13:25 the amount of luck that you experienced here cannot be overstated lol. This was a puzzle that drives people crazy that you just casually lucked into doing it right first try, so it didn't even register to you as a puzzle lol great work?

0:59 Well, closes a door you previously used it to open.

1:40 Prior to the remaster, that manoeuvre wasn’t available until the fifth game. Originally Lara would have had to turn round and slowly lower herself through the gap.

1:58 This specific pick-up could only be collected before the spiked wall reached this end of the room, which would have required speed and precision the first time you reached this area. Now it just taunts players who missed it when it was grabable.

2:22 This is your first opportunity to get the secret here. When you previously came through, a moving spiked wall made it impossible to reach the items without dying.

8:09 Pulling it enabled you to access the area where you started this video. You already have all the accessible pick-ups there, and the descending spikes that you had to evade on the way through have not reset, so going that way again is both pointless and terminally pointy.

10:28 Well, you’d probably have missed the secret if you’d spotted the way forward first time.

11:37 It’s required to unlock this level’s most epic secret (and this room contains a clue on where to use it - the diagram on the board in front of Lara at 11:57), but as regards just completing the level, you don’t need it.

13:15 No, you can’t move on to the next stage of the level without triggering the concealed pressure pad on the floor in here.

13:30 You have no idea how lucky you just were. There’s yet another hidden pressure pad which re-closes the exit, and you went straight for the one path that avoids triggering it. I’ve seen Let’s Players driven half-mad by getting into a loop of ‘open concealed door, head towards it, shut it before reaching it’ here.

14:26 Absolutely. The interested party mentioned in the telegram depicted in the first level’s loading screen beat you to it.

15:45 It is, but now it provides the means of opening up the way to the level’s final secret, if you grabbed the relevant item and can work out what to do with it.

16:50 No, but it would have opened if you’d put the mini-standing stone in the right place.

18:37 IIRC, the booklet that came with the original release of TLA filled in some of the narrative gaps. Having found that someone else had taken the fifth artefact, Lara returned home, frustrated. Shortly afterwards, newspapers reported on a disaster that had taken place in the Channel Tunnel, and mentioned that the incident involved goo similar to the stuff found at Willard’s. Lacking any other leads, Lara has come to Shakespeare Cliff (IRL the location of an unsuccessful 19th-century attempt at digging a channel tunnel) to investigate.

19:46 Missed an ammo pick-up!

21:48 And, in one of the game’s more obscure secrets (and that’s saying something), pulling the crate back would inexplicably have opened a gate to more pick-ups.

32:17 Your knack for finding unintended short cuts comes into play again. The ledge to the left of the ladder, while sloped, was not slidey, and you could have dropped onto it in safety and eventually progressed from there to the upper section of the area with the ladders and flaming barrels.