It's hard to believe I played this game 25 years ago in 1998. I was lost, and my life was completely different then. This game brings back good memories.
dude i was like 9 or something when i got this game and i remember crying to my mum cause i spent all my 9 year old savings money to buy this game and the game was to difficult for me.......im 33 now. i came to level 5, which is preety good considered being a kid...i got the opera house eventually, but never finished the water level with sharks. also. this game is fucking scary atleast for kids. i remember my friends called me cause they was to scared to finish the first level with the chinese wall, the trap and the music at the end was so scary all my friends called me and i had to get to this guys house and finish the level while all 6 stood and watched in horror lol.....others games i played was tekken 3, hercules, mickey mouse adventures and coolboarders 3.....oh and ridge racer + gran turismo
@@WillyPhonken story starts with Dragon being defeated in China and monks locking magic dagger behind the door at the end of Great Wall. Lara follows the trail to Gianni Bartoli, a mafioso. Here in Italy, the bottom of this level there's a poster of some King Bartoli, apparently the mafia guy's father... Seems the guy was performing on stage as magician or something and his son got into a weird dragon obsessed death cult.
Got stuck on this level as there are lots of switches to pull and things to collect! Very confusing! Judging by the comments I’m glad I’m not the only one! Thanks for the walkthrough!
I am so glad I'm not the only who struggled with this level. I tried so hard not to look up a walkthrough but the very end stumped me bad so it's a relief to find out it's not just me 😅
Intresting that most comments are less than a year old. Many people going back to the classics at the moment. They had a special atmosphere about them.
I hate it that the camera doesn't show you what the levers do. I have poor short-term memory and looking for what changed in a level is nightmare for me.
Hard level: you need to use a lot of (small) medipacks. use small medipack = +0.5 in statistics (watch) -> often use when your health bar less than half during long levels use large medipack = +1 in statistics Secrets: Silver, Gold and Jade dragon - bonus: uzi ammo x4 Items: Ordonate key, Relay box (elevator), Circuit board (stage curtain) Enemies: Fiamma Nera Killer with pistols Fiamma Nera Brawler with steel bars Dobbermans Rats Fiamma Nera Boss (at 26:29) - this boss enemy also appears in Home Sweet Home as the final boss Goal: Bartoli's waterplane
Been replaying this for the first time in almost 20 years. Had to cheat a bit because I couldn't for the life of me to figure out how to do the glass floor puzzle at the start... and you just shot the window, hahah. I feel like such a low IQ ogre now 😂😂😂It looked like a metal bar not glass. I was trying all sorts of jump gymnastics to try and make her turn in the air and grab the ledge rather than fall into the glass... xD
@Wong all old-school games are made like this. For example modern racing games. They have helping arrows, arcade control, it's easing things to the maximum so most young kids can manage this. Personally I like the old games, they were more hard because had realistic control
@Wong I agree, i recently started playing the old school TR games and i noticed this one is more frustrating than the first one, which even if it had some BS moments it was mostly at the end (as it should be because at that point you already get used to it). Dont get me wrong, i love the challenge but TR1 felt more rewarding than levels like this in the second game.
@Escape yeah man, thanks. I think I had hit that switch earlier on, so when I added the circuit board and flicked the switch, I pulled the background down instead of pulling it up..
@@RetroRic79 honestly I didn’t even realize the switch did that, I guess I just hit it and got lucky 😁 I’m playing through TR2 right now for my first time. Always played it when I was younger but never got past the 1st level 😁. Currently on level 7: 40 fathoms
@@RetroRic79 it takes me a while because I explore everything, and have a bad habit of doing the pull up handstand walkover every time I go up a ledge. It’s soo fun to do 🤭
How did you open the door at the top of the ladder at 14:30? I dropped down into that area and when I reached the ladder that door at the top is closed. Am I just stuck now?
You can actually get into the back room behind the curtain without going through the vent area etc by carefully jumping into that alcove near the stage I think from highest level floor. I don't know if you can use it as an actual shortcut to finish the level, didn't try it. Just funny that they didn't seal the balcony off properly so you couldn't abuse it as a potential shortcut.
