@@awildjanestan4825 Yeah it's a great game, played it for first time in year 2000. And playing again now but you're quite right. If you came in to playing Tomb Raider The Last Revelation without any previous experience or proper research on this type of game then you would be in for a shock because it does tend to mentally drain you. From an action perspective it is not that difficult but it's the mental side which can get people frustrated as for example on The Tomb of Seth area level, Egypt day 1 which is in around the pyramids & The Sacred Lakes which off course are full of crocodiles, twist & turns, trap doors etc, I'm currently working my way through The Catacombs, the huge white building with skeletons & ghosts but it's amazing how easily you can get lost & confused over some of the problem solving puzzles. Tomb Raider 2 was a pain in the back side too only to realize after a few hours that I needed to climb onto chandeliers to get into a picture 🤣
FYI, the Egyptian "chess" sequence is actually a game of Senet. Look it up, it's fun once you get a hang of the rules. Also, big props to the development team on including this in the game. Nothing like a little research to lend authenticity to the Egyptian experience.
The Tomb raider games were the only reason why I wanted to travel the world as a kid. Ten years after playing TR2 I traveled to venice and had a wonderful time discovering the city of water I dreamed a decade of. Never managed to go to egypt though...
The snake puzzle is totally doable by using the logic of the switches (they only lit up/go out depending on what is connected by the lines). I never knew there was a scroll to pick up before and I personally prefer it like that. Felt like a legit brain teaser.
Not that it matters because the puzzle is solved by simply flipping each switch once by going in a circle. That's how I solved it the first time "by accident" and it's what speedrunners do.
13:30 It's not a bug.Lara can't go into crawl position from the ladder climb.You have to release the action button and quickly press it again, so that she is in her "normal" hanging position.Then she can enter the hole.
I was 11 and I don't know how the hell I managed it, think it took me something like 60 plus hours, maybe more, was stuck for so damn long, remember I got it at Christmas but it was months later that I beat it lol, 8?? thats v damn impressive. kudos to you.
good point, how the fuck did I figured out the resolution of some of the most hard ass puzzles in the series while I was ELEVEN? jesus, I clearly remember struggling in one exact level, that was Tomb Raider's 1 greek gods tomb. Alright remember that tomb were you had like, not at all greek gods like "Thor" mashed into puzzle sections, were you had to uncover the secrets to carry on the gameplay? In Thor's section, as soon as the hammer struck me down when doing the most obvious shit (had to put pressure on a panel of some sort) IDK why but I immediately skipped the level, that was traumatic!
Lara spends her time raiding tombs. But considering that she was supposed to die at the end of this game, I suppose you could argue that she got raided by a tomb. So the tomb is the hero of the game.
on that part where lara wouldn't crawl into the crawl space you actually have to let go and then immediately grab again so that lara is hanging then you can enter
The Game Statistic Lara’s latter state doesn’t have climb up crawl space so that she has to be hanging in order to climb crawl spaces. Also TRC has that animation now so now your able climb crawl spaces
I found out that you can actually climb the ladder whilst the hammer dude is there if you climb the ladder in the corner on the right, found it totally by accident and couldn't stop smiling lol.
The planet puzzle is actually one of the more ingenious ones, authentic to the time period. I didn't know about the binoculars and that map, but I did reason that in ancient Greece and Egypt, philosphers, astronomers and mathematicians like Aristotle and Ptolemy believed in a geocentric model for our solar system, not a heliocentric one. So I tried to recall from elementary school times which order the planets come in, and how to alterate the model to accord for the Ptolemaic model, and hey presto, it worked. That puzzle was some good shit. Now it's obscure to know all this, but I liked the time when video games taught you this kinda stuff. You can count on the fact that if this game were made today, you would just find a scroll where it says "Ptolemy believed the Earth was at the centre of the solar system, with the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars etc. following." Which isn't much of a puzzle at all, and doesn't really teach you anything because you're not figuring anything out for yourself.
I agree. This is the kind of puzzle my father struggled with for weeks back in the day, especially in the early days of the internet. It's ingenious in the way that, yes, if you're an expert for ancient history, philosophy and astronomy, you can figure this out by yourself. It's still abysmally telegraphed in the way that the in-game hint/solution is obscured by an obtuse secondary puzzle.
TR 3 is the best, followed by TR 2 and 1. Part 4 unfortunately made most great things of TR 3 much worse. But that's of course just personal my opinion ;-)
nope, tr 2 is the best, then comes tr 1, then a small gap, followed by tr 3. Then a big gap and tr 5 and than the grand canyon followed by tr 4. so, of the classic series, tr 4 is by far the worst!
@@timmybolton5515 You literally put a game the developers themselves called quote "shit" (Chronicles) in front of the game (TLR) many of the devs liked the most ^^
@@timmybolton5515 Wasnt meant to be an offense :) Actually I read this opinion quite often. I totally agree on TR2 and TR1 on your list but literally hate TR3 so its bottom last on my classic list. Pretty funny how different people judge the games :)
I've just found your reviews and have watched them for the nostalgia. I played from TR1 to AOD together with my little sister. You are spot on nearly every time with your analysis and especially with TR3 that I really laughed out loud watching - my real issue was the sodding coin in Aldwych Station. Man the underwater trial and error maze I really remember. I think that was one of the only things I cheated on - mostly because it was so pointless and stupid. You never mentioned the music - the music of the first two is so atmospheric. I think the only thing I disagree with you on are the blocks... yes ok some of the puzzles are long and require a lot of movement.... but the blocks are clearly heavy - and although I never played the newer games I have seen them and seeing Lara climbing poles faster that a squirrel on speed and pushing things like they are made of of paper just looks crap, it really breaks the immersion for me. The new games just look cheap - like Mario or Crash Bandicoot or some shit.
