I am now playing the survivor tomb raider trilogy (a lil into Rise now). My experience with tomb raider prior was hella minimal so I don't have any attachments to previous iterations of Lara.

But so far I love this series and I love Lara. I have seen her be called whiny and I don't understand as to why. In the first game she was an inexperienced girl going through straight hell. Had I been her, I would have found a corner and just hid in it. That was an incredible traumatic experience she went through. And so far in Rise, the maturity of her is noticable and it is obvious she's been there before.





And labeling her as being bloodthirsty or a predator is wild to me. Its kill or be killed. And because she has this innate thing in her, that will not allow her to just lay down and die, she's going to kill.