Was it Good? - Tomb Raider 2
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Lara Croft returns oin the hunt for the mythical dagger of Xian.
China, Venice, The deep ocean, Tibet then to the etheral dream world of mystical floating jade statues, Tomb Raider 2 is more of the same, but with a few new tricks, a lot more traps, and unfortunately, vehicles.
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my mum passed away three weeks ago and i will never forget the christmas when she got me a playstation with alien trilogy, final fantasy 7, and tomb raider 2. we played tomb raider 2 all christmas and into the new year. she loved watching me play games
thank you for this video, i will watch it with mum in mind
I'm sorry for your loss. It sounds like your mom was an awesome person. ♥
Sending some ❤ - in about two weeks it'll be a year since losing my brother. He showed me everything I know really. He liked tomb raider back in the day. GTA was his favorite.
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Bet you never beat alien trilogy, that game is unreal hard
Sorry for your loss
Cheers for the shoutout! It sounds like you're enjoying the remasters as much as I am 🥂💖
Oh my-bless you for being we all need when replaying these classics.
Stella! You're the hero of Tombraider playthroughs!!
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Its amazing how universal the memory of locking the butler in the freezer is pre youtube and all the social media
Right? No matter where in the world you are from or how old you where, we all did it.
😂😂Good times
as soon as he did that bit I had completely forgotten I did the same thing! LOL
Its hilarious as I did the same thing but had completely forgotten about doing that
Hear Hear! 🔔
One of my favourite things about this series is seeing what happens in all of these games that I couldn't get past the first level as a child.
8 year old me was stuck on the great wall level the first area for 9 months.. i accidentally found the opening at the top of the section after countless hours trying to find where to go.. but boy the excitement i felt when I saw more of the game after 9 months running around the same area was prob the happiest part of my whole childhood xD
There are dinosaurs in level 1, at the final zipline you can take a path to the final secret and fight two of them.
2 T-Rex was mind blowing 🤯
Clarification: you need to drop down and grab the ledge INSTEAD of going down the zipline.
Was a bit surprised this wasnt mentioned
He...he just skipped the t-rexes???
I played tomb raider a lot as a kid and never noticed them. It's only when I watched a youtube video 10 years ago that I found out there were dinosaurs in TR2.
i was thinking yesterday that i hadn't seen a video of yours in a while. glad we're connecting via our minds
Bro wtf same
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Same here
But, and just hear me out here, wouldn't you rather connect via your genitals?
Woah literally the same here 😳
I was scrolling through both his channels to make sure I didn't miss a recent upload 😅
The first game had loads of full jumps right from the early levels, it wasn’t mostly reserved for the later stages. Grabbing diagonal ledges was also fairly frequent in the first game as well. Walking through spikes etc to not take damage was also a part of the first game.
"Mandatory damage" is such a strange concept. Most games have ways to prevent fall damage but Tomb Raider is just like "you will take the pain and like it."
In the lore Lara Croft must be breaking her ankles like 4 times a week.
Or she has the strongest ankles in human history lol
accidentally saving instead of loading and needing to restart the game taught me a valuable lesson.
Leapfrog saves and keep a backup.
hit f5 to save
@@NarqueInstructions unclear. Can't find the f5 button on the playstation controller.
@@gameguy1337 haha yeah for console i guess you gotta just be carefull not to load when u want to save XD
@@Narque it's worse when it's the opposite, and you save instead of loading. I softlocked myself twice in Remaster already, box near blade trap in Great Pyramid of 1 and saving while sliding down the ramp in Oil Rig in 2. Spot with fires below.
@@KasumiRINA it also feels more your fault when you save instead of loading, since you had to navigate to the save screen manually. All ya gotta do is be careful, and work to build the muscle memory. Keep you finger away from the action button until you're certain you're about to perform the action you want to. Takes time, but eventually becomes as second nature as the tank controls.
Hey Josh, two things I'd like to point out after the Great Wall section:
1.: each level has 3 secrets and the game rewards you for finding all 3 of them in a single level by giving you health packs/ammunitions and sometimes even weapons. For example, if you find all 3 Dragons in the Great Wall level, you will get the grenade launcher early on
2.: you missed the secret easter egg/bonus area at the end of the Great Wall: before using the zipline, you can actually make your way to the bottom of the pit where you'll find not one, but two T-Rexes and the third Dragon of the level
Pretty sure the T-rexes also protect the grenade launcher (its not an end of mission reward, its a ground pickup), much like the early pickup Uzi is hidden in a ceiling hole in Venice.