My childhood game and first Tomb Raider ever. That was a real adventure experience in all ways. Level design was epic, game was so hard and scary at the moments. I played other Tomb Raider games later but damn, this one was so unique
I'm currently replaying TLR after rewatching your review and I just wanted to address a couple things I noticed You CAN actually interact with the crowbar with all the weird doors, but it's from the other side. They're used to backtrack from the Catacombs and the Temple of Poseidon back to the Coastal Ruins (which was kind of useless anyway imo). Your point still stands that it's completely counter-intuitive, but they do function all the same way. Also, there IS another instance where you have to jump from rope to rope, but it's on the path you unlock when you lose the game of Senet, so I guess there is indeed an advantage to winning the game. And it's three ropes too, this time. They're positioned in a straight line so technically it should be easier to manage but somehow it's still a pain in the ass to pull off, somehow Lara stops being aligned to the ropes once she grabs one so you have to put her back in the right position every time. Anyway love your videos, strangely there aren't many RUclipsrs who talk about classic Tomb Raider so it's really nice. I love popping one of your videos everytime I boot up the PS1 and play one of the first four games
I loved this game after TR3, it felt really focused with only having Egypt, better cutscenes, characters actually moving their mouthes when talking, the tutorial happening in an actual level, the atmospehere, the traps, the train level, the multilevel layouts. It all felt great. Until I reached the City of the dead levels. Those were completely shit, everything is dark, there's tons of backtracking, too many random items, too many puzzles which were far away and with no clear hinting on what to do. That's the point where I had to use a walkthrough for the first time in this game.
30:47 ...How did you not notice that the movable blocks look like planets?! Other than that, great review. I just cannot comprehend how you managed to miss that.
This is my personal favorite tomb raider next to TR2. I love the theme a lot and it's so accurate and on point. The open world level design was a bit ahead of its time and kinda confusing but once you pushed passed it you felt a sense of accomplishment. I haven't beat this game as of yet but I am working on getting a copy on the original Playstation. I am debating on playing it for PC but the controls seems a bit wonky for a PC. (I always prefer a controller)
51:50 This was the ending of my first play. I picked up three keys in mastabas, so when I saw I am missing one and searched everywhere, I concluded the fourth was also in mastabas, which were unreachable at that point. I concluded it's a game breaker and I ended it there. There was no internet at the time :/
On PC back in the day could not complete the race when training with Von Croy. Always got stuck as could not clear a jump mid-section - ever (forget which; so long ago). Failed at least 12 times - then gave up; either me, a bug or the PC was too slow. Did go back a few months later but problem remained so gave up :(
When it released I didn't really like it and it felt monotonous with long, similar themed levels. After really giving it a chance and doing a full no cheat playthrough, I changed my opinion and TLR is the most immersive and mysterious, ominous entry in the core franchise for me. It still holds a special place for me :) I actually had none of the logic problems you encountered with the trapdoor, the crowbar door, the turret fuel tanks and so on. I explored those just naturally playing but I can see how one could miss them on first glance. Then again I grew up with playing all the Tomb Raider games right at their release so I was accustomed to the 90s era of sometimes somewhat senseless trial and error puzzle design. I also read the game's manual as one did back then which clearly explains all the new moves.
You do a really good job on these reviews. Is this all your gameplay? Tomb raider Last Revelation has a lot of great memories for me. One of my favorite games of all time & TRs. Unfortunately, a few of the sections in this game are frustrating like you said. I beat the the first half of this game (up to city of the dead) like half a dozen times or more, but only beat the full game once as a kid. I'd always quit when getting to city of the dead section cause I'd get confused and frustrated. But I finally beat this game using walkthroughs online a second time last summer. Might have to give this game a go again & maybe get all or more secrets. Love the atmosphere and Egypt setting in this game. It was the game that made me a tomb raider fan for life. I just wish certain parts of the game were not frustrating. The underwater puzzle in the sphinx WAS BULLCRAP! Btw I think I had that torch glitch in the later pyramid levels.
Yup. captured the full play through before making the review. The first half is the more inviting half. But the whole thing has puzzle missteps here and there unfortunately.
13:28 that bug is easily fixed by letting go of the climb button and quickly pressing it again and push Lara up without having her feet on the wall. Lara sometimes needs to in the shimmy position, not the climbing action, to get into small spaces.
nice video MAN! such a breath of fresh air watching this video right after tomb raider's 5 review, your zombie voice wasn't doing it for me MAN! jk, excelent video
25:32 You probably already know this, but fall damage also works against skellys. You just need to bait them into jumping a gap, and usually one shotgun shot to the ribs does the trick.
