The opera house from TR2 was the scariest for me. It's so dark and there aren't many enemies, but somehow the whole level made me feel like I was being watched. It was so uncomfortable
It’s always scary when Tomb Raider games have you explore abandoned sites, whether it’d be an abandoned monastery (St. Francis’ Folly), abandoned opera house, abandoned subway (Aldwych), or abandoned exhibit (Egyptian Adventure in Coastal Ruins), mostly with enemies coming out of nowhere, or the place being booby-trapped without warning.
Opera House was a brilliant piece of design. Creepy sound effects, ominous music, dark corners, jump scares, booby traps, hidden enemies, the list could go on.
@@philbecker4676 Lots and lots of mobsters, but at the same time you feel very lonely in that level. The same goes for Temple Of Xian and Atlantis in which the whole environment seems to be against you.
You forgot about the scariest encounter in all of Tomb Raider history... Winston.😀 Dude legit used to scare me he always seemed to appear. But more seriously the yetis scare me the most nowadays. I think it's just the noises they make because they're fairly fragile enemies that if you have enough space are pretty easy to out maneuver too.
Hahaha! I'll have to take my video down and re-upload it with the true #1 ;) I agree, there just something creepy about Lara's home in general. It's so big, and dark, and creepy. Just the clock ticking, and an old weird man following you everywhere.
Let’s all credit Nathan McCree and Peter Connelly - the original composers of the PS1 Tomb Raider games - for composing wonderful music, ranging from scary and intense to whimsical and nostalgic! They gave us an amazing experience throughout all 5 Tomb Raider games for PS1, and it’s ones we’ll never forget.
Being left at the bottom of a dark ocean with sharks, the air in your lungs is all you have, and there's no way of knowing how to escape (40 Fathoms, TR2) was probably the scariest moment for me! The TR games are sooo immersive, situations like that are all the more intense and make you feel truly lost and desperate! There were so many times as a kid where I'd panic, push the inventory button or pause, and hand the controller to my mom because I couldn't handle it lol!! Great top 10, I love that the eel was in there because I jumped when you mentioned it in another ranking video, even fully knowing what was coming 😅
Yes, the opening of 40 Fathoms is so terrifying! Not just the sharks, but the immediate fear of drowning, and not being sure where to go makes you feel desperate, haha! I did the same :D My keyboard has had many panicked Esc button slams, due to cruel mummy, cobra etc. ambushes. Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! No scariest Tomb Raider moments ranking would be complete without that... eel...
It's not only the scariest moment in TR for me but one of the scariest moments in videogames period. I don't find it as scary now but back in the day it absolutely terrified me.
Im really surprised theres no Tomb Raider 4 mentions. I remember being too scared to beat the first tomb in egypt cause of how creepy the atmosphere was and cause of the jackals and mummies. The part where the bull bursts through the door terrified me as well. All the Cairo levels were very creepy too.
For the Cairo levels, what scared me were the mechanical machine turrets that would fire at you constantly when in range, then activate the flamethrower on you when you get close. Plus, seeing Von Croy possessed in Citadel was creepy. The Lost Library was perhaps the hardest and scariest level to beat. Cairo levels are like a maze. The bull charging through the doors did scare me, but I got used to it as it helped to activate some panels on the walls.
It was so difficult to narrow this list down to just 10, perhaps I should've made a top 20 instead, haha! The Last Revelation has a lot of creepy moments for sure! It's only that I happen to have 10 moments from the other games that I find scarier ☹️ I agree with The Tomb of Seth, that entire opening cave has an amazing presence.
@@AxMania Speaking of The Tomb of Seth, there’s a moment where as Lara and her guide continue through the opening cave, a cutscene commences where the camera comes out of an entrance towards Lara as the eerie music plays, which turns out to be an Egyptian dog that attacks. That moment has stayed with me after playing that section of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. Sometimes, I wonder what made the guide so spooked when opening the door to the Hourglass that he ran away back up the stairs.
Dragging a corpse to get to a trap door was definitely hella creepy in tr4 😆 The city levels we're pretty creepy overall, you just knew something BAD happened there. I also liked the enemies you couldn't technically kill (scarabs, ghosts) so you'd just have to keep running away and hoping they couldn't reach you after a while.
My favorite and scariest moment is the floating islands hands down. The eerie theme with its sounds of wind and emptiness. they evoke the feeling of being stuck in a different dimension somewhere between 2 worlds. Plus the green jade colors, the lava, the most terrifying sound of moving statues that came alive.
If I could add something to the list, it would be the start of "40 Fathoms" - you suddenly find yourself deep underwater, wide open and dark area, no exit in sight, breath meter is already decreasing... and then a shark appears too. One could easily freak out in this situation before figuring out what to do.
Yup, I agree completely, and that terrified me the first time I did it. I remember it so clearly. It was difficult to make this list with so many scary moments :/
This forced me to swim in circles panicking trying to find the exit every dam time 😂 I was 7 and my brother watched me freak out because he already knew LOL
The background soundtrack in Aldwych level is quite scary and gives tension when you go into the metro tunnels where a train can appear and hit you violently, especially being a newbie without knowing the level Tinnos's background soundtrack fits perfectly in Reunion level being a scary kind of Dimension of the Dead
Exactly! Those trains are a pretty mean jumpscare too. Yes, I agree. And now that I think of it, the ambience of Lost City of Tinnos almost seems like an upgraded version of the Temple of Xian/Floating Islands ambience of Tomb Raider II.
I love Aldwych's ambience. The sound of groaning, old metal makes the place sound haunted. It's amazing how much character they were able to give these levels with just a minimal amount of SFX.
Reaching the bottom of the pit of the first level in TR2… after years of not realising it was possible to get to the bottom of it, nothing scared or surprised me more to find two t-rexes down there!
Great video as usual, personally I think the biggest heart attack I had was in TR4 when that damn bull knocked on the first door while I was walking near it, to me that was even worse than the eel from tr2. I was so startled it took me 3 days to gather the courage to come back to finish the level lmao. Also, the entire Aldwych level always terrified me bc I'm a bit claustrophobic and they truly chose violence when they placed those jumpscares in an abandoned underground level.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Oh, I hadn't even thought of that, but that definitely frightened me too the first time! 😮 It has a tiny cameo in this video though, as it's the creature we see in the dark, about to kill Achmed, right before I reveal my 10th place 😉 And yes, Aldwych is super creepy. I find the Free Mason's temple really spooky in particular.
I was looking for a comment about the ram/bull thing! The Last Revelation was a scary game generally….all the first 4 were and still hold up the creepy factor today, great video as always Ax!
I agree with that. I remember I got so scared I just smashed some buttons on the controller. I ended up saving about a second before lara died. My father took it surprisingly well 😂
@@AxMania Another one I personally think it's really unnerving is the labyrinth monster in Chronicles, I know you mentioned those levels and I agree that the setting is more gothic horror, visually pleasing but not scary per se, but that monster chasing young Lara without notice startled me as a kid bc it's unexpected, there is no sound clue to announce something dangerous is near, just the monster's footsteps in the silence and all it takes is a wrong turn to get jumpscared by it
Personally my top scariest moment was Home Sweet Home. Croft Manor was my safe haven as a kid where nothing could harm me, and then my dad showed me a new version of it for me to play set at nighttime, and suddenly alarms are going off and dogs (which I have a phobia of) are barking.. safe to say I shat myself
Haha, that is indeed terrifying! I think Croft Manor is scary enough in daylight actually (I know...), so at night (with home invaders!) it's so much worse. I couldn't fit it within my top 10, but I made sure to show it in the intro, because it definitely belonged in this video.
Tomb Raider 2 was the scariest part in the series for me. I used to hate the old wreck of Maria Doria and Opera House because of the scary atmosphere, right now I wanna come back and immerse again in these awesome moments 😎
When I was little it always creeped me out how after dying in classic Tomb Raider the camera would just linger there until you pressed buttons on the controller. You're used to just reloading or respawning in most games pretty quickly after death so having the camera just staring at your corpse really reinforced the feeling that YOU ARE DEAD, and that your body's probably gonna be trapped in a tomb decaying for all eternity forgotten by the rest of the world. Bonus points if you died impaled on spikes or something like that, destined to become one of the billion skeletons you walked past who've died to those traps in the past...
Yes, that's a really good point! That's super creepy. Often in games in the 90's, a death had a sort of "melody", or "Game Over" text or something, that made it feel more lighthearted or like a game, but in Tomb Raider it's just eerie silence and Lara's corpse for seconds. Haha, exactly!
Finally! Someone else who thinks that TR is actually kinda spoopy. I used to be scared stiff as a kid even the house with winston (my sister told me if i let him out of the freezer he would kill me haha) but i am so in love with the series as an adult that i'm making my way through them instead of just watching someone play them because them nostalgia feels are on point. I still scream out loud though and run around with the guns out everywhere lmao. Awesome video, subscribed!
When i was a kid i remember i couldn't play these games without my parents or my siblings around the room because i was too scared to play. Totally agree with your top 10, i also agree with TR3 being the most scary one, specially that mutants in the dark, i somehow knew it was going to be in the first place, great video as always, i don't find often good content about the classic tomb raiders
Yes, it's really surprising how these games were, considering they aren't horror games. Thank you so much, that's really kind of you. I really appreciate it!
The spider cave...... The SPIDER CAVE!! I remember being afraid of it back then! I was not even afraid of spiders but as a 8 year old back then knowing ahead of time there would be giant spiders in there, I would not feel okay pressing forward! I eventually did, but damn. My personal worst actually was the chapel from Chronicles in the intro area of the Labyrinth map. Once the skeletons spawn, the ghostly ones with swords, I lose my shit, still do to this day to a degree. The reason for that is my personal experience of having had nightmares as a kid of skeletons with giant swords chasing me in the dark, after watching an animated movie, I couldn't tell you which one, but I know it featured skeleton swordsmen. May have been a Disney one, I don't know. That was way before Chronicles though. When I played that level and saw those skeletons, I kid you not, I ate an entire box of biscuits as stress relief in one go.
Haha! I think it's incredibly cruel of Core Design when they drop those giant spiders on you. Young kids played these games! I understand, the Ireland levels are so obviously designed to be scary. I agree completely by the way, I also think the chapel from that entire section is the scariest part. The fixed camera also makes it quite hard to navigate, which adds to the tension when there are so many enemies. Hmm, that's really interesting. I love to uncover old memories of animated movies and stuff from my childhood. An animated movie with skeletons carrying swords sound familiar. The Black Cauldron, perhaps?
Absolutely love your channel, man 😄 Agree with your list and generally, the sound design in the classic games was just incredible. So creepy and atmospheric. The noise the yetis make still terrify me to this day and also the Temple of Xian ambience is so unsettling - sounds like demonic whispers!
Thank you so much man, I really appreciate it! I agree completely, they have brilliant sound design! Yes, I'm pretty sure the Temple of Xian and Floating Islands ambience is that same, and that's straight up horror movie ambience. The demonic whispering and the weird warped noises that happen occassionally. So creepy!
I love your videos. It's so nice to see something so important to our childhoods still being talked of, and with such high quality. Thank you so much :)
The Thor room was a section I dreaded doing in St Francis’ Folly - the eerie music that starts playing as soon as you enter the room, the lightning striking out of the metal ball, the giant hammer, and even trying to leave the room past the lightning again. It scared the heck out of me! Damocles room itself was scary when leaving the room after getting the key - the swords activate and you have to dodge them as you escape. Plus, Pierre coming out of nowhere to jump scare us. The Greece levels were tough to get through, but Palace Midas is my personal favorite level of the first game.
@@AxMania Another thing that kinda scared me in the first game and third game - sometimes the voice bites coming out of nowhere. Like when entering the final room in Sanctuary of the Scion, Larson’s voice comes in, catching me off guard and he appears. In Natla’s Mines, the cowboy saying “Ain’t nothin’ personal.” However, that room is where one of the fuses is, and you have to walk and stay on that block it’s on, then slowly walk away. That’s a strange place for them to put a fuse. But the biggest scare was in the final room, where the big guy says: “SAY CHEESE!” Scared me so much 😱 Sometimes, Lara’s voice during the tutorial level caught me off guard, like in Tomb Raider III, when you approach the staircase, she’ll suddenly say how to use the Look button. But I’m used to her voice nowadays - I always thought it funny how when learning the swim mechanics, you reach the surface and she says, “Ah! Air!” That always gets a chuckle out of me. I’m used to some of the scares these games offer, but some still terrify me from time to time.
