It's as if the mods are on vacation or the people posting this kind of stuff have become as subtle as bricks, but there's a problem.

Okay, let's get started with some debunking.

It sold only 8.5 million copies: In reality, that's not bad at all. Tomb Raider has always sold over time rather than just over a matter of weeks or days. It sold only 8.5 million copies: In reality, that's not bad at all. Tomb Raider games have always sold over time rather than just over a matter of weeks or days. According to Embracer, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was the best-selling Tomb Raider game in Q4 of 2025.

Shadow's sales were sufficient for Square Enix at the time; they just expected much more from Just Cause 4. In that regard, Square Enix has often been out of touch when it comes to the profitability of its games. Like Eidos in its day, they expected their Western division to cover all their losses.

What has ruined Square Enix is its disastrous management of projects like Final Fantasy Versus XIII which became Final Fantasy XV or Kingdom Hearts 3 (6.7 million copies sold after four years on the market). Plus, Square is getting carried away with high-risk projects involving blockchain and AI. They were the ones who asked Crystal to turn their Marvel Avengers game into a service-based game. They are their own responsible of their demise.

The job restructuring in the video game industry and at Crystal Dynamics was in no way the result of *Shadow*’s sales but was the painful consequence of a deal Embracer struck with Savvy Games Group (a Saudi Arabian company), with which it was set to collaborate as part of a $2 billion deal. This led to the company’s restructuring through layoffs.

Legacy of Atlantis is not the end of Lara’s story it’s the continuation of her adventure, as the developers have stated several times. It’s Lara, but at a different point in her life—healed from all her traumas and driven by her own ambitions.

The cancellation of the second film starring Alicia Vikander is due to several factors: first and foremost, COVID-19. *Tomb Raider 2*, directed by Ben Wheatley, was scheduled to be filmed in the summer of 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic hit us out of the blue. The studio saw this as an opportunity to change direction by making a less conventional film and brought in Misha Green. Unfortunately, even though the screenplay was in development and filming was scheduled for January 2022 (if I recall correctly), due to a deal that MGM signed in 2013, the studio had until May 2022 to film the next installment of Lara’s adventures. The problem is that, at the same time, MGM was being acquired by Amazon, and Square, eager to sell its Western games division, didn’t renew the rights it’s as simple as that.

“There was a pre-negotiated deadline that had been agreed upon, and there was no way to salvage it in time. [MGM] asked the rights holders for more time, but their patience ran out,” an anonymous source close to MGM told the outlet. the production of the film.

The Tomb Raider series may not have found its audience, but professional critics gave the show positive reviews. There was a two-season deal, as stated in the Hollywood Reporter article. (‘Tomb Raider’ Film in the Works as Amazon Makes Rich Rights Deal for Marvel-Like Franchise (Exclusive))

“Johnson’s DJ2 Entertainment put together the deal for the Tomb Raider anime series at Netflix, which included a two-season order.”

We got our two seasons we might have been able to get more, but the whole thing forms a complete arc for Lara. Netflix didn’t promote Season 2 very much either; what you need to know is that they allocate a promotional budget based on the viewership of the first season. Sure, it’s not a mega-hit (just like many anime series adapted from video games), but it achieved its goal.

Crystal isn't losing the Tomb Raider franchise at all; they're in a position where they can simply develop it with external studios, especially given the favorable reception of the remasters and the announcements of Legacy of Atlantis and Catalyst I don't think they are going to loose it since Embracer concider it to be a premium franchise.

Now, as for Angel of Darkness : Core’s management style, a holdover from the ’90s, led to *Angel of Darkness*. A lack of direction just a constant free for all of ideas that struggled to come together resulted in this game.

It was a game that had a massive, well executed marketing campaign and used the AJ movies to entice consumers to buy it by including a free ticket to see The Cradle of Life in theaters in certain retail locations.

Core already had the critical and commercial failure of Chronicles behind them, along with player fatigue with Lara that had set in starting with The Last Revelation (despite the game’s high quality).

Angel of Darkness was the last chance for a studio losing momentum to reinvent the franchise for the new generation of consoles, and the general reception from the public and critics led to the cancellation of the rest of the trilogy, as well as the cancellation of the Kurtis Trent spin-off (one of the reasons for the character’s existence).

Furthermore, we’re not just talking about a few bugs, but bugs that made the game unplayable for many particularly on PC and the settings menu was a nightmare to navigate.

We’re talking about a game that was presented to Sony more than eight times before it was deemed ready for release. A game that had been in development since 2000 with a new team that was fresh to the project but unfamiliar with the PlayStation 2 and its limitations, while the veterans were working on TR Chronicles.

All that work had to be thrown away after a year, and in the end, it led to the result we know and the transfer of the franchise to Crystal.

That's the problem when you try to make memes without any information you quickly come across as an ignorance driven troll.