Uh no actually. once i learned bullets were a no and explosions were a no i stopped experimenting. part of why im slowing down reviews until im more thorough
@@TheGameStatistic No worries though. I actually found this out on my second to last playthrough of TLR, 2 years ago. I just really love how this game has a gimmick for most enemies instead of the just "shoot it until dead" approach of TR2
@@TheGameStatistic You can also shoot them in the head with the laser sight (revolver/crossbow). Not that I recommend doing it, but it's hilarious to see headless skeletons running around aimlessly.
the puzzle with the 4 levers and the 2 tombs that open beneath( in the citadel area, i think) , the solution is in the top of the church , there are symbols that match with numbers ..and the tombs have symbols engraved on them...but u already know this already
Wow. I thought it would be a fast review then i checked the video at 8 minutes and realised it's 57mins long... this is my favorite TR game, so i will watch the whole thing anyway, nice job.
Its interesting though, because interviews in 99 indicated that Lara would have a notebook, where she jot down her progress and hints. The binoculars had more use and would had been able to combine a flashlight with a gun. It is a shame that these concepts never made it in, probably because of deadlines.
You can climb up by those cogs at 28.33 without taking damage. You have to climb the pole until you are just under the cog. Then at the moment the cog is in the far left corner from Lara crawl up one space then immediatley jumb back onto the above platform.
i realise now that i did the solar system puzzle without looking up to use the binoculars - i think most of them are recognisable - like the sun and moon are pretty obvious
48:37 This puzzle, at least for the first hole you fist, is that the letter has to match up with which number of the alphabet it corresponds to. The F hieroglyphic is the 6th one which is the only one that makes sense, hence why it works.
I was one of the poor fuckers in the Lost Library who didn't realise you could look up that shaft. Also, I encountered a game breaking bug in Under the Sphinx where the blocks wouldn't reset after each room. Jankey, but still a really enjoyable game
@ 25:00 In the Tomb of Semerkhet, if you lose the game of Egyptian Chess(Senet) you are introduced to the immortal spirits AND have to jump rope to rope.
With this one I have a love-hate kind of relation. I love some levels and hate others (like the buggy car chase, but I play the PSX version, so maybe that's why). Great video as always, but why streched widescreen? Improper aspect ratio looks awful.
As far as I remember, the native implementation of 16:9 resolutions in these PC games is just a shoddy stretching job. It's nothing to do with you, it's what Core did. There are patches online, though, that will give you the proper 16:9 without stretching and it looks way better! Not sure if you're interested in it for your future reviews, sorry to tell you so late into the project when you're nearing the end of Gen1 tomb raider!
smidget whittington the problem isn't that they're bad games, the problem is that they are bad Tomb Raider games. Maybe if they did something else like have you play as her father for this new series as kind of a prequel then continue where Underworld left off for Lara's story.
yeah that would be cool, they also feel seriously easy putting white paint on all climbable surfaces and shit.... its fucking impossible to get lost in those games.
The only classic TR I haven't finished, even TR3 didn't left me dumbfounded as to what the hell I had to do though it felt like a chore many times. You can tell Core Design got really tired and burned after TR2 so the level design suffered
I've finished this game at least 20 times in my life, I know it off by heart but I STILL never understand the water skin puzzle in the last level 🤣 I always need to check a walkthrough because I just can't get my head around the mathematics of it, I'm so dyslexic with numbers 🤣🤣
I can't believe that back in the late 90's I completed this game without going through any walkthrough. Clearly I had a lot of time back then to trial and error my way through these esoteric puzzles..😊. But this was hands down my favorite TR game just for the tomb raiding vibe that this game has in spades.
I’m playing it now. I’m at the part where you need to open those floor panels, and had no idea you could actually get Lara to do it. It’s one long game. I didn’t even realize I’m only about halfway through. I beat all the other TR games as a child, but not this one.
It seems that at times when the designers ran out of ideas they just added a large hole for Lara to cross. This game is definitely the most boring of the series. I like the Eqyptian setting (TR1 nostalgia), but only being in Egypt is dull. Also, why does Seth (the snake god) look like Anubis (the jackal)?
Bozpot Seth isn’t the snake god that’s Apep. Seth’s animal is the Typhonic beast which unlike the other totemic animals it is unclear exactly what it is supposed to be. Theories include a saluki, a giraffe, an aardvark, a donkey, or a jackal like Anubis (his son after all)
WAIT, Lara has a bow in Tomb Raider 4 a BOW! I've been pissed about the thing since it was introduced in the reboots and here it is in TR4... wait this one looks cooler and blows shit up. I think I'm more madder that my dual pistols have been excluded from the current games more though i mean shit just put em in there SIGH!
09:52 nope, the Dreamcast-version had dynamic shadows. for whatever reason the PC-version does not. so if you wanna play it today, best use a DC-emulator.
i think if they could make a remake just as it was done with resident evil two reducing the levels but keepin the story , i see that it might be very enjoyable for seek of fans ! tomb raider 2 also , the floatin islands was a mess but the story was enjoyable , again a remake would far be great than the TR 2013 !
Tomb Raider 2 was probably not ideal and it stept toward more action adventure, but personally that is my favorite Tomb Raider. You could really feel the climate, on your own, in pursuit, outcasted.
What? Gay shit? Dude, just because people still use gay as term to describe negative shit it doesn't mean they're immature. I'm sure most people doing that are 100% ok with you sucking as much 🌽 right out of your 🌽hole as you wish 👍. Chill out.
