Level 15
Coastal Ruins
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS A LITTLE COMPLICATED AS YOU HAVE TO GO BETWEEN LEVELS AND BACK AGAIN TO COMPLETE THE GAME, BUT I HAVE TRIED TO MAKE IT ONE SMOOTH WALKTHROUGH, RATHER THAN GO HERE THEN THERE.
From
Find Todd's place of crates and continue down the alley keeping a wall on Lara's left side. Enter a room and shoot another thug. Pick up a small medi-pack. Continue down the hall until you come to another courtyard with palm trees.
Courtyard with palm trees:
You are now in the Coastal Ruins. Take the first door on the right to Egyptian Adventures.
Egyptian Adventures:
Shoot the boards to bits and enter. Notice the cage with the necklace and continue down the hall. In the mummy room, shoot the mummy box and the mummy case will open up showing a fake mummy with a broken head. Continue down to the shooting gallery.
Shooting gallery:
Save your game before sliding down. You will soon discover that there is not too much you can do here. You first need something else before you can target practice. Go down the hall and find the next boarded up door. Shoot the door and enter.
Mirror Room:
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From the bottom of the stairs take a diagonal jump to avoid the spike pit squares by the steps. Continue watching the mirror to avoid the spike pit squares and make your way over to pick up the Crossbow. Return to the steps and now return to the shooting gallery.
Shooting Gallery:
Before sliding down the ramp. Select your new crossbow from the inventory. Select Combine and press Enter, now combine the crossbow with the laser sight (that you picked up at Jean Yves's place). Now Choose Ammo, hit Enter and select the explosive crossbow arrows. Slide down into the gallery and shoot those darn targets to trigger the spikes. Drop down to the floor and pick up the Token. Use a jump grab to the crawlspace. Hold down the Action key and add the Crawl key and the up arrow to climb up into the crawlspace. Go down the hall and find the room with the snake charmer machine.
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When standing on the small platform make a jump sideways to the left. The spikes will come up and go away before you even land. Now use your new crossbow and regular arrows with the laser sight to take your time and peg each pot.
Room with Snake Charmer Machine:
Use your Token in the coin slot using the Action key. The snake charmer plays a tune and from the basket a rope ascends to the ceiling. Climb up the rope. And jump backwards from the rope (don't get too high). Pick up the broken broom stick handle and use the crowbar to pry a wall hook off the wall. Go to the cage with the gold object inside.
Cage with gold object inside:
Select the broomstick handle and select the Combine option, press Enter. Combine the handle with the wall hook to create a Hook with handle. Press the Action key to use the hook with handle to reach into the cage and grab the object.
Even though Lara has picked up the key from the hook MAKE SURE you pick up the Gate Key from the floor.
Return to the courtyard with the palm trees.
Courtyard with palm trees:
Go to the end of the courtyard with palm trees and go through the right doorway. Jump to the ledge in the pool of water.
Pool with crawlspace:
Take a diagonal standing jump grab at the crawlspace in the wall. Use the Crawl key and up arrow to crawl in to the crawlspace and drop down on the other side. Drop down into another room and find the climbing ladder in one corner. Climb up and continue down the hall. Find yourself in the green hills with several buildings.
Building with long ramp near the water:
From where you entered the green hills. Run along side the building east and find the front of the building with a long ramp. Climb up on the block near the water. Look back at the building and spy a high crawl space on the right. Do a long running jump with grab to the high ledge and pick up red crossbow ammo. This releases a skeleton up in the hills. Shoot him with your crossbow...
Deep narrow channel by the building with the long ramp:
Near the building with the long ramp, is a deep narrow channel of water that leads to some rock that you can wade through the water. . Jump into the deep narrow channel and swim and start fighting very strong currents.
As you swim through the nasty currents notice an underwater cave. Swim into the cave and use the Action key to pick red grenade gun ammo. Getting out of the cave is tough. Swim to the end of the cave where the opening is near the floor of the cave; swim out and near the wall away from the cave. Swim back up the ramp until you can wade on the rocks again. You may need to use the Roll key to get Lara turned around.
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Find your way over to the lake and take a swim. You can swim in the lake between two buildings. Near one of the buildings with the large ramp is an underwater goodie. From the building with the stairs near the water, swim your way to the building with the long ramp. You will need to wade across some rocks for a short stretch and come to a deep narrow ravine where you can swim again.
From Coastal Ruins, you can take a couple of different paths to different levels.
For normal game play, follow the walkthrough for going to the Catacombs.
To Catacombs (next stop after Coastal Ruins):
Green hills with several buildings:
From the place where you entered this area the first time, make your way up the hill on the right towards the building high in the hills (away from the lake).
Building high on the hill (south west):
Bad news and double trouble. Two nasty old skeletons come skipping down from the top of the building. Get out your trusty crossbow with the explosive arrows. If you are lucky, you can aim and blow both skeletons up at the same time. I tried normal arrows and those did not work.
Building high on the hill - top of building:
Leave the pit with the large rock on a rope for now. Go up the stairs and do a standing jump grab to the ledge with the rope. Climb up and do a diagonal standing jump with grab to a higher ledge on the same side of the building. Climb up and pick up blue shotgun shells and a small medi-pack. Take a long running jump to the ledge on the other side.
Use the Gate Key to open the door.
Room with broken pillars: (Catacombs)
Enter the room and shoot the vases in the corner by crouching and shooting. Continue into the next room. Push the symbol on the wall which raises a block by a vase somewhere. Whenever Lara steps on the floor, the floor lowers, so you cannot pull large wood square anywhere. Go back to the bottom of the building.
Bottom of the building: (Catacombs)
Find the climbing ladder and climb down into the pit. Use the Action key and up arrow to climb on the ledge (at the side otherwise the boulder still gets you as it rolls down the hill) under the hanging rock. Immediately jump backwards to get out of the way as the rock comes crashing down.
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Another method of removing the large boulder hazard is to pickup the torch on the steps near the hanging boulder, light it from the stationary one around the corner, then merely jump up under the rope tie-down to set it ablaze...stand back while it plummets down! Climb into the crawlspace and into a dark room with a gate. Get out the crowbar to open the door. Climb up into the crawlspace and continue down the hall.
Look up and you will see the grate overhead. You are below the room at the top of the building. Move the pillar over one block so that it can support the floor above. Go back up to the top of the building.
Continue to Catacombs.
End of Level
No Secrets.