Self-Aware Lara Croft Plays Tomb Raider - Level 7 - Palace Midas

[@blueblade8075]

"Fantastic. I ended up in a children's water park." I love this episode already.

[@VirtualKnight64]

This level traumatized me as a little kid. Watching Lara turn to gold just caught me off guard and frightened me, even after my grandfather told me about the legend of King Midas. I didn't even go near the Tomb Raider series again until 2010. And now this is my favourite level in the game, even the whole series.

[@falconeshield]

I see you friend! Glad you're back and enjoying the TR games again!

[@geronimotempesta8930]

I knew about the legend of midas, thats why as a kid I jumped righ into the hand to see if lara could turn into stone, and yes, it was kinda scary hahahaha

[@dharkbizkit]

i never understood what happen there at the time. i was 10 when i played this and didnt realise at first, that its supposed to be gold and i didnt understand, why it happend. it felt random to me, i knew nothing about midas and the myth. i could tell that it was scripted and supposed to kill you, but it had no context at all to me. same as if you have a dropping rock from the ceiling as a random trap, or have a round well, where you just explode, if you walk in it. never knew, that its context iam missing, i just saw it as an idea on how to kill and trap the player

[@andallicansayis]

but you were totally okay with the giant t-rex, got it

[@VirtualKnight64]

@@andallicansayis What 7 year old boy wasn't?

[@AußerirdischeLebensForm]

She really is sometimes a galaxy brain. "Ceiling is intact, but the ruins are in disarray." Yeah, because the developers didn't have the resources or didn't care. "Probably because of looters" Mind: blown...

[@demo2823]

Lara: "Haha I'm in a silly video game." Also Lara: "I wonder who keeps losing all these medipacks? I should take them to the lost and found."

[@narrativeless404]

ChatGPT sometimes "loses the memory", cuz u can't keep feeding it all previous prompts, for it to understand the situation, so it only has the most necessary info and the short-term memory is continuously being refreshed That's why she simply doesn't stay consistent with her own words

[@lcmiracle]

​@@narrativeless404 I guess that's why. The attention mechanism would make much earlier "memories" into miniscule values in the decoder it would have no effect on the output. Always wonder if there's a way to implement some kind of mechanism to judge if a "memory" is important, like if one is to keep 1000 most recent responses from Laura (not in the model, just in the code), let's call this the short-term memory. Then, say, we have a list for 10 memories, call it the "long term memory", in which the most top time highest-occurance "memories" are kept. Each time Laura says something new, find if something similar has been said before in the short-term memory list; if so, remove the previous "memory" and put the new "memory" in its place and increase its occurrence count, otherwise, replace the memory on the short term memory with the lowest occurrence count (even if it's greater than 1). Each time a short-term memory count is changed, check if that memory has an equivelant in the long-term memory, and replace in order of occurance count into it. That way, if Laura says it's a video game a lot, ideally it would be on top of that priority list. Then every time you generate text, append the 10 "memories" to the input, after who Laura is and what the current situation is.

[@narrativeless404]

@@lcmiracle Yeah, but ChatGPT will have hard time processing all of that And having that much stuff in short term memory is unrealistic even for a human brain And this would be a long term memory if it's stored outside of the model and processed on demand Short term memory is real-time processing memory, it's directly related to attention and task scheduling And typically you don't ever have more than 10 things in short term memory at once Having a 1000 memories would take more processing power and make it less effective at emulating self-awareness Short term memory is like CPU cache Long-term memory is like RAM

[@lcmiracle]

@@narrativeless404 Is FoxMaster using ChatGPT though? The pricing on that... unless this guy has a massive amount of research credit or they are filthy rich, otherwise I'd imagine an open-source alternative would be used. It won't be that difficult to use a "Question & Answering" text generation model, which involves an question text as well as a reference text as input. The generated text is then generated based on the reference text according to the question. And regardless, if FoxMaster has access to the encoder-decoder of the model, how to "compress" previous texts into the attention matrix is a pretty straigth forward matrix calculation. Basically the dev can write their autoencoder to take account of those inputs. Meanwhile, the short and long-term memory I proposed before isn't stored in the attention mechanism, in fact, both would be stored in RAM as separate components of the AI architecture, used to modifiy the autoencoder

[@Templarfreak]

@@narrativeless404 all of the basic knowledge has the highest priority when generating a new response, iirc they explained that in the first vid. especially with things related to Lara's personality and acknowledging that she knows she's in a video game. i think it's mostly due to the AI still trying to just rationalize the context even with knowing they are in a game world

[@olafbuddenberg4787]

This series has become my favourite YT entertainment in recent weeks! Just brilliant how Lara navigates the levels and comments on random things. I often smirk or outright laugh about her musings.

