You almost pulled it off at 9:10, just had to pull the box one more time and then jump into the water, flames don't go out by themselves but stop instantly if Lara dives. At 9:45 there's water to your right. Putting flames out by getting wet will be used at a few boss fights later in 2 and 5. And no, the damage sources aren't independent, being on fire is a status, it doesn't matter how many torches you go through, that's why it's possible to cheese, you just pull the box and drop into water, 2-4 medpacks are enough.

Don't worry there's only two more ship levels! :3 Promise you, no more water levels after the one that goes after this one. Until TR3, and that will have piranhas... >_>

I love how out of the water you always notice levers, but you ALWAYS miss the underwater levers somehow.🤣

28:45 Even the key locks are upside down ;)

About the lore, tl;dr: Lara is looking for Seraph, an artifact that crashed with the ship. The full story so far: the opening shows a battle where dagger turns a man into an immortal dragon, after defeating which, a monk order locks the weapon behind a sophisticated lock in some hidden temple. In modern day China, Lara Croft finds the entrance to it, but the doors are closed... there she is ambushed by a cultist goon who drinks poison "for sins and fortunes of Marco Bartoli", our girl looks him up and finds links to Fiamma Nera (Black Flame) cult. She then infiltrates their HQ in Venice looking for clues, overhears them talking about some artifact lost underwater, but gets ambushed and captured... Wakes up on an oil rig. Making her escape, Lara meets a monk Chen from Berkhang monastery, in game's last voiced lines, there's the final exposition dump that ties everything together: Marco's father, Gianni Bartoli, likely a stage magician (you see poster to his show at the start of Opera House), stole the artifact that leads to the dagger from Tibetian monks, so Chen's father blew up his cruise ship. The son, Marco, leads an expedition to find this Seraph, and you race them to it... When you make it to monastery don't attack the monks. They can be helpful and fight the cult with you, unless you turn them hostile by not aiming carefully.

27:35 Just horrible enemy placement. The underwater levels have a few of these hiccups.

24:20 Oh I meant you can cheese land enemies that don't have a ranged attack by shooting them from the water (where they can't reach you), if they have a shotgun you're better off shooting them from the ground yourself.

That's a nice thumbnail :D Looks like a horror game!

At the end where you kept jumping over that broken glass pit over and over again. You were suppose to slide on the slope to activate the trapdoor and have Lara keep jumping over it over and over again until the trapdoor closes back forever, making it safe for Lara to stand on so she can jump up and grab the ledge to climb up.

29:10 the fires didn't turn on quicker this time. You walked the wrong way 😪😝

Remember the series of traps in the first level of this game? Then you have areas like at the late part of this video where you have to swim underwater back and forth to pull multiple switches without drowning. Just wait until the last area of the game. That stuff is everywhere! When you get that far, best of luck!😁

Also like how they gave scuba divers just enough HP to survive more than 4 harpoons, which means you will always have to reload that crappy thing when fighting them. 😅

Lara autoaims the harpoon gun and you can turn same way you do in water without it, I think it's circle/B button to flip. It's still the worst weapon in the franchise, and would be even more useless by Underworld where you can fire pistols in the water so it loses the one role it had. To fight back, you face the enemy and just keep firing really. No point dodging, for sharks, swim away or past them, flip around with O/B and then hold down fire... nothing much else you can do other than trying to avoid them with already pretty bad underwater controls.

You're right to check the boxes for moving, there will be a bunch of annoying box move puzzles, except they wouldn't look like wooden crates but slightly darker ones with metal rivets and later, crosshatched packing ones.