Nice review, yar the library planet moving was a bitch to do untill we cheated and bought the guidebook. When i was about 10 me and three others got to the part where you find the wounded soldier before meeting the crazy dragon thing. I'm kind of glad we didn't make it as far as the water maze though. that drop down claw in chronicles was really scarry i remember :)
huh, In the playstation version, the boss banging the ground doesn't make you fall of ladders. The PC version looks far better than the playstation version and considerably harder due to small mechanical changes. I think it is safe to say I'll stick the ps version, since I've been struggling to complete it for about a year
***** lmao ok then. tbh, I find this model graphically pleasing, but anatomically it is much more disproportionate, smaller shoulders, skinnier waist and much bigger breasts. In the older games, she looked skinnier but that is due probably to limited graphical technology. They also removed her muscles in this one. But her hair and textures and movements are beautiful
The Game Statistic it's all good,I discovered this move in tomb raider 3 by accident.As you have said in many occasions they are horrible at explaining Lara's moves and telegraphing things.
In each part of the game it feels like you basically have to do a whole bunch of stuff to get to a new area, that's what it's all about. Great game though.
I don't know what I find most entertaining - the captain obvious vs Sherlock Holmes analysis of how any video game works, or the bashing of a game followed by "great game though" as some kind of "no homo" thing 😂.
I like to call it The Vast Levelation because there are so many damn levels.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good joke XD
i kinda like the fact that its so super long but what i dont is how confusing some puzzles are, very confusing
boltun easpecially when most of us were children when we played this game. Every ten seconds I needed my sister or older cousin to help me
@@awildjanestan4825 Yeah it's a great game, played it for first time in year 2000. And playing again now but you're quite right. If you came in to playing Tomb Raider The Last Revelation without any previous experience or proper research on this type of game then you would be in for a shock because it does tend to mentally drain you. From an action perspective it is not that difficult but it's the mental side which can get people frustrated as for example on The Tomb of Seth area level, Egypt day 1 which is in around the pyramids & The Sacred Lakes which off course are full of crocodiles, twist & turns, trap doors etc, I'm currently working my way through The Catacombs, the huge white building with skeletons & ghosts but it's amazing how easily you can get lost & confused over some of the problem solving puzzles. Tomb Raider 2 was a pain in the back side too only to realize after a few hours that I needed to climb onto chandeliers to get into a picture 🤣
FYI, the Egyptian "chess" sequence is actually a game of Senet. Look it up, it's fun once you get a hang of the rules.
Also, big props to the development team on including this in the game. Nothing like a little research to lend authenticity to the Egyptian experience.
Instablaster
should have been a game of duel monsters for real Egyptian authenticity
Me and my mom used to play this so much together. It has a special place for me.
i know that feeling bro! n.n
@Ti Klim good times!
Your mom is awesome
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The Tomb raider games were the only reason why I wanted to travel the world as a kid.
Ten years after playing TR2 I traveled to venice and had a wonderful time discovering the city of water I dreamed a decade of.
Never managed to go to egypt though...
The snake puzzle is totally doable by using the logic of the switches (they only lit up/go out depending on what is connected by the lines). I never knew there was a scroll to pick up before and I personally prefer it like that. Felt like a legit brain teaser.
Not that it matters because the puzzle is solved by simply flipping each switch once by going in a circle. That's how I solved it the first time "by accident" and it's what speedrunners do.
13:30 It's not a bug.Lara can't go into crawl position from the ladder climb.You have to release the action button and quickly press it again, so that she is in her "normal" hanging position.Then she can enter the hole.
Already pointed out to me by Kaito .Link, and noted. Idk why i didn't realize it.
The Egyptian bull as you call it... haunting my dreams since 1999. For some reason I always find that part terrifying.
Me too. The bull had me sweating and my heart racing on a recent playthrough
That God damn hook in Alexandria took me days to find. DAAAAYSSSSS.
I never found it. As far as I got
Watching this video, I wonder how 8 year old me managed to complete this.
What're your thoughts on the isometric Lara Croft titled games?
I am pretty sure I was older and I never got around to finishing it (without cheating). Kudos to you.
Snowball Effect completed it and its my fav tomb raider game
we had a lot more patience when we were kids...
I was 11 and I don't know how the hell I managed it, think it took me something like 60 plus hours, maybe more, was stuck for so damn long, remember I got it at Christmas but it was months later that I beat it lol, 8?? thats v damn impressive. kudos to you.
good point, how the fuck did I figured out the resolution of some of the most hard ass puzzles in the series while I was ELEVEN? jesus, I clearly remember struggling in one exact level, that was Tomb Raider's 1 greek gods tomb.
Alright remember that tomb were you had like, not at all greek gods like "Thor" mashed into puzzle sections, were you had to uncover the secrets to carry on the gameplay? In Thor's section, as soon as the hammer struck me down when doing the most obvious shit (had to put pressure on a panel of some sort) IDK why but I immediately skipped the level, that was traumatic!
Lara spends her time raiding tombs. But considering that she was supposed to die at the end of this game,
I suppose you could argue that she got raided by a tomb. So the tomb is the hero of the game.
on that part where lara wouldn't crawl into the crawl space you actually have to let go and then immediately grab again so that lara is hanging then you can enter
Wow. i complained about that animation so much you think i would've realized. Two instances of Lara being a dumb ass then.
