start with tomb raider 2013. these games are very long, I’m not sure if shadow of the tomb raider didn’t feel as good because it was actually a worse game or just more of the same. I remember thinking it was fine but was a bit burnt out.
lara’s origin story in the first one is very good
I do play FPS games, but not on controller. Beyond that I can’t really say - there was nothing that grabbed me in 30 minutes of playtime, and every other metroid game had at least something interesting at the beginning with some intrigue. With Prime, it seemed like the Interesting Thing were the mechanics themselves, which, on their own, didn’t do it for me.