[@Tukkapeikko]

The ai is fake. But videos are entertaining.

[@yuritopoop]

So favourite, that I even stopped playing games and began to watch AI playing some other games like Tomb Raider too. Honestly, I always play with bots and even wrote some unique bots by myself, but this AI is terribly awesome. No live player can play the way that she does.

[@laracroftvideos]

The way the AI understands Lara’s character and line delivery is just incredible. All her lines are SO on point that if you’d told me those were scrapped lines of dialogue from the game I would’ve believed it.

[@MiotaLee]

Fr

[@lukearts2954]

Same :)

[@Rapora9]

And that's how you can easily tell they're lines written by the video creator. They fit way too well and are way too "funny". C'mon. It would be an incredible feat to actually write an AI that is capable of understanding so well what is going on around her.

[@XDanW91]

for MOST of the lines i agree, except when she says stuff like 'these rounds of ammunition look like chocolate bars' 😂

[@joesretrostuff]

@@Rapora9I like that fm liked this comment. Way to rise above the trolls!

[@facundoojeda6971]

I liked it when Lara finds Midas' hand and as she tells the legend she immediately reminds herself that she already has worth and she explores just for sport as if she had been about to succumb to her intrusive thought of gaining Midas' power. I saw it as a way for Lara to stay true to herself since I suppose the fact that she spent weeks or even months exploring tombs would affect her sense of reality a bit and she would try to stay grounded. I think they are small details that make her more human.

[@LifeAsANoun]

I'm 14th in line for the latest best series on the internet. What a great job you've done with this so far.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude :D

[@GuilhermeJTM]

Not only is Lara Croft Badass, but a comedian as well, very interesting indeed. Also, there appears to have happened a miracle, Lara even though having stepped on Mida's hand has successfully not turned into gold, that pretty much surprised me a lot. But now sincerely, I am really enjoying this funny interaction with the character Lara Croft, as she's just full of personality. So I truthfully thank you for making this a reality, I love it and I just love Lara! (edit) Thanks for those who liked the comment! I'm happy and surprised to see this outcome.

[@AerisShenlin]

haha yes how cocky was that :D

[@SeventeenGhost]

That's because LarAI is already golden.

[@narrativeless404]

Maybe it's modded Cuz idk

[@pawetomaszewski66]

I love that from level to level Lara gets more sassy. The roast of the staricases caught me off guard 😂

[@edu_moonwalker]

the "OOYOY" transcription that the AI did got me lol. I'm loving this series!

[@SinsOfScience]

Of all things, I just love how the bot always jumps over corpses. It's so unexpectedly charming.

[@icedanilzation]

It is really interesting, and I seem to recall myself doing that too, whether in attempt to not break immersion or just respect a dead animal I don't know, but I like that the AI does this too, but IIRC it's because it's "creepy".

[@Fennyella]

​@@icedanilzationYes, exactly that. It's "creepy" to the AI Lara. In the very first episode, she stepped into the corpse of a wolf and realized, that she just "phased into that body". She didn't like that. And since that, she avoided stepping into corpses basically everytime.

[@Ralodosmovo]

Some how didn't die to jumping on the hand! Amazing! "Some how I'm already too golden for this hand." Love it. That's our Lara.

[@buckwild6587]

AI lara is too pure. She's the best tomb raider of us all and therefore immune to midas' touch

[@FoXMaSteR001]

In case of problem she could also say NO and her body would heal instantly 😁@@buckwild6587

[@IndependentArt]

@@FoXMaSteR001 but how did she actually survive this?

[@TakahiroShinsaku]

FoxMaster mentioned these somewhere above "in fact there is a safe spot on the hand, if you climb on it you die, but if you land on it you don't die, of course it's unlikly to land in this specific location, but for AI Lara it's very easy, she can also land on spikes without trouble with the same thing. Of course she died on the hand previously but this result is the one she survived of course 😄" @@IndependentArt

[@IndependentArt]

@@TakahiroShinsaku so I guess, it was by chance.

[@PusoSkateCo]

I can’t help but feel you gotta be a little proud when Lara understands she needs a special jumping technique to reach a far away pillar after scanning all the distances in the room before. Great job! Your baby is doing fine!

[@Dukefazon]

And then goes for it and does an impossible jump. I didn't know it was possible to jump that way.

[@ZootmanX]

The initial midas bit when she told the story was legit very cool with that final line delivery.

[@khalil_art]

That was epic indeed !

[@Rasfa]

"These rounds of ammo look like chocolate bars" they do Lara, yes, they do.

