THE FORGOTTEN TEMPLE OF ABU ROASCH
Level By Volki
Walkthrough By Anya Marie McDonald
NOTE: I will not mention any of the pickup or secrets in this level unless
the secret has a pick up (i.e., key or item needed) that is required to open a
door or special item. The rest is up to the individual players of this level to
discover on their own.
The level starts with Lara standing in a corner facing a pool, there are
also four doors in this room. The doors on the north and south wall open from the other
side, while the door on the east wall requires a star to open it, and the door
on the west wall requires the pharaos knot to open it. In the southwest corner
is a pole, so go and climb it and backflip onto the ledge. Now face the
structure and jump/grab the crevice, then shimmy to the left, around the corner
and drop to the ledge below. Next jump over to the ledge across from you and go
to the right, then look back across to the structure, when you see a ledge with
a floor lever jump over and use it.
Jump back across to
the ledge along the wall, go left then jump/grab/pullup into the crawlspace on
the structure. Next drop down to the room below and head through the passage to
your left, follow the passage til it ends at a floor lever. Use the floor
lever, watch the cut scene and head back to where you dropped down into this
room, all the while avoiding a wraith which will be destroyed when you reach
the statue in the room you entered before going down the passage.
Now head back down to
the pool and go through the opening you saw in the cut scene. Once you are in
the pool swim through the opening in the northeast corner of the pool and
follow the underwater passage til you can surface and exit the water. You are
now in a dimly lit room, there is a raised block, so climb it and
jump/grab/pullup into the room above. In this dimly lit room go grab the pharaos
knot in the southeast corner of the room. Once the pharaos knot is in your
possession leave this room and go use the artifact to open the door on the west
wall in the pool room.
After opening the door
on the west wall, go through and turn right and get the lasersight from the
shallow pit (which is also a secret). Once you have the lasersight head up the
sloping passage while avoiding the spiked balls that will come rolling down to
kill Lara. Now that you are safely past the spiked balls, go and pull up into
the next room.
The first thing you
need to do in this room is play the role of the pied piper and rid the room of
some pesky beetles, by getting them to follow you back into the passage where
you avoided the spiked balls (it may take one or two times to do this). After
you have debugged the room head back there and start moving the columns around,
but be careful because if the columns touch the beetle tiles then more beetles
come and attack.
Okay, so start with
the column to the right of the door and move it on to the off-textured tile
next to the beetle tile. After all four columns are on the off-textured tiles
next to the beetle tiles, watch the cut scene of a spiked ball rolling down the
ramp in the back of the room. Now head back to the pool and through the opening
in the southwest wall, swim in the underwater passage til you can surface and
exit the water.
You are now in a room
with a wooden floor, there is a rope hanging down from the ceiling over a
wooden pit with spikes that pop up. This next series of maneuvers is tricky,
but it can be done. Run/jump/grab the rope, then swing a couple of times then
jump from the rope through the opening, then jump/slide/jump/grab the sloping
block, then pullup/slide/jump/grab the rope, then turn so Lara is facing east
(to her left), then swing a couple of times and jump/grab/climb the wall to the
opening (whew..you are safe now).
Now head down this
little passage til you have to crawl. When you are able to stand jump up and
grab the monkeyswing and follow it to its end, then drop. Next go to your fight
and on the lower block is the crowbar, now use the monkeyswing again to head
north, then west to get a star off the wall. Once you have the star, leave this
area by dropping down to the floor of this room and heading back to the opening
you began the monkeyswing at. Use the monkeyswing once more and head to the
north, then the east to the opening high on the wall.
Once you have made it
through the opening into the passage, go through the crawlspace and when you
can stand use the button tile on the wall around the corner. Now go down the
passage til the camera angle changes, then jump back quickly to avoid the
spiked ball. After the spiked ball has rolled down the passage to the bottom,
head down til you get to the spiketile, then jump and grab the monkeyswing and
cross over the spiketile, then drop.
Time the next move or
the spiked ball will kill Lara, then bolt out the door to the left and find
yourself back in the pool room.
Go to your right and use the star to open the door on the east wall. Go
through the door, turn right and run/jump through the opening to the ledge. Now
jump to the next two ledges, then jump/grab the crevice and shimmy to the left
around the corner and drop to the ledge below. Turn around and run/jump to the
next ledge, then align Lara with the rope and run/jump/grab it, then
swing/jump/grab the next rope.
Next turn so Lara is aligned with the ledge with the floor lever and go
there. Use the floor lever, then align Lara with the next room
run/jump/grab/swing to the next ledge. When you have made it to the ledge
jump/grab/pullup into the crawlspace. Drop down into the next passage, turn
left, deal with the mummies, notice the closed door. Now go through the
crawlspace and use the floor lever to open the closed door, then head back and
deal with the mummy.
Go through the now
open door around the corner, then time your run through the next room to the
sloping passage. Slid/jump to avoid the spike trap and continue on to the next
room. Go through this room, turn right and go through the crawlspace and use
the floor lever. Go back through the crawlspace and head west, turn left, deal
with the mummy, turn left again and go to the open door. Now you have to stand
on the pharao tile and turn right (west). There is an open door that is timed
(there is only one way to go so I will not give directions on how to get to the
timed door; it is tough, but makeable, good luck.) that you have to get to.
When you make it to and through the door(sliding), turn right and use the floor
lever, then go climb the ladder behind you into the next passage. Follow this
passage til you are back out in the area you were perviously in.
Jump to the next block
and use the ladder to climb down to the floor of this area, head north and look
for a crawlspace. Go through the crawlspace, up the ladder and use the floor
lever. Leave this area and back into the main room, then head over to the
southeast corner and climb the blocks there to get to the open door. Go through
the door back into the pool room, dive into the pool and go through the opening
on the west wall of the pool. Swim through this underwater passage til the
level ends.