@@daemonbane1 You get the grenade launcher for getting all 3 secrets in great wall
If he missed these then I do know what to think 🤔😢
I was thinking the same about the T-Rexes!
Oh I remember this one :D
36:40 Nah Remaster didn't add that, it somehow lost the water effects in classic mode. You can see it doesnt include backgrounds distorting when behind water, the sheen that changes water color with a gradient, or translucent ripples. All these effects and sound muffling were in original game but are strangely absent in Remaster's classic mode are absent.
I think Tomb Raider 3 was the game where; in a Jungle environment, you're able to shoot something hanging from a vine that you need. When I got to this section after playing all 3 games with my Grandmother in a row, we got stuck on this puzzle for an entire morning+afternoon. We only realised it was shootable because I drew Laras guns and she aimed at it. This was a mechanic never used throughout the entirety of the other games.
She had to shoot a Scion in the final level of the first game. You never know unless you take guns out... She also aims at a mummy earlier but it's more of an Easter egg.
@@KasumiRINA Really?! Dude I don't even remember that, it must have been so brief!
@@Conighttonight Yeah, see throne room in Tomb of Qualopec, where there's a sitting skeleton and two mummies near. One looks at you. It won't fight but if you shoot it, it lunges forward and falls down.
And there's the Scion room where Lara fights Natla in a cutscene, they fall, next level is you getting back up so you go back into that room and shoot the thing, after which the whole pyramid starts collapsing.
TR4 and 5 have more objects you have to shoot objects for puzzles, but they usually give you laser sight weapons when that happens. From the top of my head, you shoot at locks, at a bell in Rome, and at switches in Cairo.
Yes, i remember that puzzle as well. Was also stuck for most of the day lol.
I think the worst case of this is in TR 4 where it’s heavy on puzzle interactions that you have to basically guess what you can interact with or not.
@@KasumiRINAi remember being stuck in the scion area saying what the f do i....and than i did it. And than got roadblocked again in the arrow hallway
Oh dear god the Venice level had BOATS? i SWAM everywhere... no wonder i could never beat it.
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Ironically the swimming option is kinda useful
There's a timed door... but the time ticks down on audio cues
You can't hear the audio while underwater and you can go underneath the mines that would trash your boat
So you can just leisurely swim to the end of the level with an infinite timer
@@BlueMageDaisen you are swimming too slow for the timer so the entire 2nd half of the level is opening two gates to get a shortcut for the boat. HOWEVER, if instead of going to the ramp you swim through a small opening to the left after pushing the button that opens the end level gate, game doesn't trigger the timer. I only found it out in the remaster but it was always like that.
@@KasumiRINAwhat he meant is that the timer doesn't run when underwater(on some version, dunno), so the timer doesn't matter.
My father and I played these games together when i was young. he passed away a few years ago. fuck cancer. Tomb Raider 2 was our favorite.
Sorry about your loss brother. I lost my mother 4 weeks ago. Crushing. Stay strong.
Sorry to hear about your loss. You should play the new remasters, they’re very good. It’s nostalgia thru the roof.
My dad introduced me to Double Dragon by dropping a coin in, calling me over and saying "Here, hit this button".
Fuck cancer.
Cancer got my pops too. Fuck cancer .
I suspect locking enemies in rooms like the butler was never used because while every player locked him in the freezer, it was not intended and it never occurred to the devs.
Useful tip for fighting dudes with guns (there will be more of them in TR3): Get behind them and don't let them face you. Then you won't take damage. The rolling button is your best friend for that.
Was looking for this comment. Gun enemies in TR2 are hard only when you're facing them. Their AI is quite dull, so getting behind them and then roll when they turn around makes it possible to take no damage at all. Can be challenging with multiple enemies, or enemies that are on high ledges, but you won't encounter those too often.
@@puliego3650exactley it actually makes the combat the easiest of the 3 games until later because u get a pick up after every fight
Tommy Tallarico was actually the first American to ever work on the Tomb Raider 2 team.
his mother is very proud
I really appreciate how Tommy did all the artwork for the game, voiced Lara Croft, designed the levels and single-handedly cured cancer in his spare time. That was nice of him.