I came here to check if the top 1 was RX-tech mines. I'm trying to finish that level now but dude, I'm sweating. When Lara gets trapped under the steamy room by the mutant. Wtf. The whole freezing abandoned mine is damn scary. I endured the whole game but I dont know if i can make it till the end 😅
great video I agree that when the mutant jumps at you it was absolutely terrifying trying to scramble to kill heal and save and flare its worse if you don't have anything to do this with
Fantastic video! I totally agree with your ranking! Mutants in the dark is number 1 for sure. It always makes me feel so scared and like I’m in an Alien movie when I play 😂😂😂 as someone who is extremely afraid of spiders I can confirm that spider cave is one of the scariest things ever 😅Thanks so much for the great video as always! I just got off an overnight TransAtlantic flight and it’s the perfect thing to watch in bed when jet lagged 😍❤️
Thank you so much Suzanne, I hope you had an awesome trip! 😎 New York, right? I'm not jealous at all! And yes, that friggin' boiler room - or whatever it is - with the mutants is so unfair. I watched your playthrough of that part again when I edited this, and I really love your crawlspace footage, because you don't have a flare lit, so it just shows a completely black monster walking around above you, which looked so much more creepy than my footage 😱 Haha, thank you for the confirmation regarding the spider cave! 😂 Again, thank you so much for watching 🥰
@@AxMania WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN 1997 FLOATING ISLAND AND LATER DRAGON (REMEMBER WE DIDNT HAD NET TO SEE LEVELS ON RUclips) WAS SO SCARY TO ME. I BARELY BEAT GREAT WALL LEVEL WITH 500 ATTEMPTS. THEN FLOATING ISLAND AND LATER DRAGON WAS SO SCARY.
@@AxMania ye it was New York! It was so cool but now I’m broke 😂 the boiler room is nightmare fuel! 😱 oh ye I remember playing it and my flare running out and being so scared seeing that mutant running over head, but looking back it does look cool at least 😂 your videos always make my day, thanks so much for another great one 🥰
Really look forward to these, they never disappoint :) TR3 really is the scariest, when I saw the first Shiva statue I didn't take my eyes off it and just inched along the wall staring at it, didn't help that the PS1's vertex wobbling made it look like Lara was trembling in fear as well. Then it turned out that the first one really WAS a statue... still scared me enough to avoid picking up the shotgun next to it. Would love to see a ranking of the endangered real-world species Lara has killed sometime, could get complicated when it comes to mythical beasts since so many are unique like Garuda etc
Yes, I agree. The Shiva statues are straight out of a nightmare, and they are never explained or even talked about in the game 😂 Oh dear, that's a fun idea! Haha, how would Lara's tiger kills have impacted the actual wild population of the world? 😫 And of course, she was actually the one that made the dinosaurs extinct 😉
The Shiva statue! T_T I was exactly the same, I didn't want to come close and didn't dare pick up the shotgun for fear of the statue awakening. And then when the second statue actually *did* wake up... It's not scary now, but back then it was terrifying!
@@Potkanka Isn't there an even bigger Shiva boss fight, or am I not remembering right? I feel like I'm remembering watching my uncle fight a bigger Shiva than these ones.
@@Potkanka I appreciate the reply. Your comment is quite old by now. I went and did some research on them after I posted that comment. And I guess there are a bunch of them and not just the single boss Shiva, like what I was remembering. They're huge, but not as big as I thought. But they are sort of creepier looking than what I remembered, with their pitch black appearance and red eyes.
Sad you didn't mention TR4, when you pick the Amulet of Horus, the tomb start to bleed from fountains at the sides of the coffin, and if you previously went to the second room, and ONLY after you took the Amulet you came back to it, you see the mummies awakened, the pool full of blood... That was really scary for me as a child!! I couldn't even enter that room for how much I was afraid!
The worst is knowing what the blood comes from. The FMV after the stage shows a ritual where the priest sacrifices himself and is squashed with a plate with spikes on bottom and Seth's armor on top. Unlike spikes and blood in gameplay the one in video is realistic, low light helps compensate for graphics at the time. And the sound... it was really unsettling even if it's the fourth time in a row they use the same plot device of final boss being someone who sacrificed themselves and transformed.
I remember as a kid I always secretly snucked to our family computer to play TR3. I had no idea how to safe the game, so I always had to replay the first level. As you said Tomb Raider is not a Horror Game in itself, but already the first India Level creates with its dark colors, the feeling of isolation, the enemies and this haunting (but iconic!) music such a scary atmosphere!!! And don´t get me started on the Cairo levels from TR4.... - haunting af!
Haha, that's awesome! Yeah, honestly, besides Antarctica, I'd say India is the scariest section of the series. Haha, the Cairo levels are really creepy as well, they are basically set during the apocalypse. All those locust swarms and weird monsters coming out on the streets! Creepy.
Great list! I agree with just about every entry but I have personally never gotten over the T-Rex from TR 1. It's just so abrupt. So blatant. I always felt like it was meant to be preceded by a cutscene or something. On par with the dog window jumpscare from the OG Resident Evil. Cheers!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! The T-Rex, of course, is absolutely awesome, but I've always found that moment more exciting, or thrilling, than scary. Haha, the Resident Evil dogs, oh no!!! 😫 They made me SO terrified as a kid!
Yes, that damn T-Rex! I'm in my 30s now and STILL when I play TR1 that T-Rex makes me uneasy. And the raptors, ugh, hearing their screeching is a tad eerie.
Me too!! The atmospheric horror that the classic TR games have are unique!! No other game has this. Even the music used to scare the sh** out of me! And yes I remember getting scared a LOT with TR3 and I was only a kid 😅. Great video!! I’m actually excited to play TR3 on Halloween now! 😂
Yes, agreed! The music! The tension. The composers of those classic games did a phenomenal job with the sound design. Haha, thank you so much man! I want to play some Tomb Raider III for Halloween as well :D
Omg that f* eel/morray... I know exactly when it comes but still... the spider cave and the Yeti temple are terrifying, too. Good video as always, very entertaining to watch!!
Everyone has different triggers, but the scariest TR for me was 4 (Last Revelation). The whole game with its black tombs and monsters was and still is stiflingly scary to me. Thank you for this great video!
The entire PS1 TR games were the scariest for me. The fact that LOD was so low and I could barely see anything on a CRT TV back in the 90s. Nearly everything was a jump scare
Funny I never found the mutants scary, I think the list is missing the underwater level from tr3 where u have to navigate dark waters with that ugly dumb machine lol and then the first Atlantian coming to life in tr1 was absolutely a horrifying experience that I never expected. Again a great enjoyable video 😊 thank you ❤
Oh yeah, Lud's Gate is really creepy! Also, what is that place really? It's such a strange location. And yeah, that exact moment in Tomb of Tihocan is basically where the first Tomb Raider game took a "dark" turn for me. Really creepy. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! :)
I didn’t mind the little spiders, but the giant spiders in the Spider Cave of Temple Of Xian were the scariest part of that level, especially when you need to go through there just to reach a key on the ledge. Not to mention, seeing Marco Bartoli stab himself in the heart with the dagger itself - that’s pretty dark and scary.
Great video as always! Completely agree with your list, I would also add the fight with Boaz and the sanitorium patients. There's also a moment in Chronicles where you enter a lion cage and I kid you not the jump scare is horrific 😂
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Oh yes, for sure! If I had included Angel of Darkness (I really need to capture some footage from that game soon), it would have been even harder to narrow it down to just 10. The sanitorium is straight up Resident Evil in Tomb Raider. I think I know which moment you refer to in Chronicles. It's the one where you first slide down to the dungeons, after the lava bridge, right? :D I remember being startled by that lion in my most recent playthrough.
the scrariest thing for me were the centaurs in anniversary shooting fireballs at lara or freezing her, meanwhile only a rocket scientist could defeat them. the process involved so many different actions while you still had to dodge the centaurs' deadly attacks. I spent many a stressful hour on this level. I even abandoned the game entirely for a year. 😅
@@AxMania I don’t mind the enemies, but the level design of Floating Islands really goes all out on the supernatural aspect, adding to the scary atmosphere
man... i love the floating islands... is my favorite creepy moment in the whole series, the fact that you appeared on a surreal world climbed on a tiny emerald mountain, with a strange music and you see a void of darkness below, it feels like a wierd dizziness nightmare, but at the same it's beautiful to see a lot of emerald mountains floating around there. It's just so amazing that feeling
That's a perfect description, actually. I like that. It's so bizarre how Lara goes from Temple of Xian to Floating Islands, and we get no explanation for this. As if the world has just gone mad, after Marco Bartoli used the Dagger of Xian on himself.
I totally agree with your list, TR3 definitely has the best jumpscares and creepy ambience, I would just add the freaking green eyed Roman head at the first level of Chronicles. That was the end of the game for me as a cowardly 10 year old wouldn't figure out how to take him out..
Wonderful list, AxMania!! The Yeti's room marked my mind so bad when I was younger that it's the first scary moment my mind goes to when we talk about our beloved series.
What a great list! I forgot how scary the third game actually was. When I was a kid my biggest jumpscare was the T-Rex in the first game, first it's super dark and then the stomping sounds ughhh. Once my mom tried to forbid me to play TR because I looked too stressed 😂 I never couldn't finish any of the games but my big sister did and I just explored the different levels thanks to her saves. TR is actually scary with all the darkness and the sounds, I love the atmosphere and I wish I could find the time to beat the games myself. As someone who suffers from arachnophobia spiders like in the TR games are not that problematic as they look not realistic enough though the eggs are scary... but if the spiders would rappel down from somewhere that would make me feel very uncomfortable. I actually like how you cut the video and the details with the iconic TR sounds and the narration :)
The spider cave was definitely a scary section, even though im not afraid of spiders. The little ones are easy to handle, but the GIANT SPIDERS - Oh no! 😳. Those were frightening, especially with the giant egg sac in the big dark room. I was afraid it was going to hatch. Thankfully, it didn’t. The original Tomb Raider games sure didn’t mess around with dark and scary moments
Haha yes, I'd say that the Tomb Raider III T-Rex is the scariest. That game is definitely not a children's game, yet so many of us were clearly playing it as a kid 😂 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 😊
I’m very glad you made this video, AxMania! The five original Tomb Raider games sure had a lot of scary moments in them. It was my first exposure to scary elements as a kid growing up, and while I never played Silent Hill or Resident Evil games at all during that time, Tomb Raider really left a big impression on me. Most of the scares were so frightening that I ended up muting the sound on my TV so that I could not hear them. Another thing to put out: the music. It’s terrific to listen to, but at some points, the sudden intense music comes out of nowhere, catching me off guard. The music clearly does a great job of getting you scared, and I commend Tomb Raider for it!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Same for me. Tomb Raider is a sneaky scary game :D You don't think it's scary, so your parents let you play it, but then it just happens to be terrifying! And indeed, the music and sound design of the Tomb Raider games in general is phenomenal.
I agree with you on Tomb Raider III! The cobra pit (your #4) of course, where I had the same experience as you (10:04) - closing my eyes and turning off the sound was the only way for me to overcome this part and be able to finish the level... I also have bad memories from all the velociraptor ambushes in Crash Site (God, I hated those things!), all the ambushes by the natives in Coastal Village ('jaaah!') (your #10), and that very nasty crocodile in the underwater tunnel in the same level. Very scary stuff as a kid :)
That's awesome, thanks! 😎 It's crazy how I STILL to this day have trouble with the cobra pit 😅 I just really don't like that part. Yes, the "raptor room" is really bad as well, I featured it briefly in the intro. I'm "glad" to hear someone else was afraid of the Coastal Village ambushes as well, because that's not one I think people typically think of when thinking of scary Tomb Raider moments 😅
@@AxMania haha well those natives really, really scared me back then (which made going through/completing the level a formidable task) so I simply cannot not have them on my list ;)
Tomb Raider always gave me the chills! At least the older ps1 titles. I used to follow a fantastic youtube gamer who played Tomb Raider 2. I remember that he warned about the spider cave in advance, as he knew how scared I am of spiders! (It is even so bad I had to shut my eyes during your video). I think the youtuber was called badazzgames and that he stopped youtube for a while, sadly. The first time I played TR1 and got to the big, open area with that broken bridge hanging above me...I knew. My heart was racing and I knew what was coming. The infamous T-rex! And Venice in TR2 just because everything is so lonesome. So empty. Not even a sound of live, apart from the action.