That’s how I got across when I beat this level. I thought it was the intended path. Come to think of it, I don’t think I remember turning on the elevators, but I know I did go to the laundry room area with the vents.
Thank you for your comment. I just beat the level in the Remastered version the way you said and I can't be the only one. I didn't do all the vent area, didn't use the circuit board, didn't even find the key. Such a strange level.
@@MrBadActors it seems all Venice levels got shortcuts like that, I managed to forget where you need to go in the game but accidentally skip timer (and two grates) in Venice and avoid moving chandeliers in Bartoli's Hideout.
Exactly what i've done, and since I finsihed the level with the circuit board and the key in my inventory, i knew I didn't took the intended path. Now I understand what I missed
Insane that I probably didn't struggle with this when I was a teenager. Now, at 42, it's kicking my ass. Can't get past the first part after you get the key! Wtf
@@Drew-f5t the levers you pull when you first open the hatch into the opera house. Go back there and you will hear a noise and look through the gap to see that the curtain has gone up
I just played this level and managed to get to the exit without even using the elevator and finding the chip for the computer. I really felt like I did not do it the level wanted me to do it which is why I am here to check the right way. And yeah somehow I took a shortcut..
She will not stop dying everytime i jump into the roof at the very beginning! No matter what angle i jump from, she dies every time! This is very frustrating!
Had the same problem in a different level. Try to heal yourself up maximum before jumping. I jumped from the left side of the wood plank. Had a lil damage
In much Scenarios this Game is so bad thought through....like that scene where you walk thru jag plates....i was jumpin all the time...who eva created this Game F-5 U...
It's hard to believe I played this game 25 years ago in 1998. I was lost, and my life was completely different then. This game brings back good memories.
what do yo mean with your wife?
@@SkynetVortex Your question makes no sense.
dude i was like 9 or something when i got this game and i remember crying to my mum cause i spent all my 9 year old savings money to buy this game and the game was to difficult for me.......im 33 now. i came to level 5, which is preety good considered being a kid...i got the opera house eventually, but never finished the water level with sharks. also. this game is fucking scary atleast for kids. i remember my friends called me cause they was to scared to finish the first level with the chinese wall, the trap and the music at the end was so scary all my friends called me and i had to get to this guys house and finish the level while all 6 stood and watched in horror lol.....others games i played was tekken 3, hercules, mickey mouse adventures and coolboarders 3.....oh and ridge racer + gran turismo
@@brownpleasure9320 LOL. Nice one.
I was lost & still am lost in this level.
The sideways jumps in the vents with the fans is just evil. I never would have figured that out.
A lot of things in this game are totally unfair. Like how enemies always have perfect aim at you even when you’re underwater!
It’s better to play a Modern Tomb Raider game, where everything is more simplified and easy to figure out.
That is difficulty level "1990s" :-)
This is precisely why I looked up this video. Could not remember, for the life of me.
What kind of madman constructs an opera house like this?!
Maybe it got like this after the main attraction died on a cruise ship and the mafia led by his son got obsessed over a Chinese legend.
@@guilhermecaiado5384 Wait... This game has a story?!
@@WillyPhonkenit actually did but I forgot exactly what 😭 I JUST started playing the remastered and realizing this now
@@WillyPhonken story starts with Dragon being defeated in China and monks locking magic dagger behind the door at the end of Great Wall. Lara follows the trail to Gianni Bartoli, a mafioso.
Here in Italy, the bottom of this level there's a poster of some King Bartoli, apparently the mafia guy's father... Seems the guy was performing on stage as magician or something and his son got into a weird dragon obsessed death cult.
@@KasumiRINA But, where does the temple of floating jade islands come from? How does she get there and what does it mean?
Got stuck on this level as there are lots of switches to pull and things to collect! Very confusing! Judging by the comments I’m glad I’m not the only one! Thanks for the walkthrough!
