JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
You barely even touched on the straight up snuff porn in TR2013. It wasn't just the parachute scene; there are a ton of QTE failures that lead to unnecessarily torturous deaths. I remember one "swept down a river" sequence where if you don't press the button in time, Lara gets caught on a sharpened log that stabs upward through her jaw into her brain as the water keeps trying to drag her downstream. Really fucking horrible, and really gratuitous, and yeah, you know at least one producer saved a high res video collection of all the QTE deaths for his private "enjoyment". Made me sick seeing that, not really sure how they got away with it actually.Seriously, whoever directed this game has a serious damsel in distress fetish.
I barely failed any of the QTEs, but I did get that scene yeah. I think it was some long metal rod sticking out from a plane wreck, and if you didn't dodge it Lara would impale her jaw on it and croak while her hands limply claw at the pole sticking through her face. Very detailed death animation.
The one where you get impaled on a tree branch during the parachute scene is the same animation.
But really, the most unnecessary scene of violence is at the start, when she gets a rusty metal rod piercing her side, then you have to pull it out with a QTE. And the wound stays on her character model throughout the game (and she never bandages it even though it's the worst wound she receives in the entire game lmao).
I quite enjoy gory games, got a lot of hours in Postal 2, but TR's violence feels different. Like someone in the dev team really, really enjoys watching a young woman suffer.