[@SilverLays]

Her reasoning for understanding that the levers are related to the symbols above the doors is just incredible. I'm shocked! And his capacity to remember some things from the past is impressive too !

[@booties012345]

i'll admit it, i always look forward to hearing what weird sounds lara makes at the end of the recording. this one was terrifying. thanks for all the work you put into these, man. it's incredible.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude, I could fix this last sound but I know many enjoy it XD

[@Mediziner]

@@FoXMaSteR001 I LOVE her weird sounds. XD I always burst into laughter 'n often I'm always excited to hear her inhuman screams!

[@Mediziner]

Even I love it when she makes weird sounds at the end of the recording, glad I'm not alone on that. XD

[@narrativeless404]

@@FoXMaSteR001 No Please keep the ChatGPT mental breakdown part! It's amazing!!!

[@ignitiondj4025]

What causes it ? It sounds like it's surprised to be "dying" at the end of the level or something

[@bobpieczarka4357]

Continued applause for this series. I hope Lara talks out loud forever. The best bits are sometimes so simple. "...apparently I am too golden for this hand." 👏 👏 👏

[@Xerobound]

The FIRST thing she said had me rolling. "Fantastic I've ended up in a children's water park. I hope there are water slides."

[@sandracardoso2602]

My guy, the commentary on this level is great, so much improvement! Lara's train of thought to explain her backtracking and how to not get lost was 👌chef's kiss. I think it's the best so far, congrats! Lara is so insightful, attentive and reflexive, loved it. Reminds me on how we used to play it when it came out. When we played TB1 we did so as a family (hence the "we") mainly my dad played and we all watched like a movie. It was our first videogame, christmas 1997 I think. He was terrible at it 😂 so we had a lot of time to observe everything! And so often my mom would comment on Lara's instant dry hair and clothes, not as as insult but as proof of Lara's amazingness. She was so determined she wouldn't sleep or eat! How the music would start at specific times made it so cinematic it was mindblowing. We could hear the direction the animals, and they were so realistic! We would talk about the temples too, the plants resilience, how some ceilings had holes we maybe could escape from (but not Lara, she was there to work!) how would the animals survive (we always pitied the bears because they were always alone, at least the wolves had friends), the quality of traps and woodworking that lasted for thousands of years, and we observed the symbols and strange textures with so much curiousity. And yes, the 3D skeletons were very spooky hehe. I won't even tell you how insane it was to see that t-rex! We were screaming both scared and amazed, and my poor dad barely knew how to run and shoot at the same time. As you can guess, we didn't finish the first level (I think it's Peru). However, when my older cousin came to visit during the summer of 1998, in two weeks he played almost all of the game (checking the wiki I can recognize most of the level of Egypt) we were flabergasted! He was hailed as a genius in our house for years, the best gamer ever haha. Such great memories

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Good memories indeed :D it was another time :P

[@sandracardoso2602]

@@FoXMaSteR001 I guess it serves to remember how groundbreaking TR1 was, sometimes I forget. Watching your video gave me a time-travelling whiplash 😂

[@arakhneweaving]

What a perfect way to have been immersed in the world of Tomb Raider! My experience was that my twin and I would go to these small game clubs and random people would play while other guests would gather around and watch and be scared as a reaction... mostly I remember the drowning and falling and screaming 😂😅 and having nightmares

[@ConGie]

I'm absolutely floored by the analysis given regarding the door and lever puzzle. I entirely expected her to brute force it.

[@HankMeyer]

Sentient LC is one of my favorite youtubers. If you ever do this with other game characters, I almost hope that you make them remember being Lara Croft in these videos in a previous life. That way, they can reference previous games, and you could make it feel almost like it's the same person playing different games, though with new personalities and new voices each time.

[@danielcanedo4625]

@FoxMaster is it possible to make her recall past experiences in this extent? It would be very interesting to see her expanding her "memory bank"!

[@lukearts2954]

I can definitely see the possibilities for bonus humor there... What if he did Duke Nukem 3D next? Or Hexen... Or maybe go waaay back and do SpaceQuest 1 and the whole xQuest franchise... (and for the Patreons, a Leisure Suit Larry series hahaha) Plenty of room for antics and satire...

[@AsilarWindsailor]

Metal Gear Solid!

[@diizzii]

Luckily, there is no shortage in Tomb Raider games and I wouldn't want the A.I. breaking character early on.

[@AsilarWindsailor]

@@diizzii Agreed

[@DecadeMoon]

It's good to know Lara and I share the same deep observations: 6:07 "If this potted plant is still alive then someone must've watered it recently, probably the person who left the medipack in front of the temple, unless gorillas are gardeners." 21:06 "I wonder what produces these fires if they don't produce any smoke."

