Somewhere toward the second act, this plot was entwined with and somewhat buried beneath a grander story about an immortal alchemist, an ancient order of warrior monks and a near-extinct race of Nephilim. A murder for which Lara herself had been framed. The first act revolved around the mysterious murder of Werner Von Croy, Lara's former mentor and friend.
The plot of Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness saw the return of Lara Croft without ever explaining how she survived the cliffhanger ending of 1999's Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. RELATED: Lara Croft Sequel Will Adapt Shadow of the Tomb Raider And those same fans have continued to beg the franchise to return Lara to the action star she was before. Some would rather turn away and continue pretending like Tomb Raider Chronicles was the last real installment in the original series, while others might look back fondly at that flawed gem of a game. Perhaps the best way to do just that would be to take a few steps back to the last entry of the original series: Angel of Darkness.
Now that story is complete, and it's time for the series to bring Lara Croft back to her roots. The reboot series beginning in 2013 presented the most radically different iteration of the character, largely because the series aimed to explore Croft's backstory- how she transformed from an ill-prepared, aspiring explorer into something resembling the conquering heroine of the franchise's past. Lara Croft has been reshaped in so many different ways over the last two decades of Tomb Raider games.