Hello there! I’d suggest you try the classic tank controls in order to get a better sense of the game’s mechanics. The modern controls seem to get you stuck at rather easy platforms, like the slide at 52:09. Lara has the ability to hop back and jump sideways, and that helps her in many, many ways, be it by shooting off enemies or through these platforms. You should’ve had the knowledge by now that she can slide backwards and dangle from corners by pressing action, but you can only hop back and do that with modern controls while having your guns out, and that can be overwhelming, since you’d have to quickly put them away to have the action button free… If you were using the tank controls, you’d just position Lara backwards to the slope and hold action while she slid down, then let go as she dangled from the corner so she’d fall free and press action again for her to grab the bottom platform. Practicing the game mechanics as they were originally designed will help you a ton, believe me. You can do it at Lara’s Home, or at the first level of the game, practicing with your pistols - getting behind your shotgun enemies and shooting them as they bite dust, rolling as they turn around to face you and getting behind them again, hopping back and shooting the club/stick/wrench-wielding guys and even dogs will reduce their damage to zero most of the time, and leave you a lot of spare medipacks to have a more comfortable run. 🤘

55:04 oh, that's funny 🦈

They should make a Jaws movie starring Lara Croft.🤣

30:45 You ran over that pickup so many times too, I even saw the hand pop up a few times when you ran past him while you were searching the room. 😭

24:40 You were likely still locked on to first enemy's corpse if you were just holding down the button to fire your guns the whole time, so none of your bullets hit the guy with the stick (they just went right through him and were hitting the dead guy in the back). You must stop shooting (let go of the fire button temporarily) to change enemies you are targeting, even after they die.

3:20 🤣👍 4:12, edit: you got it, perfect

"Well I've got time... Surface is right there, right?" Famous last words. When you get a game over, you can press right and choose "restart level" if you forgot to save at the start.

52:12, the best approach is to get on the side of the hole that allows Lara to hop and slide down backwards, that way you can just grab and hang from the ledge when you reach the bottom of the slide. Then you simply drop / grab the catwalk below it.

You click both analog sticks for photo mode. Looking forward for you feeding the sharkies. :3

9:26 Also credit is where credit is due: You outplayed that guy.

3:58 The M16 will actually be in range for such targets. I know this weapon will give you some grievances at first, but it's really strong if you just abuse it's range. Side note: The Harpoon gun ideed blows. But you know what to save it for ;)

Although I think that "Offshore Rig" is the weakest of the 'lose your weapons' levels, I still like the oil platform idea. Execution could have been better though, and the levels could almost have been combined. 5,5/10 Verdict ;)

I have to say, the previous level and this level especially strangely remind me of the facility in Half Half. Especially the radioactive waste area.🤣

The platform at the start is easy if you do backwards hop, but modern controls don't have that move. Only with guns out. You can turn mid-air (and you might need it later), but why if you can just position Lara so her back is towards the slide. I still don't understand why they didn't let you hop backwards or jump sideways in modern controls. Should have kept the old moves on d-pad.

18:18 Sorry about that, yes, if it's down you have switched it, but doesn't mean you never need to switch it back up to default. Like in this case the switch controlled which 1 of the 2 pools of water was filled, instead of opening / closing a door.

Harpoon gun is just not good. Also why does it have a reload mechanic unlike all other weapons? Still, it has some uses against wildlife.

I don't know if it's the mechanic or if I'm just really that bad at it, but the harpoon gun is the absolute worst thing to me. Shooting and swimming mechanics were not meant to mix in my opinion. She doesn't seem to aim at the enemies and it's hard to swim and shoot at the same time especially when they literally are swimming through Lara, making me twist and turn to shoot. I just swim past the enemies until I find a spot out of the water and shoot them with the other guns. Saves me a lot of grief, time and health in the long run.

Nice one. 👍

Please take 5 minutes to teach yourself a few movements that will make combat so much more enjoyable and easier. When you're running away from an enemy, press X and then immediately press circle, really fast, Lara will turn around in mid-air and face the enemy ready to shoot. Another thing you should learn is: "HOLD L2 & HOLD X at the same time, then use the directional buttons to jump left, right, forward and backwards. Do this for 5 minutes so u can master the timing, it's very simple and makes the combat so easy. Just hold L2 + X, hold them down, and then use the arrows to jump, and then you can just shoot enemies easy

7:33 they take insane shortcuts(glitches, oversights) which practically cut like 90% of the level!

