YOUNG LARA'S HOME
Level by Jeffrey Van Oort
Walkthrough by Yoav
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Start the level somewhere in a room at some kind of Lara's mansion. Head
forward, pass the sloped wall and drop into the hole. Crawl a little, then turn
around, fall onto a big loudspeaker (everything here is big and lacking
proportion) and jump to the floor. Go up the stairs, it's dark but you do not
have flares. Anyway, climb the south wall and open the gate by approaching it
and reach the main hall. At the right side there is a wooden wall for later. Right
now go to the dining room, find a lever in the dark and pull it, get a flyby of
a gym and an underwater gate opens at the pool. Go to the kitchen, climb the
right side of the stove to reach a Secret Golden Skull #1.
Back where you saw the wooden wall, climb up and drop to the gym. Climb the
tall pillar, at the top use the monkeyswing and reach the east pillar. Run and
jump onto the north ledge, then follow it west to the end, but watch the spikes
trap and collect the Secret Golden Skull #2. Climb down north, reach the pool
and follow west, look for a lever at the south alcove. Pull it and keep
following around the pool to find a small medipack between two lion statues. Now
jump into the water and swim west, pull out and climb up the stairs, at the end
pick up an extra Secret Golden Skull #3.
Back to the main hall and climb up the left sloped bannister, at the top take a
jump north to land onto a ledge, then pull there a lever. Drop down and follow
outside from the mansion. At the east there is a closed gate and you can see
Von Croy is standing behind it. Head south and find the lever next to the east
wall, pull it and get a short flyby of a gate opening. Get back inside the
mansion, enter the north room lighted purple with a golden skull on the center
pedestal. Just forget about picking it up as it has a trap spiked boulder
hanging from the ceiling.
Exit this room and go up the stairs, turn right, then enter the bedroom, take
from the bed a small medipack. Exit and follow down the passage into the
library, climb into a crawlspace between the bookcase and reach a pool. Dive
and swim north-east for Secret Golden Skull #4. Return and find the south
opening gate, climb up the stairs, climb the box and reach the attic. Then find
the lever next to the west wall and pull it. Leave the attic and go back down,
keep following south into the next passage. Enter the first bedroom and climb
the bed for a medipack, then head south to a room with shallow water and pull
there a lever.
Exit the room and follow down the passage, enter another library find a tunnel
between the bookcase and climb inside. Follow it, then crawl and go through the
opened gate, follow the bridge to the end. Grab the crack in the wall and
shimmy left where you can pull up and crawl inside an alcove and reach Secret
Golden Skull #5. Notice that you have to use the DOZY cheat to get back over
the bridge. Make your way back to the main hall, then follow outside the
mansion. Head north over the waterfall statue and look for a closed gate you
open by approaching it.
Enter the maze and simply turn right at every junction until you reach a place
with a wooden block. Climb up the block and pull there a lever. Next is a deep
place you can reach by climbing down a ladder and collect a medipack, but then
you get a spiked boulder on your head. Follow back to the start by the same
way, but don't leave the maze. However, turn left and head forward until the
end and find Secret Golden Skull #6. Now go back and exit the maze, reach the
north-west opening gate and enter to some kind of training race just for
finding a small medipack on the top of the north wooden block.
Exit the training race and go over to the east gate. At this time of the day it
should be open and Lara could handshake Von Croy. Well, in my game this gate
was still closed and from what I read in review it has happened to others. So,
at this point I'm ending my walkthrough.