Top 10 Tomb Raider Chronicles Secrets, Lore & Easter Eggs

[@Iruparazzo]

Chronicles is underrated, and maybe rightfully so for its context at the time. But I still love it, it's still a fun set of tomb raider romps. Maybe it's more akin to a very good TRLE custom level editor game, which is why it seems so sub-par for a mainline release

[@DavidKen878]

When will people realize that not everything they love is underrated.

[@Saint3188]

I often revisit Chronicles now and then and I hope they remaster it as well.

[@BossPlaya4Ever]

I always thought the Russia story took place after TR2. She mentioned in the beginning of the level that she's dealt with mafiaso before.

[@chrisbuns361]

I loved playing this when i was a teen. Hell i loved playing all of her adventures with two being my favorite.

[@Saint3188]

I played it alot when I was 16 as well.

[@matthewvorwald7169]

Never thought a Tomb Raider game would have a lot of references to some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies, but that was still pretty cool to know about as a Arnold fan. Love all the history of the areas in the game too. Can't wait for more Tomb Raider videos.

[@helisonmarcosmoreira4261]

I love this game. It reminds me of rainy Saturday mornings, where I couldn't go out to play, and I preferred to stay for hours playing it on DreamCast

[@nasrzain2418]

I feel so glad that classic TR games are still alive thanks to awesome people like you ❤

[@VinnyFerri]

I love when you bring Tomb Raider to the channel, your unique way of bringing curiosities, facts and easter eggs usher amazing details on the game. Tomb Raider is my favorite franchise from the video games and along with Resident Evil, these were the first two experiences I had with PlayStation in the fifth generation, I was totally hooked up and fell in love after only had played on SNES and Sega Genesis. Chronicles is the easiest game on the classic series and it lacks the enchantment the previous entries had, but turn out being a good game, just the least inspired.

[@candybeans]

I did not know that about Zip, but it's kind of hilarious. Really adds some to his character in the next trilogy.

[@ste887]

the railgun effect is a fairly common trope in the quake series aswell. with the whole blue energy corkscrew the natla magnums are the same model in the first game, as they have from memory one blue and one red N on the backs of the slides.

[@Papi_Keep_Playin]

I love it when Ink Ribbon takes the time to compile these fascinating secrets, lore and Easter egg TR videos. They make me appreciate Tomb Raider as a whole even more than I used to. Especially when I find out all this stuff I didn't know about the game years later. And the fact that half of the games little Easter eggs are based on real life stuff or in movies makes me love it more. Can we give this man a round of applause for doing this extensive research on this and making interesting videos for us? 👏

[@SeiferTheEvil]

I deeply love it. It was my 1st TR game

[@NOTHlNG]

Not the smoothest and easiest for a beginner to entry I'd say. But hey, my first TR game was TR 3 so who am I to complain...? :D

[@Saint3188]

Me too I revisit it now and then too.

[@chrriistiine8735]

Loved Black Isle, was really creepy when I was young! I always felt bad for the creature in the water that gets trapped in the cage

[@xavevoncroy]

I love the Ireland section, it's so special and immersive. I understand that some might feel a not-tomb-raider setting, but once you accept that it's not what you expected, you may enjoy it. This chapter not only had its unique atmosphere and folklore, but also its own videogame genre. It's not really a platformer, nor an action game, it's more like a pure puzzle solving game. In fact these levels could be easily converted into a traditional point and click gameplay, in which you simply move from one screen to another and interact with objects and think of relevant item associations to make the story progress. It feels like the intersection of Tomb Raider and Monkey Island.

[@PorcGlamPro]

I loved Chronicles; it really was the piece that tied everything together with classic Lara. It also had some of the greatest comedic moments. I'll never not laugh at Zip saying: "Lara! Lara! You broke??? Ahh, you ain't dead is you?!"