The levels where Lara loser her weapons are most frustrating, not only she cannot do hand to hand attacks she clearly does in cutscenes, lady Croft stubbornly refuses to pick up enemies weapons, like in TR3 prison level there's guards with guns and you open up cells so convicts maul them with punches, but then you see a model of a pistol right in the hands of guard on the ground, and cannot pick it up. She will only accept specific weapons, turns her nose on non-monographed pistols! TR4 is the ONLY one from first 6 where she doesn't loses weapons at Core compensated in Chronicles where Lara loses her weapons at least 4 times... (after Rome, on submarine, after the submarine, and metal detector in VCI). Also, awkward stealth where you have to press action to "use" crowbar on a cook's head.

14:10 Yeah, when I replayed this I checked by looking back and the barrels pass through enemies. No collision for them, same with leopards and snow boulders later. I THINK the game expects you to run to the windows and have them shoot at Lara but break the glass behind her instead, but I just clipped through to window this time lol.

These games turned walkthrough mags and hintbooks into bestsellers, when I played it on PS1 with parents, it was an entire family effort, with everyone trying to figure out where to go and what to do next. Stella has the walkthrough everyone uses now, as it's been updated for decades. Normally nowadays for older games I use GameFAQs and for newer ones, Steam guides.

I hope you enjoy the ocean area, because it goes on a good 6 levels!😃 There's going to be a LOT of swimming off and on! I know how much you hate the water by now!🤣

Oh boy, this one was rough 22:14 - there is a reason this switch turned off the propellers. (If they are spinning they will chop you up)

9:40 - switch to the right of you was already activated so when you plugged it in, the door in the back of stage opened (the guy walks out on stage through now open path - had you gone down there it would have been open and you could have enter the box/crate area back there immediately through that opened door) 10:35 - you flipped the switch up (deactivated), closing the newly opened path in the back of the stage 😆(note - pay attention to these on/off switches, when they are up that means they are off, when you push down, they are on - since Lara flipped switch back up, it was an indicator that you had already flipped the switch on earlier) 27:48 - somehow you managed to find a way up there anyway 👍 (PS. something opened up that door anyway later on, maybe another switch back there opened it besides the one in the control room)

I have been binge watching this series and it’s been a blast. You remind me of… me, when I used to get stuck in these classic games, especially on the Venice bit. Don’t feel bad while struggling through these puzzles. Core Design didn’t believe in tutorials, apparently, and they expected us to read the manual that came with the games; that’s where you’re supposed to find the boat has a turbo mode and whatnot. This game, specifically, feels pretty brutal at the beginning. There’s a lot of turning switches on and off to open back doors and drain water, so pay attention to that. Hope to catch future episodes, and maybe pop up on some of your livestreams. 🤘

All those moments where you keep dying over and over again makes me really glad these Tomb Raider games come with unlimited lives.🤣

49:06 there is a switch in this hall for getting there

Are you playing through all 3 main games first and then do all the DLCs afterward?

9:13 One thing I noticed about enemies in these games is they seem coded to avoid coming back your way if you are facing their direction waiting to cheese them. This happens with gators in the water in TR1 for example. Often, I'll just turn Lara to face the opposite direction which bypasses this behavior, and the enemies will then come back your way, then I can just roll or turn around quickly to cheese them when they come back.

38:47 I think the elevator went down so fast because you pulled the switch (call button) before you plugged in the relay box on previous video, so it was already activated to go down as soon as you plugged the relay. The positive side you found the secret/uzis, the negative side it you forgot about taking the elevator. You can get inside if you go back and pull switch again.

30:44 may be modern control issue, I never have that happen on tank

39:00 Those boulders were making sure she's dead.🤣

30:15 The black ammo clips are for the automatic pistols. You currently have these guns.

One of my favorite TR2 Levels. It's quite complex and requires some backtracking, but Tomb Raider shouldn't be easy ;) Good luck.