Tomb Raider: Chronicles followed and then the infamous Angel of Darkness! To this day I have absolutely no clue why did they decide it was best for that amazingly nimble woman to move like a cement truck, why the whole game felt like a bug riddled beta version.so many unanswered questions. The series started going downhill for me when Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, the fourth game in the series, inexplicably replaced the perfectly working inventory system with the clunkiest crap possible, as well as confining my beloved ass kicking globetrotter to just Egypt.

From a fan and pure gamer’s perspective, and not going into details of all kinds of financial troubles and developing studio being sold. The franchise went through a lot of ups and downs. It was the magic of that amazing heroin, her laconic but sarcastic interactions with the adversaries who would range from bears and tigers to human thugs to even extraterrestrials, and the fact that it made the player feel like a true explorer stranded in the middle of remote and strange uncharted regions of the earth yet ultimately smashed the cornucopia of mysteries wide open that made me hopelessly fall in love with the franchise and Lara Croft. She would venture into the very bowels of the earth to discover, and often ransack, remnants of the long lost ancient civilizations while braving deadliest assortment of booby traps, solving environmental and mechanical puzzles to gain entry into sealed tombs and locked atriums buried under the dust of time and long forgotten by the world. HUGE three dimensional environments, an extremely cocky badass archaeologist armed with her signature dual-wielded pistols and a backpack. Coming from Sega Genesis the game was an impossible dream come true. It is rather incredible to think it has been nearly 20 years since I had played the first Tomb Raider on my newly bought Playstation.

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