They’re taking the essence of Lara and actually building the character around some sort of humanity – opposed to the paper thin “rich, massive honkers, short shorts-wearing stereotype”.

There’s something to be said for archetypes (character-wise) in the video game industry, but the fact is no one outside of Nintendo has been able to flesh out the same, “underdeveloped” characters like Mario and Luigi – they’re iconic, and span generations. Lara Croft can’t lay claim to the same status (nor can Dante). Heck, even a case for Master Chief could be made – he is as iconic to the Xbox generation as Mario is to the NES generation. Yet, even he is being developed into a full blown character with Halo 4 as 343 explores the depths of his relationship with Cortana.

You complain about these reboots, and I say bring them on. The gameplay is better than ever, and the characters are becoming deeper. This is the industry growing up and moving passed the big bosomed stereotypes.

If you’re talking about that Arland trilogy(Rorona/Totori/Meruru), you don’t have to worry cause Ayesha has nothing to do with them.