History YMMV / TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness

*** "AAAH! AAAH! AAAH! AAAH! AAAH! AAAH!"

** The end boss is worth it just for the sheer hilarity: it's an old man you stab with a few crystals, and each time you stab him, you get a cutscene where he floats above the ground and yells for a good twelve seconds. "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," like someone holding a flat note at a bad karaoke night.

* PresumedFlop: While some have assumed it got extremely low sales due to bad reviews, it actually sold enough on Playstation 2 to get into the Greatest Hits lineup.

** The game was so bad that the producers of the second movie adaptation (see Trivia section) considered suing Eidos for being responsible for the movie's severe underperformance at the box office and tarnishing the ''Tomb Raider'' name.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Along with ''Chronicles'', this is usually ranked as the worst game in the series. Fans are divided between those who consider ''Chronicles'' to be the worst for being boring and extremely formulaic, and those who consider this game to be the worst for its overall terrible execution.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Kurtis Trent's first two encounters with Lara involve him watching her from the shadows and then mysteriously leaving without a word. In the third encounter, the well-known disarming scene, it looks like he's feeling her up ''while holding a gun to her head''. Even considering the circumstances, Kurtis' actions up to this point are eerily similar to those of a stalker and a sexual predator, especially since every other male character in the franchise (also counting the reboots) who gets Lara in a similar position before or since is a villain and/or a [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty pervert]].

* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler:Von Croy's]] death at the beginning. There's also the [[NeverFoundTheBody ambiguous demise]] of [[spoiler:Kurtis.]]

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler:Von Croy’s death]] at the beginning of the game. What makes it even sadder is that they never made amends after [[VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation what happened in Egypt]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A common consensus among fans is that while ''Angel Of Darkness'' was a train wreck in terms of gameplay, the storyline and atmosphere were some of the best in the series.

** Brother Obscura in The Hall of Seasons level. Lara has to defeat him in order to grab the Obscura painting, but the only way to get it from him is if he is completely immobilized, which only lasts a few seconds. If he touches Lara, her health depletes.
** The Cleaner in Von Croy’s apartment. He is hired by [[spoiler: Louis Bouchard]] to take out Lara, and he comes in guns blazing just to kill her. When Lara gets to the final part to kill the Cleaner, she is surrounded by lasers lined with explosives. If the cleaner’s ammo hits Lara, she stumbles onto the laser and ends up dying.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Von Croy’s death in the beginning of the game. What makes it even sadder is that they never made amends after [[VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation what happened in Egypt]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A common consensus among fans is that while ''Angel Of Darkness'' was a train wreck in terms of gameplay, the story line and atmosphere were some of the best in the series.

* VindicatedByHistory: With all the backroom deals around the game's release date and malicious mistreatment of Core by Eidos being fully exposed, many of the franchise's fans have become '''much''' more forgiving toward the game. Sure, it's still a barely functional wreck, but the story is still widely regarded as being one of the best in the franchise, to the point where the Crystal Dynamics games tend to catch flak for its weaker handling of darker themes compared to ''Angel of Darkness''.

** [[TheHeavy Pieter Van Eckhardt]] is the founder of "The Cabal" and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries-old]] alchemist, who desires to recreate the Nephilim to [[OmnicidalManiac bring the world to ruins]]. Becoming enemies with the ancient order of monks Lux Veritatis, Eckhardt swore to kill them all after they imprisoned him for many years. Getting free, Eckhardt goes on a killing spree, killing numerous people to get their body parts so he could use them for his experiments in resurrecting Nephilim. Burning an unlucky reporter alive and slaughtering Bouchard's gang, leaving one survivor in a BodyHorror situation, Eckhardt gets rid of most of his accomplices one by one, first by throwing one into a monstrous "pod" to be turned into a mindless monster, another by feeding him to said monster. Hell-bent on unleashing Nephilim upon the world, Eckhardt believes that it is his destiny to "breed HellOnEarth".

** If one completes ''Parisian Back Streets'', execute the Level Select cheat and repeats the level, it's possible that at the end of the level, rather than progressing to the next level, one can instead continue to play through more of the training level, which includes hints that would otherwise not be provided to you.
** In the ''Galleries Under Siege'' level, if you crouch in front of the case with the masks and hit the action button, you can grab all three masks and use them in later levels, which comes in handy especially in underwater sections.

