Tomb Raider Walkthrough and Game Guide. Featuring all secrets and hidden rewards, PC and MAC bugs, and packed with screenshots.
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The Yellow Pig
This one's easy, but you'll need the grappel and you must defeat the green pig first or you will not be able to pass the fire.
The Orange Pig
To get to this pig, you need to ride the Phoenix to the jungle, keep going to you get to the first cage. Now keep going left till you get to a tree you can climb on. Go up to the top, and jump to into the evil pig gate (providing you have the orange pig bag.) Kill him by throwing him into the bag as it turns your way.
The Green Pig
To get to the green pig, first you must go to Mushroom Forest and obtain laughing status. Then go to the haunted mansion near Baskar Village. Go on the slide with two pig snouts, and travel to the SMILE! door. Look up and laugh. The door will open and (if you have the green pig bag) there will be the green pig gate. Jump into it. When fighting the pig, jump on him and throw him into the Pig Bag when it's turned your way. Congrats, now you can travel through the Lava Caves.
The 8th Evil Pig
After you defeat all seven evil pigs, go to the strange small room in the underground mines, they will tell you that you need to find seven friends to stand on the platforms. Do this and battle the 8th evil pig!
Recover Health
If you are low on health in the game, go to a sign post and save your game. Now hit START and choose LOAD. Load the game you just saved and you'll be back to full health! You can also recover health by talking to the 100 Year Old Wise Man.
Mean Wise Man
In the Village of All Beginings, don't open any Kokka eggs. Instead, go directly to the 100 Year Old Wise Man. He will order you to get the other chicks and throw you out the window!
Leaf Butterflies
If you've restored the Forest Of All Beginnings and still need those butterflies, just slide down on the hill before the area of the baked yam. 25 Leaf Butterflies will come out. Collect them then head to the Deep Jungle for the other 4. Once you have all 29 you'll get a Golden Butterfly, one of the 5 rare golden items. Lumberjack Factory Quirk Tomba must have the grapplejack to do this. Go to the Lumberjack Factory in the Village of Civilization. Climb up onto the platform with the two people. Stand next to the one with the brown hair and jump into the air, throwing your grapple to the left. The grapplejack should catch in midair right over the house and Tomba will be hanging almost sideways. Then let go of the grapplejack and push to the right as Tomba falls. Tomba then will fall into the cage with the purple monster. If you press to the right Tomba continues to walk off the edge of the platform and into midair! You can jump back to where you started from with no problem.
Flash Pants/Psychic Fish
Now swing Northeast on the highest bar. If you have difficulty, use the Grapplejack to cling to a bar. You should be at either a bunch of egg plants, or a chest. At the plants, just gently drop down, open the chest for the awesome power of the Iron Boomerang. It can be thrown 3 times in a row. I recommend sticking to your Grapplejack, though.
Iron Boomerang
In Phoenix Mountain, around the area where the 'What's a Funga?' event is found, there are wooden bars. You need to reach the top bar. Before heading out, though, you need the following to be equipped:
Change Tomba's Hair Color
At the options screen hold R1+L1+Select+Square and press Left, Down, Up, Up, Right, Down, Left.
Biting Plant Flower
Near the begining of the game, at the Village of all beginings. You will find a row of the pumpkin-like plants with a Kokka bird, a Koma pig and a blue apple resting on top of them. Kill the bird and pig and then knock the apple off the right and edge by either throwing an enemy at it or hitting it with your Black Jack weapon. The apple should fall into the mouth of a biting plant below which should bloom into a flower. This may be repeatable in other areas, but I haven't found one where an apple is situated perfectly over a biting plant.
Pig Bag and Pig Gate Locations
Here is a list of Pig Bag and Pig Gate locations: Red Pig Bag: Behind the Big Keyhole Door on Stormy Mountain Red Pig Gate: Above a roof in Charity Square Green Pig Bag: In a 1,000 year-old Chest in the Lava Caves Green Pig Gate: Behind the Smile Door on the North Side of Mansion Pink Pig Bag: Behind the Big Keyhole Door on the North Side of Mansion Pink Pig Gate: At the top left-hand corner of the Lava Caves Orange Pig Bag: In a 1,000 year-old chest in Town Hall in Baccus Village Orange Pig Gate: To the left of the tall tree in the Masakari Jungle Navy Pig Bag: In a 10,000 year-old Chest on Old Tree Hill Navy Pig Gate: In the dining room behind the left door at Familiar Mansion Yellow Pig Bag: In a 10,000 year-old chest in Trick Village Yellow Pig Gate: At the top of the Clock Tower in the Village of Civilization Blue Pig Bag: Given by the Dwarf Elder in Dwarf Village Blue Pig Gate: In the Million Year-Old Man's room in the Underground Maze Black Pig Bag: Aquired after bagging the seven Evil Pigs Black Pig Gate: In the Strange Small Room in the Underground Maze
GENERAL TIPS. There are many ways to earn a lot of points in this game. You can get extra points by clicking several correct items quickly or you can finish a level without using any hints. If you don’t use any hints at the end of a level you will earn an additional 15,000 points. For every Scarab you find you will earn an additional 5,000 points for the first 20 and an additional 100,000 points for the last one (number 21).