Oh yeah, I have heard about badazzgames, but I didn't know the channel when it existed. People have told me about it in here. Apparently they deleted their channel years ago 😕 That's a good point about Venice, actually. It's so eerily empty.
Love your list! And definitely agree with #1. Personally, the underwater levels freak me out, too. Even though I am a great swimmer irl, I've always been kind of scared of a shark or other underwater animal attacking me underwater. It's just their territory, you know? And they are so much more adept at maneuvering in the water than a human. Also, again, I have to say your upconvert of the graphics to high-res is absolutely stunning! Thanks as always!
I agree with the last pick. I hid in that crawl space for a long time. I think "Crash Site" would make a good honorable mention. Along with RX Tech Mines, that level was the scariest for me. Dark rooms where the raptors will spawn right behind you; you have to jump into a tree with a raptor in it; you have to climb out of a river where raptors are waiting for you; you have to enter an airplane full of raptors; the T-Rex was horrifying. Then to top it all off the final battle in the level had you fight nearly a hundred raptors using a sentry gun. Thanks for making this awesome content.
I had the "raptor room" JUST outside my top 10 in 11th place. That is a very stressful moment that is not fun to deal with for sure. It's kind of similar to the yeti room, which I find worse due to the sounds, but in some ways the raptor room is worse, as it's much darker and smaller. Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words!
How fun to relive these moments! One I recall that was not included is in Tomb Raider, The Lost Valley, the first time coming around the corner to the T-Rex. Once you know to expect it, it isn't so bad, but I'll never forget that first play through as a kid and just screaming. 🤣
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the video! Haha, of course, one of the coolest moments in the series! :D You're right, it's obviously terrifying the first time, but after that it's exciting more than anything :O
Here is my list of Top 10 most scariest Tomb Raider moments : 1. The Hive : Chamber Room filled with mutants that all come to life. 2. Catacombs of the Talion : Dark switch room with multiple yeti’s hiding behind bars 3. RX. Tech Mines : Dark Steam Room with half human mutants roaming. 4. The Lost Valley : First encounters with Raptors and famous T-Rex 🦖 5. The Great Wall : Deep green ravine with hidden 2 T-Rex 🦖 Dinosaurs 6. Caves Of Kaliya : Dark pit with boulder and 10 poisonous Cobra🐍 snakes. 7. The Great Pyramid: Showdown with the huge legless mutant on high platform. 8. Temple Of Xian : Spooky dark cave with cobwebs 🕸 and multiple 🕷spiders 9. Crash Site : Multiple Raptors suddenly appearing in Dark switch room. 10. Temple Of The Cat : Large Room with 8 static mummies that all come to life.
This is a GREAT list! I had the "raptor room" from Crash Site in 11th and the "mutant room" from The Hive in 12th, so ;) I personally find the T-Rex encounters more exciting than scary, as I don't really feel fear when I face them. That's actually a little strange :P I'm afraid of an eel, but not a T-Rex.
I barely played TR 1, but the first dinosaur appearing from the dark void and the room with the giant sledgehammer creeped me the hell out. Also from TR 2 the Opera House gave me chills.
Yeah, all of these moments are pretty scary. Good point about the dark void as well. The poor draw distance of the first game made every area feel unintentionally scary, I think.
These games terrified me as an adolescent and I think the main reason is three-fold. Non-linear exploration; an absence of dialog/narrative and the low-poly graphics. The level that represents this the most for me as a child was The Opera House. I may have mentioned this before on another comment, but game systems didn't have the power to fully represent in detail complex realistic environments. They could only *suggest* them. Places such as caves were easy to evoke because they don't require much detail but an Opera House is incredibly ornate and Tomb Raider 2 does not accomplish the task of rendering it. So what you are left with is this odd space that doesn't feel real that is incredibly dark and confusing to navigate. The atmosphere made me feel ill and even today I struggle with that level. It feels dreamlike but its not meant to be. It's amazing
I absolutely love this comment, and how you put this into words. I feel the exact same way, but had no idea how to describe it. This is something that old games actually benefit from, where the "accidental stylistic" graphics add something unique that games with photorealistic graphics can't really do.
@@AxMania The modern Tomb Raiders (and unfortunately most triple A games in general) also Don't. Shut. Up. They are constantly feeling you either diagetic or internal dialog. Be it characters talking or the game just telling you how to play the game. If you counted the amount of dialog in the first Tomb Raider it would barely be enough for even the first 10 minutes of most modern big budget games. People don't like feeling alone, I get it. But damn it ruins the atmosphere
@@novelezra You are so right. I agree completely. I love the Uncharted games so much, but I think this is something those games kind of introduced, for both good and bad. It works in those games, because they are light-hearted and "summer blockbuster"-games, but Tomb Raider should be different. In my opinion, anyways.
@@AxMania Uncharted is fantastic (at least when Amy Hennig is doing them. But I won't get into my anti Uncharted 4 rant right now...) but yes you couldn't be more correct. People say Metal Gear started it but MGS kept the dialog actually AWAY from the game. Then it seemed like in the PS3/360 era that no game was complete without essentially listening to a fucking podcast. Don't get me wrong, I adore Alan Wake and others but damn, I miss the old days(
Good list, rx tech mines definitely deserve no.1 spot. Other things that weren't mentioned: - tr3 piranhas. I was freaking scared of getting into water - tr3 temple ruins were downright terrifying, especially the living statues - tr3 dinosaurs, raptors in dark rooms gave me some jumpscares, but the t-rex takes the cake. That was my 1st t-rex encounter and I remembered staying crouched down perfectly still for several minutes hoping it couldn't see me - tr4 bull. Unnerving when it was charging at Lara - tr4 cairo. Very eerie feeling overall
Really good picks. I actually initially had the raptor room in 10th place, but picked the cannibal village instead. I think I might remake this video some day, as I think some entries could be merged to make room for more.
This is a great video, as always. I think my top three scary moments are: 1. RX Tech-Mines (especially that Jump Scare. I screamed very loud the first time) 2. The freaking spider cave (Dark room, where giants spiders just fly in your face... Noooo) 3. The Yeti room in TR2 (The noise they made with the darkness were too much for me) I rank it that way, because those were points, where I just stopped playing the game as a kid, because I was too damn scared to go on. I also wanna throw in Home sweet home from TR2. I was like "nice, I've beaten the game. Wait.. What the hell is going on? What am I supposed to do now? Okay, no I'll quit the game right here." It was really scary for me, because Laras Home was always my safespot. Nothing could happen you there and I've spend so much time there practicing for my first adventure. Seriously Croft Manor at night is pretty scary. Thanks for this great halloween scary video! I really enjoyed it. :)
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I obviously agree with all those three, as they made my top 10. Definitely some of the most terrifying moments. I agree with Home Sweet Home as well, and I also featured it briefly in the intro. Croft Manor is kind of creepy in daylight too, I think, because of how empty it is, with all those hallways and so on, but at night it's SO much worse. Thank you, I'm so glad to hear that! :)
I think Tomb Raider 3 has the most jump-scares from all the games. I could be wrong but at least they were that effective that they stayed in my mind very vividly. The retro Tomb Raider games had in common that they had a very dark vibe. And since as a child i was aspecting a fun action-adventure I was caught off guard by its sinister atmosphere. Silence is so powerful in this game. Always creating tension. Then you have this insane tense scores and the sound effects. Man I love these games so much.
Yes! I’m not the only one who thinks of Tomb Raider as part horror games! Its atmosphere and music is soooo unsettling at times 😰 great video and editing as always !! ❤
Haha, it's crazy how scary those classic Tomb Raider games are, considering they are not even horror games. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! 🥰
@@AxMania You got that right! It’s funny how the Tomb Raider games were my first exposure to scary and horror elements, even though I’ve played horror games like Silent Hill or Resident Evil growing up. I’ve never played any of the expansions, as they were on PC. Plus, the secrets were hard to find in Tomb Raider III, that I never got around to playing All Hallows. I will say, even though some of the graphics haven’t aged well, the atmosphere and scary moments are still intact 😉 Great video, AxMania! What video is the footage of Lara running in the rain from? Just curious - great way of introducing each moment, along with Lara’s iconic scream
13:29 = OMG! 😳. That scared the heck out of me! I’m glad you put that as your number 1 pick. That is my number 1 pick, too, AxMania! Not to mention, the music used for it is scary too.
the sound track and the games graphics will always make things more scarier for me and I love it. Being scared is a fun feeling while playing games sometimes
Your number two on this list has always been my personal scariest TR moment. But like you said, the whole level RX Mines is scary, which is also one of my favorite TR levels across the series. It's great how you make these kind of videos of my favorite video game series. I just found your channel, thanks to my brother whose videos you apparently also watch (Shadowmano) 😄
10:59 YES! This scared the living daylights out of me when I played TR2 for the first time last year! Great video, BTW! Just about everything here has given me the creeps while playing TR! Even 1:30!
The god tower in st francis folly in Tomb Raider 1 is one special video game experience i still remember after 15 years. Imo the tomb raider 1 has best levels. The chaotic music in first bear part still gives me creeps
Talking of jump scares... I jumped while watching this video. Good selection, time for me to revisit some of these levels to see if they are still as scary.
Love this content dude! These games always had really scary moments that would freeze me from wanting to continue as a kid. Memorable moments being: 1. Tomb Raider 3 Entering the temple finally in the India levels, and seeing the first Shiva statue. It looked like it wanted to come to life and kill me and I didnt want to go into the room :) 2. Tomb raider 4 in the starting levels when you encounter the coffin that you have to lure the unkillable mummy out in order to access the tunnel behind it. First time encountering an unkillable enemy in a tomb raider game and it was scary! On a recent replay though I found the Crash Site level of tomb raider 3 to be the scariest thing i've done in awhile. Pure anxiety in the dark raptor room...
Thank you so much! These are all great examples of the horrifying moments of this series. The "raptor room" was just outside my top 10, actually. That part is really disturbing!
