NERKOPOLIS
Level by Nerkan
Walkthrough by José
[Note]: There are
some new movements which are explained in the readme file. You can practice
them at the very beginning of the level at the S side of the harbour. [End
note]
The
Harbour and the First Secret
Go to the NE side of the
terrace and look for a two-tiled ledge some meters down in the E building
facade. Jump from the corner over the fence to land on it. From here do a
running jump E into the sea. Dive straight E and find SECRET #1: a golden
rose near the lighthouse. Swim back W, pull out onto a small pier,
jump W to the street and go S to a small hut with two boats; here you can
practice the new movements for Lara.
Jack's
Shop
Jump over to the street
and go N; find the red bike and use it if you want to move yourself along the
streets of this nice city. It's not necessary to use the motorbike to do the
tasks but it's a good help to get faster to the places where you must go. So
drive N, W, N to the very end passing the park and a little W; to the right is
Jack's shop. Enter and watch the cutscene. You need to find the keys to his
house, so go out of the shop, left (E) and right (S) to the park.
The
Park
Jump into the water with
the fountain and get the CROWBAR in the
SW corner. Go out of the water (only in a small edge in E side) and shoot the
trash can at the S side of the park, near the Pegasus statues, to get the first
FUSE. Now go NE to the Central Station
(underground).
The
Underground
Use your crowbar to open
the metal door and go down the stairs. Once down go left (W) and move the crate
in the N wall to the S wall under the jumpswitch (a bit to the W). Pull the
jumpswitch. Behind where the crate was there is an electric box; shoot the box
and pull the switch; a block rises behind in the S wall near the moveable
crate. Use the crate to jump to the top of the raised block, go into the high
opening and enter the sewers.
The
Sewers
There are some fans
which prevent you the access to the W corridor over them. Jump into the water
and through the opening in the middle of the S wall. Follow the path till you
find an opening in the ceiling. Go there and continue diving till you find an
underwater switch; pull it to stop the fans in the previous room and dry the
corridors. Go back, crawling through the corridors, to the main room with the
fans; jump into the water and swim W; pull up into the corridor and pick up the
WHEEL in the SW corner of the final
room. Now you must go back all the way to the place where the moveable crate
is, so go back to the water but don't dive in; go to the NE corner and take a
running jump to the N ledge (it can be difficult because of the nearby pipes
but finally you'll get it). Run E and return to the main underground station
with the moveable crate.
The
Second Fuse
Place the wheel in the E
wall to see a metal door opening in the previous corridors. Go all the way back
to the sewers and through the dry corridors (remember to go up through the
ceiling hole) to the underwater switch you pulled before and pull it again to
fill the rooms with water. Now the fans are working again, but you have a
shortcut 'cause the metal underwater door is open, so after you pull the
underwater switch, go back to the main underwater corridor and dive left (N)
and through the now opened metal door and to the left to reach the room behind
the fans. Climb and in the NW corner you can pick up the second FUSE. Explore the shelves to get flares and the CORKS-DO
STUFF.
Using
the Cork and Finding the Second Secret
Return to the subway
entrance (where the woman was) and place the fuses in their boxes behind the
pillars to open a glass door where you got the second fuse. Go back there,
enter and safety drop to the floor. Look for the opening in the W wall and
follow the crawlspace to another small room with pipes; use the cork in the
broken pipe to fill the previous room. Go back there, pull up onto the E ledge
and locate the crawl space NE behind the glass door. Pull up inside and follow to a small room with a Lara Croft
statue and SECRET #2. Pick up the golden
rose and return. Jump into
the water and swim S to find an opening in the ceiling. Continue through the
corridor and climb at the end, using the new movement, to find yourself in a
room with electrified water. Go W to find a small room with many moveable
crates.
The
Crates Puzzle
This puzzle is very
entertaining, one of the best I've ever played in a TR custom level, but very
laborious too. There is a moveable piece in a hole in the S wall corridor; your
goal is to place that piece over a marked tile in the top of the NE pillar.
First, go behind that pillar, shoot the grey box in the wall and pull the
switch to raise a block in the corridor and elevate the piece. Pull the floor
lever in the E wall to lower a block near the entrance of the corridor where
the piece is. There are four moveable crates we can use in the floor of this
room (one of them is in the S wall); I'll call these crates "low
crates"; and another three in a higher level; I'll call these crates
"high crates".
