BtB
2020-7-NEST OF THE SOULS.
Level by
BtB2020
Walkthrough by
G&D Productions.
In this walk we’re NOT going to use the “True
compass”, meaning the red needle
is always pointing the way we describe in the walkthrough, just to avoid
confusion.
Mentioned savegames
are in this
Saves Folder.
7 Secrets.
In the
ice-cold pool, in front of you are 2 Revolver ammo pickups; best leave that for
now… Go to the Main Hall E and left is a push block behind the arches, leave
that too for now and turn to the right hand wall, under those arches. Go through
the passage to a pool area.
The Pools, for the Gold Key.
An Eagle will
attack, after he’s dead you can grab up to an alcove above the lantern right of
where you came in (W). Another Eagle attacks; just stand back in a corner and
shoot it. Grab up right and go to the horizontal pole, walk across to the
platform. Now you can either walk the last part or run jump and grab the
opening. Dive down straight as far as you can, swim up to the ledge N and get
out, the water is ice cold too, so don’t stay in too long.
Run jump and
grab to the alcove N and push the Buddha icon on the wall and this will ignite
all fires throughout the level. The pool behind you will also be heated and
safe. Run jump onto the right hand side of the ledge you came from (watch out
for the rotating flame) and stand jump onto the corner of the block SE. Stand
back into the corner because of the flame and run jump to grab the block a bit
left (S), careful, that rotating blade reaches this block. So pull up in the
left corner and turn left, time the blade and the flames to hop back and run
jump W to the next block. Hang on the last block and pull up when the flame goes
down (you can also stand safely at the right hand corner), run jump landing on
the left side of a sloped block and jump hard left to get onto a balcony (savegame.0).
Grab up to the crack in the pillar and go left around two corners, wait at
the next corner, look up and time the rotating flame, ledge jump up and side
flip left onto the path in the rocks, quickly get out of the way. Follow the
path to where you can jump onto the roof (the higher part), jump along the roof
to the other end and use the roofs E to get to the opening in the S wall. Hop
into the pool below.
Secret: Swim under
the floor straight ahead (S) and to the right, in the right hand corner is an
underwater lever. A trapdoor will open in the bottom between the statues here,
go in and get
Secret #1,
the Lasersight.
Surface and
climb out SW (or SE), using the vines on the wall, climb up to the floor above.
Leave through the wide passage S to the Main Hall with the Arches. Go left to
where we started, hop into the now warmed up pool and get
2x Revolver ammo and the
Gold Key.
Using the Gold Key, the Camp site.
Go to the
other end of Hall (E) and come to a bridge, left or right of the bridge you can
climb down a ladder to the level below. SW in this area is some
gurung bread (small First Aid Kit)
and right of it are Light Sticks.
Then go to the NE corner and jump E into the gap in that ice pillar. Hang out
right where the vines are and ledge jump up grabbing above the gap. Climb up a
bit and back flip off to the ledge. Hop to the ledge with the Keyhole and use
the Gold key. The big gate opens behind you, but only a small part of it. Stand
back next to the keyhole and run jump with a left curve into the opening (OR go
back to the bridge and jump from there into the opening). This water is still
ice cold, so stay near the gate and hop onto the snowy bank left. Then run jump
as far as you can into the far end deep water and swim left around the corner to
a ledge where you can get out before you freeze.
Shotgun.
Hop over to
the block behind you and hop into the opening in the left wall (N). Shoot a
couple of spiders in the pit before you go down and find the ladder going down
in the SE corner. Climb down and shoot more spiders. Grab up to the boulder
slope NW, run down and jump up with a right curve to the higher floor. Go up
into the opening S, this is a lower part of the deep bridge canyon. Turn left
and run jump along the wall to the block W, then run jump to the next and left
you find 2x Shotgun ammo. Jump back,
run jumps with Ctrl to where you came out, run jump to grab the corner block,
turn right and jump grab the vines, go down to a ledge and jump E into the cave.
Climb down and hang out of the cave, shimmy right along the crack to drop onto
the snowy ledge, drop down and go to the tent to get the
Shotgun. Look over the edge S to
find a ledge and vines to get down to the bottom of the canyon.
Bottom of the Canyon, Swastika Key.