Well, actually Tommy was the first American to ever work in the whole games industry, proven fact
i can hear the damned logo sound "tommy tallarico studios"
@@Oroberus Nolan Bushnell and Atari take all the credit, but we all know it was Tommy. Tommy also invented open-heart surgery and gave a woman the very first vaginal orgasm.
8:30 his mother is very proud
Tommy?
She must be, he has worked in 6 thousand games just between the release of tomb raider 1 and 2
he recently sold his house - quite a view
Jokes aside, butler was voiced by Nathan McCree, the game's composer.
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Just have to say, I have been pretty sick recently and I have watched this video in bursts when I could. It has genuinely made me feel less bad. Even if only for an hour an a half, this actively made my life better than it would have been without it. Cheers Josh. You did good.
Damn I loved tomb raider 1-3. I was 9 when TR2 was released and played it so much. It is incredible how patient we all were at the young age and took dozens of hours finding out where to go. I bet my older me isn't patient enough to beat the game. I currently also play older games from NES and SNES and my god I am so bad. Just tried street fighter 2 on SNES and I couldn't even beat the first enemy. Really shows how we were used to hard clunky things back then and aren't it anymore.
If you want a modern game which has same vibes as Street Fighter, I recommend you Mother Russia Bleeds. Try to pass this game without healing yourself (spoiler: no usage of syringes will lead you to good ending).
My dad, uncle and myself beat this together when I was young.
Quite nostalgic.
Me, my two sisters,mum and dad used to sit around the PC together and play Tomb Raider or LucasArts games... We never understood the stigma of the lonely gamer kids 😂
One of my earliest memory is watching mine dad play this game.
There's nothing quite like the 90's adventure games.
My grandfather was in his 50s and was never a gamer before or after tomb raider on the ps1.
He played chess and did crosswords,
Tomb raider is a perfect game for people inclined to use their brain.
It’s a mature game of brainpower thinking, hand eye coordination and the ability to think outside of the box.
These fundamentals are exactly why the game succeeded, it was pure brain power at the time.
It’s satisfying knowing a lot of people struggle with this game, but most people do struggle with hard things like chess or snooker or a cryptic crossword, most people aren’t bothered to want to be competent at those things becuase it requires to much effort and time.
People prefer to just play uno or a game that doesn’t rely on having to use your iq.
Been playing 28 years now and won’t be stopping in my lifetime.
My dad, uncle and myself beat a man to death in 1978 and the police turned a blind eye
@@KingLich451 BROTHER!!! Do you also have DooM in those early memories?
I remember my dad driving me over an hour away to buy a second hand copy of Tomb Raider II that we saw for sale in a magazine. The level of excitement in that journey and first booting up the game was through the roof.
Cannot believe you didn’t reference the two T rex’s on the first level. One of the best secret’s in any game, let alone the TR series.
This is one of my favourite series on TH-cam at the moment. Thanks for the great second monitor entertainment.
22:53 No don't tank the damage. You gotta get behind the enemies and stay behind them so they can't shoot you. This is where the mid air flip is key.
There wasn't a tutorial for Josh to know that.....
And you would know this how? Exactly.
@@WhoShorts_ It was quite common in games from that period to not fully explain the mechanics, so the players had to read guides or figure it out themselves, which personally I had no issues doing as 10 year old. However, I do agree with Josh that the tutorial in this game is lacking a lot compared to the one in TR1. And as for using the jump flip during combat, well that is up to the player to be creative with the mechanics the game offers, a characteristic that is severely lacking in modern games.
@@WhoShorts_ I knew this at eight years old just by playing the game.
Yes, these games are for people with a brain. No hand holding!
I think you missed two important things about this game
1) you can actually avoid gunfire damage by jumping side to side or by rolling behind enemies (they turn slowly and won’t shoot while turning)
2) the game rewards exploration with guns and ammo (especially finding all secrets) which in turn makes combat way way easier. It’s entirely possible to beat the game and never fire lara’s default pistols past venice. The added firepower removes much of the frustration about combat and, personally, I even find it fun.