[@aerisarrangements6157]

top 10 fan made levels would be interesting to see

[@trevormorgan2844]

I've absorbed so much classic TR over the years and it genuinely surprised me how of the info in this vid I hadn't already heard! In particular to the FMVs and some of the dates! Fantastic work loved it! Ps I petted my dog for you

[@NOTHlNG]

I'm pretty sure that the whole Ireland level is a reference to the movie Sleepy Hollow. The undead horseman, the huge mill, the mystical tree...

[@NoelBSLSongs]

Chronicles is actually my favourite game. It was the first TR game i actually owned (on Dreamcast!) I had played bits of the others at my friend's growing up but didnt play it long enough to really get into it. So when I got Chronicles I absolutely loved it. Very nostalgic for me!🤩

[@cmd-nomad546]

In my old Chronicles CD case from back in the days was the level editor included. That one had a demo level where you start inside a pyramid (it shows pretty much all the stuff you can do with the editor). Goal of the level was to make it out of the pyramid and i always read that level as how Lara got out of TR4 alive.

[@Geckokidthepaladin]

omg thank you for showing my tower bridge level near the end, i didn't expect that! :D

[@paintbasedpunk3441]

It's been 3 years since we came across your channel due to TR and I'm so glad we did.🥰 Your videos & livestreams are always fun to watch and every year we are looking forward to Tomb Raider Month. 🥰 Can't wait to watch you streaming the remasters😍 Kind regards from your special fans from Germany & of course also greetings to your cat😉

[@PS1Emperor]

As a huge TR fan I am currently playing this one and absolutely loving it.

[@Saint3188]

I hope they remaster it too.

[@TheJurnalyst]

The mysterious beast on the black island was called "Rango"... I've read every Tintin comic. I love them.

[@Geeksfreaksoutcastsandmisfits]

Nice! More Tomb Raider content please and thanks 🙏🏼

[@jellieman1]

One of my favourite TR’s! I have such good memories of playing this one. Also the Ireland levels were so spooky! The hanging tree…the demon horseman and that hideous mermaid thing used to give me the creeps 😂

[@rtjb2074]

Love when you make Tomb Raider content!

[@NOTHlNG]

17:17 I really like that little jingle. Despite the fact that we have no idea what does it mean or where it comes from. :)

[@shwightstudio87]

I love your Tomb Raider content. Keep it up! 😊😊😊

[@cc.amadeo]

I have a vague memory of zip having some unused audio in the game. one of them was him freaking out and yelling "close the door! Close the door quickly! Close the door quickly!" I found this by going through the audio on my pc as a kid lol

[@KelanRooks]

Just like I remember, and I love playing this game and good discovery.

[@TechnoCocoa]

I still love this game! I probably replay this one the most bc I like the one-off adventures. Also, the iris is just so cool.

[@ilyishai4991]

Can't wait for the remaster videos😊

[@thegoldencosmos3221]

Insightful vid, the timelines of each setting always made me wonder what came where haha

[@saschaberger3212]

Bless you for still making those lists.

[@AliBaba-rs6fi]

Best tomb raider gamer ever made

[@lauramac90]

I remember buying PlayStation magazine for all the info I could get about Lara 😂 she was like a real life celebrity to me.

[@lisshansen1729]

I love this game! Great video 😊

[@christophermarcil8292]

Chronicles was the only PS1 TR game I never played, but this video was an interesting watch anyway

[@leonardodolvitschleo6212]

A very good game, and now i understant why i never finished that game, Back then when i played never knew that sabe bug 😅😅

[@liamsworld3260]

Love this one too man, beat it with my buddy in one night when I was a kid, good memories, it’s fun to see the love for this one, it’s busted but awesome

[@94frankiec]

Chronicles is such a unique game in the franchise for a lot of different reasons, some good, some bad. Being the last one on the original platform before PS2, being split into separate stand alone levels, introducing new moves and weapons that would never be seen or used again in the franchise. It has a kind of melancholy feel to it; it was the end of an era for Tomb Raider on PS1 and to be honest Lara was still ‘missing’ in this game. We only saw flashbacks of her in old stories while people reminisced about her - kind of how fans did in real life missing when the games were good and less stale for ideas. It’s also hard to look back and think anyone involved enjoyed making this game when all they wanted was for her to go away. So many developers over the years have admitted that Chronicles wasn’t given any effort or much time resulting in glitchy textures, half empty levels where Lara is basically alone going from A to B and a very confusing timeline on all the stories and where they should fit. Even the ending was left open and never picked up on or corrected in Angel Of Darkness.