First push the high
crate in the W wall once to the N. Then we must make a kind of W-E
"bridge" between this crate and the NE pillar where the piece must
go, using the four low crates on the ground floor. Once it's finished, move the
first high crate from W to E all the way till it is next to the NE pillar. Now
there are only three useful moveable crates on the floor, so move the central
one once to the S and once to the W so we can move the high NW crate once to
the S over the "bridge". Once there we must move again the same low
crate to the place were it was between the other two to complete the
"bridge" again, and move the NW crate all the way to the E.
Now there are only two
useful low crates in the floor; move one of them to the N side of the lonely
metal block in the middle of the room and the other one in the S side, creating
so another N-S "bridge" between the corridor in the S wall and the
crates in the N wall. Jump over that "bridge" and move the N high
crate two times S; jump over it and on the other side pull once to the S the
high crate in the N wall; finally move the S high crate once to the N: the new
high S-N-E "bridge" is finished. Now it's very easy to move the piece
all the way N, use the floor lever to raise the piece and move the piece N and
E to the marked tile: a glass door opens somewhere. Great puzzle!!!
Electrified
Pool
Go back to the room with
the electrified shallow pool. Jump into an opening in the NW corner, where you
first entered this room, and face E. Stand jump to grab the crack and shimmy
right and around the corner, jump to grab the upper crack (Alt) and shimmy
right till you are over the slope. Drop and do a backflip with twist in midair
to grab the crack in the S wall. Shimmy to the left and at the end jump to grab
the upper crack; shimmy left and around the corner, drop and do another
backflip with twist to grab the crack behind, jump and grab the upper edge,
climb and stand up on a flat tile.
Jump onto the E slope,
slide and jump at the last moment to grab the edge of the N opening. Shimmy
right to the end and jump back (down arrow) to grab the crack behind; shimmy
left and around the corner, jump to grab the upper crack and jump back to land
in the final room through the doors you had opened before in the crates room.
Walk E a bit in the shallow waters and look to your left to find the BLUE KEY-FOR JACK'S HOUSE. When you pick up the
key, the metal gates open and you can exit to the harbour.
Jack's
House
Swim right and go out of
the water in the small hut where the boats are. Climb to the street and go N a
little. In front of the bus stop with the woman is Jack's house. Use your key
and enter. Use the delta wing (works just like a ZIP line) and release to land
on the yacht near the lighthouse. Enter the yacht from its S side and watch the
cutscene. It seems that you have to get some money if you want the disco keys,
so let's go for it.
[Note]: There is a
bug posted in the forums which prevents you from proceeding if you use the book
you find in the cinema before you get 50,000 €. If you do so, the amount of
money in your inventory will diminish and you'll never be able to get the disco
keys to continue playing. [End note]
The
First 40,000 €
Go out of the yacht and
swim SW to the hut with the boats; on the wooden pier has magically appeared
the first 10,000 €. Climb to the street and go right again to Jack's house to
find the second 10,000 € on the carpet. Go out, right and right (W); straight
ahead is the laboratory; there is a man drinking at the entrance. Enter and
pick up the third 10,000 € in the NW corner near the computer. Go out and
straight to the cinema; in front of the popcorn machine you'll find the fourth
10,000 €. To the left of the bubble gum machine you can pick up the BOOK-FOR READING.
Third
Secret
Go between the machines
and face N. Jump to grab the edge of the popcorn machine and use the down arrow
to jump back and grab the edge of the bubble gum machine. Climb to the top,
draw your pistols and shoot the grate in the SW corner. Turn and drop, grabbing
the S edge of the machine; use again the down arrow to jump back and grab the
edge of the crawlspace. Go in and drop into the projection room in the other
side. Shoot the grey box near the crawlspace and pull the switch if you want to
turn on the lights. Look between the seats in the back row to find SECRET #3: another golden
rose. Go back to the streets.
The
Last 20,000 €
Go N, passing the
laboratory, and reach the park. Enter again in the central station NE and find
the fifth 10,000 € near the drinks machine. Go back to the streets and go right
to return to Jack's shop N again; place the book-for reading in the bookcase at
the NE corner; a door opens to your left. Go there and get the last 10,000 € on
one of the shelves and a small medipack
in the other (you'll have to press the Ctrl key two times).
