The Torch

Level by Ernie

Walkthrough written by NeoMatrix

Go to the small room with the trapdoor in the right corner of the floor. Open it. You can see a one way tunnel beneath. Jump to the wall and press action and let Lara down to the tunnel and collect the ammo. Dive into the depth and swim to the other end.
You find Lara in a room with a statue, a door, the shotgun and ammo (collect it), a passage to another room and a chimney, which you climb. On the top you find the laser sight. Turn around and you see a closed door. Remember it! Climb down and take the passage to another room.

In the passage first collect the revolver then look to the right hand side where you can look through a small tunnel up to a vase which you have to shoot using the revolver and the laser sight to open the door in the previous room.

Crawl to the room in front of you, let Lara hang down the wall but don't release (Spikes!)! Climb to the right corner and let Lara down. From this position you can see a torch on the wall and little bit behind on the left side a rock where you have to jump to the edge. (Mummies ahead!) Pull up, jump and climb at the ceiling to another rock straight ahead where you find the Hand of Orion. Shoot the bat. Beneath your position is a small med pack to collect.

Return to the entrance room. Behind the door you see a wooden trapdoor which will be released later on. Beware of the rolling ball and run up the way.

Kill the bat, collect the small med pack, push the switch, quickly jump back to avoid another rolling ball. Collect the large med pack an climb the pole.

Jump back to the new tunnel where you see the crowbar and a rock which you pull. Return to the lower tunnel. On your way down stop one square in front of the wooden floor as it opens. Shoot the dog and climb up the chimney. The door is open now. Follow the passage. Next to the vase behind the wall are flares to find.

Follow the passage but prevent to use the ways with the visible spike-holes in the floor! Shoot the bat!

Now Lara is on the other side of the crowbar from where she can collect it and open the door with it. Collect the Hand of Sirius. The Door at the fire opens. Go that way up and open another door with the crowbar. Prevent the hot steam and find a hole in the ceiling where you collect flares and the torch. You can throw the torch with the blank button. So throw it, crawl to it, throw it again and so on until it fell down to the lower tunnel. Take the torch with you. The next door opens automatically. Now you are back at the beginning of the level where you light the torch.

Use the Hand of Sirius at the key hole for the closed door and enter a pool room. Shoot the scorpion, the vases and the bat. Collect the Uzi, Ammo (vase) and a small med pack (under water), then light the 5 torches half around the pool.

Put the burning torch at a save place near the pool, you will have to collect it later on again.

Climb the wall in the south east corner and enter a platform. Jump to the ceiling and climb to the other side, drop from the ceiling to the wall, climb to the right. Release keys. Climb the wall in the south west corner. Flip/turn and jump to the edge of the next platform. Hold and pull up. Collect the flares, go back half the way to the torch at the wall and climb the ceiling straight to the other side where you push the lever. To release the fixed camera walk to the flare on your side. Then jump to the rope and from there to the small room at the west wall.

Collect the Cartouche Piece 1 and jump down into the pool.

Near the entrance inside the underwater tunnel you can collect ammo and a big med pack in a secret. On the right side is a small hole from where the camera shows it. Swim right around the next corner up, there is the entrance to the secret. Go back, breath and swim to a lever at a wall. Use it. Above you opens a trapdoor where you can get air. Remember this trapdoor up the wall lever! Collect some ammo from the northern tunnel then swim to the east where you come along a statue. On your right hand side is a closed door. Swim left, follow the passage and open the door in the east wall. You don't need any key or the crowbar. Swim through it and find another wall lever which opens the next trapdoor. Come up and climb into the room with the statue which you have to push to the marked square. A door opens. Shoot the dog and push the lever inside the small room. A sequence shows an opening underwater door. It is located at the opposite wall of the previously used wall lever. Jump back into the water and swim to the new tunnel. It leads you to a tunnel where you meet a mummy. Pass it and run around the corner to a room where you collect the Cartouche Piece 2 and ammo after shooting two vases.

Now the door has opened to a room with 2 wall levers, a small hole below one of these levers where you can collect the crossbow, and a couple of slopes.

First jump to the lever on the south wall and pull it. A rock rises so that you can reach the upper platform. Collect the big med pack and jump to the top. This place triggers the door beneath but just for a little time.

Take a run-up and jump to the slope next to you. Jump/slide down and jump to the crossbow. Collect it and take another run-up. Jump straight over the first slope and you can grab the edge of slope behind. Pull up in the middle of the edge, jump/turn and you can pull the lever which will rise a platform beneath the closed door. If you don't manage this jump, climb again to the top and make it over the slopes to the lever.
Climb the top again, the timed door is open. Stand in the north west corner of the platform and face the east wall. Now jump back, but grab the edge of the top platform. Release quickly, turn 90 degrees right, jump back, grab and release again, turn about 145 degrees to the right (direction to the still open door), run/jump and keep the action key pressed so that Lara jumps directly into the door without using the platform beneath.
The door behind you opens. Go to the burning torch. A skeleton will wake up. You can tempt it to the open door and shoot it with your shotgun out of there.

