DECEMBER 19TH
Level by Christoph
Summerer (christoph), with Alex Nierlein
Walkthrough by Sutekh
CS = Crawlspace - MS =
Monkey Swing - L = Left - R = Right - N, S, E, W = Cardinal Points - UW =
Underwater
SJ = Standing Jump -
SJ+G = Standing Jump + Grab - RJ = Running Jump - RJ+G = Running Jump + Grab
Items of note: Key 1, Blue
Globe, Red Globe, Key 2, White Globe, Key 3, Key 4, Green Globe
0 Secrets
[Note: for non German
speakers there's a transcript of the dialogues taking place in the starting and
ending cutscenes in "cut.txt" in the level archive]
After a very nice
intro sequence and once Lara is properly dressed, you're ready to go on your
hunt for Christmas Balls. Don't go downstair yet, but run to the NE corner of
Lara's bedroom: you'll find a small medipack there.
Now head for the
entrance door downstair. Pull the switch on its R to open it and enter
the snow covered gardens. Run across it to the open gate to the W, turn R (N)
then W at the corner and run through the tunnel. Keep running until you reach a
junction with a fir tree on your L (W), the road going ahead and up to the N.
Turn R (E) and run to the wall until you can spot a little hole on the floor in
the middle. Pick up the beige Key there and go back to the previous junction.
No go N and up the
road and keep running until you reach a tunnel in a stone wall to the W: this
is the entrance of The Village (no scary creatures roaming the nearby woods in
this one, though). Run through it, notice the door with the grey keyhole
immediately L (S). This one is for later, so ignore it for now. Run past the
first junction on your L and climb onto the block extending from the house
ahead. Turn around (E) and look up: there's a small ledge up there. So stand on
the edge of the block, jump and grab the ledge and pull up.
Turn R (S) and notice
the hole in the roof you're on to your R (SW). Safety drop down through it into
the house below. Locate the Blue Globe in the NE corner on a low block and pick it
up. Now go to the door on the W wall. The wall above is climbable. Climb it and
stop when Lara's hands reach the point where the texture change and backflip on
the roof (if you climb higher, you'll backflip beyond the roof in the street
below and lose some health in the process). Go back down in the streets vie the
ledge and the block below.
Now run W to the end
of the street and turn L (S) before a large recess with a door and some blocks
against the walls. Stop after the corner of the house, turn around and look up
and R to spot a jumpswitch up on the N wall. Climb onto the nearby block
and turn to the wall. Jump and grab its edge and shimmy to the R until you're
just above the jumpswitch. Let go and immediately press Action to grab and
activate it. You're given a very pretty fly-by showing you a door opening in a
passage nearby.
Turn R (E) and run to
the passage to the L (N) past the first junction. Enter the passage to locate
the newly opened door on the L (W) and drop down in the house. Run W across the
frozen floor to activate the switch there on the W wall ahead. This
opens another door by the recess with the blocks. Turn around and cross the room.
Climb on the block. The wall ahead is climbable so climb to the top to exit the
house.
Turn L (N) then L (W)
again after the passage and pass through the now opened door. Run along and
down the corridor and locate the Christmas Tree in the center of the room
there. Press Action while standing before it to pick up the Red Globe. Exit the house and
go back in the street.
Turn L (N), run to the
end of the street and turn L (W) once there. There's another large recess with
blocks. Enter, run to the W wall ahead and turn R (N) to activate the switch
there, opening a door nearby. Turn around and run ahead (E), the door is there
to the R (S). Enter the house then turn around and look up to spot the jumpswitch
up there above the doorway (N). Jump and grab to activate it, opening another
door out there in the street.
Leave the house, turn
L (W) then L (S) and ahead to the end of the street to get back to the place
where the first jumpswitch is. Run ahead until you reach the red brick wall
(S). the door is there, on your L (E). Enter the house, turn R (S) into the
short corridor then R (W) again upon entering the kitchen. Run to the end of
the room, locating a trapdoor on the floor before the S wall. Ignore it for
now. Turn R (N), go up the flight of stairs and pick up the grey Key in the NE corner. Now
go back to the trapdoor.
Open it facing S, turn around and drop down in the low-ceilinged
corridor below. Run ahead (N) and stop one tile away from the end. Look up to
spot another trapdoor up in the ceiling. Jump and grab to open it. Pull
up in the room above and pick up the White
Globe in the NW corner. This will open another
door so turn to the E, run to the other side of the room then through the short
corridor and L (N) at the junction to be back in the street.
Head for the Entrance of The Village by running E to the tunnel. Stop a
bit before and turn R (S) to the door with the grey keyhole we already
noticed. Use the grey key on it to open the door. Enter the house and run ahead
(S) into the library, then turn L (E) and L (N) again at the other side of the
room. Look down to spot a blue and beige Key near the bed there and pick it up. Leave the house to be back in the street.
Go L (W) then turn R
(N) at the first junction. Run past the houses then turn R (E) to spot a door
with another keyhole, this one beige with blue dots. Use the blue and
beige Key on it to open the door. Run E through the white marble corridor and
turn R (S). There's two doors here on the S and N walls (the third is fake),
and two beige keyholes, one being trapped behind bars. Use the beige key on the
rightmost keyhole, which lowers the cage and opens the door behind on
the N wall.
Enter the room, turn L
(W) and look down to spot another beige Key on the carpet between the beds and before the
night stand. Pick it up (crouch while standing on it if you can't take it) and
return to the previous room to use it on the leftmost keyhole. The
closest door opens. Enter the room, immediately turn L (E) and go into the
kitchen. Locate the Green Globe there near the E walls. Pick it up (again you might need
to crouch to do so). That's it, you're done hunting Christmas Balls.
Return to the Manor
now by leaving the house you're in, running ahead (W) a bit then turning L (S)
at the junction, ahead then L (E) again toward Entrance tunnel, along the snowy
road, through the Manor Gate, across the garden and eventually through the
Manor Entrance Door. Watch the end sequence to know about the fate of the hard
collected Christmas Balls.