Of the two games in the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, The Lost Legacy is significantly more puzzle-heavy. But, that doesn't mean Uncharted 4: A Thief's End doesn't have a head scratcher or two. In Chapter 8, "The Grave of Henry Avery," the trouble starts after you locate the grave in question and must find the solution to a puzzle involving a constellation formed from points of light.
Beneath Henry Avery's apparent final resting place, you will find a room with a trio of pillars, each bearing an inscription depicting either Jesus or one of the two thieves crucified at his side. To begin the puzzle, interact with the central pillar to make Nate and Sam comment on the inscriptions. Then, go around behind the back and ask Sam to light the lamp. This will cause six bright blue dots to appear on the wall.
Lighting the lantern.
Now, go back to the front. The goal of this puzzle is to move paired lights onto the stones set into the wall until they form a completed constellation (which you can see at the bottom of this guide). Move the leftmost lights toward the center and rotate them so that the top light overlaps with the second stone from the top and the bottom light overlaps with the second stone from the bottom.
Left pillar solution.
Now, walk to the central pillar. Move and rotate the lights so that they overlap with the topmost and bottommost stones.
Central pillar solution.
Finally, head to the rightmost pillar. Move and rotate the lights so that they overlap with the two most central stones–one on the left and up, one on the right and down.
Right pillar solution.
With the lights in place, Sam will alert you "Nathan, that's it! You got it!" Time to see what's behind that door.
The Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection releases today on PlayStation 5, and to mark the occasion, we thought we'd dig out some of our favourite pieces of work about the included games.
First, a quick recap. The Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is a double-pack of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, remastered for PlayStation 5. And you know what that means: fancy new technical bells and whistles.
Uncharted creative director Shaun Escayg has hinted that developers at Naughty Dog would like to make another sequel in the blockbuster series, saying that it's a "world we want to see more of."
When Uncharted 4: A Thief's End was first revealed during E3 2014, Naughty Dog presented a stunning teaser trailer featuring Nathan Drake waking on a beach... the detail was unprecedented and astonishingly, it was running at 60 frames per second. Of course, that 60fps dream never came to pass - beyond multiplayer mode - but 30fps was just fine, bearing in mind the quality of the final game. That said, we were left wondering what might have been. Certainly, simulated 60fps gameplay using the game's slow-motion mode looked absolutely beautiful - but now, thanks to PlayStation 5, it's running at 60fps in real-time. Or 120fps, if you prefer.
Revisiting Uncharted 4 and its Lost Legacy spin-off - both remastered now for PlayStation 5 - reminds us of the sheer level of achievement delivered by Naughty Dog in the last generation. Both are impressively executed games that essentially perfect the cinematic action formula, delivering strong characterisation, stunning locations and exceptional set-pieces. Across the PS4 generation, the studio proved time and again that it had mastered the balancing act of delivering engrossing player agency within a tightly-defined cinematic experience.
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is a damn good time. It bundles both Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy into one PlayStation 5 package, boasting new graphics modes, a complete lack of load times, and DualSense functionality. Both games are more than a few years old now, but as far as we're concerned, they're yet to be topped when it comes to cinematic action titles.
For the purposes of this review, we're going to write about each game individually, starting with Uncharted 4 — but our conclusion at the bottom of the page will take the whole collection into account.