Lara Croft's face was poorly defined, and her features were exaggerated partly because it wasn't possible to render an attractive quasi-realistic character before the first generation of 3D hardware. > Game design is limited by the technology of its time. Do you really expect a character to have a braid in all versions? And why is Lara's hair or physical proportions so important to her character? Her defining features are being an upper-class explorer and overall badass, which is part of every TR game. The change of Lara Croft was certainly influenced in part by the zeitgeist, as you say, but it's largely the result of normal character evolution in most gaming franchises. (It doesn't help that MG chronology is confusing as hell, and I'm not certain that 'Venom' Snake is actually the same person as 'Solid' Snake.) Snake's features only became visible in the first MGS, and the model in The Phantom Pain might as well be a different character. Mario himself changed radically in each game from Tanooki, frog and cat suits, to becoming other characters entirely in Odyssey. You're saying that Mario and Snake didn't also change from their initial 2D sprites to their later 3D models? Mario's nose and signature cap were hardly distinguishable in the early games, and just weren't important compared to the gameplay. Or as if Capcom had decided, for Metal Gear Solid 3, to swap out Solid Snake for some other guy with the same name. > That's like Nintendo deciding, after the 6th Super Mario title, that Mario should now look like a more realistic man and lose his big nose and his outdated hat. The renders shown in promos and cover art were done in much higher quality, and the Lara in those hardly resembled the in-game Lara either. Game design is limited by the technology of its time. Without it she is like Mario without hat, or Sonic without his red/white shoes.) But please at least keep her face and don't change her into a completely different person. Though I suspect most of the people complaining about her proportions didn't even play the games themselves. If it is so important for those people who love to complain about such stuff. I would have been okay with changing Lara Croft's not-very-realistic body proportions to something which fits the zeitgeist better. That's like Nintendo deciding, after the 6th Super Mario title, that Mario should now look like a more realistic man and lose his big nose and his outdated hat. It was just some generic looking woman of a similar age. Not even her signature braid was preserved. By the time of Tomb Raider (2013) she was replaced with a completely different person. In subsequent titles they changed her more and more. The next title, Legend, was a reboot, and they decided to change Lara's face. Unfortunately Tomb Raider 6 was a medium flop (due to poor gameplay). Her iconic face, known from countless magazine covers, posters, ads, and even music videos (in German speaking countries she appeared in a Die Ärzte music video which topped the charts for weeks ). Lara used to have the same consistent design till Tomb Raider 6 (The Angel of Darkness).

My problem with the Tomb Raider design is that they swapped out Lara Croft for someone else.

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