Most frustrating level[s] in TR1?

taylornk · 01-06-05, 03:20

What was your most frustrating level[s] in TR1? I'm talking about any level where you were stuck for a long time because you couldn't figure out what to do, or there was a task in it that was too difficult, or it was too confusing?

For me, it was a tie: City of Khamoon and Natla's Mines. City of Khamoon was the first time I really got stuck in the game and thought that it had me beat. (I had no idea what to do once I entered that room with the sphinx and was stuck for days running, walking, and swimming, trying to figure out where the key was.)

Natla's Mines was a really bad level for me, because I could never find the third fuse, and I never really knew what the objective was. I mean, I knew that I was supposed to find three fuses to lower that caged room, but I had no idea that the point of lowering the room was to regain the weapons. As a result, I made a lot of bad moves that made it very difficult for me to finish the level without going back to earlier saves.

My worst move was what I did when I couldn't find the 3rd fuse. After fuses 1 and 2, I said "screw it; I'll just keep going, see what happens." This was terrible because without the fuses I had no weapons to defend Lara, and of course she was going to meet several bad guys as the game advanced. So I finally reached that point where the Cowboy was and-- guess what-- because I didn't have the weapons, I had to make Lara make that jump across the cavern as she was getting shot at. Lara died about 20x before she finally leaped successfully.

Then I had to outrun the skateboard kid and try to dodge bullets from the third bad guy with the shotgun. Of course I didn't have the weapons, so I spent days getting gunned down by first the skateboard kid, then when I outran him, getting gunned down the baldheaded guy. I was so frustrated at this point because I kept asking "How'm I supposed to survive this level without my guns?" That's when I realized that I had probably missed a few things and needed to go back to an earlier save. So I went back and was able to find Lara's guns in a secret mineshaft in that long cavern of lava with tall pillars. (Yes, they appear there as a shotgun if you don't get them by solving the fuses puzzle). But I became bummed when I learned after the fact that I was supposed to have gotten the guns by finding the three fuses for the caged room, because it never felt as if I beat the level correctly.

Ah well...

Edited: I kept referring to TR1 as TS1. Whoops!

[ 02. June 2005, 03:54: Message edited by: taylornk ]

DREWY · 01-06-05, 03:39

First time I played. St Francis folly - The Neptune Room. Was not good at swimming at this early stage and must have drowned a dozen times. Used to almost make it. Now its one of my favorite TR1 levels.

adventuregirl · 01-06-05, 09:52

Hey..now we have a new challenge! Don´t kill the bad guys in Natla´s Mines.

I had problems with Obelisk of Khamoon. I found it really confusing first time through.

I didn´t get the pistols either. I also ran past the cowboy and jumped down over the big lava pit. After I found the shotgun I went back for revenge. Hey, what if Lara doesn´t have any weapons in the end of Natla´s Mines? Does she have them in Atlantis?

::PJB:: · 01-06-05, 12:30

Atlantis was scary because it was all dark and them eggs where hatching all over the place!

X-Offender · 01-06-05, 18:49

One of the games I've stucked for a long time was Cistern. Me and my friends had very much problems with the level of the water, you know? We did the wrong moves, we rised the level of the water in the room that you don't need water, it was very silly, we couldn't fugure out nothing. So we didn't play the game for a long time, before me and one of my friends decided to play it from the begining. When we went at the Cistern, we knew what we had to do, and with a bit luck we passed it.

Another game I've stucked for a long time was Natla's Mines. I couldn't figure how to find all the fuses! It passed a long time after we found them all and then we finished that level.

The levels in Egypt have been very frustrating aswell, I have to say that in City Of Khamon, we stucked there for a long while...

But it was a real pleasure when we finished all the game!

In that time we were younger and of course it was harder for us, especially for me, I was a bit scaired from the mummies

taylornk · 02-06-05, 03:13

DREWY- St. Francis' Folly is actually one of my most favorite levels in the game, but I definitely understand where you're coming from. The water puzzle was brutal. (I musta drowned Lara a zillion times.) Besides, I literally sweated the entire time I played that level, because of the heights.

advis- Well, from my experience, I think in the challenge it's very easy to make it past the Cowboy/ Skateboarder (with tons of medi packs), but making it past the last guy is very difficult, because he follows you everywhere. That's a good question, though-- what if you did finish that level without weapons? Hmmmmm...!