As a kid I remember beating TR2 on the PS1 with my dad. I can recall 3 moments that petrified me. 1) Floating Islands - The whole eerie atmosphere, the floating guards and the outworldly feel of this level was so scary, that I couldn't play it alone - no chance. 2) Yetis - just like on this list, I hated the dark drop and the constant roaring. 3) The whole "water chapter" of TR2... First it's the swimming controls, second the suffocation animation, third is thalassophobia
I'm always sooooo happy to see original tomb raider content. Great video! You earned a subscriber! That being said....... i absolutely HATED the screaming lara transitions lol
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Hahaha, yeah, I hadn't really thought that through ;) After a while, that scream every 50 seconds or so gets on your nerves, doesn't it? Sorry :P
The yeti temple is my rank one. When the scene pushes me to the point that nothing in TR scares me ever again afterwards, it's pretty clear cut for me. xD
I can’t decide how to rank them but here are my top spots: *The corpses in the All Hallows’ sewer.* Their rotten rags as well as their skulls and claws make them look like dementors from Harry Potter. There’s the mutant versions in Lost Artefact too. *Sleeping with the Fishes and 40 Fathoms (mostly the former) being so deep underwater, that there is nothing but inky blackness above.* Lara can’t even try to surface in Sleeping with the Fishes as riptide currents carry her back to the sea caves under the channel tunnel, but at least there’s dolphins to cheer her up instead of TR2’s sharks. *The atmosphere of the catacombs of the talion and ice palace.* I had spooky dreams (not exactly nightmares, not exactly pleasant) about these caves as well as the RX Tech Mines except a lot darker and there were several avalanches and the falling icicles replaced with falling piles of snow. The yeti as well as dark crevasses before the gong don’t help. *3 occasions where Lara is nearly killed (or **_is_** killed) by deadly swimming pool drains.* In TR1, she is sucked down in the Neptune room but instead of being held against the drain’s cover, she is dumped in a tiny side room and she has to turn off the drain’s suction current before she drowns. In TR2, it’s an actual swimming pool in the barkhang monastery. The waterfall splashes on the surface above the drain’s grate from air bubbles escaping in the pipe are a bad sign. As soon as Lara enters the pool, the drain suction current tries to suck her down to the “safety” grill and hold her against it until she drowns, just like badly built pool drains in real life. She’s lucky she doesn’t get disembowelled. In TR3, the drain is in a satellite’s coolant vent tank in High Security Compound. Lara needs to close a valve in order to survive entering the sump or else she is sucked into the drain and shredded alive by the pump. The latter two of these, coupled with nightmares and real pool drain grates burning my feet as well as looking scary are why I hate pool drains with a passion. When I learned they really could kill and I accidentally guessed right the way how as a toddler in my mind, that didn’t help. *The atmosphere and design of all China levels sans Great Wall.* These levels evoke an irrational fear I had in my childhood that I’m not proud of, started by an episode of Rupert set in China, complete with creepy music stings, my introduction to dragons, deranged animation making a smaller dragon pull nightmare faces and the fires of Hell from the big one. TR2’s China levels remind me of that fear with similar textures to the emperor’s palace in the show, lots of deep lava and the origin of TR3’s Tinnos ambiance. The hellish look of the flowing lava in Floating Islands, the whole Xen look of that level and the jade warriors don’t help any. Bartoli in dragon form is tame by comparison. *The atmosphere, mutants and darkness of Antarctica.* Similar reason you gave except I also add Tinnos to that list with its mutant Polynesians who were left behind, and the wasps. The meteorite cavern seems to be located on the slopes of Mt Erebus, right next to the lava chamber. *Set being entombed in TR4.* His sarcophagus is not only an iron maiden but it’s also electrified. We even see him getting impaled by it in first person before it cuts to his blood draining out. The amulet stems the blood but removing it makes it flow again and flood some nearby pits. Lara can swim in Set’s blood too. *Arnaud being partially melted by Eckhardt’s glove in TR6.* The entire left side of his body looks like a waxwork was left too close to an open gas flame, left to twist and deform into a soup of elemental silver and other metals. Eckhardt may even have (according to Murti Schofield’s notes) have ripped out not just transmuted elements from his body but his thyroid gland too which he ate raw and pumping, before turning the rest of Arnaud’s body to silver to disguise his handiwork. The thing is we don’t know if Arnaud just survived or if Eckhardt let him live and suffer to serve as a warning to Bouchard. *Dr Kristina Boaz being fed to a spidery bio pod.* The “mouth” of this thing is sure to set off anyone with trypophobia, due to its mangled gills everywhere with barely any room to fit something as large as Boaz inside. The worst part is that it is not a mouth: it’s a vagina. The pod matures from its chrysalis stage into a sort of giant spider/scorpion hybrid, with Boaz still poking out of its labia during the boss fight, serving as the first weak point to aim for. She’s then quite literally reborn as a giant mosquito girl, and not the cute kind either. Needless to say, you have to fight her too. *The giant eel in Living Quarters* *The design of Atlantis in TRAE.* Unlike Crystal, Core Design really pulled out all the stops in their remake of TR1. Atlantis doubles down on the gore and fleshiness of the original, with decorative teeth lining the opening hatchery with huge nerves running through conduits above. The lava chute room requires Lara to climb inside a giant artery to exit. The main lava shaft now has a huge column held up by chains in the middle with lava falls coming in through cracks around the sides. The column is actually a giant brain stem, whose brain is just outside where the old scion room used to be. Now the scion is implied to go in the middle of a large platform on top of the brain, with computers hooked up to it as a sort of interface. It implies the scion is a biotech CD designed to decode and read the brain’s thoughts and vice versa. Then there’s the potential design of the biotech War Machine/Kyodai Natla Robo Natla would have piloted during the new final boss, as well as the gameplay description of its level in the design doc.
All of these are great examples. I probably should've made a top 25 or so instead. 40 Fathoms, and those underwater "suction" deaths in particular should've been featured. I'll get around to Angel of Darkness next year, I hope, so I can finally start ranking stuff from that game as well. Thank you for your comment, it was a very interesting read.
First of all, grab video as always! Secondly, I never even thought of that regarding Atlantis. Great observation. Finally, great ranking. For me though, the scariest moment will always be the statue coming to life in India. My friend and I playing it that first time were so scared...we got my younger sister to come in and kill it for us! Haha! We were wimps! Three for sure has the scariest moments, the atmosphere is so creepy and the music! Love your videos man. One of my favourite YT creators.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words! The Shiva statues in India are incredibly terrifying, and they come from out of nowhere! Plus, they are a real pain in the ass to kill, because of how they shield themselves from Lara's bullets. Again, thank you so much. That means a lot to me!
lmao, at 5:24 I thought the black scuttling bats were a spider at first glance. When you're looking for horror, I guess your mind will give it to you lol.
11:05 was when jumped out of my chair and I stopped playing for a week. Its not that the eel itself is that scary but the tense atmosphere and DOZENS OF THINGS that can kill you in many ways is what makes you really jumpy.
So glad you put Antarctica in here. I love both the level and that section of the game as it really reminded me of 'John Carpenter's The Thing' which is a classic to me. For me, the scariest bit in Tomb Raider, when I was a kid this was, was when you start Sanctuary Of The Scion in the original game, and two atlanteans come running down the steps at you. And the noises they make to this day, still sounds awful.
The Thing is one of my all-time favorite movies, so I appreciate the nods to that movie in Tomb Raider III as well. I think they have nailed that atmosphere of dread and isolation perfectly! Haha, yes! It's pretty intimidating those horrible creatures rushing down towards you, right at the beginning of the level!!! 😅
Oooooh! I love the third part of Tomb Raider! I've been walking through it on my Sony playstation for almost a YEAR (when I was 15 y.o. in 2000-2001)! This game was my first playstation CD that I bought (without even having my own console yet!) in the hope that someday I will play it. The fact is that my parents were very disapproving of my spending money ("And why did you buy it? You'd better buy yourself something else!"). And, in order not to be scolded for "wrong spending", I had to hide the game. I hid this game from my parents for more than a year (!!!), until they finally bought me a console. And when you started talking about the scary moments of this game, I immediately remembered that mutated scientist and a big monster (but I remember the one in some dark cave. And the sound of his appearance was the same as in your case). Thank you for the great and interesting video!
Hahaha, I love this story, thank you for sharing! 😃 I miss these times so much, where you just spent AGES on the same game, and it felt like the doors to a whole new world opened, when you finally did advance. Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it!
Tomb Raider might not be a horror game, but TR1 Atlantis is one of the scariest places from all PS1 games. I'm sorry, but Resident Evils and Silent Hills have nothing on meaty Atlantis. They have their scary stuff of course, but mansions and police stations are far more comfortable places to be in, than a room that looks like inside of someone's body 🤢 The Giant Eel might be the worst TR enemy of all. Most people will remember bosses and rooms, but hardly anyone remembers that one eel. It scares me the same EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Haha, "meaty Atlantis", eww. I agree. That place is straight up nightmare fuel. The constant sound of a beating heart also adds to the disturbing atmosphere of that place. God, I hate that eel so much. I definitely remember it, and I don't think I'll ever forget it 😅 Unfortunately. I don't even like to do that part of the level now - as an adult!
The eel is for me the worst. Every time I replay TR2, it freaks me out. The sound, the speed of the attack, the fact that it is so close to the camera and the look of the eel itself, all of it is terrifying. Sometimes I forget about it and the jump scare hit me hard, and sometimes I remember what awaits me and I don't really want to go in there...
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Yes, they are great examples as well. Especially with the mutants that rush down the stairs in the Sphinx level!
The opera house from TR2 was the scariest for me. It's so dark and there aren't many enemies, but somehow the whole level made me feel like I was being watched. It was so uncomfortable
It’s always scary when Tomb Raider games have you explore abandoned sites, whether it’d be an abandoned monastery (St. Francis’ Folly), abandoned opera house, abandoned subway (Aldwych), or abandoned exhibit (Egyptian Adventure in Coastal Ruins), mostly with enemies coming out of nowhere, or the place being booby-trapped without warning.
Yes, I agree! It was really hard to narrow this down to a top 10. The Opera House level is easily one of the creepiest levels in the series.
Opera House was a brilliant piece of design. Creepy sound effects, ominous music, dark corners, jump scares, booby traps, hidden enemies, the list could go on.
There are literally SO many enemies in Opera House 🤣
@@philbecker4676 Lots and lots of mobsters, but at the same time you feel very lonely in that level.
The same goes for Temple Of Xian and Atlantis in which the whole environment seems to be against you.
You forgot about the scariest encounter in all of Tomb Raider history... Winston.😀
Dude legit used to scare me he always seemed to appear. But more seriously the yetis scare me the most nowadays. I think it's just the noises they make because they're fairly fragile enemies that if you have enough space are pretty easy to out maneuver too.
Hahaha! I'll have to take my video down and re-upload it with the true #1 ;) I agree, there just something creepy about Lara's home in general. It's so big, and dark, and creepy. Just the clock ticking, and an old weird man following you everywhere.
LoL I remember that numb scared 😂
Hahaha I was so much scared by Winston as a kid, always had to lock him up inside the big fridge so he wouldn't follow me anymore 😂
When you're in the fridge and he's coming around the corner with the clock ticking 😣
Yeah that guy had some shit going on
Lost Valley T-Rex coming around the corner made turn off my Playstation and go looking for my mom. Man I enjoy these videos so much, keep them coming!
Haha, yes! That was quite the surprise back then :D Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
same here xD i used to mute the volume so i can go with less fear xD
Let’s all credit Nathan McCree and Peter Connelly - the original composers of the PS1 Tomb Raider games - for composing wonderful music, ranging from scary and intense to whimsical and nostalgic!
They gave us an amazing experience throughout all 5 Tomb Raider games for PS1, and it’s ones we’ll never forget.
Agreed 😊 The series couldn't have had better composers.
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I miss PS1 era TR music. Newer music isn't bad by any stretch but it doesn't compare to those games.
TR is just a pure gold classic 🎉
Being left at the bottom of a dark ocean with sharks, the air in your lungs is all you have, and there's no way of knowing how to escape (40 Fathoms, TR2) was probably the scariest moment for me! The TR games are sooo immersive, situations like that are all the more intense and make you feel truly lost and desperate! There were so many times as a kid where I'd panic, push the inventory button or pause, and hand the controller to my mom because I couldn't handle it lol!! Great top 10, I love that the eel was in there because I jumped when you mentioned it in another ranking video, even fully knowing what was coming 😅
Yes, the opening of 40 Fathoms is so terrifying! Not just the sharks, but the immediate fear of drowning, and not being sure where to go makes you feel desperate, haha! I did the same :D My keyboard has had many panicked Esc button slams, due to cruel mummy, cobra etc. ambushes.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! No scariest Tomb Raider moments ranking would be complete without that... eel...
It's not only the scariest moment in TR for me but one of the scariest moments in videogames period.
I don't find it as scary now but back in the day it absolutely terrified me.
Oh yeah! That scared me for sure! 😂
There is no level I’ve hated more in my life… absolutely terrifying lmao. Pitch black water, megladon of a shark, and limited air? No thank you 😩
This! As kids we stopped playing immediadly at this point because we got that scared. 😂
Im really surprised theres no Tomb Raider 4 mentions. I remember being too scared to beat the first tomb in egypt cause of how creepy the atmosphere was and cause of the jackals and mummies. The part where the bull bursts through the door terrified me as well. All the Cairo levels were very creepy too.
For the Cairo levels, what scared me were the mechanical machine turrets that would fire at you constantly when in range, then activate the flamethrower on you when you get close.
Plus, seeing Von Croy possessed in Citadel was creepy.
The Lost Library was perhaps the hardest and scariest level to beat. Cairo levels are like a maze. The bull charging through the doors did scare me, but I got used to it as it helped to activate some panels on the walls.
It was so difficult to narrow this list down to just 10, perhaps I should've made a top 20 instead, haha! The Last Revelation has a lot of creepy moments for sure! It's only that I happen to have 10 moments from the other games that I find scarier ☹️ I agree with The Tomb of Seth, that entire opening cave has an amazing presence.
@@AxMania Speaking of The Tomb of Seth, there’s a moment where as Lara and her guide continue through the opening cave, a cutscene commences where the camera comes out of an entrance towards Lara as the eerie music plays, which turns out to be an Egyptian dog that attacks. That moment has stayed with me after playing that section of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation.
Sometimes, I wonder what made the guide so spooked when opening the door to the Hourglass that he ran away back up the stairs.
Dragging a corpse to get to a trap door was definitely hella creepy in tr4 😆 The city levels we're pretty creepy overall, you just knew something BAD happened there. I also liked the enemies you couldn't technically kill (scarabs, ghosts) so you'd just have to keep running away and hoping they couldn't reach you after a while.
The bull scared the shit out of me too! So much fear and anxiety when playing that part.
My favorite and scariest moment is the floating islands hands down. The eerie theme with its sounds of wind and emptiness. they evoke the feeling of being stuck in a different dimension somewhere between 2 worlds. Plus the green jade colors, the lava, the most terrifying sound of moving statues that came alive.