I also had childhood nightmares spurned by this game, especially one in which I was swimming in this colossal, pitch black tank full of water and no matter how hard I tried, I never made it to the surface… the 40 fathoms level really made an impression on kid me lmao.
Great video btw.
He also claims you can be softlocked by running out of flares, but this is only true in underwater areas because you can use pistol muzzle flash as a (shitty) light source.
So, you can be soft locked by running out of flares just before an underwater section? @@mrvenom88
@@mrvenom88i always thought they were the better flares, as they are infinite. :D
My childhood nightmare was caused by the deathscreen from Crash Bandicoot Warped.
Child me couldn't understand what Uka Uka was saying which made it even creepier.
They show how to fight gun enemies in the game's attract screen demo! The one with rats. I forgot about it, but yeah it wasn't designed with tanking damage in mind. It's just half of TR1 enemies can be easily cheesed by climbing on a block so they needed to add opponents that need more involved combat in the sequel. Last Revelation ups that by making enemies block most of your shots (except a satisfying point blank shotgun) and skeletons that need explosions or headshots to be killed. Really great game, I see TR4 an 2 as the best ones.
I remember the butler giving me jump scares as a kid when he comes in around the corners lol.
TR2 is my all time favorite game followed closely by TR3. Love this in-depth video.
Oh my God it's the first Sequel video of any of the games covered in this channel!
I can't wait to see more Golden Sun, God of War and Armored Core in here!
I'm hopeful for a new Devil May Cry or Silent Hill video
Can’t wait to see how he copes with TR3. lol
I am patiently waiting for God of War
@@ShadeTheNightWing Devil May Cry 2 is one of the experiences of all time, for sure
@@WoobertAIO I can only imagine all the things that would be said
I helped my older brother kill the dragon back when this first came out. He cheesed it behind a column and wouldn't stop shooting after seeing that it revives. I asked him about the thing on its chest after it fell over for the fifth time and asked if that's the dagger from the intro movie. He said yes, and I said that he should try pulling it out because that's how the dragon died in the cutscene.
i helped my brother beat the final boss in Yoshi's Island
"I am nine inches, which is also the height of this plushie." Bravo, Josh, tickled me silly. 😂
Poor Josh wasn't clever enough to finish the video with "what? You want me to review Tomb Raider 3? Pfft, don't you think you've seen enough?" Escaping his cruel fate.
it's so lovely to hear about your thalassophobia in the level (diving area) that directly precedes one of the most famously thalassophobic places in videogame history (40 fathoms)
I find running around barefooted in a rusty old ship way more terrifying
@@saschaberger3212 Maybe the medkits all feature tetanus shots lol
That area after the sub crashes at the beginning of the 40 fathoms level scared the shit out of me as a kid lol
@@kyucumbearlol
I feel so validated that I'm not the only one freaked out by the deep water in Diving Area and 40 Fathoms. In fact, I also had recurring nightmares as a kid about Tomb Raider, only mine was being trapped in the opening part of 40 Fathoms, and even if I paused the game, the sharks would still eat me.
I found Tomb Raider very scary as a kid, but for some bizarre reason, all of my TR-related dreams weren't nightmares but "eureka" moments where I found a path that wasn't there before in an area I was stuck... only to wake up and see it's not there. 40 Fathoms was scariest probably, drowning, unlike dragon attacks, is a real danger.
Those great white sharks freaked me out so you weren't the only one. Starting the mission underwater with everything so dark and having to basically fumble your way around knowing that a bunch of sharks are after you was terrifying.
The whole Atlantis location in the 1st Tomb Raider was a nightmare fuel for any very young player. Pulsing walls with flesh and meat, gorrific Atlantean monsters who act crazy, scream like animals and take a lot of your health, a lot of scary traps. GIANT BALLS ON WALLS which make you fear they explode and throw another Atlantean on you if you even sneeze near them. Even switches were horrific cause they had sprites of torsos.
The mini-boss looking like a flesh-and-bones monkey-like giant monster with no legs, which, if it grabs you, instantly kills you by smashing your body on the ground like you're some kind of toy and then throwing you away after it gets bored playing with you.
Yup. Even the inside of the ship was freaky.