Go to the left
side of the temple, jump up the left side of the gravel mound and then jump into
the opening in the wall. Watch out for the icicles and go to a pit with a
leopard, shoot it and go down to climb up N to the floor above, pull the dead
guy away and grab the Swastika Key.
Get back out to the canyon, loop left around to the shallow pool and in the rock
wall left is a ledge (near some icicle’s), climb up and follow through, shooting
a leopard and use the Swastika Key, a trapdoor* opens behind the fence.
The First Dharma Jewel.
Go back to the
Canyon, left through the shallow water and crawl in E under the ice wall, go
left where you can stand up and follow the passage, climb up and jump over the
open trapdoor* to get the First Aid Kit.
Hop backwards
into the water and swim forward and right/left, then up near the end into an
opening and climb out facing straight ahead (E). Stand facing the traps, I did
it from the right and do a run jump through the opening, wait in there, because
there’s a second rolling blade. Get through that one too and pick up the
Dharma Jewel from the Crystal on the
pedestal. Get back through the traps and swim back to the trapdoor (savegame.1).
Down into the passage to the ice cave and crawl to the right (W) to the canyon.
Go to the
pillars NW, get on the low block against the wall and grab up to the high
pillar, do a back jump and grab the vines, climb up to the tent. Grab up to a
crack in the corner pillar NE, back jump and grab the one behind, from that jump
to the corner ledges and make your way back along the crack to the opening in
the wall. Back flip onto the slope, jump and grab the vines to go up. Jump out
left to the block and grab up left to the vines, left onto the block and jump
over to the W, go left inside. Hop over the boulder onto the slope and go up,
left and up the ladder there to the spider pit. Go up S and out, jump over the
stream to the block S. Get into the crawlspace, follow through and jump out the
other end.
Go to the far
end and climb up right, grab up to the sloped block and shimmy right around the
corner. Pull up and back flip onto the ledge. Shoot the leopard and go to the
back of the first room, on the ledge in the back is a lever opening a door. Go
back to the front of the room and hop up right onto the higher floor, shoot the
spiders. The open door is to the right (S). Get through the swinging spike logs
and throw the lever at the end of the passage. A door opens in this passage.
Safety drop
out onto a ledge below. We need a Torch, so to the bridge we go.
A Torch, the Hand Prayer wheel.
Run jump
straight ahead (W), to the bridge and through the Hall of Arches to where the
level started, grab a Torch from one
of the ledges in the last arch and ignite it on the bowl (careful). Make your
way back over the bridge and jump through the caves onto the grey beam E. Go
either right or left and trigger one of the boulders, get back and out of the
way. Now hop over the boulder using the corner block and go up the slope. Into
the room there and get into the structure with the bowl, carefully ignite the
bowl from the back (facing E) and a door opens behind you, go in to get the
Hand Prayer wheel.
Take the Torch
with you when you leave, down the boulder slope, through the caves and over the
bridge. Leave the Torch near the bridge for later.
Using the Hand Prayer wheel, Dharma
Jewel II.
Go back down
the boulder slope, over the bridge and climb down a ladder to the level below.
Jump from the NE corner to the ice pillar and climb down the vines, shimmy right
around the corner and drop onto the ledge below. Jump to the bridge on the right
(SW) and to the right is the door you saw when you took the Hand Prayer wheel.
Place it there and the gate opens up. Inside take a left down into the next
room, go around that central tower and climb in, up the pole facing E and go as
high as you can without getting hurt by the blade, turn right or left a bit so
that when you back flip off you land on the corner of the floor above. Watch the
blade and when it is safe, go up one more grab and back flip (savegame.2).
Walk W and
jump to the rope. Turn right and swing up to the S floor.
Near the left
wall (W) is an Ancient Text:
The Tale of 3 birds.
3 Birds were resting
near a mountain (S, through the windows). The Bird looking the mountain (N
cylinder), saw a hawk coming, this bird flew to the opposite direction to safe
its life.
The second bird flew
to fight the hawk. The bird in the middle of all confusion saw everything. It
decided to fly east to ask for help.
-So, use the
wheel E (red needle) to turn the big “E” cylinder so the
part faces N.
