THE HIDDEN NILE
Level By Herp Raider
Walkthrough By Anya
Marie McDonald
The level starts with Lara standing in a clearing in the desert. There are
several scorpions and a ninja about, so either deal with them or avoid them.
But no matter what, head slightly to your right and get the lasersight. Next
head forward and slide down to the opening in the desert floor and fall into
the water below. You are not out of the woods yet, because the water is teeming
with crocs, so swim til you can surface and exit the water, all the while
avoiding the crocs. When you are safely out of the water, take a look around
this huge room. On the south wall is a door the requires the guardian key to
open it, on the east wall is a door that requires the golden vraeus to open it,
there is a door on the north wall that has a button next to it (that is where
you head to first).
Run/jump/grab the
rope, then swing over to the ledge the door is on, use the button to open it.
Now go through the open door. In this room are two doors, one on the left and
one on the right. Head through the one on the left and get the guardian key and
leave here. Jump back into the water, swim back to the island and climb up to
the right, then use the rope to swing over to the door you need to use the
guardian key on.
Once you open the door
with the guardian key, go through it and deal with the four ninjas. After they
are history, head over to where the blades are swinging and get the golden
vraeus while avoiding the poison darts. Now head back to the island and over to
the door where the vraeus is needed to open it. Go through the open door and up
the slightly sloping passage. At the end of the passage climb the blocks to the
next area.
The next area is a
huge cavern with a canal running through it. Now head to the right, til you
come to a closed door with a button next to it. Press the button and go through
the open door. In this next room are several blades hanging from the ceiling
(it is safe to go through them; they won't activate) and an opening on the other
side of the room. Head through the opening to the climbable wall and climb up.
Then climb down the other side and follow the passage til you come to a big
door that looks like one of the buttons you used to open some of the doors. Go
through the buttonwall into the next room, pick up the canopic jar, press the
button on the wall and head back to the room with the blades hanging from the
ceiling.
When you get back to
the blade room, the blades are active and a ninja comes to attack Lara, so deal
with him then go through the blades, then the open door back into the cavern.
When you are past all the blades and through the door, use the monkeyswing
above you to cross the canal to the other side.
Once you are on the
other side of the canal head through the open door at the end of the
monkeyswing. You are in a room with a pedestal on a raised block with the
vraeus sitting on it. An electrical charge is being emitted from around the
pedestal and poison dart are shooting across the room. So, go get the vraeus and
head back to the cavern, use the monkeyswing again to get back across the
canal.
Once back across the
canal head to your left til you come to a door where you can use the vraeus to
open it. Go through the door, down the long passage to the next room, where
some ninjas lay in wait to ambush Lara. After you have dealt with the ninjas go
and use the monkeyswing futher in the room to get to a raised block and pick up
the guardian key. Once the guardian key is in Lara's possession head over to
the closed gate on the south wall and use it to open the gate. After you have
opened the gate go in and get the second canopic jar, now head back to the
raised block you got the guardian key from and use the monkeyswing to get back
to the part of the room where you can get back to the cavern.
Once you are back in the cavern head to your right til you come to a
spot where there are two funnels and a place to place one of the canopic jars,
place it and then head across the canal across the bridge and use the other
canopic jar. Now deal with the two crocs in the water, then dive in and open
the underwater door on the east bank of the canal. Swim through the door and
through the underwater passage til you can surface and exit the water. Now head
down this passage til you come to a sloping floor. Slide down the slope to the
next room. You are now in a dark cavern with a pool of water, jump in the water
and swim to the other side. Now exit the water and head to the opening in the north
wall. Once through the opening climb the blocks to the next room.
In this room is a
pyramid with a statue sitting on top of it, there is an opening at the base. Go
through the opening and into the crawlspace. When you are able to stand in the
next room, take note of all the pillars in the room, now head to the southeast
corner of the room and get the guardian key off the floor. But, watch out for
the two scorpions and the ninja in this area. When you get the guardian key
head over to the northwest corner and use the guardian key to open the gate there.
Go through the now
open gate down the passage, til you come to a room with a grated bridge, an
ankh on a pedestal and a closed gate. There are two ways to get to the ankh.
1) Walk across the
bridge and fall down to the sloping passage, then once you reach the bottom
head to the southwest corner of this area and through the opening there. As you
pass through the opening you are in a dark passage, follow this passage to a
very dark room and go across the bridge there. When you reach the other side of
the room, head up the sloping passage to the next passage. Follow this passage
til you come to a climbable wall, climb up into the room where the ankh is
resting on the pedestal.
2) Back up a bit, then
run/jump across the grated bridge to get the ankh off the pedestal.
Either way you choose,
once you lift the ankh off the pedestal the gate will open, so go through the
open gate, up the sloping passage to the outside. Once you are outside head
south and the level will end.