I am so happy that Josh Strife covers up my favourite franchise. TR 3-4 holds a special place in my heart. They were the first video games that I owned and played non-stop with my late father, discussed with my friends at school. Figuring out a new secret path or ending a level felt sooo rewarding.
I played through both games with my father watching and remembering old times 3 years ago. After his passing, I sealed these games as my memory relics. Everytime I want to remember times with him, I just pop in one of these and travel back 20 years in time.
Thank you Josh.
If I remember right, the training course outside the Mansion has a set of pistols hidden under one of the obstacles, the wooden course in the sand. I didn't play these much as a kid but I watched my aunts and uncles play them all the time.
Josh danced with Lara Croft, noice.
Big pimp
"They should call me pimp daddy Payne" -Major Payne.
One thing I noticed when I was younger I'm not sure many people know is that the audio track in the opening cinematic when all the arrows are shot is the same one they used in Braveheart in the first big war when they fling all the arrows at the Scots.
I had to go back and forth between them over and over until I was sure. It's like the most random game trivia lol I always thought the second dude to get shot sounded familiar.
Not sure if it's some bought clip or they ripped it off the movie.
Thank you for confirming my long founded suspcions as a kid. I abused my dads Braveheart VHS because I kept going back and forth between that scene and the game trying to see if I was right. I thought I was just crazy all this time.
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There are TONS of stock sounds used in Tomb Raider. Someone made a compilation of all movies and TR using the "roll" sound for various falls and many other sounds are taken from audio libraries so yeah good catch!
An awful lot of sound effects from film, television, and video games are pulled from the same standard libraries that have been around for decades. Every so often, you'll get a game where they deliberately pull specific sound effects from a different specific source (like the original Golden Axe pulling its enemy death screams from the film "First Blood"), but there's a massive standard library of sounds like swords being drawn/sheathed, arrows being fired, people screaming, footsteps across various surfaces, flickering fire, and creaking doors that show up across varied media. I'm pretty sure this is the case with the Tomb Raider games, although I'm not 100% positive and happy to be proven wrong if someone knows better. :)
I always get excited when I hear Darkstalkers sound effects in other games/media, because it's a kinda obscure franchise, but I also think those sound effects come from another source, too.
I have just finished binging most of this series, so delighted to have another! Thanks Josh!
Another great video. I really love your approach to the revisits.
Watching new people play the remastered games and having issues with the tank controls makes me feel like a god, especially with the vehicles. If you play these games enough you start to understand the flow of the grid layout. Controlling Lara begins to feel smooth and extremely satisfying. And to touch on your point about being able to climb things that might not be obvious, I ran around Bartoli's Hideout for hours before remembering I could climb the bookshelves.
I think vehicles control exactly the same besides the button layout being changed around
Bartoli's Hideout has several places like that. First is in the opening hall, where there is a useless block at the top and a few ledges and a balcony with a goon... you don't need ANY of that, she can jump up from the ground level and just grab the ladder, and pull up. Immediately after that there's a few balcony jumps followed by a drop to dobermans.
Another part is with the chandeliers. I couldn't figure out how to climb to the top so I just... eh... got the key by grabbing ledge early so she'd land on feet.
And finally, it's that spot that Remaster fails to improve by keeping books as flat texture, the library. Lara climbs a lot in TR2, but all surfaces before it were nets and ladders, it's TR3 and 4 that would add a lot of unconventional climbing surfaces... so people get stuck there. One of the weirdest levels in the game, but that's why I like it.
Lara controls are pretty decent for 90s but let's all colectively agree that vehicles SUCK ASS in classic TR games.
1st Tomb Raider was NOT created for vehicles and when Core was pushed by Eidos to create a 2nd game in less than a year, they took the 95% of the previous game to make it quickly. They didn't think about how TR enviroment is absolutely vehicle unfriendly. They fixed it a bit in The Last Revelation but it's still bad even for 90s game.
just shows how weetarded people have become.
the first three games are a massive nostalgia trip for me. just like tekken 3 , medievil or any ps1 game . the graphics artstyle makes me go blank and relive those moments when i played demo discs which had black backside.... or games in the small CD plastic box as if it was a music CD. late evening, warm tea, supper and tomb raider. amazing times
I have so many fond memories of this game. Awesome to see you cover it!
52:53 "Eels up inside you, finding an entrance were they can. Eels!"