** The promo song "Angel of Darkness" is popular amongst {{fanvid}} creators. {{Goth}}ic or otherwise dark characters get set to it a lot.
** Due to the absolute treasure trove of snarky dialogue for her and her generally more hardened personality in this game, whenever Angel of Darkness era Lara [[DecompositeCharacter is treated as her own individual]], you can bet nine times out of ten, she'll be a LovableAlphaBitch with a [[DeadpanSnarker tounge to match the likes of Daria Morgendorffer.]]

** The story is very compelling, as well: Lara is framed for murder, so she clears her name by murdering everyone she comes into contact with. Dogs, cops, security guards!

** The OneWingedAngel form of [[spoiler:Kristina Boaz]]. The controls are a bit messed up, and the game gives you no hint about what the hell you're supposed to do. Made worse by the fact that you have to fight the two hardest bosses in the game [[spoiler:Boaz and Proto]] with Kurtis, who is only armed with a wimpy pistol and a few clips of ammo. Lara has all the nice weapons and tons of ammo, but doesn't really need it.

* VindicatedByHistory: With all the backroom deals around the game's release date and malicious mistreatment of Core by Eidos being fully exposed, much of the franchise's fans have become '''much''' more forgiving toward the game. Sure, the game is still a barely functional wreck, but its story is still widely regarded as being one of the best in the franchise, to the point where the Crystal Dynamics games tend to catch flak for its weaker handling of darker themes compared to ''Angel of Darkness''.

* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler:Von Croy's]] death at the beginning. There's also the [[UncertainDoom apparent demise]] of [[spoiler:Kurtis.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41aq7BR_5nY The orchiestrated theme]], anyone?

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Kurtis Trent. Some see him as interesting due to being one of the few playable characters in the franchise apart from Lara, being a capable fighter and his backstory (psychic raised by psychic monks). Other franchise fans don't like him seeing him as one-dimensional and hard to relate to (his backstory isn't fleshed-out), as well as considering him [[StrangledByTheRedString shoe-horned in to act as a love interest for Lara]] (his role as a LoveInterest for Lara being admitted by WordOfGod). The UnresolvedSexualTension between him and Lara, and how it was implemented into the game, didn't help and also divided fans between those who thought Lara shouldn't have a love interest, those open to the idea but who objected to Kurtis and those who really liked Kurtis. He also attracted a particular fanbase around himself - as detailed in the EstrogenBrigade entry below.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Kurtis Trent's first two encounters with Lara involve him watching her from the shadows then mysteriously leaving without a word. In the third encounter, the well-known disarming scene it looks like he's feeling her up ''while holding a gun to her head''. Even considering the circumstances, Kurtis' actions up to this point are eerily similar to those of a stalker and a sexual predator, especially since every other male character in the franchise (also counting the reboots) who gets Lara in a similar position before or since is a villain and/or a [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty pervert]].

*** [[InherentlyFunnyWords "Broccoli, coconut, hotdog."]]

** The story is very-compelling, as well: Lara is framed for murder, so she clears her name by murdering everyone she comes into contact with. Dogs, cops, security guards!

* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler:Von Croy's]] death at the beginning. There's also the [[NeverFoundTheBody apparent demise]] of [[spoiler:Kurtis.]]

** Brother Obscura in The Hall of Seasons level. Lara has to defeat him in order to grab the Obscura painting, but the only way to get it from him is if he is completely immobilised, which only lasts a few seconds and if he touches Lara, her health depletes.
** The Cleaner in Von Croy’s apartment. He is hired by [[spoiler: Louis Bouchard]] to take out Lara, and he comes in all guns blazing just to kill her. When Lara gets to the final part to kill the cleaner, she is surrounded by lasers lined with explosives. If the cleaner’s ammo hits Lara, she stumbles onto the laser and ends up dying.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A common consensus amongst fans is that while ''Angel Of Darkness'' was a train wreck in terms of gameplay, the storyline and atmosphere were some of the best in the series.