[@KryatLore]

Oh, man what an aweosme episode! I REALLY wanted to know what "more brutal methods" Lara was going to resort to if the golden bars didn't work 🤣

[@FoXMaSteR001]

In the previous episode she suggested to use the salpeter of the walls for a chimical method too, I can't explain more but this is a more brutal method 🥶

[@VRDCNC]

I actually laughed out loud when she said she would get lost in her mansion if not for her special memory technique

[@MuhRidey]

"...unless the gorillas are gardeners." I cackled.

[@miketatam]

I loved when she says, i hate when a crazy gorilla appears from a corner 😂, great work foxmaster

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Thank you :D

[@sparkelstv4291]

5:34 I love how she jumps over dead bodies, even if it's not necessary 😅

[@lolrentz]

she doesn't want to relive her traumatic past experience with a wolf corpse engulfing her feet

[@sparkelstv4291]

@@lolrentz That's true

[@doobiouswolf9587]

I love how Laura acts like a casual badass with the gorillas sometimes, casually strolling while unloading lead into them. All that's missing is an explosion for her to walk away from without looking back :P

[@erick_falker]

When I was a kid playing this game, that's the level I get stuck. I didn't realize that the giant Midas hand was actually interactable. I'm curious to see how AI will figure that one out.

[@Targoon_Music]

unlike us ai has instant access to a database with zero error and can remember all of it and recall whatever from it at any given moment so seeing midas hand and acknowledging the fact that it turns everything into gold it makes a new entry in the said database and when faced with a sign which says you need gold it only becomes a matter of ifs and whens for the program. so yeah

[@DMahalko]

When you play this "normally" I think the creators EXPECTED everyone to die at least once to discover the hand is dangerous. Killing players was just normal in early games. The deductive reasoning of the hand being dangerous only comes after you've already died. The video we see may just be the final successful playthrough after AI Lara has died multiple times already. Though since foxmaster is obsessed with this game, probably knew about the one spot to stand on the hand and not die, and told the bot how to do it as well, lol.

[@cece6825]

I'm always excited for these videos ❤️

[@FoXMaSteR001]

😍

I do hope this gets the attention it deserves later on when the first game is done. If you do continue with the other ones, do take a bit of time off for yourself. You earned it Fox.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty sir, I'll try because it's getting hard, I must reduce the risk of errors because most of the time to produce this result is wasted because of errors, the problem is getting Lara too good will kill the effect she is aware, so she must fails as human too 😱

[@AerisShenlin]

but she will encounter harder and harder puzzles, that will make up for her excellent platforming (not that that's not epic to watch) I was amazed how she figured out the door codes. OYOOY! @@FoXMaSteR001

[@Geddy135]

should've timestamped it, but the "so uncivilized" and "hello there" lines towards the gorillas really got me. Wasn't expecting star wars references in here, especially episode 3 ones.

[@TwoSpark55]

Oh my lord. she timed the fire challenge and cleared it just as the flames re-lit. I remember having to try it a few times because the jumping while running on those tight columns was hard enough! Thankfully there is that wonderful pool underneath 🤣

[@UtrataVision]

These are currently the only videos on the Internet that I watch on the day of their premiere, and I watch them several times. EXCELLENT JOB, BIG APPLAUSE FOR YOU & LARA!!!

[@AerisShenlin]

Let's recap: 1) The AI is fearless in platforming in great heights, even cocky 2) The AI is logical to a fault 3) The AI has a fantastic sense of space and direction 4) The AI is scared of a little waterfilled corridor. Honestly, Lara is growing ever more endearing and amazing. As a TR player, I find myself gasping at her platforming and sharing her views on architecture and other surroundings. If we truly end up having androids around, I wouldn't mind one with her perception and personality. Might have to teach her to respect animal life though ;)

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Good recap ^^ in fact she only kills animals when they are imminent danger, she could avoid them (probably) but when 3 gorillas are running to someone it would need extreme skills and mental not to kill them since any ape could destroy the strongest human 😨🥶

[@AerisShenlin]

isn't that what Speedrunners do, they are the ultimate pacifist "Sorry mate can't kill ya have to be someplace" @@FoXMaSteR001

[@WhiteTree97]

Let's recap: It's all fake

[@halfmoon106]

@@WhiteTree97 Scared?

[@Puremindgames]

Only found the series a couple days ago(Probably thanks to watching the Remaster trailer as a bunch of Tomb Raider vids have started to appear) and is quickly becoming one of my favourites, it will be interesting to see how the AI handles Tomb Raider II afterwards(assuming you have plans to carry on with it, couldn't imagine how much work has to go into just a single video).