That level is really like playing a fever dream, or something!
If I could add something to the list, it would be the start of "40 Fathoms" - you suddenly find yourself deep underwater, wide open and dark area, no exit in sight, breath meter is already decreasing... and then a shark appears too. One could easily freak out in this situation before figuring out what to do.
Yup, I agree completely, and that terrified me the first time I did it. I remember it so clearly. It was difficult to make this list with so many scary moments :/
This forced me to swim in circles panicking trying to find the exit every dam time 😂 I was 7 and my brother watched me freak out because he already knew LOL
that was the moment i called my mom to solve that level.
cheats to skip levels were good ,when u got ground to stand on
And when you find how to enter the wreck and get inside you then feel relief until you turn around and find out the shark has followed you in.
Ah, beautiful Maria Doria.
The background soundtrack in Aldwych level is quite scary and gives tension when you go into the metro tunnels where a train can appear and hit you violently, especially being a newbie without knowing the level
Tinnos's background soundtrack fits perfectly in Reunion level being a scary kind of Dimension of the Dead
Exactly! Those trains are a pretty mean jumpscare too. Yes, I agree. And now that I think of it, the ambience of Lost City of Tinnos almost seems like an upgraded version of the Temple of Xian/Floating Islands ambience of Tomb Raider II.
I love Aldwych's ambience. The sound of groaning, old metal makes the place sound haunted. It's amazing how much character they were able to give these levels with just a minimal amount of SFX.
Reaching the bottom of the pit of the first level in TR2… after years of not realising it was possible to get to the bottom of it, nothing scared or surprised me more to find two t-rexes down there!
Haha, yes. You don't want to be caught in a pit with two T-Rexes, yet, here you are!
I didn’t find out about that until like 2 years ago!! 😖
Lmao😂 i remember going down there and be like "oh hell noooo" had to pause the whole Game cause i was really scared
Literally threw my remote at my brother to kill them for me because I was panicking. Super surprising the first time and scary 😭 I was like 7
For me it was when that first Atlantean came to life from its statue state
Yes, that moment is scary as well! And very shocking the first time.
@MyJoejoejoe: I didn't like the growling noise they made.
Great video as usual, personally I think the biggest heart attack I had was in TR4 when that damn bull knocked on the first door while I was walking near it, to me that was even worse than the eel from tr2. I was so startled it took me 3 days to gather the courage to come back to finish the level lmao. Also, the entire Aldwych level always terrified me bc I'm a bit claustrophobic and they truly chose violence when they placed those jumpscares in an abandoned underground level.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Oh, I hadn't even thought of that, but that definitely frightened me too the first time! 😮 It has a tiny cameo in this video though, as it's the creature we see in the dark, about to kill Achmed, right before I reveal my 10th place 😉 And yes, Aldwych is super creepy. I find the Free Mason's temple really spooky in particular.
I was looking for a comment about the ram/bull thing! The Last Revelation was a scary game generally….all the first 4 were and still hold up the creepy factor today, great video as always Ax!
I agree with that. I remember I got so scared I just smashed some buttons on the controller. I ended up saving about a second before lara died.
My father took it surprisingly well 😂
@@AxMania YES BULL LEVEL AND THAT THING IN UNDER PYRAMIDE WHEN U NEED TO CALCULATE WEIGHT IF U MAKE MISTAKE HE ATTACKS YOU BEHIND BARS.
@@AxMania Another one I personally think it's really unnerving is the labyrinth monster in Chronicles, I know you mentioned those levels and I agree that the setting is more gothic horror, visually pleasing but not scary per se, but that monster chasing young Lara without notice startled me as a kid bc it's unexpected, there is no sound clue to announce something dangerous is near, just the monster's footsteps in the silence and all it takes is a wrong turn to get jumpscared by it
Personally my top scariest moment was Home Sweet Home. Croft Manor was my safe haven as a kid where nothing could harm me, and then my dad showed me a new version of it for me to play set at nighttime, and suddenly alarms are going off and dogs (which I have a phobia of) are barking.. safe to say I shat myself
Haha, that is indeed terrifying! I think Croft Manor is scary enough in daylight actually (I know...), so at night (with home invaders!) it's so much worse. I couldn't fit it within my top 10, but I made sure to show it in the intro, because it definitely belonged in this video.
Es un gusto saber que una chica tan linda como tú le gusten esos juegos. ❤😍
I definitely agree.
Tomb Raider 2 was the scariest part in the series for me. I used to hate the old wreck of Maria Doria and Opera House because of the scary atmosphere, right now I wanna come back and immerse again in these awesome moments 😎
Do it! 😃 Like you said, getting immersed in these locations is creepy, yet amazing, especially this close to Halloween 😉
Yeah!
I was playing Tomb Raider 2 at childhood. And yes this game was very creepy at some moments and had the scary atmosphere.
What's stopping you? The remaster just came out and I'm already playing! 🥶
When I was little it always creeped me out how after dying in classic Tomb Raider the camera would just linger there until you pressed buttons on the controller. You're used to just reloading or respawning in most games pretty quickly after death so having the camera just staring at your corpse really reinforced the feeling that YOU ARE DEAD, and that your body's probably gonna be trapped in a tomb decaying for all eternity forgotten by the rest of the world. Bonus points if you died impaled on spikes or something like that, destined to become one of the billion skeletons you walked past who've died to those traps in the past...
Yes, that's a really good point! That's super creepy. Often in games in the 90's, a death had a sort of "melody", or "Game Over" text or something, that made it feel more lighthearted or like a game, but in Tomb Raider it's just eerie silence and Lara's corpse for seconds. Haha, exactly!
Yeah, like we didn’t matter or something.
Finally! Someone else who thinks that TR is actually kinda spoopy. I used to be scared stiff as a kid even the house with winston (my sister told me if i let him out of the freezer he would kill me haha) but i am so in love with the series as an adult that i'm making my way through them instead of just watching someone play them because them nostalgia feels are on point. I still scream out loud though and run around with the guns out everywhere lmao. Awesome video, subscribed!
Haha, OMG that's terrifying!!! Winston as a serial killer! Siblings can be so cruel :P Thank you so much, I really appreciate that!
When i was a kid i remember i couldn't play these games without my parents or my siblings around the room because i was too scared to play.
Totally agree with your top 10, i also agree with TR3 being the most scary one, specially that mutants in the dark, i somehow knew it was going to be in the first place, great video as always, i don't find often good content about the classic tomb raiders
Yes, it's really surprising how these games were, considering they aren't horror games. Thank you so much, that's really kind of you. I really appreciate it!
The spider cave...... The SPIDER CAVE!!
I remember being afraid of it back then! I was not even afraid of spiders but as a 8 year old back then knowing ahead of time there would be giant spiders in there, I would not feel okay pressing forward! I eventually did, but damn. My personal worst actually was the chapel from Chronicles in the intro area of the Labyrinth map. Once the skeletons spawn, the ghostly ones with swords, I lose my shit, still do to this day to a degree. The reason for that is my personal experience of having had nightmares as a kid of skeletons with giant swords chasing me in the dark, after watching an animated movie, I couldn't tell you which one, but I know it featured skeleton swordsmen. May have been a Disney one, I don't know. That was way before Chronicles though. When I played that level and saw those skeletons, I kid you not, I ate an entire box of biscuits as stress relief in one go.
Haha! I think it's incredibly cruel of Core Design when they drop those giant spiders on you. Young kids played these games! I understand, the Ireland levels are so obviously designed to be scary. I agree completely by the way, I also think the chapel from that entire section is the scariest part. The fixed camera also makes it quite hard to navigate, which adds to the tension when there are so many enemies.
Hmm, that's really interesting. I love to uncover old memories of animated movies and stuff from my childhood. An animated movie with skeletons carrying swords sound familiar. The Black Cauldron, perhaps?
@@AxMania You were correct, it was indeed The Black Cauldron... Damn. Good guess.
Absolutely love your channel, man 😄
Agree with your list and generally, the sound design in the classic games was just incredible. So creepy and atmospheric. The noise the yetis make still terrify me to this day and also the Temple of Xian ambience is so unsettling - sounds like demonic whispers!
Thank you so much man, I really appreciate it! I agree completely, they have brilliant sound design! Yes, I'm pretty sure the Temple of Xian and Floating Islands ambience is that same, and that's straight up horror movie ambience. The demonic whispering and the weird warped noises that happen occassionally. So creepy!
The jackals in the level called "Burial Chambers" from Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation have given me a few jump scares.
Oh yes, me too! Creepy level in general actually, with all those mummies as well.
I love your videos.
It's so nice to see something so important to our childhoods still being talked of, and with such high quality. Thank you so much :)
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it! 😊
@@AxMania Love from Brazil 🥰
The Thor room was a section I dreaded doing in St Francis’ Folly - the eerie music that starts playing as soon as you enter the room, the lightning striking out of the metal ball, the giant hammer, and even trying to leave the room past the lightning again. It scared the heck out of me!
Damocles room itself was scary when leaving the room after getting the key - the swords activate and you have to dodge them as you escape.
Plus, Pierre coming out of nowhere to jump scare us. The Greece levels were tough to get through, but Palace Midas is my personal favorite level of the first game.
All of these are great examples. Pierre's ambushes keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the entire Greece section, that's for sure!
@@AxMania Another thing that kinda scared me in the first game and third game - sometimes the voice bites coming out of nowhere.
Like when entering the final room in Sanctuary of the Scion, Larson’s voice comes in, catching me off guard and he appears.
In Natla’s Mines, the cowboy saying “Ain’t nothin’ personal.” However, that room is where one of the fuses is, and you have to walk and stay on that block it’s on, then slowly walk away. That’s a strange place for them to put a fuse.
But the biggest scare was in the final room, where the big guy says: “SAY CHEESE!” Scared me so much 😱
Sometimes, Lara’s voice during the tutorial level caught me off guard, like in Tomb Raider III, when you approach the staircase, she’ll suddenly say how to use the Look button. But I’m used to her voice nowadays - I always thought it funny how when learning the swim mechanics, you reach the surface and she says, “Ah! Air!” That always gets a chuckle out of me.
I’m used to some of the scares these games offer, but some still terrify me from time to time.
RX-Tech Mines is definitely the scariest tomb raider level
Yeah, they really nailed the horror vibe with that level.
@@AxMania The steam room with the two giant mutants was the scariest part of that level
@@ajmohawk2993 Yup!
I came here to check if the top 1 was RX-tech mines. I'm trying to finish that level now but dude, I'm sweating. When Lara gets trapped under the steamy room by the mutant. Wtf. The whole freezing abandoned mine is damn scary. I endured the whole game but I dont know if i can make it till the end 😅
that level is litterally based on the movie "the thing" by John Carpenter for that reason the place for a good horror is the antartica
great video I agree that when the mutant jumps at you it was absolutely terrifying trying to scramble to kill heal and save and flare its worse if you don't have anything to do this with
Thank you so much. Yeah, they were not playing around with that part. God, it terrified me so much as a kid.
@@AxMania 🤣
Fantastic video! I totally agree with your ranking! Mutants in the dark is number 1 for sure. It always makes me feel so scared and like I’m in an Alien movie when I play 😂😂😂 as someone who is extremely afraid of spiders I can confirm that spider cave is one of the scariest things ever 😅Thanks so much for the great video as always! I just got off an overnight TransAtlantic flight and it’s the perfect thing to watch in bed when jet lagged 😍❤️
Thank you so much Suzanne, I hope you had an awesome trip! 😎 New York, right? I'm not jealous at all!
And yes, that friggin' boiler room - or whatever it is - with the mutants is so unfair. I watched your playthrough of that part again when I edited this, and I really love your crawlspace footage, because you don't have a flare lit, so it just shows a completely black monster walking around above you, which looked so much more creepy than my footage 😱 Haha, thank you for the confirmation regarding the spider cave! 😂
Again, thank you so much for watching 🥰
@@AxMania WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN 1997 FLOATING ISLAND AND LATER DRAGON (REMEMBER WE DIDNT HAD NET TO SEE LEVELS ON RUclips) WAS SO SCARY TO ME. I BARELY BEAT GREAT WALL LEVEL WITH 500 ATTEMPTS. THEN FLOATING ISLAND AND LATER DRAGON WAS SO SCARY.