That jump at the end of the bartoli hideout level is actually possible. It's in some guides as a shortcut (thanks Stella) and I did it myself while playing the remasters.
Some of the ledges behave weirdly in the way that you can't jump and grab it, but when you hold forward facing the wall and then press and hold Action, she will jump up and grab the ledge. TR1 had a ledge like this, too.
@@potchary8366It's because she can reach slightly higher with the action button than manually jumping
@@potchary8366 yeah, the second secret in Caves, the opening level. There are also a few jumps that are the other way around, you cannot forward + action them, have to jump then grab.
Good review. Back in the 90s being given unlimited saves was easier than extra level design with contextual clues (I guess)
Missing the T-Rexes in the first level probably meant Josh never noticed that getting 3 secrets gives you ammo and an early weapon as well... que sera, sera...
Just rewatched the Tomb Raider video, and got this one reccomended to me. So happy you continue this series.
Glad you gave Stella's tombraider walk through site a shout out, she's the best 😊
The Swan Dive might change jump distances somewhat, but it does also significantly increase fall damage if you do it onto land... It makes sense since Lara's diving onto ground face first using it.
Yep. I remember dying to jumps that normally I would only take a bit of damage from with the swan dive.
TR1 was special but man this game made my skin crawl so much as a kid. It really was a unique experience that we older folks will remember in the 1990's/2000's. I watched my dad play this a lot and he got me into gaming, and because of this, TR2 has a special place in my heart.
god damn i love this series. keep up the great work!
I love the way you breakdown the whole game from start to finish.
45:50 I thought I was the only one who was scared of giant faces in deep water! I thought it was too random and niche for anyone else to experience like "who would ever be scared of that?" 😂
I’m also terrified of large sea creatures but when would you ever see a face in the water?
@@GorbachophIn Fallout 4
I still love it. Playing the remake these days and already finished 1&2, working on 3. I miss games games like this. I’ve been lied to, told it was nostalgia. I miss old games.
Oddly, I found myself feeling more nostalgic watching this video than your Tomb Raider 1 video. Weird as I played TR1 when it was released, before I played TR2.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this video. A vert pleasant trip down memory lane, thank you.
I never saw you mention the T-rex in the beginning of this game, because that to me, alongside the dragon, actually was the scariest bit of the game as a kid x'D
I'm glad you found out these are horror games! :D The jump scares, the dark levels, the walls of pulsating flesh, these games are creepy
I found them scary as a child too
When you brought up saving into a death loop you took me back to why I never beat this game as a teen. I was in the temple and got to the launch pads area. I saved right before and then attempted a jump. I did it wrong and as I was about to load up my save state I accidentally saved in a death loop. I was so pissed and didn’t want to restart the level all the way from the beginning. I basically moved on and didn’t finish the game till recently on the remastered. 20 plus years of built in revenge lol
I saved myself into a death loop in the first Dead Space and never finished it as a result.
It happened to me as a kid is star wars the phantom menace ps1 on that naboo escort quest , i never played that game since😮
@@starcrysis23 that sucks and that’s a great game
@@droljanz you feel my pain then lol
The main issue was the PS1 having only a single save slot, unlike PC. Even two save slots would've alleviated that greatly
I know it wasn't a huge game, but there was a cult classic PS1 game called Dragon Seeds, published by Jericho, that was one of my absolute favorite obsessions as a kid. I'd love to see Josh cover it.
You mean Jaleco? Because Jaleco was who published that.
@@ElectricBarrier The English version of the name was Jelaco, now that you mention it yeah.
@@ThatReplyGuy Both versions are Jaleco, it's a japanese company that both developed and published games. Most of which nobody has ever heard of but sound pretty cool. I honestly need to get around to more of them.
@@ElectricBarrier Since Jelaco is pretty much a Japanified version of Jericho, I always just assumed that 2as the actual name mistranslated into English. That said, yes, many of their games are unheard of, but are quite fun nonetheless.
I hope you do all these. I remember watching my dad play the 4th every night. I might have never played any of the tomb raider games if it wasn’t for him.
10/10 content. Your first Tomb Raider video is my most often revisited Josh Plays, and I'm excited to give this one more views.