[@taijisyxom6888]

I also wanted to comment about it. I hope she will play in Tomb Raider II with her previous experience!

[@JulianR84]

Man, totally appreciate your work in this project. It's fascinating how you combined all these different aspects in this AI, not only to enable it to play this game quite superior, but also to comment on it and making references on what it perceives in an astonishing way! Studying Laras behavior in her "natural habitat" 🤓 PS: How the hell was she able the land on Midas Hand while not turning to gold?! 🤯) Great Job, keep it going! 😉

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude, in fact there is a safe spot on the hand, if you climb on it you die, but if you land on it you don't die, of course it's unlikly to land in this specific location, but for AI Lara it's very easy, she can also land on spikes without trouble with the same thing. Of course she sied on the hand previously but this result is the one she survived of course 😄

[@narrativeless404]

@@FoXMaSteR001 So, only climbing on it triggers the script? Lmao

[@AmnesiaFear]

I do wonder how many times it took for Lara to not step on the midas hand. She could have either understood right away that you should not touch midas hand or it could have taken forever to get a timeline where she does not step on it.

[@demo2823]

I love the concept of the different iterations of AI randomization as timelines.

[@AerisShenlin]

I thought it was amazing what she said: "I am already wealthy, so this hand won't do anything for me" (or something like it) it makes the AI very impressive to handle this room so logically.

[@3nertia]

I admit, I'm a bit curious as well

[@fgetce]

At least I was not the only one who thought for a second when she landed on the hand that she was gold, must have been a few pixels off from triggering the gold death animation.

[@AerisShenlin]

yeah that was CLASSIC LARA GOLD @@fgetce

[@RaineWilder]

So cute and entertaining, I watch Lara and talk back to her like I’m on an adventure right there with her 😊

[@Guillaume_Astuces-n5s]

Cette Lara Croft est vraiment impressionnante dans ses raisonnements, elle est brillante et tellement attachante ! Je l'adore. Merci beaucoup pour ce partage et ce super divertissement.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

🤩

[@SoarPro]

This is awesome. Thank you! Can't wait to see Cistern on the next premiere!

[@renegade5522]

The demon scream in the end though 😵

[@Trymr]

“If this potted plant was still alive, it must’ve been watered recently...possibly by the same person who LEFT A MEDIPAK AT THE FRONT OF THE TEMPLE.” I love that blantant nudge at the devs. Also, the “OW MY EARS!” thought was great.

[@Allicrocogator]

You know, watching the first couple episodes of this series, I couldn't believe how well this works, even considering that it's all edited together from a full-day process. In your first episode, you went over the basic concepts surrounding how your AI works, but I would love love LOVE a more in-depth explanation of the full feedback loop. How does the AI understand intent, memory, and problem solving, and how many times is that information looped back into itself? How much does the ChatGPT element know about the game world? How much does the output of ChatGPT influence the intent of the robot? How closely are her comments correlated with the true 'inner intentions' of the bot? I would also love to see an overlay over the footage showing the neural pathways and how they are activating. If you could just indicate things like, 'I am currently confused/exploring/fighting for my life' etc, but also things like which buttons it is activating in response to which stimulus. Visual, auditory, and inner monologue. That kind of thing. Maybe it's complicated, but I think if we could see the neurons activating as she plays, it would go a long way to explain the brilliance of this model. Because to be perfectly honest, the performance of this bot is a true breakthrough. It's absolutely amazing. And on the first episode, there are a great deal of comments claiming that this whole thing is fake. That's how well this works. People actually think it's a hoax. You do understand how brilliant this is, don't you? People actually don't believe it's real. So I think seeing the inside of the bot's brain a bit, using that neuron activation overlay idea, would go a LONG way toward really proving how advanced the AI model is.

[@Puremindgames]

If they do I hope they're seperate videos, I'm quite liking the LP feel it has going on here.

[@Allicrocogator]

@@Puremindgames I agree. Maybe they could make one more video as a "progress update" or "how I got the LC bot to this point" overview video, as some other commenters have said. But then these let's play videos can stay as they are because they're super entertaining as is. I'd also be really excited to see the LC bot play other games!

[@akkitty22]

Yes please!

