Level 16

Catacombs

(From Coastal Ruins)

Building high on the hill - top of building:

Find you way back to the room with the broken pillars. The floor is now even with the hallway floor. Pull and push the large wood square down the hall all the way to the end of the hall and into the symbol at one end of the room. This releases one of those white fire demons. Find the open door in the room of broken pillars. Run through the door and drop down to the floor below (without falling into the pit).

Room of pots: (Catacombs)

Run up the hall to the right and somewhere in there among all of the pots near the gold statue, the white fire demon meets its end. (It appears to explode with something underneath the floor.) After learning more, you must lure the white fire demon to the gold statue and wait by the statue until the demon collides with the statue. You can crouch and shoot the pots. After exploring, return to pit with the rope.

Pit with pole: (Catacombs)

Do a standing jump with grab to the pole. Slide down and make your way down the hallway to the switch. An earthquake drops a wall behind you, trapping you with the lever. Push the lever to raise the walls and find yourself in a great hall.

Great hall with two ropes and puddle: (Catacombs) Line up a long running jump with grab to the first rope. Slide down to the bottom of the rope using the Action key and arrows. Turn to line up with other rope and take a test swing or two to make sure you are lined up.

Swing and add the Jump key to jump off at the end of the swing. Grab the other rope. Now line up a swing to a small crawlspace on the left wall. At the top of a swing, add the jump key and grab the edge of the crawlspace, climb up into the crawlspace and drop down on the other side. Secret #1!

Pick up flares, a large medi-pack and the shotgun (more ammo).  Drop down to the bottom floor.

If you did not get the secret... From the second rope, aim for the centre of the ledge on the far wall. Once you land, you need to go down the climbing wall. Take one walking step backwards away from the edge and do a standing jump grab to the climbing ladder. Climb down to the bottom floor.

Great Hall: top floor swinging to secret:

Great hall with two ropes and puddle (bottom floor): (To Temple of Poseidon) shoot the vases at the bottom of the stairs at the end of the hall.  Now go up the stairs. Jump over the hole in the floor. Take one walking step backwards away from the edge and do a standing jump grab to the climbing ladder. Climb down to the bottom floor.

Hall with deep pit and huge faces: (Temple of Poseidon)

The faces at each end of the hall are sticking out their tongues.  Looks like they whole thing needs some water. You need to find 4 gold things before it pays to go to the Temple of Poseidon, so just return to the Great Hall.

Great hall with two ropes and puddle (bottom floor): (Catacombs) go out into the Great Hall and find the middle opening in the wall on the right (opposite of the pool). Run up the ramp and do a simple jump over the hole in the floor. Crouch and shoot the vases. Pick up blue shotgun shells. Slide down the ramp and land in the water.

Great Hall: To chamber with water Chamber with water:

Chamber with water.

You can swim around and explore. Be sure to find the underwater cave with the gold statue (right side of room). Nothing to pick up. Climb out of the water near the ramp where you dropped in.  Go up the steps and climb on to the ledge. A skeleton appears on the centre platform. Take a long running jump with grab to the ledge on the right wall. Take another long running jump with grab to the ledge with the lever. Push the lever to make the next ledges higher.  Take two long running jumps to the next two ledges and then a standing jump grab to the ledge with the vase.

Shoot the vase and pick blue shotgun shells. Look up and spot overhead monkey bars. Swing your way across the chamber and drop down by a lever. A white fire demon appears and just keeps draining the health from poor Lara. This drove me nuts until I remembered the other white fire demon exploding near the gold Poseidon statue. That fire demon just keeps sucking the life out of poor Lara and I was using umpteen medi-packs. Jump in the water and lead the fire demon to the underwater cave with the statue (opposite side of the room from the high ledge with the lever).

Swim Lara near the statue and wait until the fire demon explodes. Repeat the trip back up to the monkey bars and swing across to the high platform with the lever. You can kill the skeleton whenever you like with the crossbow explosive ammo.

Central Platform in chamber with water. Take a long running jump to the centre platform. Line up to avoid hitting the overhead monkey bars. You can kill the skeleton with the explosive crossbow ammo or shoot him with the shotgun until he falls over the edge.  Now take a long running jump to the small centre platform. Next, a long running jump with grab to the left newly raised platform near the opposite wall of where you entered the room. One more long running jump with grab to the next ledge followed by a long running jump with grab to the ledge in the corner of the room. 

(Much easier with no fire demons!)

Ledge in corner of chamber with water:

A simple jump to the ledge besides the crack. Drop down and shimmy to the right and shimmy around the corner. Go down the hallway, shoot the vases and continue on to the room with a rope and skeletons.

Room with rope and skeletons:

Crouch down and shoot the vase. Pick up blue shotgun shells. Do a long running jump grab to the rope and swing to the right ledge. Use the shotgun to knock the skeleton off the ledge. Take a long running jump to the centre platform and pick up the Trident. This wakes up the sleeping skeleton; use the shotgun to knock him off the centre platform.  Return to the ledge of the sleeping skeleton and shoot all of the vases.

Now jump over to the other side of the room (left side). Another skeleton appears and knock him over the edge. Shoot some more vases and then do a jump grab to the high ledge. Climb up and pick up a large medi-pack.  Two more skeletons appear. Try to shoot them while you are on the high ledge.  If that doesn't work, lower yourself down and shoot them.

Down the ladder. Near the large platform at the back of the room, go the right corner, shoot the vases. Look for a climbing ladder that goes down. Climb down and pick up red crossbow ammo and blue shotgun shells.

