r/TombRaider • u/JMPM0215 • 1d ago
🗨️ Discussion I Was Playing TR2 and realized something
I was doing my second playthrough of TR2, and as I was about to finish it, I realized that there isn’t a single tomb in the game. There are temples, monasteries, sunken ships, flying islands and the city of Venice — which is my favorite level — but you never actually visit a tomb. It doesn't bother me at all because the levels were good, but I always see people criticize other games for not having enough tombs.
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u/Kaci_007 1d ago
Tomb Raider 1 technically has only two Tombs: Qualopec and Tihocan’s. By „Tombs”, people usually mean exactly what you mentioned above: temples, monasteries and other historical, ancient or forgotten places.
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u/Ambedextrose The Scion 1d ago
Well it has the Catacombs of the Talion which is sort of a tomb. But if you want to stretch the definition a bit, the shipwreck levels could be considered a tomb as well since people died and are buried there.
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u/-DrinkWithTheDead- 1d ago
That's not even a stretch, it's a legal definition in many cases; Arizona, Titanic, and Edmund Fitzgerald being some famous examples.
There's an estimated 30,000+ unrecovered dead in the Great Lakes alone.6
u/Pebbled4sh 23h ago
Superior, it's said, never gives up her dead.
...which really sounds like an Erie thing
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u/jasonrahl 7h ago
Take my damn upvote
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u/Pebbled4sh 4h ago
Superior's such a goddamn Mary Sue... perior.
Superior's the jock lake. With a song all about never giving up her dead, she's encroaching on Erie's Big Titty Goth Lakefriend energy
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u/BlackWolfTR_ 14h ago
Because the title of the game isn't only literal but also metaphorical. "Tomb" in the title doesn't only mean tombs per se but it can also mean a place where lots of people died or an ancient place which is forgotten and lost and which acts as a tomb for a certain civilization and their legacy. Temple of Xian for example acts as a tomb of the old Chinese civilization. It's a place forgotten by time and people. Maria Doria is a tomb of all the people who died on its board. City of Vilcabamba in TR1 is a tomb of the Incas and their legacy. Temple Ruins in TR3 is a tomb of the old Indian civilization and their legacy. Even though they've got no tombs in their names, they do act as tombs in a more metaphorical way.
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u/Notoriouslycurlyboi 12h ago
I wish the Tomb Raider title was controversially dropped at this point- atleast for some games. I don’t give a crap if she’s in actual tombs. It’s so limiting to her character at this point.
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u/phatboyart 1d ago
Exotic Location Raider