[@john_reese]

He won't show it because it's not real. Come on... You're hinting at it yourself. If it was, it would be a landslide in the AI field (somehow created out of nowhere by a single individual that never showed any indication of being trained in the field, talking about it all at once showing it already in the final state of being able to complete whole levels, not gradual progress on what would be a beast of a project), not just a tool for creating quirky youTube videos. He's only interested in engagement, that's why the controversy suits him. And that's why he likes every single comment, even those who are only criticising the deception. When asked, he never gives any substantive answer, just vague answers giving up that he doesn't understand basic things about AI, programming and even computers in the first place. I mean, only the feat of building an AI that analyses screen information to be able to somehow navigate (not even complete) a game like Tomb Raider would be mind-blowing (look at what it actually entails for an AI to only learn to drive around a Mario Kart track, and how clunky it looks like in certain parts even after dozens of hours of learning one simple track: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIi6Z4mcl656qqs. And driving on a track is just steering, accelerating, braking. Whereas being able to analyse a 3D environment with platforms and plan a course of jumping from one to the other is a whole different order of magnitude). On top of that, we should believe that this AI is trained to perform more like a human would (looking around, being artificially careful in certain areas where a basic AI would learn the most efficient path and stick to it, backtracking, solving puzzles), and also trained to engage in combat in a 3D environment, dodging threats, when he never gave a single hint of explanation as to how that part works. And, on top of that top of that, we are supposed to believe that there is analysis of audio and (very crude) video cues, and that it is able to reflect on its environment and condition as a game character, and that there is a back and forth loop that allows gameplay to be influenced by what ChatGPT says ? Finally, if it was true, with how many times people asked, he would already have proudly provided better evidence for it. My best guess is that runs are a mix of recorded human gameplay and some created with tools for assisted speedruns, and that dialogues are humanly created with some help from ChatGPT, and then the voice audio is AI-generated.

[@unlimitedpower0]

My theory is that if any of this is real, then a human is solving the complex puzzles, or at least providing inputs and then the bot is exploring the level in the way he outlined in the video. I also think some or even a lot of the dialog is human influenced, like its being filtered for the most interesting lines out of a deluge of dialog.@@john_reese

[@Swordmaster7th]

God these are always so cool. I can image so many other games doing this like resident evil 4, or literally anything that includes a character that speaks. Makes it so interesting.

[@AerisShenlin]

I don't know about that. Take Silent Hill. The protagonist speaks a lot, and so do their fellow characters. Isn't this Tomb Raider series so very special because Lara really doesn't speak much in the original game? To me, that's the largest part of enjoyment here. To have my old heroine come to life and talk and have that personality that was always projected onto her but did not much translate into the actual gameplay, is an absolute gem. Compared to that, a game where the characters speak a lot already would not really benefit from more talk. And in the case of Resident Evil, don't you think a fearless, logical AI would just go "a zombie! Haha!" and kind of destroy the ambience a little?

[@ninsbean]

Omg I was soo hoping for another episode! Thank you :3

[@RambutanRam]

This series is the best, I patiently await every single episode

[@Mediziner]

Just finished watching this, my alarm didn't go off for the Premiere, but I'll be sure to catch Level 8 before it starts next time! This was so funny. XD

[@surplusvalues]

lol the ending sound is the most intense yet

[@MrRyoogi]

That overmap cut-in at 6:49 is quite curious. It would be interesting to see this throughout an entire level playing. Also, I wonder how well AI Lara would fare in TR2.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

This is a bug you can reproduce, the camera seems to glitch in this spot 🤔 Apparently this happens in many levels, maybe there is a structure that make it moves far 🤔

[@sparkelstv4291]

29:27 Lara:"Hello there" My brain: "General Kenobi!"

[@FoXMaSteR001]

The negociator XD

[@falconeshield]

47:17 Not a glitch! Only area where it doesn't work. Fascinating!

[@icetigerza]

"unless the gorillas are gardeners" had me in stitches.. 🤣

[@ninsbean]

I love the video like always, but I liked the Friday schedule more. It was perfect for after work stress to know "Hey there's a new episode! Perfect for the start of my weekend! :D"

[@JWM80]

Loving this series so far - such a great idea! The running commentary from Lara adds a whole new layer to the game. Palace Midas was always one of my favourite levels (apart from the butchered version in the Anniversary editon 😒). Looking forward to playing the remasters next year.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude :D

[@nathanwatson6000]

I've watched this whole series and have really enjoyed it. I would like a video covering the "decision flowchart" you posted sometime. Your intro video explains she searches for new textures which moves her through a level, but there seems to be a lot more going on than that. I'd like to learn more about her problem solving and goal oriented behavior.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

I'll try since it's the middle of the game, many asked

[@primrosepath9253]

Lara voicing opinions and preferences is deeply compelling.

