I feel bad for Lara as a character. I really do. She had a good comeback with TR 2013, and just after that SE started the hurricane of horrible decisions.
First of all, as a PS user, it was not cool to see that stupid exclusivity deal. If you think that thing didn't have a huge impact on the brand, you're wrong buddy.
Second, RotTR was a decent back step from the first game. It was not a bad game overall, but almost had nothing new to offer. And don't get me started with how they're trying to make an Uncharted game instead of Tomb Raider, and they failed. All of these things destroyed the game IMO. That deal with Microsoft, decent amount of flaws in the game, such as poor writing, boring story and being a bad copy/paste of your rival in many aspects.
And now we have Shadow. God I can't find out, why the hell did SE choose Eidos for making this game. I've been playing Shadow for almost 8-10 hours. Writing and story stuff are still boring, but better than previous games, visuals are really good, and gameplay are pretty much the same, but 70-80% of the game was just exploring and finding some stupid collectibles, some dull side quest, and 7-8 good enemy encounters that I really enjoyed. But they're so fucking rare to find! Okay, I don't say more exploring and less action stuff is bad, but the way that this game offers exploring, is really, really not good. Its not rewarding, not enjoyable, just boring most of the time. And it's funny that Lara literally doesn't give a single damn about law of physics:
And animations in this game are hilarious sometimes. I mean, cut, cut, fucking cut every 10 seconds if you're in enemy encounter. The idea of cutting the camera this much, in a fast-paced action game like TR is just unacceptable. Even the moving animation for oil in this game is so weird, and imagine being the head of the studio that can't make a smooth animation for oil, and still saying TLoU II animations are fake.
Add a bad release date and awful marketing to all of those things that I've said. So Shadow, not doing so well is not a surprise I guess. SE ruined the game with bad decisions. Hope the next TR game will be a better game, in every aspects.