[@oddballlucy]

Really fascinating to hear the Tintin influence on this game - fuels my theory (that I've never seen confirmed anywhere but would LOVE to know) that the symbol of the Fiamma Nera in TR2 is a homage to the symbol of the Kih-Oskh brotherhood from a couple of Tintin books (Blue Lotus and Cigars of the Pharaoh)

[@glitchknitter422]

I had a TMX! The 70841, specifically. I wonder where it ended up over the years....

[@livir3361]

I think this one has to be my favourite. Mainly because it was the first one I played through properly and I just loved the Ireland levels. I'm curious if anyone had the same issue though: first time around, back when you couldn't just go to KZbin or Google solutions and had to go out and buy game guide books etc, I got to the old windmill and encountered the water demon but didn't realise you just had to swim a little lower to avoid him and get the shiny coin to use as a trap later. I would always swim towards him and trigger the cut scene where he winds you and you have to dart to the surface for air. I swear I spend so long exploring every nook and cranny of the whole area trying to find something I'd missed 😅

[@KasumiRINA]

I had the same issue and I played with parents so three people couldn't figure it out. My most hated level to this day. Followed by the one where you have to upgrade the bike in TLR.

[@theguyinthere]

I can confirm the level select codes do work.

[@soulreaver1983]

Many thanks for another fantastic video

[@ideasdejavier]

Seven days to the remaster!

[@TransitionedToAShark]

Hype for console Flop for pc

[@Saint3188]

Streaming it right now and loving it.

[@theguyinthere]

Ink Ribbon needs to do a video about the DLC/expansion pack levels from the classic tomb raider's.

[@MuhRidey]

Pierre has let the charming Mister Larson off the leash 👀

[@RuusRoom]

Chronicles was fun... Never understood the hate!

[@NOTHlNG]

I like it too. Guess the hate has something to do with the episodic, incoherent storyline, the lack of vehicles to control (save for the diving suit), lots of bugs, difficulty level, loading times and the overall shortness of the game.

[@Saint3188]

I lovee it too.

[@TerenceA72]

I have one of the journals they mailed out, I thought I was sent it as I was registered with Sony (They sent me all sorts of stuff, like Christmas wrapping paper with Tags, Advets for games on X-ray sheets, Cardboard Masks. a Rorschach Test, And yes I still have it all lol). This is the first time I've seen any refernce to it aside from the one I have.

[@TerenceA72]

I've just looked it out and there's more than I remembered, there's a letter and photo from Lara as well as the Journal pages, There's also a postcard to enter a competition to win the 'Scarab of Darkness' by answering question's based on the journal pages, I am so curious as to what it was. There arn't any pictures of it and again I can't find any reference to it anywhere.

[@SkynetVortex]

Wow, I never knew that the laser guns were inspired from the movie Eraser

[@SakuraSamael]

The TRLE community was seriously one of the most fantastic things to come out of this franchise, and I wish other developers would have taken a cue from it. People *want* to keep their favorite games alive, just for the love of it. Modding communities are proof of that.

[@franciefairchild]

This is the first ps1 Tomb Raider I got, I could never get past the 2nd level😭

[@novelezra]

To call The Matrix a 'movie' is underselling it. I was 10 years old when it came out and even at that age I could tell that The Matrix wasn't a movie, *it was a lifestyle*. Leather trenchcoat sales tripled, the colour green was smeared onto everything and literally the entire media landscape (movies, books, TV, games and just culture in general) became obsessed with the idea of 'parody'. Sure, there was parodies before The Matrix, but with the rise of the internet and movies like Shrek, Scary Movie etc. The Matrix basically created a whole new type of 'parody' And that was lazy parody. That ran rampant for at least a decade and a half until Marvel became the new dominant force in culture consumption. (Gotta give props to Conkers Bad Fur Day which was one of the first games to do bullet time and parody The Matrix)

[@renamon5658]

Love tomb raider

[@Saint3188]

Me too it's one of my favorites of the series.