Same! Playing the remastered and just kept going in circles so here I am lol it’s amazing that people used to beat this game without walk throughs
@@vincentzombi3916I feel that way about all of the Venice levels. I've never enjoyed them
I am so glad I'm not the only who struggled with this level. I tried so hard not to look up a walkthrough but the very end stumped me bad so it's a relief to find out it's not just me 😅
I loathe this level ugh😅 im stuck atm
Intresting that most comments are less than a year old. Many people going back to the classics at the moment. They had a special atmosphere about them.
Tomb raider remastered was released, like 2 months ago.
A bundle with 1, 2 and 3.
Slightly remastered, but true to its history.
I'm playing the remaster, your videos are helping me so much! Thank you for posting.
I hate it that the camera doesn't show you what the levers do. I have poor short-term memory and looking for what changed in a level is nightmare for me.
Some do but yh I noticed most don't.
@@B.tv.8888 yeah, I meant specifically this level. It was difficult to find a difference in such a huge level.
For some reason 8yr old me was scared stiff of this level and the ones with yeti
It is very dark and foreboding, much in contrast to earlier levels.
19:37 - bruuuuh! 😑😑😑 (thank you!)
Jesus. I couldnt remember where the first switch was for like an hour. Thanks
Don't worry. It happens to me too on these hard levels. I get so lost and forget what I'm even doing.
2:31 *Main Theme casually starts playing*
Hard level: you need to use a lot of (small) medipacks.
use small medipack = +0.5 in statistics (watch) -> often use when your health bar less than half during long levels
use large medipack = +1 in statistics
Secrets: Silver, Gold and Jade dragon - bonus: uzi ammo x4
Items: Ordonate key, Relay box (elevator), Circuit board (stage curtain)
Enemies:
Fiamma Nera Killer with pistols
Fiamma Nera Brawler with steel bars
Dobbermans
Rats
Fiamma Nera Boss (at 26:29) - this boss enemy also appears in Home Sweet Home as the final boss
Goal: Bartoli's waterplane
You needn't use medipacks at all if you're a good player 😉 saving the game might help sometimes 😎
Been replaying this for the first time in almost 20 years. Had to cheat a bit because I couldn't for the life of me to figure out how to do the glass floor puzzle at the start... and you just shot the window, hahah. I feel like such a low IQ ogre now 😂😂😂It looked like a metal bar not glass. I was trying all sorts of jump gymnastics to try and make her turn in the air and grab the ledge rather than fall into the glass... xD
Also replayed it this week after, I guess, some 22-23 years. The nostalgia...
Literally the exact same thing happened to me. Spent 30 mins on it only to watch a video and see that you just have to shoot it 😅
this is how proper game level looks like
@Wong you're right, it's made hard on purpose. But we enjoy it, aren't we?
@Wong all old-school games are made like this. For example modern racing games. They have helping arrows, arcade control, it's easing things to the maximum so most young kids can manage this. Personally I like the old games, they were more hard because had realistic control
@Wong I agree, i recently started playing the old school TR games and i noticed this one is more frustrating than the first one, which even if it had some BS moments it was mostly at the end (as it should be because at that point you already get used to it). Dont get me wrong, i love the challenge but TR1 felt more rewarding than levels like this in the second game.
3:50 i remember being stuck on this bit for ages back in the day...
i am right now on the remastered ps4, wtf tried like 15 times, still noothin 😂
Hard ass level
Arrrrrgh, what activates the backdrop on the stage?
It's still down after 23:36
Have I missed something or has it glitched?
Did you figure it out? Are you talking about the trapdoor on the stage?
@Escape yeah man, thanks. I think I had hit that switch earlier on, so when I added the circuit board and flicked the switch, I pulled the background down instead of pulling it up..
@@RetroRic79 honestly I didn’t even realize the switch did that, I guess I just hit it and got lucky 😁 I’m playing through TR2 right now for my first time. Always played it when I was younger but never got past the 1st level 😁. Currently on level 7: 40 fathoms
@@RetroRic79 it takes me a while because I explore everything, and have a bad habit of doing the pull up handstand walkover every time I go up a ledge. It’s soo fun to do 🤭
This level is a wonderfully constructed puzzle. It just doesn't make a shred of sense, nor has it got anything to do with tombs... 😜
is there a uzi somewhere because i missed it in levels 2 and 3 and im not going back
How did you open the door at the top of the ladder at 14:30? I dropped down into that area and when I reached the ladder that door at the top is closed. Am I just stuck now?
