BtB 2006 – Level 10 - The Quest

Level by Anya (Anya Marie McDonald)

Walkthrough by Yoav


Legend has it that Mitsu Toranagu, a famed evil Samurai, had found the "DRAGONS EYES," a pair of blue gems that was said to give the possessor of them great power so long as they had the "DRAGON DISC", a circular plate with dragons in the shape of Yin & Yang. Lara discovers in her research for another Japanese artifact that this legend is true in regards to the artifacts and where he kept them hidden. So, she set out for Itsunia Village in the hills near Mount Fuji to retrieve the artifacts.

Note: Wish I knew which lever opens the right gate, as in this level there're many levers to push without any clue of screenshots or clue of the gate the lever has opened. Each of the levers you are pushing just opens a gate further in the level. I guess that's why the author gave "The Quest" name for his level. Yoav.


Start the level in a small room in front of a closed gate. Pick up the flares and turn around, climb up into a dark opening and light a flare, go the end of the passage and push the lever. Back to the room and climb up into the next opening at the right side of the closed gate and run up the slope, pass the open gate. Pick up the flares, go to the lever and push it. Climb up into the next opening and run up the slopes, you come to a death water pool. Notice, as part of the water is normal, so you can jump into the water near to you in the SW corner and swim into a tunnel right under the ledge you are standing on and get out into the next room. (But first, swim underneath the ledge to the other side and pick up the shotgun, two stashes of shotgun ammo and a large medipack.) Go and push the lever, then back through the tunnel and swim out to climb onto the sunken block. Jump forward onto the other blocks ahead and cross to other side of the pool, then jump into the water (safe NE corner) for a medipack. Get out of the water and climb up the north wall into a passage above and run up, then drop into the next passage and follow to an opening that overlooks a big room.

Simply run off the edge and fall into the water below and swim north. Climb onto the ledge and then climb up the wall to a ledge above for the Uzis and a couple of stashes of ammo. Jump back into the water and swim south to climb onto the ledge and push the lever, shoot the snake swimming around in the water, then jump onto the west ledge and climb up the unmarked climbable wall. Backflip and land onto the ledge above, turn around and go push the lever. Stand and face the wall you climbed up and jump/grab it and climb up back to the beginning ledge. Turn to face east and jump toward the ledge, keep forward and jump to the next ledge, then climb into the opening. Follow into the room and push the lever while spiked moving blocks will make a hard life to cross back the room to the outside. From the ledge jump forward to the lower ledge in the NW corner and climb the wall into the west opening and follow to next room.

Kill the thug and head west, climb into the hole and push the lever, it opens a gate at the east side corner. Go over there and push the lever to open the exit gate out from this room. Before you leave here, pull back the object and climb behind the Oriental fence and push the lever, then go to other side and do the same thing.

Now go through the exit and follow down along the passage, notice for the closed gate (it opens from the other side). Proceed forward, the next gate and the one after it will open automatically. Ahead is a passage crossing your way where from the right there's a closed gate at the end and a green ball hanging from the ceiling. Turn left and start running forward (using the sprint key), avoid the rolling green ball and turn into the left doorway, you'll come to a stop in front of the gate, while the ball will get stuck in the opening.

Turn to face north and follow up the passage until you reach the room with the object blocking the entrance. Push it inside the room and save the game as some of the tile dragons are burning traps. Go toward the left wall (all the way to the NE corner, then turn right and go two tiles forward. Turn right and forward two tiles, left and two tiles forward. Turn left again and go to the wall, turn right and go forward two tiles, turn toward the right and go to the wall. Turn toward the left and go to the wall, then left again and push the lever to open the gate you just saw a few minutes earlier.

Go back the same way you came, killing two thugs that meet you along the way (keep along the west wall to give yourself some fighting room), enter a big room covered turf. Notice the climbable column surrounded with Oriental fence and white closed door. Go toward the lever against the south wall and push it and then jump into the pool. Dive into the hole in the bottom corner, avoid the snake and follow the tunnel to get out of the water. See the closed gate in front of you and go through the left opening, drop into a room pool. Push the lever and then jump into the pool, avoid the snake and swim to other side, pick up the Laser sight from the bottom and climb out of the water onto the ledge.

Face toward the climbable column, jump forward, grab it and climb onto it. Then climb up the south wall into the opening above and push another lever. Jump back to the east ledge below without the lever and look for a hole in ceiling. Climb up the wall into this hole and run up the passage, turn right and go the end to push the lever there. Not again, you say, as the spiked moving blocks show up along the passage. Pass them with the sprint key pressed but don't go back to the pool, just turn right into the next passage and the gate in front will open automatically.

Now you go back the to passage you've been before. Run down the passage and turn into the right passage where the green ball was hanging. The gate is open now, but now you can see another closed gate at the end of the next passage. However, turn to the left and follow the passage into a garden room and push there two levers, then make your way back to the big room covered turf down below, the white door is open now.

Climb up onto the column and run/jump over the great ledge with four levers and push them all together. Then jump into the pool below, dive into the tunnel and forward to get out of the water and see the gate in front is open now. Follow the passage and climb up into a big red room. Kill the three thugs who attack, then head to the right corner and push the lever. Now head to left side corner and push there lever too, it raises up a block in the next corner. Go toward the opening gate and push there the lever, then get out and pick up the Revolver. Proceed further toward the NE corner and climb up onto the block you just raised into a short passage and push the lever at the end.

