Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a terrible game, no other way saying it, dated gameplay and animations with tons of graphical inconsistencies, bugs and glitches. The story as a conclusion for Lara's "origin" story is lackluster on a whole other level, there's no defining moment of her "becoming the Tomb Raider she's destined to be". Lara feels no different than the other games in this rebooted universe - bland, no charisma, no sassiness, no British ****, nothing that resembles the original iconic classic Lara Croft that we all know and love. The side characters are just as, if not worse than Lara herself, they don't have any real purpose in this game other than making Lara feel good about herself while she's playing the white savior, Mary Sue type of character. There were many missed opportunities in this game to at least, re-introduce the players to some of the classic and iconic known features that fans have been asking for for the last 5-6 years from the developers to incorporate into this rebooted universe (the dual pistols, Croft Manor, Lara's shorts and many more) Not only that, as a re-launch titled the Definite Edition, there is no reason to buy this game again, no new features other than one new outfit and a sort of toggle on/off outfit restriction which only takes effect after the final boss in the game, such feature is basically pointless due to the obvious criticism fans of this game/franchise have been vocal about - that they want the outfit restriction removed completely during the story itself and not after they finished it. Overall, as a Tomb Raider fan since the early 2000s, I can say I'm happy about one thing about this game - that it's the final one in this reboot "origin" trilogy, good riddance. 4/10.