[@TransitionedToAShark]

When a resident evil guy jumps on the the TR hype

[@greenhowie]

It's amazing the game plays as well as it does, you can really feel how strung out and tired the devs have gotten by this point. Really wish they'd been able to do something like putting a new team onto Chronicles while the veteran devs worked on a survival horror, there were genuinely good ideas in the Black Isle levels.

[@KasumiRINA]

Didn't they change most of the team for each game before that? The only crew member shared between TR1 and 3 was the composer but I am not sure how many people switched after.

[@TheRealOniStarWolf]

Now I understand why they delayed the trilogy remaster for February 14. I assumed it was so they can have a cheeky Valentine's Day marketing campaign. Nope it's just Lara's Birthday haha. Still clever release date.😆

[@MegaMetalmadman]

I personally love this game and tomb raider, the last revelation.

[@cjsm935]

Can you please cover the dead rising franchise and it's characters please if your able to. I adore those games so it'd be so cool if you did cover them. Kindly.

[@TombRaiderLover1995]

Speaking of TRLE, one thing i should mention, someone out there was a fan of not only Tomb Raider but also Harry Potter too and decided to merge these two and make the idea into a custom fully playable fan-made game.

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

This started off life as an expansion an expansion pack to LR.

[@jacksonjack7838]

"I didnt mean for(to) have" How did you make that oopsy? lol, sorry it just stood out to me because its the first thing you say in the video.

[@Resimaster]

Why does Larson refer to the artefact as the Mercury Stone?

[@laracroftrumana]

This tr is most infravaloraded, and very short, but is very variated

[@AlessioProietti]

I live in Rome and I always found funny the fact that in this game the downtown area, especially nearby the Colosseum is basically EMPTY while in reality is literally FULL of tourists and people in general 😂😂😂 BTW I'm still looking for the Philosopher Stone 😎

[@countbellalublowsi4702]

Depends on the time of day, aside from the bar it was dead mid April ~9pm

[@countbellalublowsi4702]

But there's so much traffic!

[@KasumiRINA]

Venice too, it's hardware limitations I mean first game couldn't even render sky.

[@cheekyphuzz_thegod8558]

I’m gonna pet both of my cats for you, lol

[@althausz1]

Wasn’t the philosophers stone referenced in Metal Gear3?

[@KasumiRINA]

I think it was just the Philosophers, a group of shadowy government figures that were there before the Patriots? My MGS lore is rusty...

[@VosskHraesvelg]

This was the first Tomb Raider I played where I could finish one level without cheats lol

[@XodyCalizander]

This is one of the only two rare games I had for sega dream cast, and I don't remember any of this

[@WakingWildflower]

never understood the hate for this game. its maybe not the BEST but it was fun for me. it's like a fun bunch of add-on levels. like custom fan-made stuff which can be incredibly entertaining. here's hoping they remaster this and revelations.

[@CristianArteaga-t3v]

Siempre me he preguntado como escapo von croy de la trampa del iris en tomb raider the last revelation

[@nicholassiter368]

Bark twain for the win 🎉

[@leonardocora7152]

When I was a teen i lost de entire game because de ciborg glitch on 13 floor. Was very traumatic!

[@CarloruggeroAnastasio]

Sorry but actually the sign on the Roman caffee says Recco, not Greco 🥲 at 2:33

[@prezidenttrump5171]

Ink Ribbon I love you!

[@NickFlack]

first time i know this game, i thought it's just golden ver of tr4....