The Game Statistic no srry it wasn't her that was a dumbass.
Took me ages to work that one out too
The Game Statistic Lara’s latter state doesn’t have climb up crawl space so that she has to be hanging in order to climb crawl spaces. Also TRC has that animation now so now your able climb crawl spaces
Gavriel Fulcher Daniels I think he definitely knows this by now
I found out that you can actually climb the ladder whilst the hammer dude is there if you climb the ladder in the corner on the right, found it totally by accident and couldn't stop smiling lol.
I need to try this at some point
The planet puzzle is actually one of the more ingenious ones, authentic to the time period. I didn't know about the binoculars and that map, but I did reason that in ancient Greece and Egypt, philosphers, astronomers and mathematicians like Aristotle and Ptolemy believed in a geocentric model for our solar system, not a heliocentric one. So I tried to recall from elementary school times which order the planets come in, and how to alterate the model to accord for the Ptolemaic model, and hey presto, it worked. That puzzle was some good shit.
Now it's obscure to know all this, but I liked the time when video games taught you this kinda stuff. You can count on the fact that if this game were made today, you would just find a scroll where it says "Ptolemy believed the Earth was at the centre of the solar system, with the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars etc. following." Which isn't much of a puzzle at all, and doesn't really teach you anything because you're not figuring anything out for yourself.
See that's interesting. but not common knowledge or telegraphed well. But it's cool that it lines up that way.
I agree. This is the kind of puzzle my father struggled with for weeks back in the day, especially in the early days of the internet. It's ingenious in the way that, yes, if you're an expert for ancient history, philosophy and astronomy, you can figure this out by yourself. It's still abysmally telegraphed in the way that the in-game hint/solution is obscured by an obtuse secondary puzzle.
The greatest Tomb Raider game ever made. Its vastness, hardness and being one of the classics make it the BEST.
TR 3 is the best, followed by TR 2 and 1. Part 4 unfortunately made most great things of TR 3 much worse. But that's of course just personal my opinion ;-)
nope, tr 2 is the best, then comes tr 1, then a small gap, followed by tr 3. Then a big gap and tr 5 and than the grand canyon followed by tr 4. so, of the classic series, tr 4 is by far the worst!
@@timmybolton5515 You literally put a game the developers themselves called quote "shit" (Chronicles) in front of the game (TLR) many of the devs liked the most ^^
@@DieParan00bs yes i do, because it's my opinion ;)
@@timmybolton5515 Wasnt meant to be an offense :) Actually I read this opinion quite often. I totally agree on TR2 and TR1 on your list but literally hate TR3 so its bottom last on my classic list. Pretty funny how different people judge the games :)
I've just found your reviews and have watched them for the nostalgia. I played from TR1 to AOD together with my little sister. You are spot on nearly every time with your analysis and especially with TR3 that I really laughed out loud watching - my real issue was the sodding coin in Aldwych Station. Man the underwater trial and error maze I really remember. I think that was one of the only things I cheated on - mostly because it was so pointless and stupid. You never mentioned the music - the music of the first two is so atmospheric. I think the only thing I disagree with you on are the blocks... yes ok some of the puzzles are long and require a lot of movement.... but the blocks are clearly heavy - and although I never played the newer games I have seen them and seeing Lara climbing poles faster that a squirrel on speed and pushing things like they are made of of paper just looks crap, it really breaks the immersion for me. The new games just look cheap - like Mario or Crash Bandicoot or some shit.
Your videos are great. Strong Matthewmatosis and RLM vibes with your own spices thrown in.
27:07-27:56 absolutely kills me every time haha great review man. 😆
My childhood game and first Tomb Raider ever. That was a real adventure experience in all ways. Level design was epic, game was so hard and scary at the moments. I played other Tomb Raider games later but damn, this one was so unique
This is my favorite TR game. :)
I'm not sure which is my ultimate favorite. It's always between this one and TR2.
Everyones favorite I want to love this game but it makes it hard for me
I played this game for years and could not beat it without a guide.
I'm currently replaying TLR after rewatching your review and I just wanted to address a couple things I noticed
You CAN actually interact with the crowbar with all the weird doors, but it's from the other side. They're used to backtrack from the Catacombs and the Temple of Poseidon back to the Coastal Ruins (which was kind of useless anyway imo). Your point still stands that it's completely counter-intuitive, but they do function all the same way.
Also, there IS another instance where you have to jump from rope to rope, but it's on the path you unlock when you lose the game of Senet, so I guess there is indeed an advantage to winning the game. And it's three ropes too, this time. They're positioned in a straight line so technically it should be easier to manage but somehow it's still a pain in the ass to pull off, somehow Lara stops being aligned to the ropes once she grabs one so you have to put her back in the right position every time.
Anyway love your videos, strangely there aren't many RUclipsrs who talk about classic Tomb Raider so it's really nice. I love popping one of your videos everytime I boot up the PS1 and play one of the first four games
I loved this game after TR3, it felt really focused with only having Egypt, better cutscenes, characters actually moving their mouthes when talking, the tutorial happening in an actual level, the atmospehere, the traps, the train level, the multilevel layouts. It all felt great. Until I reached the City of the dead levels. Those were completely shit, everything is dark, there's tons of backtracking, too many random items, too many puzzles which were far away and with no clear hinting on what to do. That's the point where I had to use a walkthrough for the first time in this game.
i like a challenge. i thought city of the dead was the best part, apart from those machine gun turrets. they were shit
Loved this game back in the day. Thank you for this upload. Brought back some good memories.