You will also receive an additional 150,000 points for unlocking the last tomb in the final chapter. You can also get time bonus points when you finish the level with time left on your clock. If you find many items quickly you will get a speed bonus for every item that you click. You have to do it within seconds of the last item you click or it will not count. Sometimes it’s best to wait and click until you have several items at once. The bonuses multiply for every chain you can make. For example, if you click on 4 items in a row, you will get 1,000 points extra for the first item and 3,000 points extra for the last one.
You can also lose points quickly by performing certain actions. For every “hint” you use, you will lose 4,000 points and if you click randomly you will lose 1,000 points. I found that the game was pretty flexible about the random clicking, the only time you get penalized is if you click too many items back to back very quickly. There are 21 “Scarabs” to be found that are hidden throughout the game. The Scarabs will be found in a variety of sizes, colors and can be upside down, sideways etc.
There will only be 1 Scarab per location, it might be a good idea for you to write them down as you go along so that if you’re missing one you will know where to look. Sometimes it may not even be a picture of an actual Scarab, it may just be the word itself spelled out. We have also provided a list at the end of the guide with all the locations of the Scarabs for people who might need help.
All the hidden Scarabs should be visible by the time you reach your 9th mission. Once you find them, they will no longer be visible and you can stop looking for them. You can always look at the top left corner of the screen and see how many more you need to find.
The game will automatically alert you once you found all of them. If you have not found them by your ninth mission keep looking in the places that you are missing until you’ve found them all. Once you collect all 21 Scarabs you will automatically unlock The Secret Game Mode, which you could play right away or wait until the end of the game. In the secret Game Mode you will also find a bonus Egyptian location. In The Secret Game mode you will be able to play all the locations at your will and find every single item that was placed there.
Usually when the words that are written in capital letters it means that you have to look for the word written somewhere and not the actual item itself. There are several mini games in between finding all the hidden objects.
There are memory games, jigsaw puzzles, tile swapping games and spotting the differences amongst 2 pictures. You have to play these games in between and there’s no way to bypass them. There will be times when it seems that they are asking for you to reconstruct the same picture over and over again. It seems like someone made a mistake and the puzzles keep repeating but they are just making you recreate the scene of your next location before you play there again.
In the memory game you have to match tiles according to the instructions. You may need to find the matches by items of the same color, of what they have in common or by making identical matches. It’s very important to pay attention to the instructions that are on the left side of the screen at the beginning of every round. The instructions will tell you what to look for and it shows you an example as well. At times it will ask you to match related items, here are a few examples of that: lock and key/ baseball and mitt/ dog and bone/ bird and nest/ horse and horseshoe/ jug and goblet/ candle and candlestick/ stamp and letter. In the Find the Differences puzzle you have to compare the two pictures and spot what is different about them.
I find the best way to spot the differences is to move your cursor over the scene slowly so you can focus one part at a time. When I try to look at the scene without the cursor the small details seem to escape me. You can use the hint button to help you locate items but it will cost you 4,000 points off your score. There are pictures that you must put back together by swapping tiles around. You can use the hint feature if you get stuck but it will cost 4,000 points every time you do so, so use it sparingly.
When you swap the pieces around, you can sometimes see a shadowy film around the edges of the tiles. Those shadows will let you know which pieces go on the edge of the puzzle and in what direction they are facing. You can also piece the puzzles back together by looking at the background of where you are placing the tiles. As you are swapping pieces you can see small pieces of the puzzles in the background.
When you are doing the jigsaw puzzles, you have to rotate the pieces around before they can fit in their appropriate location. If your piece is reasonably close to where it belongs, the piece will automatically lock into place. You cannot use the hint button in these rounds. Yes no please thank you song lyrics.
When you are finished recreating a puzzle the image that you just finished reveals the next location you will be working on. In this game there are times when looking for an object that things are very clear, other times certain words can have more than one meaning or they give you a short riddle in order for you to find it.