[@SynthLizard8]

I liked Chronicles right up until the 13th floor mission, the mission goes from being alright, to swan-diving in to "OMG I HATE THIS!" Stealthing in that game is like stealthing in action-shooter, it's clearly not designed and it's like squeezing square pegs in to circle holes every step of the way and the obscurity of the vent in the bathroom made me give up on this game as a kid and even as a adult I couldn't figure it out until I looked up a guide, apparently a solid square in a celing with blurry cracks in it counted as a hatch to a vent, crucial dialogue where Zip tells you to press the button again on the elevator doors to close them is missing and doesn't elaborate that you need to press the button a 3rd time to activate the brakes. This level being what's on the front cover and where majority of people gave up is probably why this game has such a bad rep.

[@TheWorldAdventure]

I loved my timex hahaha

[@naxheel9363]

Lara’s mum model is actually the brunette version of Natla haha

[@NOTHlNG]

The most shocking plot twist since Darth Vader's revelation as Luke's father. :D

[@haganeelric98]

One thing I keep wondering after so many years: you mention in the video that the couple we see at the beginning at Lara's funeral are her parents, but they died years ago, at least according to classic Tomb Raider lore (until Square Enix butchered it with the survivor trilogy). I know the developers were exhausted to say the least but this is a big discontinuity error.

[@n0bodyxx]

As far as I know, her parents were never dead in the classic timeline. All we know about them is that they disowned her, that's it. Iirc they are dead in the legend trilogy tho

[@lilhanhan]

They disowned her in the classic era, they didn't die. That only becomes a thing in the first movie and then CD used that as an idea to establish their story in LAU ~

[@danielmastroianni5772]

Disowned her???? What? Why is this the first time I’ve heard this Where does it officially say that?

[@n0bodyxx]

@@danielmastroianni5772 it says it in the TR 1 game manual

[@keylanoslokj1806]

​@@danielmastroianni5772 Yeah. The rich explorer daddy issues lara, is the Hollywood/Angelina Jolie and the legend ones. The original Lara, was just a rebel that stood to her parents and decided to carve her own adrenaline filled path of tomb raiding. Totally different characters

[@Zanji1234]

i never played this game way back (only TR4 was my last one, while TR1 was my first "real" 3D game and the first on my Playstation) and did play it finally several years ago and...well... you kinda feel that this game was really just "a job" and not much care was put into it. Puzzles with actions that are totally random and things lara couldn't do before (and aren't explained) and the whole "Lara kinda kills Jean Yves in the past while then again in TR1" the angry video game nerd made a video about it and even had some interviews where the makers kinda said "yeah we didn't want to do it and we really didn't care much"

[@kiddhkane]

It seriously hurts me to know that there's people "shocked" by facts like philosopher's stone being a story before video games, or that it's Trajan, not Trojan...

[@RhysChristian490]

I have a soft spot for thing game despite it’s reputation.

[@LowePoly]

Bark Twain?

[@syruspaton6624]

Make a video on facts about Mr X please.

[@lobstercoco]

i still own the copy i stole from walmart when i was a kid lol

[@DerpyDerpums]

My favorite mass murderer

[@hannes8835]

This poor... poor... poor Like button. xD

[@GraceofGod247]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@laracroftrumana]

5:56 but in the real life, is from nazis until 1945

[@Khastrx]

Wasn't a fan of Chronicles or The Last Revelation, they just didn't have that same magic as the first three games. We can skip remasters for those two, it'll be fine 😅

[@Ryowhosakazaki]

Yeah same. Never owned it, but indeed, it doesn't feel the same those two.

[@blippitybloo]

Oy this game. Awful. Maybe 2 decent levels.

[@VjoltCocktail]

And I've been here for those 5 years ❤

[@realamericannegro977]

Crazy how Lara does crazy melee stuff in the demos. They need to do this in the games for real

[@KasumiRINA]

Yeah, my main complaint was her being helpless without guns in original games. She badly needs that Kung Fu she's been using since TR1 (spinning kicks to Larson).

[@EatBugsSeeGod]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT "TROJAN'S" MARKET?????????

[@EatBugsSeeGod]

Shocked & upset.

[@angelgt4455]

increíble thanks for the great video❤

[@realamericannegro977]

Excellent stuff as usual

[@realamericannegro977]

One thing about this game is the graphics are still beautiful even if its a rushed game