30:47 ...How did you not notice that the movable blocks look like planets?!
Other than that, great review. I just cannot comprehend how you managed to miss that.
This is my personal favorite tomb raider next to TR2. I love the theme a lot and it's so accurate and on point. The open world level design was a bit ahead of its time and kinda confusing but once you pushed passed it you felt a sense of accomplishment. I haven't beat this game as of yet but I am working on getting a copy on the original Playstation. I am debating on playing it for PC but the controls seems a bit wonky for a PC. (I always prefer a controller)
51:50 This was the ending of my first play. I picked up three keys in mastabas, so when I saw I am missing one and searched everywhere, I concluded the fourth was also in mastabas, which were unreachable at that point. I concluded it's a game breaker and I ended it there. There was no internet at the time :/
Me too so I raped my cat
No internet in 1999? Uuhm.
there was internet, for a number of years. I still remember the first walkthroughs of TR4. You must missed them.
@@Gonken88 it was still very scarcely available.
@@orbitalchiller Everybody who had a regular phone line had access to it...
I remember getting this for Christmas and I had such a blast playing that day 😊
I love your Reviews. Please Review some other games from 1996 to 2005 too.
On PC back in the day could not complete the race when training with Von Croy. Always got stuck as could not clear a jump mid-section - ever (forget which; so long ago). Failed at least 12 times - then gave up; either me, a bug or the PC was too slow. Did go back a few months later but problem remained so gave up :(
When it released I didn't really like it and it felt monotonous with long, similar themed levels. After really giving it a chance and doing a full no cheat playthrough, I changed my opinion and TLR is the most immersive and mysterious, ominous entry in the core franchise for me. It still holds a special place for me :)
I actually had none of the logic problems you encountered with the trapdoor, the crowbar door, the turret fuel tanks and so on. I explored those just naturally playing but I can see how one could miss them on first glance. Then again I grew up with playing all the Tomb Raider games right at their release so I was accustomed to the 90s era of sometimes somewhat senseless trial and error puzzle design. I also read the game's manual as one did back then which clearly explains all the new moves.
You do a really good job on these reviews. Is this all your gameplay? Tomb raider Last Revelation has a lot of great memories for me. One of my favorite games of all time & TRs. Unfortunately, a few of the sections in this game are frustrating like you said. I beat the the first half of this game (up to city of the dead) like half a dozen times or more, but only beat the full game once as a kid. I'd always quit when getting to city of the dead section cause I'd get confused and frustrated. But I finally beat this game using walkthroughs online a second time last summer. Might have to give this game a go again & maybe get all or more secrets. Love the atmosphere and Egypt setting in this game. It was the game that made me a tomb raider fan for life. I just wish certain parts of the game were not frustrating. The underwater puzzle in the sphinx WAS BULLCRAP! Btw I think I had that torch glitch in the later pyramid levels.
Yup. captured the full play through before making the review.
The first half is the more inviting half. But the whole thing has puzzle missteps here and there unfortunately.
13:28 that bug is easily fixed by letting go of the climb button and quickly pressing it again and push Lara up without having her feet on the wall. Lara sometimes needs to in the shimmy position, not the climbing action, to get into small spaces.
(Yes it's been corrected like 80 times, read the comments next time)
nice video MAN! such a breath of fresh air watching this video right after tomb raider's 5 review, your zombie voice wasn't doing it for me MAN! jk, excelent video
Amazing review, honest and funny. I subscribed to your channel.
Thanks!
25:32 You probably already know this, but fall damage also works against skellys. You just need to bait them into jumping a gap, and usually one shotgun shot to the ribs does the trick.
Uh no actually. once i learned bullets were a no and explosions were a no i stopped experimenting. part of why im slowing down reviews until im more thorough
@@TheGameStatistic No worries though. I actually found this out on my second to last playthrough of TLR, 2 years ago. I just really love how this game has a gimmick for most enemies instead of the just "shoot it until dead" approach of TR2
@@TheGameStatistic You can also shoot them in the head with the laser sight (revolver/crossbow). Not that I recommend doing it, but it's hilarious to see headless skeletons running around aimlessly.
one of my favourite classic games and on ps1 and on pc and loved playing the Dreamcast version
the puzzle with the 4 levers and the 2 tombs that open beneath( in the citadel area, i think) , the solution is in the top of the church , there are symbols that match with numbers ..and the tombs have symbols engraved on them...but u already know this already
whoa. I got this for christmas when it was brand new! I totally forgot this!
Thanks for reminding me Fitzthistlewits is still dead with that one chess bit.
So far the only person that got the reference.
Wow. I thought it would be a fast review then i checked the video at 8 minutes and realised it's 57mins long... this is my favorite TR game, so i will watch the whole thing anyway, nice job.
Its interesting though, because interviews in 99 indicated that Lara would have a notebook, where she jot down her progress and hints. The binoculars had more use and would had been able to combine a flashlight with a gun. It is a shame that these concepts never made it in, probably because of deadlines.