The
Disco Key
Now it's time to return
to the yacht to buy the disco keys, so go to the harbour and swim to the yacht,
enter (using the platform on the S side) and after the cutscene you'll have the
YELLOW KEY-FOR DISCO in your inventory.
Go out, jump into the sea and return to the streets. Go to the central station,
to the left of the entrance is the disco (guarded by a wino). Use your key to
open the door and go in.
Three
Jumpswitches
In the SW and SE corners
there are moveable pieces like the piece you moved in the crates puzzle room.
Move them onto the marked tiles near the center of the walls (with the blue
rays over them). Near the SE corner is the first jumpswitch; jump onto the pink
block and pull it to raise some blocks in the NW corner of the room. Go there
and use the blocks to climb to the middle level of the disco.
Jump to the metal
structure and use the S ledges and the metal structure to get the stone ledges
in the NE corner. From the E metal beam you can jump NW over a small metal
platform to pick up the BLOCK and read
it to get a clue to know what you must do in the disco. Jump to ground floor
and return all the way around the disco till you get the stone ledges in the NE
corner in the middle level. From the high ledge you can standjump SW to grab a
crack in the metal pillar to the left and use Alt to climb to the top level of
the disco.
Go S and do a running
jump over the SW roof, slide, grab and shimmy all the way to the very right
till you can't go more. Go up and do a backflip with twist and a left curve to
land on the metal beam W. Go to the N wall and pull the second jumpswitch there
to open a trapdoor at the NE corner in the floor level of the disco. Go S and
spot the chain (E) hanging near the moveable structure in the center of the
disco. A running jump to grab it, turn to the right and swing to pull the third
jumpswitch over the roof in the S wall. Slide, grab the edge and go all the way
to the left till you can climb and stand up on a part of the roof. Make your
way to descend to the floor level of the disco and go into the trapdoor you've
opened in the NE corner.
The
Torch
Go down the stairs and
cross through the black curtain to your left. Explore the shelves to get the PASS CARD and see the math expression in it: [(128
x 4 + 3) x 11 + 2]:3. Doing this simple operation gives us an output of
1889. This is the code to open the door at the end of the corridor, so go there
and use it. In this new room there are three buttons and a fireplace. The block
said not to use the middle button, so push only the left and right buttons. Go
back to the place where you got the pass card and pick up a torch; go to the fireplace and light it. Return
to the disco, use the blocks in the NW corner to climb to the first level, jump
around the S ledges as before (a friendly platform has appeared) to get to the
E stone ledges (some blocks have been raised there) and jump to the upper
level. Judge the timed platforms doing standing jumps over them to get to the
other side; light the rope and the ball falls, breaking the floor of the disco.
Go there and pick up the RED KEY-FOR RESEARCH
LABORATORY. Go out to the streets and to the laboratory S (where
another wino is posted outside, remember?); use your key to open the elevator
to access the laboratory.
Fourth
Secret
In the elevator use the
same code as in the disco (1889) to activate it. Go out and shoot three (hard
to kill) dogs. In the next corridor judge
the time to jump over the first laser and crawl under the red laser light at
the end. In the next room (I'll call it the "main room") with the zombies go to the N wall, jump and shoot the metal
grate, enter the crawlspace to get SECRET #4:
a large medipack and a golden rose. Go back to the room with the zombies
and press the button in the NE corner to open the door. Enter and pull the
jumpswitch in the NE corner to open a door in the SW corner of the main room.
A
Bottle and the Last Secret
[Note]: These tasks
are optional. I've read in the forums that you can jump over the fires (next
paragraph) without extinguishing it with the water of the bottle. [End note]
Go there and enter. In
the SE corner of this new room there is a timed swich which raises some blocks
in the room. Pull it, turn a bit left, roll and do a standing jump to the first
block; turn left and another standing jump to the next block; jump now to the
slope next to the W wall, slide and jump to grab the edge of the next block;
quickly climb, jump to the next block and a running jump to grab the crack in
the E wall; shimmy left and around the corner till you can stand up; go down
before the timed trap door closes and explore the shelves to find a BOTTLE (SMALL WATERSKIN) and if you press Ctrl
two more times you'll get SECRET #5:
another golden rose.