Dark and spooky. My favourite way of exploring dark and spooky places is to run around and shoot the pistols for light and scare up any nasty beasts. In the room to the left of the climbing ladder room is a vase with red shotgun shells.  Climb back up to the top.

Up the ladder:

Near the large platform at the back of the room, jump over to the left corner and find a climbing ladder that goes up. Climb up and shoot the skeleton with something that explodes. Pick up the Trident and start shooting vases. Pick up red crossbow ammo. Carefully line up a standing jump grab to the pole and climb up.

Turn until you can see the ledge and line up a backwards jump to the ledge (remember don't be too high on the pole or Lara will hit the ceiling.) Run down the hall and the door opens.

Shoot the skeleton into the pit. You are back in the room with the pots and the pole where you met your first fire demon. Slide down the pole and find yourself on the other side of the Great Hall with two ropes.

Great Hall with two ropes and puddle:

Use the shotgun with normal ammo to shoot the skeleton until he falls over the edge. Take a long running jump grab to the climbing ladder in the hall. Drop down to the floor. Use something explosive to kill the two skeletons.

Find the opening in the centre of the wall near the puddle. Climb up and run down the stairs. Take the first door to the left.

Skeleton Village - Underground: Main Hall:

First explore the main hall. There is a small room at the end and some vases but not much else.

Skeleton Village - Underground: Door on right:

Enter the doorway and find the stairs going down. Shoot the skeleton and pick up some Uzi clips. Return to the main hall. Go to the end of the hall and look up to see you are at the bottom of a huge pit.

Skeleton Village - Underground:

Door on left with large square pit I am getting low on explosive ammo, so I used the shotgun and the small pit to get rid of the skeletons. As soon as you enter the room, run to the right towards a small pit. Jump over the pit and do a roll. Get out the shotgun and wait for the skeleton to just jump over the pit. Shoot him so he falls in the pit. Explore the pit and find a small room with vases and a sleeping skeleton. Shooting the vases wakes him up. Lead the skeleton a merry chase back to the pit and knock him into the pit with shotgun blasts.  Go back to the room with the vases and walk to the back of the room and find a climbing wall. Climb up and pick up blue shotgun shells.

Skeleton Village - Middle Floor (Catacombs):

Take a long running jump to the centre ledge. Kill the skeleton that appears by using the shotgun to blast him over the edge. On one side of the central ledge is a small alcove with a large medi-pack.  Jump across the ledges towards the Trident which you can see at the back of the room.

Two more skeletons show up. Jump to the wide ledge and knock them off the ledges with the shotgun. If the skeletons try to use their shields to stop the bullets, simply holster your guns and then draw them. Take a long running jump with grab to the small ledge on the right of the Trident and pick up blue and red shotgun shells. Go to the other side and take a long running jump with grab to the small ledge with the climbing ladder.  (Watch out for the deep pit). Climb up the ladder, sideways and drop the ledge.

Skeleton Village - Top Floor:

Pick up red shotgun shells on the first ledge by the ladder. Now pick up the Trident that you have had your eye on for a while. Take a simple jump to the first skinny ledge and a long running jump to the large central platform. Take a long running jump to the ledge near the Trident ledge and the central platform. Pick up a small medi-pack and blue shotgun shells.

Make your way across the room over to the rope and kill the next skeleton that shows up.

Take a long running jump grab to the rope. Stop your swing and slide down to the end of the rope. Line up a swing to the small opening on the left. At the top of Lara's swing, press the Jump button. (Note, you can just swing to the platform and then from the platform at the back of the room, take a long running jump grab to the small opening.) Climb up to the top and find the Trident among many sleeping skeletons. You know by now that picking up the Trident wakes up the skeletons. Pick it up and run to the other end of the room by the pits.

Wait for the skeletons to jump over the pits then blast them. Just so you don't forget, Return to the climbing ladder by where you picked up the Trident. Climb up to the top. Shoot one more skeleton into a handy pit. Now use the crowbar to open the doors and find yourself back in the Coastal Ruins. (This is a way out.) But do not leave the Catacombs yet, so go back to where you picked up the last Trident.  Shoot all of the bones that you can find laying on the floor.

(Right, like I figured that out myself, so don't feel bad if you miss this one.) This opens a trap door in the corner near the pedestal where you pick up the Trident. Drop down into the hole. Secret #2! Pick up crossbow explosive ammo. This also opens the mystery door on the floor below.

Skeleton Village - Middle Floor:

From the top floor, go back down the ladder and shoot the skeleton by the pole even if he does not wake up. From the bottom of the pole, take a long running jump to the nearby platform and jump from platform to platform and killing another skeleton until you reach the now open door in the back corner.  Secret #3! Pick large medi-pack, red and blue shotgun shells, and explosive crossbow ammo.

Skeleton Village - Underground:

From the middle floor, lower yourself over the edge and drop down from floor to floor until you reach the skeleton village underground.  (Make sure you are healthy before the drops because you will lose some health.)Go back to the main hall in the underground and find the mystery room (small room with very high ceiling) at one end of the hall. Entering the room shuts the door and you find that you are in an elevator. (You need to run to the back of the room.) Climb out and find Secret #4!

Shoot the vase and pick up a large medi-pack, blue shotgun shells and crossbow ammo. Find the exit and repeat the drops down the bottom floor.  You need to place all 4 Tridents in the Temple of Poseidon, so you can drop back down to the bottom floor of Skeleton Village and return to the Great Hall with the two ropes and puddle.

Go to Temple of Poseidon

End of Level

Secrets: 4 (Total 48 out of 70)