You can climb up by those cogs at 28.33 without taking damage. You have to climb the pole until you are just under the cog. Then at the moment the cog is in the far left corner from Lara crawl up one space then immediatley jumb back onto the above platform.
i realise now that i did the solar system puzzle without looking up to use the binoculars - i think most of them are recognisable - like the sun and moon are pretty obvious
48:37 This puzzle, at least for the first hole you fist, is that the letter has to match up with which number of the alphabet it corresponds to. The F hieroglyphic is the 6th one which is the only one that makes sense, hence why it works.
god i remember doing these puzzles without looking them up, no wonder i have over 30 hours in the game and i havent even beaten it. lol
I was one of the poor fuckers in the Lost Library who didn't realise you could look up that shaft. Also, I encountered a game breaking bug in Under the Sphinx where the blocks wouldn't reset after each room. Jankey, but still a really enjoyable game
Light Everything Young Hearts a moment of silence for our fallen comrade
The Game Statistic i was on ps1 so managed to get through it with some cheats. The review was great, keep up the great work!
Did you installed any mods or patch to get such a clean render of the game ?
@ 25:00 In the Tomb of Semerkhet, if you lose the game of Egyptian Chess(Senet) you are introduced to the immortal spirits AND have to jump rope to rope.
Fun fact: Joby Wood made the Giza levels so you can't complain about TR3 level designers there!
With this one I have a love-hate kind of relation. I love some levels and hate others (like the buggy car chase, but I play the PSX version, so maybe that's why). Great video as always, but why streched widescreen? Improper aspect ratio looks awful.
the game resolution is the pc's 1920x1080. no idea what youre talking about.
It's streched horizontally. Look how wide Lara is.
nigga im too drunk for this
As far as I remember, the native implementation of 16:9 resolutions in these PC games is just a shoddy stretching job. It's nothing to do with you, it's what Core did. There are patches online, though, that will give you the proper 16:9 without stretching and it looks way better! Not sure if you're interested in it for your future reviews, sorry to tell you so late into the project when you're nearing the end of Gen1 tomb raider!
Srsly? wow i had no idea. Chronicles is already fully recorded too >
I know I finished this game when I was a kid. Now that I've watched this review, I have no fucking idea how I did it back then.
does the new next-gen Tomb Raider Series have supernatural elements like the old ones?
Stoni41 yes..... But not as cool
yeah, and to be fair they are not bad games, the first is better than the second of the new ones but they don't really feel like tomb raider
smidget whittington the problem isn't that they're bad games, the problem is that they are bad Tomb Raider games. Maybe if they did something else like have you play as her father for this new series as kind of a prequel then continue where Underworld left off for Lara's story.
yeah that would be cool, they also feel seriously easy putting white paint on all climbable surfaces and shit.... its fucking impossible to get lost in those games.
Really great video
The only classic TR I haven't finished, even TR3 didn't left me dumbfounded as to what the hell I had to do though it felt like a chore many times. You can tell Core Design got really tired and burned after TR2 so the level design suffered
Gamefaqs. It's a thing.
For some reason the cutscene designers couldn't settle for Colt Deltas or Desert eagles in this game
God i love your content
I'm 90% sure the poison mechanic was introduced in Tomb Raider 3.
Also in the tutorial level.
And those black scorpions in Karnak.
I've finished this game at least 20 times in my life, I know it off by heart but I STILL never understand the water skin puzzle in the last level 🤣 I always need to check a walkthrough because I just can't get my head around the mathematics of it, I'm so dyslexic with numbers 🤣🤣
Also curious to hear your thoughts on the 2 isometric games..
I can only take so much punishment
Is that snake eater music at the end!? It is I can tell
Your voice never changes for an entire hour.
Ikr I expected it to gradually switch to a husky female voice
Ive completed this game and I never knew about that map 31:15 or the fire serpent scroll. lol
I can't believe that back in the late 90's I completed this game without going through any walkthrough.
Clearly I had a lot of time back then to trial and error my way through these esoteric puzzles..😊.
But this was hands down my favorite TR game just for the tomb raiding vibe that this game has in spades.
Excellent thorough review, thanks
Gotta love Jonell's voice
I always thought Werner Von Croy loomed like Max Von Sydow.
Senet is possably the first board game ever made and i think it's actually a cool addition
Im curious to hear your opinion on the uncharted 4 spinoff: zoey raider
Not a fan of any of them.
This was the greatest one in my opinion 💯 I loved it my FAV!!!
I’m playing it now. I’m at the part where you need to open those floor panels, and had no idea you could actually get Lara to do it. It’s one long game. I didn’t even realize I’m only about halfway through. I beat all the other TR games as a child, but not this one.
It seems that at times when the designers ran out of ideas they just added a large hole for Lara to cross. This game is definitely the most boring of the series. I like the Eqyptian setting (TR1 nostalgia), but only being in Egypt is dull. Also, why does Seth (the snake god) look like Anubis (the jackal)?
Bozpot Seth isn’t the snake god that’s Apep. Seth’s animal is the Typhonic beast which unlike the other totemic animals it is unclear exactly what it is supposed to be. Theories include a saluki, a giraffe, an aardvark, a donkey, or a jackal like Anubis (his son after all)
You're missing out if you think this is boring.
