But I can see why they decided to focus on Jonah rather than Sam. I, along with many others in the Sam Nishimura movement were unsatisfied with the way Sam was maligned during the interim between 2013 and RotTR.
And with her departure, Lara can eventually start to heal and move on. Not forgotten, not a footnote, but a defining part or our heroine’s legacy. Lara is our protagonist, not Sam (although I would totally buy Tomb Raider Snap, a spin off in the style of Pokémon Snap, where Sam tries to photograph Lara beside certain objects like a T-Rex, a relic and holding her dual pistols). I love Sam in the same way I love Lara as a character. With the months leading up to the release of the new game, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, we’ve been seeing a lot of people ask the developers, “ where is Sam?”Īnd I sadly have to admit, I’ve grown apart. I’ve been mulling over the loss of Sam Nishimura for the past few weeks. Despite the cries to bring her back, we must sadly think that the girl will never come grace our screens again. We think we know about sacrifices, but what we have here is a loss, a choice that is made for us. Something that pushed us forward.īut that girl is now forgotten, passed aside with a hand-wave explanation in the sequel, and only slightly more of a payoff in the side-stories.Īt this moment, we are just like our protagonist. And of course, some of us saw a little more, underneath all of the subtle movements and words. We saw the girl and the protagonist bond over the course of the narrative. We saw her playful but sensitive banter with our protagonist. Sure, she was still a little bit of a damsel in distress, but she turned out to be a lot more than that.
When the story was released, we saw the girl in a different light.
She was hidden away until the release of the full story. When we as an audience first met the girl, it was only for a few seconds, where we saw her dragged off by a scary-looking man with a knife. She followed her friends to a mystical and mysterious island, documenting their travels. She was a film studies graduate and looking for her big break in the world of post-education.
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