CATACOMBS REVISITED
LEVEL BY Titak
WALKTHROUGH BY Anya
Marie McDonald
NOTE: I will not
mention any secrets or pickups (unless they are keys, puzzle pieces, or other
items you need to perform a task.
The level starts off
with Lara sliding down a sloping passage. When you reach the bottom of the
slope go around the corner to your left and slide down another sloping passage.
At the end of the slope, head across the bridge and either avoid or deal with
the two skeletons that rise up from the ground to attack Lara. Either way, head
to the other side of the bridge, stop before you enter the big opening with the
steps leading down, turn left. Now run/jump/grab/pullup on the ledge there,
then head to the climbable column, then climb down the column. But, before
going to the opening on the right, head to the left. Now run/jump/grab/pullup
onto the ledge across from you, then drop down to the next ledge. Now turn
left, then run/jump the next ledge, now drop/hang/shimmy to the left til you
can pullup. Head to the pedestal beyond the skeleton lying on the floor (which
comes alive as you near it, so deal with it). Of course, if you don't want to
be bothered with the skeleton, drop/hang/shimmy to the left til you can shimmy
no more. Then pull up, get the lasersight, then backflip over the skeleton,
then drop/hang/shimmy to the right til you can drop to the ledge below.
(Remember some people need more beauty rest than others.)
Now head back to the
ledge with the climbable column, go around it and go through the opening on the
left. Once you are on the ledge below, go through the opening on the left to
the next passage and take another left. In the alcove use the floor lever to
open the door in the other alcove. Go through the door and take another left
through the arched opening, then through the next arched opening. Next, drop
down through the opening in the floor, then the next opeing in the floor and
fall into a pool of water. Sruface, exit the water and go through the opening
on the west wall, get the portal guardian and watch the cut scene of a door
opening somewhere. Now head back to the water to get rid of the two wraiths
that will emerge as soon as Lara has the portal guardian in her possession.
Once they have been
destroyed with the statue at the bottom of the pool, surface, exit the water
and go through the opening on the east wall. Now there are two ways to get to
the opening at the top of the two ramps; 1) pick a ramp to go up and avoid a
big blue ball that will come rolling down to crush Lara, 2) pick a ramp and
hang from the edge of it and shimmy all the way to the top, avoiding even
triggering the big blue ball(after all, some traps should be left for the next
guy). Either way, once you are at the top of the ramps head through the opening
and into the pool, swim to the left then swim right.
Next, look for a small
opening on the left and swim into it. Now take the left underwater passage and
swim til you can surface, exit the water and use a floor lever to open a door
somewhere. Get back into the water and swim to the main passage. Once there,
use the slightly raised block under the water to get to the open door. Head
through the door and into the passage, follow the passage til you come to a
crawlspace in the upper part of the right wall. After you get through the
crawlspace to the next room, avoid or deal with the skeleton that rises up from
the ground. Next, go into the water in the next room and get the gem from the
sloping ledge, watch the cut scene of another door opening, then leave this
place and head back to the main water passage and head to your left.
Now go through the opening
to your right, use the monkeyswing to get across the spike pit, then head to
the left once you are across. Next jump across a pit to the ledge, then jump up
into the opening to your right. Now go into the next room and follow the
passage to your left til you come to the room you started the levels in. You
are below the bridge on a ledge where two skeletons rise up from the ground to
kill Lara, so deal with them then place the gem in the receptacle next to the
closed door.
Head through the door
and down the stairs til you come to the next room. There is a pool of water to
your left and broken steps to your right. Head down the steps to the next room,
veer off to the right, avoid or deal with the two skeletons, then head through
the opening and up the steps to the next room. In the next room, head to the
right, either avoid or deal with the skeletons and go through the opening and
up the steps to the next room. Avoid or deal with the skeleton and continue on
to the next room. Jump into one of the pools of water, swim through the small
underwater passage and get the crowbar off the floor.
Now return to the room
below and into that pool and swim through the underwater tunnel. When you
surface and exit the water, use the pole to your left to get to the next room.
Once you are in the room above you turn around and run/jump/grab the rope
hanging from the ceiling. Swing over to the ledge and use the crowbar to get
the star off the wall, then watch the cut scene. Now either use the rope or
drop down and head back to the room with the two pools where you got the
crowbar and climb the block you saw in the cut scene. Next, climb up to the
ledge and use the button tile at the end of the ledge on the right.
Now jump down and head
back to the main pool room and go through the underwater tunnel, surface, exit
the water, kneel down by the statue and wait for the wraiths to vanish. Once
they are gone, head back and climb the block to the ledge again. Now run/jump
through the open door turn right and head to the opening to the next room. As
you look into the next room you realize that this is the room you started the
level in, only it is about one-third flooded.
Dive into the water
and swim to the opening on the left, exit the water and head up the steps to
the next room. Go through the two arched openings to the next room, then head
through the next opening, turn right and then right again into the water. Swim
through the underwater passage, then surface and exit the water by the slanting
sandbar with the ladder. Climb the ladder to the next room and use the portal
guardian, watch the cut scene. Now head back through the underwater passage,
surface, exit the water, turn left then right into the room you saw in the cut
scene and watch as the floor rises.
Climb up to the next room, head past the vases on the left and the
opening on the right into the passage ahead of you. When you come to a pole,
climb it to the next room. In this room use the crowbar to get the star off the
wall, deal with or avoid the skeleton. Now head back down the pole and go to
where the vases are. Next, head through the opening to your left into the next
room, then through the opening to your left. Drop down to the next passage and
into the next room. In this room there is an off color tile, a moveable column
in the right hand corner; however, the floor is riddled with waterholes. Ok,
the object is to get the column over to the off color tile (I will leave it up
to the individual players of this level to figure this out); once the column is
on the off color tile, head back to the main room and through the opening
across from the one you emerged from. Follow this passage to the next room,
taking note of the off colored tile ahead of you and the closed door on your
right, so head left around the corner.
Now move the column from around the corner to the off colored tile
around the corner next to the closed door. Once the column is on the off
colored tile the door opens, so head through the door and up the steps back to
the bridge where you started the level.
Back on the bridge, turn left and face the ledge with the two
receptacles for the stars you've collected and a skeleton patrolling the ledge.
Run/jump/grab/pullup
onto the ledge, deal with the skeleton and use the stars to open the door. Go
through the door into the room, then around the corner to the left and up the
sloping passage to end the level.
FINAL NOTE: This is a
good level and a great start to a larger adventure. I hope that the author of
this level will add other levels to this one to make this a grander adventure.
But, only time will tell.