@@AxMania ye it was New York! It was so cool but now I’m broke 😂 the boiler room is nightmare fuel! 😱 oh ye I remember playing it and my flare running out and being so scared seeing that mutant running over head, but looking back it does look cool at least 😂 your videos always make my day, thanks so much for another great one 🥰
Suzanne you’re a channel member here? Cool to see you in another comment section lol!
@@Lillybug07 yep, channel member of AxMania 😍
Really look forward to these, they never disappoint :)
TR3 really is the scariest, when I saw the first Shiva statue I didn't take my eyes off it and just inched along the wall staring at it, didn't help that the PS1's vertex wobbling made it look like Lara was trembling in fear as well.
Then it turned out that the first one really WAS a statue... still scared me enough to avoid picking up the shotgun next to it.
Would love to see a ranking of the endangered real-world species Lara has killed sometime, could get complicated when it comes to mythical beasts since so many are unique like Garuda etc
Yes, I agree. The Shiva statues are straight out of a nightmare, and they are never explained or even talked about in the game 😂
Oh dear, that's a fun idea! Haha, how would Lara's tiger kills have impacted the actual wild population of the world? 😫
And of course, she was actually the one that made the dinosaurs extinct 😉
The Shiva statue! T_T I was exactly the same, I didn't want to come close and didn't dare pick up the shotgun for fear of the statue awakening. And then when the second statue actually *did* wake up... It's not scary now, but back then it was terrifying!
@@Potkanka Isn't there an even bigger Shiva boss fight, or am I not remembering right? I feel like I'm remembering watching my uncle fight a bigger Shiva than these ones.
@@Fxrrxt2x All Shivas are the same size (whether they wake up or not) but they definitely looked bigger to me when I was a kid than they look now 😄
@@Potkanka I appreciate the reply. Your comment is quite old by now.
I went and did some research on them after I posted that comment. And I guess there are a bunch of them and not just the single boss Shiva, like what I was remembering. They're huge, but not as big as I thought. But they are sort of creepier looking than what I remembered, with their pitch black appearance and red eyes.
Sad you didn't mention TR4, when you pick the Amulet of Horus, the tomb start to bleed from fountains at the sides of the coffin, and if you previously went to the second room, and ONLY after you took the Amulet you came back to it, you see the mummies awakened, the pool full of blood...
That was really scary for me as a child!! I couldn't even enter that room for how much I was afraid!
Yeah, I'm sorry, it was really difficult to narrow this down to just 10 scary moments :( The moment you describe here is definitely scary.
The worst is knowing what the blood comes from. The FMV after the stage shows a ritual where the priest sacrifices himself and is squashed with a plate with spikes on bottom and Seth's armor on top.
Unlike spikes and blood in gameplay the one in video is realistic, low light helps compensate for graphics at the time. And the sound... it was really unsettling even if it's the fourth time in a row they use the same plot device of final boss being someone who sacrificed themselves and transformed.
I remember as a kid I always secretly snucked to our family computer to play TR3. I had no idea how to safe the game, so I always had to replay the first level. As you said Tomb Raider is not a Horror Game in itself, but already the first India Level creates with its dark colors, the feeling of isolation, the enemies and this haunting (but iconic!) music such a scary atmosphere!!!
And don´t get me started on the Cairo levels from TR4.... - haunting af!
Haha, that's awesome! Yeah, honestly, besides Antarctica, I'd say India is the scariest section of the series. Haha, the Cairo levels are really creepy as well, they are basically set during the apocalypse. All those locust swarms and weird monsters coming out on the streets! Creepy.
Great list! I agree with just about every entry but I have personally never gotten over the T-Rex from TR 1. It's just so abrupt. So blatant. I always felt like it was meant to be preceded by a cutscene or something. On par with the dog window jumpscare from the OG Resident Evil. Cheers!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! The T-Rex, of course, is absolutely awesome, but I've always found that moment more exciting, or thrilling, than scary. Haha, the Resident Evil dogs, oh no!!! 😫 They made me SO terrified as a kid!
Yes, that damn T-Rex! I'm in my 30s now and STILL when I play TR1 that T-Rex makes me uneasy. And the raptors, ugh, hearing their screeching is a tad eerie.
Me too!! The atmospheric horror that the classic TR games have are unique!! No other game has this. Even the music used to scare the sh** out of me! And yes I remember getting scared a LOT with TR3 and I was only a kid 😅. Great video!! I’m actually excited to play TR3 on Halloween now! 😂
Yes, agreed! The music! The tension. The composers of those classic games did a phenomenal job with the sound design. Haha, thank you so much man! I want to play some Tomb Raider III for Halloween as well :D
Ikr? Ambience oftemple ruins level was my personal childhood trauma 😩I literally couldnt play with sound on
@@hannamartinez8684 hahaha same!! 😅
Omg that f* eel/morray... I know exactly when it comes but still... the spider cave and the Yeti temple are terrifying, too. Good video as always, very entertaining to watch!!
Yes, agreed 😂 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Everyone has different triggers, but the scariest TR for me was 4 (Last Revelation).
The whole game with its black tombs and monsters was and still is stiflingly scary to me.
Thank you for this great video!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Old videogame graphics just had something special in them that could wether make them endearing or horrifying.
I agree completely. Some of the creepiness has unfortunately been lost with the remasters.
The entire PS1 TR games were the scariest for me. The fact that LOD was so low and I could barely see anything on a CRT TV back in the 90s. Nearly everything was a jump scare
Haha, totally. Tomb Raider III is almost pitch-black darkness on PlayStation 😂
Who would’ve thought an action adventures series would have so many scary and frightening moments scattered throughout?
Haha, not me! 😅
Funny I never found the mutants scary, I think the list is missing the underwater level from tr3 where u have to navigate dark waters with that ugly dumb machine lol and then the first Atlantian coming to life in tr1 was absolutely a horrifying experience that I never expected. Again a great enjoyable video 😊 thank you ❤
Oh yeah, Lud's Gate is really creepy! Also, what is that place really? It's such a strange location. And yeah, that exact moment in Tomb of Tihocan is basically where the first Tomb Raider game took a "dark" turn for me. Really creepy. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! :)
When games legit gave you jump scares
Yup 😱
I remember being terrified of the small spiders you found on TR2s great wall. The scratching noise they made was horrifying for 6 year old me!
Haha, yes. They are not as bad as their parents in the cave in Temple of Xian though 😉
I didn’t mind the little spiders, but the giant spiders in the Spider Cave of Temple Of Xian were the scariest part of that level, especially when you need to go through there just to reach a key on the ledge.
Not to mention, seeing Marco Bartoli stab himself in the heart with the dagger itself - that’s pretty dark and scary.
Great video as always! Completely agree with your list, I would also add the fight with Boaz and the sanitorium patients. There's also a moment in Chronicles where you enter a lion cage and I kid you not the jump scare is horrific 😂
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Oh yes, for sure! If I had included Angel of Darkness (I really need to capture some footage from that game soon), it would have been even harder to narrow it down to just 10. The sanitorium is straight up Resident Evil in Tomb Raider. I think I know which moment you refer to in Chronicles. It's the one where you first slide down to the dungeons, after the lava bridge, right? :D I remember being startled by that lion in my most recent playthrough.
@@AxMania that's the one! I think it's the Colosseum? I always appreciate how much love you give to TR3, it's so refreshing!
the scrariest thing for me were the centaurs in anniversary shooting fireballs at lara or freezing her, meanwhile only a rocket scientist could defeat them. the process involved so many different actions while you still had to dodge the centaurs' deadly attacks. I spent many a stressful hour on this level. I even abandoned the game entirely for a year. 😅
Ah yes, that's a good point. It's counterpart in the first game as well! 😬
The Floating Islands level still creeps me out! 😳
For sure! 😱 It's not just that creepy whispering ambience, but those enemies slowly approaching you in the air as well...
@@AxMania I don’t mind the enemies, but the level design of Floating Islands really goes all out on the supernatural aspect, adding to the scary atmosphere
man... i love the floating islands...
is my favorite creepy moment in the whole series,
the fact that you appeared on a surreal world climbed on a tiny emerald mountain, with a strange music and you see a void of darkness below, it feels like a wierd dizziness nightmare, but at the same it's beautiful to see a lot of emerald mountains floating around there.
It's just so amazing that feeling
That's a perfect description, actually. I like that. It's so bizarre how Lara goes from Temple of Xian to Floating Islands, and we get no explanation for this. As if the world has just gone mad, after Marco Bartoli used the Dagger of Xian on himself.
I totally agree with your list, TR3 definitely has the best jumpscares and creepy ambience, I would just add the freaking green eyed Roman head at the first level of Chronicles. That was the end of the game for me as a cowardly 10 year old wouldn't figure out how to take him out..
Nice, thank you! 😎 Oh, yes, haha. The floating Roman gladiator head on a mechanical octopus body 😅 How did they come up with that!?
@@AxMania I wonder about that boss from Streets Of Rome. I forgot about that boss.
Wonderful list, AxMania!! The Yeti's room marked my mind so bad when I was younger that it's the first scary moment my mind goes to when we talk about our beloved series.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Yeah, to me, that yeti temple is one of those all-time iconic scary Tomb Raider moments.
What a great list! I forgot how scary the third game actually was. When I was a kid my biggest jumpscare was the T-Rex in the first game, first it's super dark and then the stomping sounds ughhh. Once my mom tried to forbid me to play TR because I looked too stressed 😂 I never couldn't finish any of the games but my big sister did and I just explored the different levels thanks to her saves. TR is actually scary with all the darkness and the sounds, I love the atmosphere and I wish I could find the time to beat the games myself.
As someone who suffers from arachnophobia spiders like in the TR games are not that problematic as they look not realistic enough though the eggs are scary... but if the spiders would rappel down from somewhere that would make me feel very uncomfortable.
I actually like how you cut the video and the details with the iconic TR sounds and the narration :)
The spider cave was definitely a scary section, even though im not afraid of spiders.
The little ones are easy to handle, but the GIANT SPIDERS - Oh no! 😳. Those were frightening, especially with the giant egg sac in the big dark room. I was afraid it was going to hatch. Thankfully, it didn’t.
The original Tomb Raider games sure didn’t mess around with dark and scary moments
@@ajmohawk2993 That egg is pure nightmare fuel for sure 😂
Haha yes, I'd say that the Tomb Raider III T-Rex is the scariest. That game is definitely not a children's game, yet so many of us were clearly playing it as a kid 😂
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 😊
@@AxMania Tomb Raider III T-Rex was scariest to me, too. In fact, scarier than the other T-Rexes from the first two Tomb Raider games.
@@AxMania Can't remember the T-Rex in TR3 😱 But wasn't there a T-Rex in TR2 also?
My pleasure, you got my sub!
I’m very glad you made this video, AxMania! The five original Tomb Raider games sure had a lot of scary moments in them.
It was my first exposure to scary elements as a kid growing up, and while I never played Silent Hill or Resident Evil games at all during that time, Tomb Raider really left a big impression on me.
Most of the scares were so frightening that I ended up muting the sound on my TV so that I could not hear them.
Another thing to put out: the music. It’s terrific to listen to, but at some points, the sudden intense music comes out of nowhere, catching me off guard. The music clearly does a great job of getting you scared, and I commend Tomb Raider for it!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Same for me. Tomb Raider is a sneaky scary game :D You don't think it's scary, so your parents let you play it, but then it just happens to be terrifying! And indeed, the music and sound design of the Tomb Raider games in general is phenomenal.
@@AxMania Tomb Raider III was my introduction to the series.
@@ajmohawk2993 Mine too. Well, I played the demo of Tomb Raider II first, but only for 10 minutes or so. Tomb Raider III was my true introduction.
@@AxMania Nice to know you and I were both introduced to the Tomb Raider series through Tomb Raider III. That’s incredible!
I agree with you on Tomb Raider III! The cobra pit (your #4) of course, where I had the same experience as you (10:04) - closing my eyes and turning off the sound was the only way for me to overcome this part and be able to finish the level... I also have bad memories from all the velociraptor ambushes in Crash Site (God, I hated those things!), all the ambushes by the natives in Coastal Village ('jaaah!') (your #10), and that very nasty crocodile in the underwater tunnel in the same level. Very scary stuff as a kid :)
That's awesome, thanks! 😎 It's crazy how I STILL to this day have trouble with the cobra pit 😅 I just really don't like that part. Yes, the "raptor room" is really bad as well, I featured it briefly in the intro. I'm "glad" to hear someone else was afraid of the Coastal Village ambushes as well, because that's not one I think people typically think of when thinking of scary Tomb Raider moments 😅
@@AxMania haha well those natives really, really scared me back then (which made going through/completing the level a formidable task) so I simply cannot not have them on my list ;)
Tomb Raider always gave me the chills! At least the older ps1 titles. I used to follow a fantastic youtube gamer who played Tomb Raider 2. I remember that he warned about the spider cave in advance, as he knew how scared I am of spiders! (It is even so bad I had to shut my eyes during your video). I think the youtuber was called badazzgames and that he stopped youtube for a while, sadly. The first time I played TR1 and got to the big, open area with that broken bridge hanging above me...I knew. My heart was racing and I knew what was coming. The infamous T-rex! And Venice in TR2 just because everything is so lonesome. So empty. Not even a sound of live, apart from the action.
