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Another level I really wish we shipped was The Venus [Temple]. After we decided our hero would be a woman someone jokingly said "what if she got pregnant" and it became sort of a running gag around the office. We were sat in a meeting one day trying to come up with uh.. gimmicks for levels and somebody said "Well, what if she really did get pregnant? There's got to be a few cursed fertility idols out there" ...The idea was to use her supernatural pregnancy as a sort of ticking clock, she had to escape before she was too big to do acrobatics or fit through small crevices. Someone higher up looked at it and said "I see what you're doing here. You can either have this or the Midas hand thing." We were having trouble getting blend shapes implemented in the engine so we decided to drop The Venus Temple and keep Midas. It wasn't a complete waste though, we chopped the end level boss Lara would give birth to in half and used it as the end game boss instead.