[@mindlessdrawing3336]

47:08 ''The end IS near, I meant the hand is near'' Gotta love how she is becoming more and more creative with the jokes, with this one she is like: ''LMAO heeello there, Mr. Hand of Death! How are you doing?'', like she's either bored of all the times she's died or she just doesn't even take death seriously 🤣🤣

[@rustyspork4917]

Cant believe I missed the live. Also can't believe lara didn't turn to gold lol. Another fantastic episode ❤❤❤

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude :P I was late too 🤐

[@AsilarWindsailor]

She just dropped in on that gorilla with the Obi-Wan/Grievous "Hello there!" and destroyed it with that ruthless precision. Nice

[@FoXMaSteR001]

The negociations failed 🤣

[@sparkelstv4291]

3:45 "That got to be more challenging and bloodier."-Nice phrase, it's worth to put it on a shirt😂

[@LeChatAbsinthe]

somehow its hard to believe that an AI would so quickly decipher the riddle of using the hand of Midas to turn bricks into gold in order to open the final door. Especially after Lara was not able to assign the four colourful keys to their locks in St. Francis Folly.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

There are updates between levels ^^

[@Kotletka131]

I'm genuinely impressed by how cool it impersonates classic Lara! Her joke on Midas' hand was... well, golden

[@manxdarcqpaw744]

I enjoy hearing her running thought process.

[@danielmeredith4222]

Im 34 now and first played tomb raider 1 on the sega Saturn back in the day I must've been 8 or 9 years young and swear all of this other dialogue of Lara as sounds so close to home to scary xo

[@InFiNiGhTe]

Lara: "A slide, haha." *Slides down* *SCREAMING LIKE A CREAKING DOOR*

[@Gabriel_OGDC]

40:06 _"Ah! A lever."_ *DEMONIC HELLSPAWN NOISES* _"ouch my ears."_ Also I see Lara hasn't quite got over her fear of ending screens yet... last time she laughed now she screams in pain again

[@bregoelly9201]

cant wait for more! i love these!

[@prawnk1ng]

This was the level that broke me as a kid. I never did understand all the leavers. If they made a small cut scene when you had the correct sequence, it would’ve been a lot easier

[@aidanbrumsickle]

As a kid i completely missed the code on the doors and so i had to use a walkthrough (text based in those days) to get the lever positions. No judgement to Lara for taking a while to understand.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Same, it wans't obvious on PS1

[@jorrellds6520]

"im starting to think these animals are deliberatly waiting for me." hahahahaha

[@MorbyGanaWho]

Lvl 1: nothing Lvl 2: Screams of the Dammed Lvl 3: An Ghost going Ooohh! Lvl 4: Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo! Lvl 5: YEEAAAHHAHHH OOO-OOO-OOO-OOO! Lvl 6: Just Sweet Laughter! Lvl 7: Miss Croft has become an Mad Old Lady! P.S. The Password is Yuwi! (I Never even played tomb raider but i adore this series! i would love to see this appiled to other games! tomb raider or others!)

[@deezee2965]

You're not ready for it. XD

[@falconeshield]

She yells into the void

[@Vindaya_]

Lvl 7 ending was horrifying 😂😂😂😂

[@superlatero]

I love this fresh take on the tomb raider playthrough, very entertaining well done

[@Aringka]

One thing i will say, is when it comes to the cut scenes of doors opening, Lara doesn't instinctively head over to the door when it's several rooms away, she knows a lever had done something but have to figure out what and where, like the AI can easily direct her to that door, but instead work it out by remembering where doors were closed or undiscovered rooms which where the door had opened, and also solving puzzles the same way a human would, trial and error

[@birdnest4634]

Yay! I'm excited for her to finish her quest :)

[@nefariouscj9791]

I thought for sure the ai would have it's first death from the Hand just because it's a different death style. Amazing

[@dwsel]

19:13 There's no way she could figure it out by herself. You had to tell her this, right? 😉

[@Abdullu]

That cliff jump at 30:44 was what broke Tomb Raider back then for me. on grainy PAL / NTSC screens ,it wasn't clear at all this was the way to follow.

[@callisoncaffrey]

I cheesed it. I jumped from the top ledge and moved into the opening via air control. Cost me a medi pack but it worked.

[@thestarvox]

Oh my god, the way it's playing her accent on these lines is freaking fantastic. This is hilarious and also cozy somehow.

[@sparkelstv4291]

2:00 Lara walking in Terminator-Style...all what's missing is the terminator theme

[@FreyFox87]

Always loved seeing that aqueduct in this level, and of course that golden trap!

[@btf1287]

21:29 I wonder how the AI figured swimming was a superior alternative than platforming again to trace back, It registered the enemies in the water they could surely kill the avatar without a chance to fire back once submerged

[@CritStanley]

"My gosh! Something exploded." Exactly how I felt the first time I did this. ^_^

[@demos456]

This is an insane run for the AI. I can't believe the acrobatics and how well she adjusted to a level that would get me turned around so many times XD. Also, the number of times she gets out of her safe zone to just kill the enemy that was out of reach was funny. Keep it up and I hope the other games will be a possibility as well.