Oh yeah, I have heard about badazzgames, but I didn't know the channel when it existed. People have told me about it in here. Apparently they deleted their channel years ago 😕
That's a good point about Venice, actually. It's so eerily empty.
Love your list! And definitely agree with #1. Personally, the underwater levels freak me out, too. Even though I am a great swimmer irl, I've always been kind of scared of a shark or other underwater animal attacking me underwater. It's just their territory, you know? And they are so much more adept at maneuvering in the water than a human. Also, again, I have to say your upconvert of the graphics to high-res is absolutely stunning! Thanks as always!
Exactly! That's a great way of describing it. Plus, it's so much harder to see underwater! Thank you so much, I really appreciate that!
Yeeep, damn those hostile underwater sections for real 😂
You walked me down memory lane.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
Thank you so much, I'm very happy to hear that!
Man you are my retro go to channel. I love your content so much!
Wow, thank you so much, I really appreciate that! 🥰
I agree with the last pick. I hid in that crawl space for a long time.
I think "Crash Site" would make a good honorable mention. Along with RX Tech Mines, that level was the scariest for me. Dark rooms where the raptors will spawn right behind you; you have to jump into a tree with a raptor in it; you have to climb out of a river where raptors are waiting for you; you have to enter an airplane full of raptors; the T-Rex was horrifying. Then to top it all off the final battle in the level had you fight nearly a hundred raptors using a sentry gun.
Thanks for making this awesome content.
I had the "raptor room" JUST outside my top 10 in 11th place. That is a very stressful moment that is not fun to deal with for sure. It's kind of similar to the yeti room, which I find worse due to the sounds, but in some ways the raptor room is worse, as it's much darker and smaller.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words!
Randy and Rory's floating bodies are very very creepy. Almost like a Stephen King novel or something
Indeed. And surprisingly gory for a non-horror video game.
@@AxMania Sure is. I had no idea that was Randy and Rory, but knowing that’s them, and in that state - Yikes! 😳
Spider Cave: nothing can overtop it, I always tried to skip that part with shortcuts or save files
Haha, I don't blame you!
Yay new upload. Will be watching tonight!
Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy it 😊
@@AxMania Loved it
How fun to relive these moments! One I recall that was not included is in Tomb Raider, The Lost Valley, the first time coming around the corner to the T-Rex. Once you know to expect it, it isn't so bad, but I'll never forget that first play through as a kid and just screaming. 🤣
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the video! Haha, of course, one of the coolest moments in the series! :D You're right, it's obviously terrifying the first time, but after that it's exciting more than anything :O
Here is my list of Top 10 most scariest Tomb Raider moments :
1. The Hive : Chamber Room filled with mutants that all come to life.
2. Catacombs of the Talion : Dark switch room with multiple yeti’s hiding behind bars
3. RX. Tech Mines : Dark Steam Room with half human mutants roaming.
4. The Lost Valley : First encounters with Raptors and famous T-Rex 🦖
5. The Great Wall : Deep green ravine with hidden 2 T-Rex 🦖 Dinosaurs
6. Caves Of Kaliya : Dark pit with boulder and 10 poisonous Cobra🐍 snakes.
7. The Great Pyramid: Showdown with the huge legless mutant on high platform.
8. Temple Of Xian : Spooky dark cave with cobwebs 🕸 and multiple 🕷spiders
9. Crash Site : Multiple Raptors suddenly appearing in Dark switch room.
10. Temple Of The Cat : Large Room with 8 static mummies that all come to life.
This is a GREAT list! I had the "raptor room" from Crash Site in 11th and the "mutant room" from The Hive in 12th, so ;) I personally find the T-Rex encounters more exciting than scary, as I don't really feel fear when I face them. That's actually a little strange :P I'm afraid of an eel, but not a T-Rex.
I barely played TR 1, but the first dinosaur appearing from the dark void and the room with the giant sledgehammer creeped me the hell out. Also from TR 2 the Opera House gave me chills.
Yeah, all of these moments are pretty scary. Good point about the dark void as well. The poor draw distance of the first game made every area feel unintentionally scary, I think.
These games terrified me as an adolescent and I think the main reason is three-fold.
Non-linear exploration; an absence of dialog/narrative and the low-poly graphics.
The level that represents this the most for me as a child was The Opera House. I may have mentioned this before on another comment, but game systems didn't have the power to fully represent in detail complex realistic environments. They could only *suggest* them. Places such as caves were easy to evoke because they don't require much detail but an Opera House is incredibly ornate and Tomb Raider 2 does not accomplish the task of rendering it. So what you are left with is this odd space that doesn't feel real that is incredibly dark and confusing to navigate. The atmosphere made me feel ill and even today I struggle with that level. It feels dreamlike but its not meant to be. It's amazing
I absolutely love this comment, and how you put this into words. I feel the exact same way, but had no idea how to describe it. This is something that old games actually benefit from, where the "accidental stylistic" graphics add something unique that games with photorealistic graphics can't really do.
@@AxMania The modern Tomb Raiders (and unfortunately most triple A games in general) also Don't. Shut. Up.
They are constantly feeling you either diagetic or internal dialog. Be it characters talking or the game just telling you how to play the game.
If you counted the amount of dialog in the first Tomb Raider it would barely be enough for even the first 10 minutes of most modern big budget games.
People don't like feeling alone, I get it. But damn it ruins the atmosphere
@@novelezra You are so right. I agree completely. I love the Uncharted games so much, but I think this is something those games kind of introduced, for both good and bad. It works in those games, because they are light-hearted and "summer blockbuster"-games, but Tomb Raider should be different. In my opinion, anyways.
@@AxMania Uncharted is fantastic (at least when Amy Hennig is doing them. But I won't get into my anti Uncharted 4 rant right now...) but yes you couldn't be more correct. People say Metal Gear started it but MGS kept the dialog actually AWAY from the game. Then it seemed like in the PS3/360 era that no game was complete without essentially listening to a fucking podcast. Don't get me wrong, I adore Alan Wake and others but damn, I miss the old days(
Good list, rx tech mines definitely deserve no.1 spot. Other things that weren't mentioned:
- tr3 piranhas. I was freaking scared of getting into water
- tr3 temple ruins were downright terrifying, especially the living statues
- tr3 dinosaurs, raptors in dark rooms gave me some jumpscares, but the t-rex takes the cake. That was my 1st t-rex encounter and I remembered staying crouched down perfectly still for several minutes hoping it couldn't see me
- tr4 bull. Unnerving when it was charging at Lara
- tr4 cairo. Very eerie feeling overall
Really good picks. I actually initially had the raptor room in 10th place, but picked the cannibal village instead. I think I might remake this video some day, as I think some entries could be merged to make room for more.
Spider cave in the Temple of Xian is the number one for me 😅
Haha, completely understandable! :D
This is a great video, as always. I think my top three scary moments are:
1. RX Tech-Mines (especially that Jump Scare. I screamed very loud the first time)
2. The freaking spider cave (Dark room, where giants spiders just fly in your face... Noooo)
3. The Yeti room in TR2 (The noise they made with the darkness were too much for me)
I rank it that way, because those were points, where I just stopped playing the game as a kid, because I was too damn scared to go on.
I also wanna throw in Home sweet home from TR2. I was like "nice, I've beaten the game. Wait.. What the hell is going on? What am I supposed to do now? Okay, no I'll quit the game right here." It was really scary for me, because Laras Home was always my safespot. Nothing could happen you there and I've spend so much time there practicing for my first adventure. Seriously Croft Manor at night is pretty scary.
Thanks for this great halloween scary video! I really enjoyed it. :)
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I obviously agree with all those three, as they made my top 10. Definitely some of the most terrifying moments. I agree with Home Sweet Home as well, and I also featured it briefly in the intro. Croft Manor is kind of creepy in daylight too, I think, because of how empty it is, with all those hallways and so on, but at night it's SO much worse.
Thank you, I'm so glad to hear that! :)
TR3 is the scariest for me as well. I remember playing it as a child and having to take several breaks because of all the heart-attacks XD
Haha, yes, exactly. It's funny how the Tomb Raider games aren't considered horror, considering how scary they are!
I think Tomb Raider 3 has the most jump-scares from all the games. I could be wrong but at least they were that effective that they stayed in my mind very vividly. The retro Tomb Raider games had in common that they had a very dark vibe. And since as a child i was aspecting a fun action-adventure I was caught off guard by its sinister atmosphere. Silence is so powerful in this game. Always creating tension. Then you have this insane tense scores and the sound effects. Man I love these games so much.
Yes! I’m not the only one who thinks of Tomb Raider as part horror games! Its atmosphere and music is soooo unsettling at times 😰 great video and editing as always !! ❤
Haha, it's crazy how scary those classic Tomb Raider games are, considering they are not even horror games. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! 🥰
@@AxMania You got that right! It’s funny how the Tomb Raider games were my first exposure to scary and horror elements, even though I’ve played horror games like Silent Hill or Resident Evil growing up.
I’ve never played any of the expansions, as they were on PC. Plus, the secrets were hard to find in Tomb Raider III, that I never got around to playing All Hallows.
I will say, even though some of the graphics haven’t aged well, the atmosphere and scary moments are still intact 😉
Great video, AxMania! What video is the footage of Lara running in the rain from? Just curious - great way of introducing each moment, along with Lara’s iconic scream
The core design will always be the best in the spirit of Tomb Raider games. It was always based on the essence of the first game!
Yeah, I agree completely. After Core Design, the games became more... superficial? Arcady? Not sure how to describe it.
13:29 = OMG! 😳. That scared the heck out of me! I’m glad you put that as your number 1 pick. That is my number 1 pick, too, AxMania! Not to mention, the music used for it is scary too.
Haha, yes, it's so scary!!!
I really miss the old scary thing in tomb raider games 😭
Me too ☹️
@@AxMania Me also 😞
the sound track and the games graphics will always make things more scarier for me and I love it. Being scared is a fun feeling while playing games sometimes
Yeah, I agree.
Not gonna Lie,you had me at the first Laras scream xD But anyways Please do not never ever stop with making these videos! Greetings, Chris!
Hahaha, I'm sorry! Thank you so much, I won't!
Your number two on this list has always been my personal scariest TR moment. But like you said, the whole level RX Mines is scary, which is also one of my favorite TR levels across the series.
It's great how you make these kind of videos of my favorite video game series. I just found your channel, thanks to my brother whose videos you apparently also watch (Shadowmano) 😄
Yes, it's so damn creepy! Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Ah, cool! :D Yes, and even made his channel logo ;)
@@AxMania Yeah, he told me about it. That's freaking awesome! Also considering his channel isn't too big. Thanks man :)
10:59 YES! This scared the living daylights out of me when I played TR2 for the first time last year!
Great video, BTW! Just about everything here has given me the creeps while playing TR! Even 1:30!
It's so unfair. Just... why, Core Design!?
The god tower in st francis folly in Tomb Raider 1 is one special video game experience i still remember after 15 years. Imo the tomb raider 1 has best levels. The chaotic music in first bear part still gives me creeps
Haha, yeah. The lightning bolt and the hammer are pretty scary!
@@AxMania also the atlas was very scary in first time
11:21 MY favorite part of the entire video 🤩
😂
Talking of jump scares... I jumped while watching this video. Good selection, time for me to revisit some of these levels to see if they are still as scary.
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Love this content dude! These games always had really scary moments that would freeze me from wanting to continue as a kid. Memorable moments being:
1. Tomb Raider 3 Entering the temple finally in the India levels, and seeing the first Shiva statue. It looked like it wanted to come to life and kill me and I didnt want to go into the room :)
2. Tomb raider 4 in the starting levels when you encounter the coffin that you have to lure the unkillable mummy out in order to access the tunnel behind it. First time encountering an unkillable enemy in a tomb raider game and it was scary!
