any Tomb Raider fan, these games are, in my opinion, the best way to get to know Lara again, and to reconnect with the wonder we might have had for her the first time around.