History Headscratchers / TombRaider2013

** All of the survivors aside from Lara and Sam seems to have a clinical case of TooDumbToLive. If they're not making ''pointless'' HeroicSacrifices that could have easily been avoided, they're sitting around complaining and brushing off everything Lara has to say despite the fact she's the only one who seems to be able to take care of herself.

** The CPR is nothing more than CriticalResearchFailure. The rest is RuleOfDrama, dialed up to eleven. Which ends up as {{Narm}}.

** The CPR is nothing more than CriticalResearchFailure. The rest is RuleOfDrama, dialed UpToEleven. Which ends up as {{Narm}}.

** As far as ''how'' anyone knew the island was there to fortify it, OcchamsRazor: The 'location'' of the island was well-charted and never lost. What was lost was its ''identity'', which faded into obscurity after the collapse of its influence. It's the same reason why Atlantis was "lost" right under everyone's noses for millennia, until new research strongly connected it to Santorini and the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Thera. Everyone knew right where Santorini was, they just didn't realize it was also what was left of Atlantis.

** And ''still'' there are numerous other wrecks and other sites closer and safer where some toolbox could be found or assembled from single tools. No-one even bothered to check the PT boat, which should carry tools - if it still carry functional [=MGs=], then it means no-one before was trying to salvage the boat or it's equipment. One could wonder how actually Alex was able to get to the Endurance in the first place, if it took Lara half a day with lots of LeParkour. And WW2-era boat engines can be easily fixed with hammer, spanner and screwdriver - the exact tools (minus hammer) Lara got from Alex.

* Ok, so the storms that wreck ships or aircraft that approach the island [[spoiler: are the result of Himiko's rage at being [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in her rotting corpse]] for nearly [[AndIMustScream two-thousand years]].]] The implication is that ''any'' ships and aircraft that stray too near are sunk or brought down, and no one gets off the island again. However among the wreckage from previous inhabitants is a large and heavily fortified shore battery dating to WorldWarII ([[spoiler: the installation you enter en route to the wreck of ''Endurance'']]) with its guns still in place. This isn't a temporary sandbag structure, but a fixed-position ''concrete bunker'' designed to withstand heavy naval bombardment, high up on the cliffs with a wide field of fire out to sea. Furthermore, those are some pretty ''big'' guns. Even if you assume most of the structure relies on natural rock, there's still a ''lot'' of excavation needed that would require fairly heavy-duty equipment, and it's clear much of the finished structure is indeed made from concrete, not the local rock. Not to mention getting guns ''that'' large into position is a pretty tall order before the advent of large utility helicopters. There's other fairly heavy wartime construction (the radio tower and its command bunker I believe is implied to have dated from the same period, probably a part of the same defense system as the gun emplacement we explore during the game) on the island as well. So clearly, there ''had'' to have been a fairly reliable flow of heavy equipment and construction personnel arriving at the island to build finished structures of this sort. Additionally, if the Japanese thought this island was important enough to fortify it so heavily, its location must have been known well enough to be viewed as strategically vital. Meanwhile, the United States had to consider its ''capture'' strategically important to have actually landed Marines ([[spoiler: based on the Semper Fi artifact collection]]) on it, (the Island Hopping strategy dictated bypassing strong points such as Rabaul altogether and just pounding them into rubble from the air and sea. Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Saipan and Okinawa were targeted for capture because they were viewed as vital for advancing towards the Japanese Home Islands) which means they ''also'' must have known about it. And of course, [[spoiler: Trinity]] knew enough about the island and what could be found there that it sent an agent to investigate. For such a lost and mysterious island, there's certainly a ''lot'' of activity in its fairly recent history that would practically ''require'' people freely coming and going from the place.