[@kainaris]

45:07 the most impressive moment this far.

[@edgargabriel6640]

Just great .😊entertainment 😁Thank you from an old IT pro 👍🏻

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude

[@GOLD4DJ]

that glitch at the end Of these videos, that that was the first time in years i felt actually creeped out.

[@andrewnile]

In this playthrough, Lara visits the Midas statue twice. What's weird to me is that the music (Longing For Home) triggers twice: 7:05 First time 46:58 Second time Shouldn't it only trigger once?

[@Fletchlie]

It triggered twice for me playing it. I remember thinking that was strange.

[@foxdragon2967]

@@Fletchlie OK nerd time: The reason the song triggers twice is because of the "flip map". A flip map is when a room changes in the level. In this case, the room where Lara pulls the block out to collapse the ceiling in order to cross. For some odd reason, the flip map also affects the Midas room. IDK why. BTW you can undo the collapsed room with the use of some glitches to reset the flip map.

[@Fletchlie]

@@foxdragon2967 That explains it 👍🏻

[@andrewnile]

@@foxdragon2967 Cool, thank you 😎

[@haizuru1]

Guess she didn't expect the slide to end in anguish. On a positive note, she's having more fun in proceeding levels; it's cute. ^^

[@rorystevie]

I can't wait to see this Level 7 premiere in 2 hours

[@jdexplores1497]

Always entertaining sir. Thank you.

[@Avenitson]

Finally, We've waited for this day so long! I'm so happy to see Level 7, I feel like it will be something really cool,funny, and We will hear more original phrases from the famous Lara Croft, who wants her cake ASAP. THANK YOU FOR THIS CONTENT, WE LOVE YOU AND WAITING FOR MORE SIMILAR VIDEOS WITH AI PLAYING OTHER GAMES!!! :)

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty Avenitson :D

[@WhiteKnightOnWings]

Wonderful content, please keep it up!!! Looking forward to more self- aware Croft!!! Glad I found your channel through YT recommendations. Two questions, @FoxMaster, if you could please answer for me: 1. The sounds she makes at the end of each level she completes are scaringly garbled and sort- of sound like she's in 'pain', as if the level transition 'hurts' her. Is that deliberate to the GPT program that is running during the end of the level or? 2. I wanted to inquire from you if, after you are done with this series, you could continue with the previous series whereby you broke down every level of TR1 using the 3D generation of the different mazes/ levels? I really enjoyed looking at those 3D renders of the levels, looking at where enemies would spawn from and hidden secrets along with the explanation? Also, could someone possibly download those files and just admire the beauty of 90's game design? Thanks in advance!!

[@FoXMaSteR001]

Ty dude :p It's the quote generated for the scoreboard, but as the scoreboard freeze the game the quote is abnormaly extended and it makes this noise. I could fix it but I think it's funny XD It's never a pain quote. The previous TR fact stopped in Tibetan Foothills, I had to stop it because my PC was getting sick and lag (the website needs many ressources). You can check it : popov72.github.io/TRN2/ be sure to select "threes.js" or it could bug.

[@WhiteKnightOnWings]

Wow!! Thanks for your response!! Yes, i admit that the extension is funny, but thanks for the explanation. And thanks for the link! I'll check it out; hope my computer doesn't suffer the same lag!! @@FoXMaSteR001

[@loony2869]

I love it when she says DumDum to the action music! GIVE ME THE SAUCE!!! 😂❤

[@arkiswatching699]

Man, between Natla's mutants and the weird flesh walls the commentary in Atlantis is gonna be something else.

[@asyra3303]

7:13 omg now thts good stuff 😢 I can't even fathom the process 😮 masterpiece

[@zinnz7750]

this is brilliant stuff , keep it coming, please consider making a a.i for other great games. it would be amazing to see a narrated kotor with character commenting as you play, maybe that over-reaching but wow what potential this has.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

The problem is I don't know every games, with Lara I can check it's ok, with others characters the result would be more random 🤔 It could be funny if the character has a weird personality too so idk for the moment ^^ Here this game is very good to update the AI, which is the first step I think

[@reloadpsi]

I'd settle for the rest of the classic TR games, especially if we can keep the AI Shelly Blond voice instead of whoever it was in the later ones.

[@SICK_O]

17:02 I think the chocolate bars thing has been a tacit thought shared by thousands of players. And hearing her echo the thought, in this pastiched approximation of Shelley Blond's voice some 27 years later, is wild. 😂