WAIT, Lara has a bow in Tomb Raider 4 a BOW! I've been pissed about the thing since it was introduced in the reboots and here it is in TR4... wait this one looks cooler and blows shit up. I think I'm more madder that my dual pistols have been excluded from the current games more though i mean shit just put em in there SIGH!
I'm 5 years late, but the one in this game is a crossbow, unlike the bow in 2013 onwards
Yay, finished this twice now. Has Ana stopped yelling? 😁
Love your TR reviews! How do you record game play footage?
Just Nvidia Shadowplay.
I know it's useless to comment now but
The boss with the hammer Can be bypassed if you try to climb the wall hanging only by the hands
09:52 nope, the Dreamcast-version had dynamic shadows. for whatever reason the PC-version does not.
so if you wanna play it today, best use a DC-emulator.
This is the hardest tomb raider game.
i think if they could make a remake just as it was done with resident evil two reducing the levels but keepin the story , i see that it might be very enjoyable for seek of fans ! tomb raider 2 also , the floatin islands was a mess but the story was enjoyable , again a remake would far be great than the TR 2013 !
Well, finally.
22:20 in this part one explosive arrow destroys all the targets
I think we might have watched the same chess review...
youre like the 2nd person to get the reference
One of the best Tomb Raider games. The only thing I didn't like about is that dead bodies disappear
"bust size" looks the same
how the heck did i manage to complete the dark city when i was young
Only logically conclusion. you're god
remember me? ayyy
20:27 How the npcs look more real than Laura
15:50 after her 😁
54:24 - 56:16 great summary. It’s like the first time someone said truth about TR 1-4.
Tomb Raider 2 was probably not ideal and it stept toward more action adventure, but personally that is my favorite Tomb Raider. You could really feel the climate, on your own, in pursuit, outcasted.
REMAKE PLEASE!!!!!
Come on The Game Statistic :P
This was your favourite Tomb Raider game right? :P
Its up there.
Keep it up with the good work friend! :P
Really enjoying rewatching these video but bro I hope you've grown up from comments like 18:34 😬😬😬
What? Gay shit? Dude, just because people still use gay as term to describe negative shit it doesn't mean they're immature. I'm sure most people doing that are 100% ok with you sucking as much 🌽 right out of your 🌽hole as you wish 👍. Chill out.
Nice review, yar the library planet moving was a bitch to do untill we cheated and bought the guidebook. When i was about 10 me and three others got to the part where you find the wounded soldier before meeting the crazy dragon thing. I'm kind of glad we didn't make it as far as the water maze though. that drop down claw in chronicles was really scarry i remember :)
huh, In the playstation version, the boss banging the ground doesn't make you fall of ladders. The PC version looks far better than the playstation version and considerably harder due to small mechanical changes. I think it is safe to say I'll stick the ps version, since I've been struggling to complete it for about a year
***** I don't think there is a difference in number of levels and level sizes, but I've never played the PC version so I'm not 100% sure
***** as for graphics, yeah there isn't much difference, only difference in lighting in some areas i think
***** lmao ok then.
tbh, I find this model graphically pleasing, but anatomically it is much more disproportionate, smaller shoulders, skinnier waist and much bigger breasts. In the older games, she looked skinnier but that is due probably to limited graphical technology. They also removed her muscles in this one. But her hair and textures and movements are beautiful
***** I prefer her face in angel of darkness or tomb raider three/two
***** I thought she did in 4 and 5. not so much 2 and 3, unless you count her cutscene model
13:38 is not a bug,you have to let go and inmediatly grab again so she looses her footing,then you can climb up,she does get the secret
George L Croft already pointed out and noted. but thanks for looking out man.
The Game Statistic my bad,I wasn't sure if you knew,I scrolled through some comments to see if anyone else had told you but I didn't see any 😅
George L Croft they did. yall love pointing out mistakes. as you should. i have a lot of prep time i should be checking my shit
The Game Statistic it's all good,I discovered this move in tomb raider 3 by accident.As you have said in many occasions they are horrible at explaining Lara's moves and telegraphing things.
I'm hoping to god we get an angel of darkness review
In the works. but moving around a ton isn't helping the progress.
Oh, that awesome! Binged all your tomb raider reviews today while doing laundry. It twas a great pass time :)
The Game Statistic, I can't blame you for taking your time with AoD... it's not a game Man was meant to play...
A Croft i made amazing progress on it today. went from stage 1 - 14 in a day. and theres only 19 stages. granted it was a painful 14 stages to play
Awesome! Have fun while doing the review. Cant wait for it!
You use some lovely eloquent vocabulary =]
I was one of those assholes who dragged the blocks around trial and error style.
took you long enough, btw care for some friendlies?
It's immediately on to Tomb Raider Chronicles for me :,(
Iv played it good game
that chess thing its actually knows to be some of the oldest games ever.. :)
In each part of the game it feels like you basically have to do a whole bunch of stuff to get to a new area, that's what it's all about. Great game though.
.... Isn't that basically what all games are?
Yup, and yesterday today was tomorrow...
I don't know what I find most entertaining - the captain obvious vs Sherlock Holmes analysis of how any video game works, or the bashing of a game followed by "great game though" as some kind of "no homo" thing 😂.
I don't think those are tears in the side of her shirt. I think she is wearing a one piece bathing suit under her cargo shorts.