For constructive feedback, it sounds like your microphone volume really varies across the video. Particularly in the first half, I felt like there were some very loud to quiet transitions between gameplay footage voiceover and you talking into your cup mic.
I'm excited for sweaty vest gamersupps
Glad i wasn't the only one that noticed. I think every segment that showed gameplay sounded normal, but segments with cup mic aka Just Josh talking was actually noticeably lower.
Tomb Raider 2 was the first game I received with a console for Christmas in 1997 as a kid. I remember how my younger brother and I spent hours trying to figure out the puzzles that Lara had been asked to solve. Watching your material brought back an avalanche of memories and slight disbelief as to how on earth I was able to beat this game as a kid. Watching you complete the levels, I realized the incredible difficulty and complexity, combined with the player's lack of proper preparation for the challenges awaiting them. I remember feeling extremely proud of completing this title, as it was the first game on modern consoles that I had the opportunity to complete. Thank you for allowing me to bring these wonderful memories to life. I used to be unaware of the imperfections and advantages of this production, which you highlighted in your material. I'll be looking forward to any material on TR3, which I also love. Thanks again for an amazing trip down memory lane. That was an astonishing piece of work Josh.
this was also my first PlayStation game, i couldnt even make the first jump, up to then i never played a 3D game before.
@@FlameBunny yeah the 3d environment, camera movement and tank controlls was definitely something that needed time to get used to. I remember having trouble with it at the start as well. But after some time I was able to smoothly navigate whole home course without much problem.
57:52 she didnt being that old flight jacket. The pilot was wearing it when they flew to the oil rig.. it shows her finding it in the cut scene.
The framerate is sooo bad in the original.. wish you stuck with footage of the remaster.. other than that excellent video! Love this series
My most played TR as a kid. With the remaster, after some initial issues with the clunkiness, I really grew to love this game all over again. It's so fun to explore these giant puzzle boxes.
What a great trip down memory lane. I think this was maybe the third or fourth game I ever beat as a kid, and I remember being so proud of finding all the statues on some of the later levels. It's interesting to see just how much of the game I'd forgotten and recognize a few scenes which somehow stuck with me despite a complete loss of context.
I remember having partial nightmares for years about the Giant Atlantean from Tomb Raider 1 and had no idea where it came from for so long until I replayed recently.
Loved that game and was captivated by the story back in the day. Thanks for bringing find memories back!
For the love of god, jump and roll, JUMP AND ROOOOOOOOOOOOOLL
The way you slid into the frame in the beginning just raised this show from a 9 to a 10. Exceptionally entertaining as always.
It's probably worth pointing out that a common criticism of the remaster trilogy is that the modern control scheme locks out a number of Lara's movement abilities, and makes some platforming sequences impossible unless you switch back to the classic controls for the puzzle bit.
I found the combat to be much better than most people give it credit for, even with the gun-having enemies. For each enemy-type you need to move around in a unique way in order to avoid their attacks - usually either circling around them or jump-turning over them. For gunner enemies, you can jump or tumble behind them and keep moving behind them so they're too busy turning around to shoot at you. I also like the instances where you can find a ledge or object to climb on where the melee enemies can't reach you, it makes you feel like you're outsmarting them and using Lara's maneuverability to your advantage. It ain't great - there's definitely moments where it's jank or bogus - but if you're just standing still in front of an enemy while you to shoot each other, you're doing it wrong.
Back then, whenever I tried to find a solution, I felt stupid for not being able to figure it out on my own! That's why I appreciate your analytical approach to game design in your reviews - it made me feel better about failing as a kid, but also still love TR2 nonetheless. So... Hey, now I just have to wait another six years for you to cover successively all the TR classics, yay!!
Absolutely LOVE the color combination of the rusty ship!
Cool! I never played or saw gameplay of Tomb Raider 2 :) Very thorough review and great analysis~ Lol, I can't wait for Tomb Raider 3 :P
The moment you started talking about your reoccurring nightmare. I had that same one so many times as a kid!
Played this as a kid. Completed it yesterday on the Remastered, and now JSH review! Amazing!
25:55 you can actually grab that ledge, you just have to press action+forward instead of jumping
So like 2nd secret in the first game?
@@KasumiRINA exactly! and this is also a unintended shortcut, so you can call it a secret too
what a great and entertaining video that is! well done man! Looking forward to TR3 ;-)
It looks like that final level might be a Fighting Force Easter Egg! The van rolling in, the look of the goons, and the sound effects.