On a recent replay though I found the Crash Site level of tomb raider 3 to be the scariest thing i've done in awhile. Pure anxiety in the dark raptor room...
Thank you so much! These are all great examples of the horrifying moments of this series. The "raptor room" was just outside my top 10, actually. That part is really disturbing!
As a kid I remember beating TR2 on the PS1 with my dad. I can recall 3 moments that petrified me.
1) Floating Islands - The whole eerie atmosphere, the floating guards and the outworldly feel of this level was so scary, that I couldn't play it alone - no chance.
2) Yetis - just like on this list, I hated the dark drop and the constant roaring.
3) The whole "water chapter" of TR2... First it's the swimming controls, second the suffocation animation, third is thalassophobia
Yeah, all of these are really scary. Floating Islands has this creepy fever dream-quality to it, because of how strange it looks and feels as well.
I'm always sooooo happy to see original tomb raider content. Great video! You earned a subscriber! That being said....... i absolutely HATED the screaming lara transitions lol
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Hahaha, yeah, I hadn't really thought that through ;) After a while, that scream every 50 seconds or so gets on your nerves, doesn't it? Sorry :P
The Shiva statues always gave me the creeps. Great video!
Yup. The India section in general is very scary, I think.
The sharks in TR2 always make my heart race. I absolutely dread any part where they appear.
Haha, anything that can kill you in the depths is pretty damn terrifying, really 😐
The yeti temple is my rank one. When the scene pushes me to the point that nothing in TR scares me ever again afterwards, it's pretty clear cut for me. xD
Haha, very good point. It is indeed terrifying.
I can’t decide how to rank them but here are my top spots:
*The corpses in the All Hallows’ sewer.* Their rotten rags as well as their skulls and claws make them look like dementors from Harry Potter. There’s the mutant versions in Lost Artefact too.
*Sleeping with the Fishes and 40 Fathoms (mostly the former) being so deep underwater, that there is nothing but inky blackness above.* Lara can’t even try to surface in Sleeping with the Fishes as riptide currents carry her back to the sea caves under the channel tunnel, but at least there’s dolphins to cheer her up instead of TR2’s sharks.
*The atmosphere of the catacombs of the talion and ice palace.* I had spooky dreams (not exactly nightmares, not exactly pleasant) about these caves as well as the RX Tech Mines except a lot darker and there were several avalanches and the falling icicles replaced with falling piles of snow. The yeti as well as dark crevasses before the gong don’t help.
*3 occasions where Lara is nearly killed (or **_is_** killed) by deadly swimming pool drains.* In TR1, she is sucked down in the Neptune room but instead of being held against the drain’s cover, she is dumped in a tiny side room and she has to turn off the drain’s suction current before she drowns. In TR2, it’s an actual swimming pool in the barkhang monastery. The waterfall splashes on the surface above the drain’s grate from air bubbles escaping in the pipe are a bad sign. As soon as Lara enters the pool, the drain suction current tries to suck her down to the “safety” grill and hold her against it until she drowns, just like badly built pool drains in real life. She’s lucky she doesn’t get disembowelled.
In TR3, the drain is in a satellite’s coolant vent tank in High Security Compound. Lara needs to close a valve in order to survive entering the sump or else she is sucked into the drain and shredded alive by the pump. The latter two of these, coupled with nightmares and real pool drain grates burning my feet as well as looking scary are why I hate pool drains with a passion. When I learned they really could kill and I accidentally guessed right the way how as a toddler in my mind, that didn’t help.
*The atmosphere and design of all China levels sans Great Wall.* These levels evoke an irrational fear I had in my childhood that I’m not proud of, started by an episode of Rupert set in China, complete with creepy music stings, my introduction to dragons, deranged animation making a smaller dragon pull nightmare faces and the fires of Hell from the big one. TR2’s China levels remind me of that fear with similar textures to the emperor’s palace in the show, lots of deep lava and the origin of TR3’s Tinnos ambiance. The hellish look of the flowing lava in Floating Islands, the whole Xen look of that level and the jade warriors don’t help any. Bartoli in dragon form is tame by comparison.
*The atmosphere, mutants and darkness of Antarctica.* Similar reason you gave except I also add Tinnos to that list with its mutant Polynesians who were left behind, and the wasps. The meteorite cavern seems to be located on the slopes of Mt Erebus, right next to the lava chamber.
*Set being entombed in TR4.* His sarcophagus is not only an iron maiden but it’s also electrified. We even see him getting impaled by it in first person before it cuts to his blood draining out. The amulet stems the blood but removing it makes it flow again and flood some nearby pits. Lara can swim in Set’s blood too.
*Arnaud being partially melted by Eckhardt’s glove in TR6.* The entire left side of his body looks like a waxwork was left too close to an open gas flame, left to twist and deform into a soup of elemental silver and other metals. Eckhardt may even have (according to Murti Schofield’s notes) have ripped out not just transmuted elements from his body but his thyroid gland too which he ate raw and pumping, before turning the rest of Arnaud’s body to silver to disguise his handiwork. The thing is we don’t know if Arnaud just survived or if Eckhardt let him live and suffer to serve as a warning to Bouchard.
*Dr Kristina Boaz being fed to a spidery bio pod.* The “mouth” of this thing is sure to set off anyone with trypophobia, due to its mangled gills everywhere with barely any room to fit something as large as Boaz inside. The worst part is that it is not a mouth: it’s a vagina. The pod matures from its chrysalis stage into a sort of giant spider/scorpion hybrid, with Boaz still poking out of its labia during the boss fight, serving as the first weak point to aim for. She’s then quite literally reborn as a giant mosquito girl, and not the cute kind either. Needless to say, you have to fight her too.
*The giant eel in Living Quarters*
*The design of Atlantis in TRAE.* Unlike Crystal, Core Design really pulled out all the stops in their remake of TR1. Atlantis doubles down on the gore and fleshiness of the original, with decorative teeth lining the opening hatchery with huge nerves running through conduits above. The lava chute room requires Lara to climb inside a giant artery to exit. The main lava shaft now has a huge column held up by chains in the middle with lava falls coming in through cracks around the sides. The column is actually a giant brain stem, whose brain is just outside where the old scion room used to be. Now the scion is implied to go in the middle of a large platform on top of the brain, with computers hooked up to it as a sort of interface. It implies the scion is a biotech CD designed to decode and read the brain’s thoughts and vice versa. Then there’s the potential design of the biotech War Machine/Kyodai Natla Robo Natla would have piloted during the new final boss, as well as the gameplay description of its level in the design doc.
All of these are great examples. I probably should've made a top 25 or so instead. 40 Fathoms, and those underwater "suction" deaths in particular should've been featured. I'll get around to Angel of Darkness next year, I hope, so I can finally start ranking stuff from that game as well. Thank you for your comment, it was a very interesting read.
I’ll never forget the first time that giant mutant jumped out in that dark noisy room in Antarctica, I SHAT myself x
Yes, it's absolutely terrifying. That feels straight up like a horror game, honestly.
That eel might be the best (worst ?) jumpscare I've had in my entire life
I think "both" is the right answer 😉
First of all, grab video as always!
Secondly, I never even thought of that regarding Atlantis. Great observation.
Finally, great ranking. For me though, the scariest moment will always be the statue coming to life in India. My friend and I playing it that first time were so scared...we got my younger sister to come in and kill it for us! Haha! We were wimps!
Three for sure has the scariest moments, the atmosphere is so creepy and the music!
Love your videos man. One of my favourite YT creators.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words! The Shiva statues in India are incredibly terrifying, and they come from out of nowhere! Plus, they are a real pain in the ass to kill, because of how they shield themselves from Lara's bullets.
Again, thank you so much. That means a lot to me!
No T-Rex in the first Tomb Raider?
That’s such an iconic scary moment because up to that point you really don’t see that coming
I never found the T-Rex scary, actually 😮 That's more exciting than downright scary, if that makes sense?
Enjoy watching your videos! TR all the way to Chronicles on PS1 are my favorites. Tomb Raider II is definitely my favorite.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Those classics are so good. The best video games ever made, in my opinion.
@@AxMania I dunno about you, but I hope they do remasters of them. Probably make them a lot longer and better.
lmao, at 5:24 I thought the black scuttling bats were a spider at first glance. When you're looking for horror, I guess your mind will give it to you lol.
Haha, exactly! When you play a horror game, the constant anticipation that something terrible is about to happen, makes you afraid of everything :D
Your OG tomb raider videos are 10/10.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! :)
You fully warned me about the jump scare of number 3, and it STILL got me real good.
Haha, sorry! Or, well, I shouldn't apologize. The eel should!
11:05 was when jumped out of my chair and I stopped playing for a week. Its not that the eel itself is that scary but the tense atmosphere and DOZENS OF THINGS that can kill you in many ways is what makes you really jumpy.
Yup, it's awful! It's just not cool to place that... "thing"... around a corner in a dark cave. Seriously.
I've been sick like a dog all week, and this video is just the thing I needed to make me feel a little better :)
Ugh, that sucks. Get well soon! Thank you so much!
As a speedrunner and playing all those games, your list is absolutely relatable. Very good work. 💕
Haha, I can imagine! Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! ☺️
@@AxMania Most welcome! 💕
@@KrystalCroft Just had a quick look at your channel, I want to check out your speedrun videos 😃
@@AxMania Hope it was also entertaining! 💕
Lara's House, hearing Winston's cough, knowing he's getting closer and closer.
Yup, Winston is so damn creepy.
I agree with your ranking! I remember being constantly terrified while playing this game!
I'm glad I'm not alone, haha!
So glad you put Antarctica in here. I love both the level and that section of the game as it really reminded me of 'John Carpenter's The Thing' which is a classic to me. For me, the scariest bit in Tomb Raider, when I was a kid this was, was when you start Sanctuary Of The Scion in the original game, and two atlanteans come running down the steps at you. And the noises they make to this day, still sounds awful.
The Thing is one of my all-time favorite movies, so I appreciate the nods to that movie in Tomb Raider III as well. I think they have nailed that atmosphere of dread and isolation perfectly!
Haha, yes! It's pretty intimidating those horrible creatures rushing down towards you, right at the beginning of the level!!! 😅
Oooooh! I love the third part of Tomb Raider! I've been walking through it on my Sony playstation for almost a YEAR (when I was 15 y.o. in 2000-2001)! This game was my first playstation CD that I bought (without even having my own console yet!) in the hope that someday I will play it. The fact is that my parents were very disapproving of my spending money ("And why did you buy it? You'd better buy yourself something else!"). And, in order not to be scolded for "wrong spending", I had to hide the game.
I hid this game from my parents for more than a year (!!!), until they finally bought me a console.
And when you started talking about the scary moments of this game, I immediately remembered that mutated scientist and a big monster (but I remember the one in some dark cave. And the sound of his appearance was the same as in your case).
Thank you for the great and interesting video!
Hahaha, I love this story, thank you for sharing! 😃 I miss these times so much, where you just spent AGES on the same game, and it felt like the doors to a whole new world opened, when you finally did advance. Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it!
Tomb Raider might not be a horror game, but TR1 Atlantis is one of the scariest places from all PS1 games. I'm sorry, but Resident Evils and Silent Hills have nothing on meaty Atlantis. They have their scary stuff of course, but mansions and police stations are far more comfortable places to be in, than a room that looks like inside of someone's body 🤢
The Giant Eel might be the worst TR enemy of all. Most people will remember bosses and rooms, but hardly anyone remembers that one eel. It scares me the same EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Haha, "meaty Atlantis", eww. I agree. That place is straight up nightmare fuel. The constant sound of a beating heart also adds to the disturbing atmosphere of that place.
God, I hate that eel so much. I definitely remember it, and I don't think I'll ever forget it 😅 Unfortunately. I don't even like to do that part of the level now - as an adult!
The eel is for me the worst. Every time I replay TR2, it freaks me out. The sound, the speed of the attack, the fact that it is so close to the camera and the look of the eel itself, all of it is terrifying. Sometimes I forget about it and the jump scare hit me hard, and sometimes I remember what awaits me and I don't really want to go in there...
Haha, yes! It's like it's straight out of a nightmare. Everything about it is so disturbing!
These games are full of jump scares 😂 but I love them so much haha
Me too. I even love them for their jumpscares too ;)
Very good and funny video. I agree with lots of picks here. I will also add an aquaduct in Rome and crazy Sphinx level from first Tomb Raider
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Yes, they are great examples as well. Especially with the mutants that rush down the stairs in the Sphinx level!