Games Inbox: The future of Tomb Raider, Legacy Of Kain legacy, and Star Wars Day hopes
The Wednesday letters page is still trying to make sense of the Square Enix sell-off, as one reader requests a Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster.
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The Square Enix era I can’t help but wonder what Square Enix is thinking now, reading the internet where everyone is calling them idiots and trying to work out why they sold off Tomb Raider and all those other games and developers. I certainly can’t work it out, unless it’s something they did while drunk and then regretted the very next morning.
They’ll have to live with their decision though, and I hope that the next Tomb Raider game can become a massive success just to show them what could have been. I’m going to assume that Crystal Dynamics is going to stick to their original plan and this will be an attempt to combine the old and more modern franchises, which always sounded like a good idea to me.
What I do hope though is that they start expanding the franchise out a bit and make some games with Lara Croft that aren’t a Tomb Raider game. Maybe something a bit more like a role-playing game and a straight-up survival game, after toying with those ideas before. Lara could absolutely still be a massive star for gaming, she just needs a better writer and a publisher that believes in her.
With a bit of luck the Square Enix era will just be a minor footnote in her history and it’s all onwards and upwards from here!Alberto
Bad obsessions I can easily believe that Square Enix is the ‘big’ purchase Sony are supposed to be contemplating but, like you say, I don’t get why they’d sell off Tomb Raider or the developers. Those are really good developers that Square Enix wasn’t making the most of but how is that a reason to
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