Enhanced Anniversary Manor

Level by Skyler Ortega

Walkthrough by DJ Full


WARNING!
Inverted compass! Then, all directions written below are also inverted.

INTENDED WAY (shortcuts are described below)

OPENING THE FIREPLACE: ACT I
Follow the right wall, ignore the first door (it's a decoy) and find the pushable crate among the boxes. Move it onto the marked tile. The camera shows you the fireplace, and you need to do something more to open it. But now concentrate on the rest of the crates and climb them to find the Scion on their E end (SECRET#1).

OPTIONAL INTERMEZZO
Go upstairs and to get on the E part of the 1st floor. Enter the far door to access the passage. Follow it to get out through another portal. You're in Lara's bedroom. You can go left and right from here, but there is nothing to find in the side rooms, so go back to the main hall.

THE SMALLEST KEY EVER
Enter the second door in this part of the 1st floor, follow the passage behind it and enter the library. Throw the switch in the NW corner to raise the wall indicated by the camera. Don't get through it yet, but go upstairs into the upper library. Pull the lever behind the pillar on the right of the entrance. That opens the N door. Get behind it to find the Chinesse 95 Assault Rifle. Now get back to the lower library and through the open portal in the S wall. Follow the passage, climb the crates and get The Smallest Key Ever from one of them.

TREASURY ROOM
Advance, go upstairs to enter the automatic door on the top and find yourself in the treasury room. Go upstairs and into the dark room behind the N wall. Grab a laser sight lying on the raised piece of floor in the NW corner. Go back to the treasury room and pick up the Artifact 1 (this item doesn't count as a secret) from the pedestal near the exit. Get through that portal, follow the next corridor and get out back to the main hall.

OPENING THE FIREPLACE: ACT II
Get down on the ground floor. Go around the stairs. Push the door, follow the passage and open another door to get outside. Follow the arcades to the very end and place the key in the slot to open the fireplace.

THE MAZE: ACT I
Enter the nearest E door. Combine Chinese 95 Assault Rifle with the laser sight and snipe the target on the top of the E shrubbery to open the maze gate. Go through. When you see the next gate, which is locked, go right and ahead until you approach a transverse shrubbery. Go left and, from the following yard, through the left SW gap. Now keep close to the right wall till you find the pool. Pull the lever on the right of the water pump. Now the inner swimming pool is filled with water. Get back - on the following junctions go ahead, right and through the left of two N passages, then into the NE one and ahead to spot the open gate. Throw both levers and leave the maze for now.

A LITTLE BIT OF PREPARATION
Go back to the main hall and check the left W portal to follow a passage to the gym. When the door behind the fountain opens - reverse roll and return to the main hall.

I know the last instruction seems to make no sense, but believe me - it does. To know the reason, read the line below the "GYM" chapter.

1ST MAZE PIECE
Get Maze Piece from the fireplace.

INTO THE POOL
Enter the far W door. Push another one at the end of the corridor to get to the room above the swimming pool. Go around the middle SW pillar to climb the block behind it. Use the E boxes to platform ahead on the following ledge. Move the crate onto the marked N tile. Jump back on the previous boxes, hop on the central raised block and jump to the other side of the room. Grab the ceiling and swing onto the following boxes. Platform to the W balcony and throw a switch to raise another wall. Return on the central block and runjump/grab the S crack. Pull up into it and get out to stand on the neighbouring block. Jump over the handrails to land on the near balcony and throw a switch to open the trapdoor in the middle of the floor. Descend through it, into the pool. Find the passage on the N, go through it and right on the junction to grab Maze Piece from the end. Now follow the remaining passage to find an underwater lever. Pull it, swim into the revealed pool and resurface in the gym. Get out of the water.

THE GYM
Grab a small medi from the central mattress. Climb the blocks near the pool and throw the switch in the SE alcove to raise the block on the floor. However, you don't need to climb it (and you can't), so just hop NW twice to find SECRET#2 - Artifact 1. Get back on the floor to climb the ladder in the middle of the W wall. Drop to the block on the left and jump S twice to climb the block on your left. Slide down the two following slopes and bounce out of the second one to land on the block. Face exactly N and just run ahead to land in the alcove behind the raised wall. Throw the switch in there and drop to the floor. Jump on the farthest W block and into the next alcove to throw the last switch in the gym. You've just raised the block in the middle of the place, but there's nothing you can do with it, so leave the area through the huge double door.

There is no trigger for that double door inside the gym, so that's why you had to open it from the other side - to complete the game intended way.

THE MAZE: ACT II
Combine both maze pieces and make a Maze Key. Return to the center of the maze and place the key on the pedestal to raise the block. Climb it, and the following pillar, to get Music Room Jewel.

THE MUSIC ROOM
Back in the main hall, go upstairs and through the far W door. At the end of the following passage, go around the misplaced portal and put the Music Room Jewel in the slot to access the music room. Get in and make several steps ahead to finish the level.



SHORTCUTS


1. You don't need to raise the block in the gym to get on the W balcony. Just climb the first described blocks, jump on the nearest balcony and get in the crawlspace from the other side. Get out of the crawlspace and platform to the balcony.

2. You don't need to fill the pool with water. Just pick up the Maze Piece and return to the room above using an unmarked ladder.

3. You can get the secret in the Gym by single runjump.

4. You can shatter the target opening the maze door with pistols only.

Following the shortcuts above, the sequence looks like this:

Main hall -> Room above the pool -> Dry pool for Maze Piece 1 -> Main hall -> Library -> The Smallest Key Ever -> Treasury room -> Main Hall -> Slot for TSKE -> Fireplace for Maze Piece 2 -> The Maze -> Main Hall -> Music room.