Now you need to combine the two Cartouche pieces and use them behind the statue where the torch is burning. Another door opens to the room where you moved the statue and you see a sequence to an underwater room full of corners, a lever switch and a secret. Run through the opened door to the water hole and swim to the underwater statue near the first wall lever/trapdoor. The door there opened. Collect crossbow explosive ammo and swim down the new room. Swim straight to the wall, turn right, swim along the floor, there is a small gap so swim straight. You come to a bigger room and you find a big opening to the outer side where you can breathe.

Dive back to the corner-room and pull the lever. A trapdoor opens in the bigger room at the ceiling. Swim there and climb out of the water. On the right wall you will find a golden star which you take with you.

Jump back to the water and find at the left side of the corner-room a secret with an Eye Piece.

Swim to the outer side and jump out of the water. You will explore the area around later on, so use the switch on the right side next to the pool. Now it's empty. Find the way down by climbing in the north east corner of the pool. Leave the area the same way you entered it.

Go back to the 5-torch-pool room and climb the north wall. Find your burning torch and throw it down the pool. Climb back down, take the torch and go back into the tunnel system. At the statue you turn left, follow the way and jump down a trapdoor. You will come to a closed door which will open while you light the torch at the wall. Walk slowly into the water. Lara will start to swim holding the torch over the water. So you reach the other side where you light another torch. Throw the torch away, but not into the water! Because behind the opening door are two skeletons. Use the crossbow with explosive ammo or blow them down the big hole with your shotgun. Collect some ammo and take your torch.

Run around the hole, light the wall lamp to open the next door. Jump to the other side of the water via the single square in the middle, run to the back of the big slope and light the torch which will increase a block in front of a door high up in this room.
Now you have the possibility to prevent adrenalin because you can jump from a square in front of the water to the low right corner of the slope. (Save first!).

If you want that adrenalin, leave the torch at the lower part of the room, climb up the slope, backjump / hold the edge of the highest slope point and use the wall lever switch which will increase the square in front of the slope. Now take the torch and run up the slope but do not forget to jump to the left or right side in time if it is necessary... ;-)

Jump from the the upper end of the slope to the next room, light the torch and pull the two switches. They will trigger the movable platforms in the 5-torch-pool room. Use the golden star at the regarding key hole and take the torch with you to the other side of the pool room.

Stand on the marked square and use the action key. Lara will light that platform.
Enter the opened door, pull the statue two times into the room and throw the torch down the small slope.

Return to the room with the two switches and pull them again. Now you can climb down to the bottom of the 5-torch-pool room. Make your way back to the outer pool room behind the small corner-room. On the right side down in the pool you reach the climbable wall. Stand as left as you can at the east wall and climb it. Jump back to the bottom of the north wall and climb it.

Turn around. You will see your torch on the floor in front of the slope exit. Leave it there first and go to the next area where you have to jump to a lever at a pillar. A door behind another door at the top wall over the empty pool opens.

Climb down the empty pool again and make your way back to the first wall lever down in the tunnel system near a small statue. Climb the wall up and you will be at this position. Use the Hand of Orion and the door to the empty pool and another door will open what you can watch in a sequence.

Take your torch and slide down the slope. A skeleton will attack you. But before you can fight with it, you will have to light a wall lamp with your torch then you can throw it away. Destroy the skeleton, push the lever, collect the large med pack from the pillar at the wall lamp and find your extinguished torch which you light at the burning wall lamp. Enter the next room.

Jump onto the first boulder on the right side. From there with a run-jump to the next higher boulder and from there again to the next higher at the north wall. From here you can reach the upper level of the room. Stand on the marked square. When you light it, a timed sequence will begin. You have to be quick or Lara will be grilled.

Light the square. The block in front of you will shrink. Run to the other side of the room and throw the torch away. Jump to the wall lever. Turn around, collect your torch, jump onto a new block which closes the entrance and light the torch. Jump back on the floor and leave the room.

Now you are in a room full of slopes. Next to you is a torch. Find a position to reach it so Lara will light it. The entrance door will close a new way is visible. Leave your torch there.

Now you will have to do some difficult jumps.
Stand at the north west corner of the platform and face the west wall. You see a slope. The lower corner is your first target.
- Make a run jump, turn around in the air, slide down the slope and grab the edge.
- climb to the right corner. (eventually F5)
- pull up, backflip / roll then left turn while jumping
- after the jump press the right button for a short time and then the action key
- Lara should hang down from the ceiling rock.
- move to the right side around two corners (eventually F5)
- if Lara is in the climb position then backflip
- jump back and forth between the two slopes until you see a save place on the left side of one of the slopes where Lara can jump to.
Collect the second part of the Eye Piece. Leave the room, kill the dog, collect your torch and leave the tunnel after you lighted the torch.

Run across the place behind the wall, light the obligatory torch, connect the Eye Pieces and use it at the large gate which leads to the end of the level.