The gate you saw a few minutes earlier (at the top of the east ramp) is open now. Make your way over there and enter a room with a lever at the middle and several closed gates around the room. Kill the thugs and go push the middle lever, it opens two gates at the west side. In each alcove there is a lever, push only the one from the right side as the second lever is a spike trap. Go through the gate you just opened in the north wall and jump into the tunnel. Swim forward into the blade gate and further until you can get out of the water. In the room kill the thugs ahead and see there're four pillars supporting the great ledge above. Go around the big stairs and push the lever, it opens a gate in the next wall, then climb up onto the stairs, jump/grab the ledge and pull onto it. Kill the thug and push the two levers and then turn facing the opening gate.

Run/jump/grab the opening, pull into the passage and follow to the next passage. From the right side there is a closed door at the end. Turn left and go forward into the room, see the closed gate from left. Turn to the right and run onto the ramp, jump forward and grab the jump switch in the opposite wall and pull it down. You fall into the pool, so take care of the snake and dive, get the goodies from the corners on the bottom and then get out of the pool. Enter the room with three levers and push them all, one of them opens the door you just saw (up the west ramp). Go over there and enter a room with red and blue marked dragon tiles. The red tiles are traps, so go only onto the blue tiles and push the lever, it opens the gate ahead. Turn around and go back, take the next row of blue tiles and go toward the next lever and push it too. Turn around and go the blue tile at the middle and jump above the red tile and push the third lever.

Go toward the opening in the NW corner and climb up into the room covered with green dragon tiles and a big deep pool at the middle. Go around the pool and push the lever in the corner to open some underwater gate in the pool. Jump into the water, watch out for the snake and swim through the opening gate from the right (NE corner). Follow the tunnel and get out of the water into a room covered with green leaves and two monkeys, go toward the lever and push it.

Oops, the spiked moving blocks show up again, so you have to pass them as you did before. Swim back to the pool (the snake may have followed you here) and further toward the next opening gate in the SW corner and follow the tunnel into a similar room with one monkey and push the lever. Again swim back to the pool (another snake shows up) and dive, look for the last opening gate down in the NE corner. Swim through there, follow the large green leaf tunnel and get out of the water. Ahead is the place covered with leaves and two monkeys. Go to the right side against the south wall and pick up the Quest Item, then go around the hill to SE corner, get the medipacks and proceed forward into the alcove for the Crossbow gun with three quivers of Ammo. Finally, throw the lever in the SW corner.

Time to leave and return (meeting another snake along the way) all the way back to the room with lever at the middle you left, some of the other gates are open now. Pull every lever in each alcove except the one with the trap (hope you remember which one it is, the one in the SW corner). Another gate will open, so push the lever there too and head to the exit gate which leads you to a pool. Kill the snake in the water and jump into the water, see the closed gate, turn left and swim toward the corners for revolver ammo and a medipack. Swim to opposite ledge, climb onto it and push the lever, then swim toward the next ledge for Grenade gun and medipack.

Take a swim through the open underwater gate into the tunnel, pass the blade gate ahaed and get out of the water. Proceed further and climb onto the block, see the two closed gates from the right. Climb up the next block and push the lever to open the first gate. Go over there and push the object forward onto the dragon tile and the next gate is open.

Jump into the tunnel and swim forward into a deep pool, avoid the snakes. Swim up along the column and proceed swimming around the columns and climb onto a ledge near the SE corner. Jump/grab the top of the sloped column, pull up and slide, jump from sloped column to next until you land on the last column. Take a simple jump forward to the next column and climb up a little (a jump up and seven rungs) the unmarked climbable wall. Do a backflip to land onto the first ledge, turn to the wall and climb up the same distance and backflip, land onto the second ledge. Push the object onto the blue tile, it will move the white door. Keep to climbing up the wall (jump plus seven) and backflip onto the third ledge and go push the object onto the red tile. After the white door moved, climb up and backflip land onto the fourth ledge and push the object onto the next red tile. Keep climbing up the wall and backflip onto the fifth ledge and push the object onto the blue tile.

Gate opens, turn around and jump forward to the next ledge and go through the open gate, follow up the passage until you come to the pool. Kill the snake in the water and then jump into the water and swim toward the ledge, climb onto it. Grab the pole and pull up, backflip and land onto the ledge around and pull up onto the next ledge. Climb up the wall through the hole and move right into a short passage. Go forward, pass the opening gate and start sliding down the slopes while rolling ball is after you. When you near the bottom of the third slope just jump forward and grab the doorway, pull into it, otherwise the ball will kill you. Let the ball pass you and jump back to the slope, slide down, when you reach the large opening another ball will start rolling down. Quickly step forward and drop down directly into a pool below.

Get out of the water and deal with three thugs. Go behind the east flowerpot and grab the pole and climb up, backflip and land onto the red ledge. Take a jump to the left ledge and from there another jump across the gap toward the next red ledge and push the lever. Jump back into the pool and dive into the hole with the ball at the bottom, swim forward in the tunnel, past the blade trap and get out of the water.

The room ahead is covered with blue dragon tiles and as you guess some of them are traps. But you can walk safely only onto the tile dragons who turn to face left and reach the opposite wall. Then turn right, jump over the two tiles over the lever and push it and open the last gate. Jump back toward the red tile (facing south and making a tricky turn to the left as you jump) and pass the opening gate, enter the last room. In front of you are the Yin-Yang and two Gems displayed on pedestals, but what a shame as the level will get to the end before you'll be able to pick them up.