Cave Everlasting

Level by Camel

Walkthrough by DJ Full


Go ahead, avoiding the darts and killing 2 bats and a large scorpion (I always wonder why they squeal like pigs...). On the junction, go right, jump over the lava pit and go around the next one. Don't get on a piece of not killing floor in the lava pool. If you do so, you are doomed. Killing two dogs on your way to the NE corner, reach a piece of collapsing floor. Fall through it to find a switch at the end of the long alcove. Pull it. Collect the Hypostyle Key from the platform in the middle of the lava pool and return to the junction. Go ahead, ignoring the door and timing some slicer-dicers and go right. In the same moment keep to the left side to avoid some swinging blades and watch out for the darts. Behind the traps, go right and collapse some floor in the NE corner to fall into the pit and find a key. Pull up and go back to the junction. Choose the other passage, avoid the skull tiles (death zones) and place the key to open the door. Watch out for the teethy door behind it and kill a dog waiting for you in the hall. Upstairs, shoot another giant scorpion and a bat. It's the second time I see Camel applying this mix of enemies, so I think it's his signature. Pick up the next Hypostyle Key and a small medi from one of the corners. Go back through the blades. Go ahead to pick up some flares and a small medi from the green passage. Advance and fight another dog running by the pool. Jump in and grab some more flares lying at the bottom in the SW corner. Get out of the water and if you can take it, dozy to the hole high up in the S wall, behind the trees. (I must confess I used Fexinspect here, because of the unmarked ladder, hidden in the dark, which I simply didn't notice.) Kill a small scorpion in the following passage, go downstairs, shoot another one, pick up a small medi and go right on the junction to find a key on a pedestal in the glass room. Go back to the junction and ahead to pull up into the upper corridor. Kill the most annoying enormous scorpion in this level. You need to drop off the ledge several times to avoid the sting. In the meantime, another small scorpion attacks in the lower corridor, from behind you. Get rid of it as well. Pull the lever in the upper corridor. (Now, when I already finished the game, it appears this lever raises the bridge leading to the first Hypostyle Key in the middle of the lava pit where you've killed two dogs. But you have the key already, so... whatever.) Return to the cave. Go through the slicer-dicers. Place the Hypostyle Key in the hole by the door in the left wall. As soon as you enter the portal, time the opening/shutting teethy door behind it. In the following room, use the second key to open the exit.

HIDDEN PLACE
You were supposed to open the underwater door in the pool. Obviously, the author gave up this idea, but the door and a small area behind it remain. So if you wanna check what's in there, reload the game and hop in the pool once again. Opening the door can't be done normal way, and don't even try to dozy to the other side, as it is impossible. But you can use a program glitch to get across: resurface in front of the bank fragment located directly above the door and try to exit the water. You should be thrown into the passage behind the portal. Swim through and get out. Face the last huge scorpion and shoot it (manual targeting advised, as you are in a narrow corridor and shouldn't miss). That's all to do in here. You can treat this place like a secret if you want to.