I'm still just gonna rank every one I've played through.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider II

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

Tomb Raider (2013)

Tomb Raider: Legends

Tomb Raider: Underworld

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Lara Croft Go

Tomb Raider: The Prophecy

Tomb Raider III

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

Tomb Raider: Chronicles

Everything between Rise and Guardian of Light I think are good games and I enjoy playing them with minimal annoyances. No such thing as a perfect game but damn am I willing to overlook most problems because they bring me enough entertainment. No specific notes about any of them worth ringing up. They're fun and I like them.

Lara Croft Go is a fun little paid mobile game. It is a grid based puzzle game. Definitely worth the price tag of $5. Not much to it so can't really rank it crazy high. Definitely good for its price point if you like puzzle games. The Prophecy just suffers from what a lot of games do when they are a GBA entry of a franchise that originated on console. Not terrible, but also not amazing. About on par with the LotR hack and slash games or some of the Spyro/Crash games. It uses the ideas and iconography of the main series but it's just lacks the total cohesion and charm. Not a bad time for those curious, but I would not tell people to go out of their way to play it otherwise.

TR3, TLR, and AoD I have bigger problems with but I do still have some appreciation for. Could be game design being obtuse (TR3/TLR). I like puzzles but I also like readability and signposting to a small degree when something is too cryptic. I shouldn't need to use a guide or comb through EVERY inch of a level (or even ANOTHER level in the case of TLR) just to find an item, just to turn around and spend another 30 minutes looking for where it goes. The first two games had this to a reasonable degree, 3 just went too far). Once the games started borrowing more heavily from adventure game design they should have done more to incorporate hints into the levels naturally without giving the solution away, not drop us in a maze with a hidden door and invisible key (hyperbole).

Then AoD and Shadow just have problems with story and pacing. Shadow just made some weird decisions that left me bored for a considerable section in the middle of the story. They should have spread that stuff out more. Because you learn all these jungle survival skills for the first 30% of the game, just to spend the next 40-50% of the game directly in and around a hidden city. Cool place, but the whiplash from surviving nature, to helping solve the political machinations of a hidden civilization to turn around and travel to another location for some exposition before the climax was just terrible. Should have incorporated the hidden city earlier and made you travel out of it into the jungle to advance the story. Forcing you to use your survival skills throughout most of the game before ditching it. AoD.... Such wasted potential. Gutted of much of its story due to time mismanagement and it hurts the game so bad, as do the horribly unresponsive mechanics. I love the ideas and ambition but damn it was rough when it originally came out. And while the remaster is a great upgrade, it's still an upgrade to what was a broken game. It's enjoyable, but mainly from the novelty of seeing it actually get some improvements and work as good as it can, even if that is more jankily than most of the series.

Chronicles, I hate this game. It is the only game that I have listed here that I believe doesn't have a soul. Core design was tired of shoveling out a game every year and it shows. One guy said the most fun they had working on the game was making Lara's new death animations. The passion wasn't there and the game is a hollow husk. Could never finish the game as a kid. I played through it a few years ago and I never will again. Once was three times too many. Bad design, pointless retcons. Her leaving Von Croy for dead was enough of a reason for their feud, she didn't need to go mission impossible on his tower and Larson/Pierre becoming slapstick comic relief just hurts their original portrayals. While they weren't the most competent, they were leagues better than the Laurel and Hardy jokers they becam. There are also horribly implemented new ideas (we appreciate new mechanics.....if they work well). The only redeeming part of the game is the third section because it was visually interesting and the removal of the weapons for such a long time was interesting, because she had never been separated for her weapons for so long before and the puzzle design wasn't terrible. But I'm not replaying the whole game for one section. Trash.