{"id":84335,"date":"2026-06-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84335"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:36:39","slug":"tomb-raider-devs-arent-trying-to-appeal-to-either-side-of-culture-war-surrounding-laras-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84335","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider Devs Aren\u2019t Trying To Appeal To \u201cEither Side\u201d Of Culture War Surrounding Lara\u2019s Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new look for Lara Croft&#8211;seen in the upcoming remake Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis&#8211;has gotten the internet talking, and arguing. But according to the game&#8217;s development team, it wasn&#8217;t attempting to appeal to any specific audience with her design. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to GameSpot at Summer Game Fest, game director Raul Siqueira and experience director Jeff Adams said the process for designing Lara was a lot more organic, and the team wasn&#8217;t trying to necessarily balance her attractiveness with talent or ability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We try not to view it from either of those angles,&#8221; Adams said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to make one camp happy and the other camp miserable. We don&#8217;t think of it that way. We&#8217;re just like, &#8216;Hey, this is Lara. This is who she is and this is the icon that we&#8217;ve come to know. How do we bring her into the most fully focused version that she&#8217;s ever been presented in?&#8217; She&#8217;s Lara. She is the icon for a reason. So we just want to do justice to her.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siqueria added that the character&#8217;s personality plays a key role in her truly being Lara Croft, as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The confidence, the wittiness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new look for Lara Croft&#8211;seen in the upcoming remake Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis&#8211;has gotten the internet talking, and arguing. But according to the game&#8217;s development team, it wasn&#8217;t attempting to appeal to any specific audience with her design. Speaking to GameSpot at Summer Game Fest, game director Raul Siqueira and experience director Jeff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":84337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84338,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84335\/revisions\/84338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}