Pull the lever at 13:25
You can actually get into the back room behind the curtain without going through the vent area etc by carefully jumping into that alcove near the stage I think from highest level floor. I don't know if you can use it as an actual shortcut to finish the level, didn't try it. Just funny that they didn't seal the balcony off properly so you couldn't abuse it as a potential shortcut.
That’s how I got across when I beat this level. I thought it was the intended path. Come to think of it, I don’t think I remember turning on the elevators, but I know I did go to the laundry room area with the vents.
Thank you for your comment.
I just beat the level in the Remastered version the way you said and I can't be the only one. I didn't do all the vent area, didn't use the circuit board, didn't even find the key. Such a strange level.
@@MrBadActors it seems all Venice levels got shortcuts like that, I managed to forget where you need to go in the game but accidentally skip timer (and two grates) in Venice and avoid moving chandeliers in Bartoli's Hideout.
Exactly what i've done, and since I finsihed the level with the circuit board and the key in my inventory, i knew I didn't took the intended path. Now I understand what I missed
Insane that I probably didn't struggle with this when I was a teenager. Now, at 42, it's kicking my ass. Can't get past the first part after you get the key! Wtf
TR2 was harder than 1 😢
Way harder
I forgot to get the micro chip thing to pull the second lever . Where is it located does anyone know ?
I never completed this game becuase I was stuck on this misson lol. I was only a young gamer them times
How do you open the stage door at the end?
Did you ever find out? I'm stuck on this now!
@@Drew-f5t the levers you pull when you first open the hatch into the opera house. Go back there and you will hear a noise and look through the gap to see that the curtain has gone up
I just played this level and managed to get to the exit without even using the elevator and finding the chip for the computer. I really felt like I did not do it the level wanted me to do it which is why I am here to check the right way. And yeah somehow I took a shortcut..
this level is fucking confusing
Я играл в нее когда еще нета не было. Прошел. Иногда и сейчас на эмуле гоняю. Но тогда это было что то😂 загадка таинственность в игре была
She will not stop dying everytime i jump into the roof at the very beginning! No matter what angle i jump from, she dies every time! This is very frustrating!
Had the same problem in a different level. Try to heal yourself up maximum before jumping. I jumped from the left side of the wood plank. Had a lil damage
For many people this is one of the scariest level in TR serie
What is scary on theater?? :D The scariest I would say is the one under the water, when you realize, you can't just swim up to take a breath :D
Strongly disagree I would say the scariest is the floating islands
@@kschenkeveld1 he said "one of" so one of scariest along with floating islands and the underwater levels.
@@KasumiRINA shut up no one cares
how the hell do you do the side jumps
Why is this level so god damn hard?!
You missed a rat! You can hear her at 00:22:21 ;-)
The poor rats :)
19:35 is hardest part i think, it takes 30 mins to solve the side jump style but I did it with diving jump
I was stuck there for months
Same
omg thanks, this level is really horrible :D
That jump at 5:43 is impossible
I just searched for this video, because missed the button in the last room :D
Pretty scary level 😂
the staff is now making souls games.
The level that made me quit playing lol
I didn’t pick up a grenade launcher 😩😩😩😩
You lose it immediately in the next level so it's fuck all really.
Stage 1
I lost on this level
Stuck for hours... circuit board card...
I literally found that by mistake. I can't open the gate to the place that needs the circuit board 😂
Because wtf.
In much Scenarios this Game is so bad thought through....like that scene where you walk thru jag plates....i was jumpin all the time...who eva created this Game F-5 U...
Stuck on it now
Played this game like 8 years ago.
Opera house is terrible 🥹 I have no idea where next!
Сецчас попросишь тебе помогут. Тогда я был один на один с этим миром