It’s a tired fact that licensed games try to span two entertainment media and so fail at both. The license does little justice to the source material, and the source constrains player agency. So instead of a good license or a good game, you get half of each. However, now and again, the source material dovetails with established genres. Lucky for Batman, he already lives in an action adventure game.

The ink is all but dry on Square-Enix’s Eidos buyout, and the growing company will be making some changes. Perhaps the most surprising is that Squeenix has indicated that Yoshinori Kitase would be “ideally suited” to a supervisory role on the Tomb Raider series. The directorial luminary of notable games like Chrono Trigger, several Final Fantasy titles, and the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII will likely be assigned to correct mismanagement the Lara Croft’s IP. Gamasutra recently scored an interview with Kitase, and we’ve prized some choice quotes from the text and have some commentary on what they’ll mean for Lara Croft’s future. Hit the jump for the full feature.