Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 9:04 pm
I also felt like did it needs to be the focus in three games?
It's only the focus for 2 games in the third reboot aka the Survivor Timeline. A Survivor is Born, the first game in this timeline, only mentions Lara's dad a few times but Lara's quest to find Yamatai is all something SHE wanted to do herself. It wasn't based on her father's research or something that he started that she is now finishing, it was something she started looking into after Sam told her the story that her grandmother told her.
Now the movie did rework it into being something that Lara's dad was looking into which is one of the many reasons I so strongly dislike that film (though Alicia Vikander did a FANTASTIC job as Lara but even a great performance can't save a poorly written character) but in just regards to the first game it was all about Lara and her mission. Her father is only mentioned as part of her back ground a few times but that's it.
Now, I will admit, that I do incorporate Lara's dad into the story but only at the start and mainly just to wrap that plot thread up once and for all so it's not looming over the rest of the series. It's taken care of in the first episode and then we move on. The Dragon Kingdom, Sam, Cormac and the Sorceress and Lara's quest in this story have NOTHING to do with Richard. Lara has laid him and her mother to rest now Lara must deal with things she has been avoiding for a while now and ask herself what comes next?
Sam is the character who is the most developed besides Lara thanks to the tie-in comics and as such it makes sense to have this story, (which I am writing as the finale of the Survivor Timeline) be about Lara and Sam reuniting and facing their demons together. This series started with the two of them it only makes sense to end it with the two of them.