OMFG, Josh. I just started playing the remastered versions a week ago and a huge part of even checking for the classic Tomb Raider games in the first place (nostalgia thoughts got to me) was your review of the 1st one. Seeing this upload as i take a break from playing "Wreck of the Maria Doria" level, really feels like a blessing. Love you and your content really bad 🖤
I’ve decided to agree with the entirety of the review since I like your microphone mug.
The cat statue in Lara's hidden treasure room looks like the cat statue in that one level in TR1. She must've really liked it, to go all the way back and take it.
Thanks for the Video. I really enjoyed it!
There was a summer when my bro and I played through 1 and 2 and there were so many times when I remember thinking, “How did anyone do this without a guide??” So many moon-logic puzzles or inconsistency, as you said. LOVE these games still, they’re just nostalgic as hell, but yeah, very hard to revisit and can’t believe we played it as kids (have a sneaking suspicion we only ever played in Lara’s house, lol).
EIDOS was run by Ian Livingstone. The SAME Ian Livingstone of Fighting Fantasy instant-death-puzzle-combat gamebooks.
This is not a coincidence.
He had nothing to do with the making of these games though, the entire thing was designed by a small young team at core design....who had profit sharing contracts and were made multimillionaires. The first game was already finished by the time EIDOS came on board.
You can find your pistols in the tutorial and start shooting the Butler. He uses the tray as a shield. Theres also another obstacle course area that involves wall jumping, tumbling, etc. That said, while the tutorial does lightly touch on combat and slightly more complex vaulting and you just missed it, it just highlights a new problem. That the tutorial level is too large and unfocused to the point you can miss an entire section of it.
Your encounter with the eels reminded me of how awfully tense the diving bits in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag were, simply because of the Eel Jumpscares.
My first game, my favorite game, and one of my favorite channels!! Dream come true, thank you JSH!!
I was just rewatching all your videos. now I can end my day right
Hi Josh, I have been watching your content for several months now and this is my first comment.
I can't express how much I love what happened in 0:35 here!
I really enjoy watching your "was it any good?" collection and listen to your voice. Thank you for struggling your self through this variety of games and making this content!
Among the first few games I ever played, thank you for showing me what actually happens past level 3.
Stop teasing about the dark souls review
40 fanthoms (73 meters for the civilized world), is not enough to get crushed to death by the pressure. Her breath-holding skill is quite impressive though, but not as impressive as the structural integrity of the Maria Doria!
Love the underwater levels, but I agree it had too many enemies. It could've been an amazing claustrophobic, haunted tomb.
up to this day my favourite TR game, i loved the Maria Doria levels as a kid and the snowmobil ride :D
tipp: the venice level, where you have to open the door and drive through with the boat, if you just swim out without the boat, the timer doesn't start, and it is still present in the remaster :D i guess the trigger is assigned only to the boat and they forgot to include Lara :D
the combat in tr2 is actually very clever but few people new to the game realize how to deal with enemies with guns! I saw many ppl keeping the distance and jump around tanking all the damage, but you actually have to stay behind them! so the strategy is to get close as fast as you can and then keep rolling behind the dudes so they can't shoot you at all! that is until you get m16, of course :) so enemies with weapons are just one more type to small, medium and large ones and have to be taken with their own strategy - I think that's brilliant.
Yes, you basically need to get behind them asap and then just follow their movement while sticking to their back and that's it, no damage. That's how i got stacks on stacks of healing ítems while playing the classics as a kid. Kudos to My sister tho, she was way older and mastered the controls and techs, so i got my fair share of lessons 🤭
Yes, fastest way is doing the new jump roll over them, jump forward and press O button that usually does a 180 degree turn, Lara will turn around when jumping. Another way is to just run past enemies and do a 180... Or flank them by running to their back.
Thanks for the tip.
So good! I've never played the originals but you made me want to buy and try. Thanks Josh!
I really enjoyed this. Been watching this for three evenings now, always looking forward to the chance I get to dive back into the world of TR2. I've really enjoyed all your content but Tomb Raider hits the hardest for me. I sincerely hope you will play the third one as well. Thanks for another great video!