"I think it lessens as she goes on and gets tougher." Rhianna Pratchett. I don't have much of a say in that," she says, before pointing out that the demo showcases the start of the game. But although she is responsible for the words that come out of Lara's mouth, Pratchett has little control over the other noises. Now she is the lead writer on the Tomb Raider reboot due for release in March. Pratchett has previous experience of giving strong female game characters a voice, having worked on the scripts for Mirror's Edge and Heavenly Sword. The phrase "torture porn" was bandied around when the trailer was released, but the game is more like porn for people who get turned on by asthma. As the demo on show at this year's Eurogamer Expo showed, New Lara can't walk down a level path without wheezing. And that's not even counting the panting. Over the course of the three-minute trailer for the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft shrieks, screams, grunts, yelps and sobs 23 times. "I'm not sure what the thinking behind having quite so much is." "Personally, I could do with less of it," says Rhianna Pratchett.
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