PJB- It wasn't the eggs hatching that freaked me out in Atlantis, but that weird mutant clone of Lara that mirrors her every move. I saw that and went, "What the heck is that?!" Then I turned off the game and decided to play it the next day during daylight, because it just scared me, LOL.

X-Offender- I really lucked out with the Cistern, but the sounds freaked me out a little. When I first entered it, I thought they were the sounds of some large beast hiding somewhere, waiting to eat Lara.

::PJB:: · 02-06-05, 14:45

Quote:

Originally posted by taylornk:
PJB- It wasn't the eggs hatching that freaked me out in Atlantis, but that weird mutant clone of Lara that mirrors her every move. I saw that and went, "What the heck is that?!" Then I turned off the game and decided to play it the next day during daylight, because it just scared me, LOL.

True Taylornk, I forgot about the Lara clone. I would always shot at it and Lara's health would go down? It took me ages to figure out that you had to make the damn thing fall down the hole!

X-Offender · 02-06-05, 15:03

What about the doors at Palace Midas? It was tricky to figure out how to open them. You had to memory the letters and then combine them with the switches. The left hand door on the east wall was the most difficult, I stayed ages before finishing it and collecting the lead bar there.

Darth Plagus · 02-06-05, 23:30

Quote:

Originally posted by advis:
Hey..now we have a new challenge! Don´t kill the bad guys in Natla´s Mines.

Ahh! No! I have to kill that idiot on the skateboard!

"You firing at me? You firing at me huh?"

Yes mate, I'm firing at you...now squirt some ketchup skater boy!

Titak · 03-06-05, 08:59

My brother was playing while I was watching and at some point he had been playing on his own and got stuck somewhere in the Greek levels: couldn't get across a gap. I didn't know much about Lara's abilities back then, but I saw a crack in the rock and asked my brother if she would be able to grab it and shimmey across. His reaction was somewhere in the lines of Doh!

We also spend a lot of time running around Natla's Mines trying to locate the fuses.

I also seem to remember running into that skateboard kid without having guns...

One thing really made us jump though! It was Thor's Hammer in St Francis Folley. It was dark and we couldn't see. Suddenly there was a loud bang and Lara's health bar had gone all black. What!?

We were very excited when we found out what it was though!

The alien cloon was cool!

01-06-05, 03:39	#2
DREWY Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 11,614	First time I played. St Francis folly - The Neptune Room. Was not good at swimming at this early stage and must have drowned a dozen times. Used to almost make it. Now its one of my favorite TR1 levels. __________________ Stay alert - the world needs more lerts

01-06-05, 03:20	#1
taylornk Hobbyist Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 53	What was your most frustrating level[s] in TR1? I'm talking about any level where you were stuck for a long time because you couldn't figure out what to do, or there was a task in it that was too difficult, or it was too confusing? For me, it was a tie: City of Khamoon and Natla's Mines. City of Khamoon was the first time I really got stuck in the game and thought that it had me beat. (I had no idea what to do once I entered that room with the sphinx and was stuck for days running, walking, and swimming, trying to figure out where the key was.) Natla's Mines was a really bad level for me, because I could never find the third fuse, and I never really knew what the objective was. I mean, I knew that I was supposed to find three fuses to lower that caged room, but I had no idea that the point of lowering the room was to regain the weapons. As a result, I made a lot of bad moves that made it very difficult for me to finish the level without going back to earlier saves. My worst move was what I did when I couldn't find the 3rd fuse. After fuses 1 and 2, I said "screw it; I'll just keep going, see what happens." This was terrible because without the fuses I had no weapons to defend Lara, and of course she was going to meet several bad guys as the game advanced. So I finally reached that point where the Cowboy was and-- guess what-- because I didn't have the weapons, I had to make Lara make that jump across the cavern as she was getting shot at. Lara died about 20x before she finally leaped successfully. Then I had to outrun the skateboard kid and try to dodge bullets from the third bad guy with the shotgun. Of course I didn't have the weapons, so I spent days getting gunned down by first the skateboard kid, then when I outran him, getting gunned down the baldheaded guy. I was so frustrated at this point because I kept asking "How'm I supposed to survive this level without my guns?" That's when I realized that I had probably missed a few things and needed to go back to an earlier save. So I went back and was able to find Lara's guns in a secret mineshaft in that long cavern of lava with tall pillars. (Yes, they appear there as a shotgun if you don't get them by solving the fuses puzzle). But I became bummed when I learned after the fact that I was supposed to have gotten the guns by finding the three fuses for the caged room, because it never felt as if I beat the level correctly. Ah well... Edited: I kept referring to TR1 as TS1. Whoops! [ 02. June 2005, 03:54: Message edited by: taylornk ]