Go back to the elevator
and fill your bottle with water in the small pool at the SE corner. Go back to
the main room and enter the corridor in the center of the W wall. Jump over the
lasers, duck under the first red laser light and jump over the second laser
light. Use the water of the bottle to douse the fires in the next corridor
(facing N and approaching as near as you can to the flames from the middle of
the tile). Go to the end of the corridor and save your game before you enter
the next room.
First
Disk
There are two machine
guns to your left, so walk slowly near the S wall and situate Lara aligning her
with the red barrel and the left sentry gun, facing SW. Draw the pistols, jump
and lara will point to the left machine, but when she shoots, she will break
the barrel; waiting some seconds the sentry guns will be destroyed. Jump where
the machines were and pick up the first DISK-FOR
PLAYING near the SW corner. Go out and to the left. Climb the crate
and from here to the high metal ledge; do a running jump SE to the next room.
Second
Disk
Push the S moveable
crate once to the W and climb it to push the W lever. Enter the W door and at
the end of the corridor don't touch the buttons right now. Continue running
through this kind of maze to the very end (the fixed camera angle makes it a
bit awkward) and pick up a torch. Go
back to where the buttons are and throw the torch there. Press the left button,
go to the maze and pull a switch in the N wall to raise a block in the W wall.
Go back to the buttons and press both buttons. Take the torch with you and
return to the maze; go to the very end and hopefully light your torch (the
fixed camera angle makes it really difficult here, but Lara seemingly runs no
risk of being set ablaze herself); return to the buttons. Throw the torch and
press both buttons again; go to the maze and pull again the same switch in the
N wall as before to lower the block. Go back to the buttons and press the left
button; take the torch with you, go to the end of the maze and light the object
over the torches; a door opens in the maze. Go there and pull a switch in the
center of the maze; this opens the glass door near the torches . Go there and
pick up the second DISK-FOR PLAYING on
top of the central block. Go all the way back to the small room with the floor
levers and the moveable crates.
The
Revolver and the Lasersight
[Note]: This task is
optional. You don't need the revolver and the sight to finish the game. I think
they could have a use to shoot the red barrel to destroy the sentry guns and
get the first disk, but I'm not sure. [End note]
Move the S crate two
times to the E and the N crate once to the W. Pull both levers and the E glass
door opens. Jump over the lasers and in the next room with the zombie explore
the shelves pressing Ctrl several times to get the REVOLVER,
the LASERSIGHT and a large medipack. Make your way back to the main
room and place the disks in the consoles to open the doors to the viruses room,
courtesy of a laser-emitting machine.
Fighting
with the Viruses
Face the viruses and
draw weapons; the first virus attacks. Climb into the N opening, run to the end
of the corridor and jump into the small pool to destroy it. It can happen that
the virus goes directly to the pool and destroys itself; in this case you need
go to the now empty pool to activate the second virus. Go back to the viruses
room and the second one attacks. A glass door has opened in the SW corner. Go
there, climb and arrive at the pipes puzzle room. Check the transparent floor
to see what pipes you must turn to fill the nearby pool. From left to right the
buttons you must push are the second, the fourth and the fifth. Jump into the
now filled pool to kill the second virus and prepare yourself for a hard timed
run.
The
Escape
Don't you waste the time
'cause you only have limited seconds to escape. If you delay too much, the
laboratory will explode and Lara will burn, so move yourself quickly. The
entrance corridor of this room is now blocked, but a glass door has opened in
the NW corner. Quickly jump in and follow to the room with the timed raising
blocks. From here return to the viruses room (you can't use the elevator
anymore) and another glass door opened in the E wall. Go in and jump to grab
the crack in front of you; shimmy right and jump back (down arrow key) to grab
the crack behind. Shimmy left and jump back to grab another crack E. Shimmy
right and jump back to grab another crack W. Shimmy to the very left and jump
back to grab another crack E. Jump to grab the upper crack and jump back to
grab another crack W. Shimmy to the right (not to the very end) and jump back
to grab another crack E. Shimmy left and around the corner and pull up into a
crawlspace; shoot the grate and enter the room. Use the delta wing like a ZIP
line to glide down and land in the sea. Pull out and jump to the street. Your
helicopter is waiting for you in front of the disco. Go there to see the last
cutscene of this fantastic level.
29-july-2008
[Note]: If you find
all five secrets you can enjoy a very short but entertaining race through the
streets of the city with some nice camera views. It's not necessary to provide
a walkthrough for this bonus level. (Thanks, Raymond, for providing a
savegame). [End note]