01-06-05, 09:52	#3
adventuregirl Student Join Date: May 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 195	Hey..now we have a new challenge! Don´t kill the bad guys in Natla´s Mines. I had problems with Obelisk of Khamoon. I found it really confusing first time through. I didn´t get the pistols either. I also ran past the cowboy and jumped down over the big lava pit. After I found the shotgun I went back for revenge. Hey, what if Lara doesn´t have any weapons in the end of Natla´s Mines? Does she have them in Atlantis?

01-06-05, 12:30	#4
::PJB:: Archaeologist Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: UK Posts: 1,764	Atlantis was scary because it was all dark and them eggs where hatching all over the place!

01-06-05, 18:49	#5
X-Offender Historian Join Date: May 2005 Location: St. Francis' Folly Posts: 348	One of the games I've stucked for a long time was Cistern. Me and my friends had very much problems with the level of the water, you know? We did the wrong moves, we rised the level of the water in the room that you don't need water, it was very silly, we couldn't fugure out nothing. So we didn't play the game for a long time, before me and one of my friends decided to play it from the begining. When we went at the Cistern, we knew what we had to do, and with a bit luck we passed it. Another game I've stucked for a long time was Natla's Mines. I couldn't figure how to find all the fuses! It passed a long time after we found them all and then we finished that level. The levels in Egypt have been very frustrating aswell, I have to say that in City Of Khamon, we stucked there for a long while... But it was a real pleasure when we finished all the game! In that time we were younger and of course it was harder for us, especially for me, I was a bit scaired from the mummies

02-06-05, 03:13	#6
taylornk Hobbyist Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 53	DREWY- St. Francis' Folly is actually one of my most favorite levels in the game, but I definitely understand where you're coming from. The water puzzle was brutal. (I musta drowned Lara a zillion times.) Besides, I literally sweated the entire time I played that level, because of the heights. advis- Well, from my experience, I think in the challenge it's very easy to make it past the Cowboy/ Skateboarder (with tons of medi packs), but making it past the last guy is very difficult, because he follows you everywhere. That's a good question, though-- what if you did finish that level without weapons? Hmmmmm...! PJB- It wasn't the eggs hatching that freaked me out in Atlantis, but that weird mutant clone of Lara that mirrors her every move. I saw that and went, "What the heck is that?!" Then I turned off the game and decided to play it the next day during daylight, because it just scared me, LOL. X-Offender- I really lucked out with the Cistern, but the sounds freaked me out a little. When I first entered it, I thought they were the sounds of some large beast hiding somewhere, waiting to eat Lara.

02-06-05, 15:03	#8
X-Offender Historian Join Date: May 2005 Location: St. Francis' Folly Posts: 348	What about the doors at Palace Midas? It was tricky to figure out how to open them. You had to memory the letters and then combine them with the switches. The left hand door on the east wall was the most difficult, I stayed ages before finishing it and collecting the lead bar there.

03-06-05, 08:59	#10
Titak Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Drenthe, The Netherlands Posts: 11,051	My brother was playing while I was watching and at some point he had been playing on his own and got stuck somewhere in the Greek levels: couldn't get across a gap. I didn't know much about Lara's abilities back then, but I saw a crack in the rock and asked my brother if she would be able to grab it and shimmey across. His reaction was somewhere in the lines of Doh! We also spend a lot of time running around Natla's Mines trying to locate the fuses. I also seem to remember running into that skateboard kid without having guns... One thing really made us jump though! It was Thor's Hammer in St Francis Folley. It was dark and we couldn't see. Suddenly there was a loud bang and Lara's health bar had gone all black. What!? We were very excited when we found out what it was though! The alien cloon was cool!