-The second is
the one W for us. Turn the handle till it faces S.
-The third “in
the middle” is the one N; turn the wheel in the S side of the room till the
handle faces (east), W for us.
Now you can
use the chain pulley to lower a block in the tower with the pole (N). Jump in
there and grab Dharma Jewel II from
the crystal.
Jump back to the
floor, loop right a bit and look down to spot a jump lever on the side of a
ledge on the tower. Hop down onto the ledge (or use the rope to get into the
tower and get there) and the lever will raise a block behind you (SE). Climb up
and walk out. Turn left and walk along the wall, hop over a sloped part and get
Secret #2,
a Quartz Skull from the niche, get back inside.
The Bow.
Go to that ice
sheet in the floor and break it, into the opening and loop around left into a
niche for Arrows, then go down the
hole in the floor, slide and keep running left around the corner to get out of
the way of a boulder, a bit further on are some
Arrows and
gurung bread. Go even further and
find Light Sticks.
Get back
inside, up the slope and climb up to the room with the tower. Leave N, go right
to the lower bridge and hop NW onto the roof, walk along the flat parts to a
vine. For a First Aid Kit, hop around the corner, go all the way to the end,
grab the First Aid Kit and get back.
Now climb the
vines to the floor above and go get some Shotgun ammo S between the two blocks
left. Get to the N side and hop between the first blocks back flip onto the
sloped block and jump onto the next, jump with Ctrl onto the lower one and a run
jump left to the next around the corner. In an opening N is
gurung bread, get it and jump back.
Run jump and grab the pole S, swing the poles and grab the floor at the other
side.
Go through, turn
around and climb down the vines to get
Secret #3,
a Buddha Footprint. Climb back up.
Turn around
and hop over the gap, then jump up onto the dark ledge, go left and run through
that diagonal passage to come to a room with traps. Get to the N side through
the Sword traps and in the passage is a Bird Blade trap, watch out. Just crawl
underneath and then jump up right at the slope, down and come to a moving
circular blade trap.
Stand on the
red carpet and side jump through when it comes close, keep side jumping till the
end of the passage (at least, that’s how I got though). Up and down into the
next room and find a jump lever on the far wall. Go back through the circular
blade (savegame.3), underneath the bird blade
and through the first Sword trap to find the opened doors. Shoot the spiders and
grab up to the pillar inside and back jump to get onto the floor above. Right of
the central structure, up in a ledge is
gurung bread, behind the structure and in front of the Buddha is a
First Aid Kit.
Inside the
structure that you can access from the E side, are the receptacles for the
Cintinami stones. Looks like one is missing, go back out straight and throw the
lever (E) to open the “shortcut” door then pick up
Dharma Jewel #3 and go through. Go
to the canyon E and climb one of the ladders to the bridge level.
The Canyons, the Cintinami Stone.
Go W to the
Hall of Arches and along the right hand wall to come to a push block. Place the
3 Dharma Jewells in their receptacles and push the block along the wall (E) as
far as it goes and jump from the block into an opening in the left wall. Crawl
in and go into the second crawlspace left (SW), you’ll come to an area with
spikes and some spiders to shoot. Walk slowly through the gap between the traps
SW (behind that big sloped pillar). Loop around right and get the
Light Sticks. Go into the W section,
find the highest part of the snow against the W wall and backflip on it, jump
again and grab the ledge. Jump and grab the pole E and swing to jump to the
floor there. Two leopards appear out of the blue, deal with them. To the right
of the structure is a vase with Shotgun ammo, At the back get the
Light Sticks.
Go along the S
wall and turn right to climb up between the central pillars, then turn left and
climb up again, run jump onto the pillar and run jump into the opening in the E
wall. Climb down the ladder there and go through a passage to slide down towards
a wide staircase with Dart traps.
Make your way
down the stairs avoiding the darts and look up in the right hand side of the
room to spot a jump lever. Hang from the pointed block, back jump and grab the
lever to lower a block next to the Buddha. So, turn around and go right of the
Buddha, grab up into the new opening, drop down and follow through shooting a
soldier. There are some nasty moving blocks there, run or hop through the first,
step back as far as you can and hop diagonally onto the left corner of the
higher ledge, immediately running forward a bit…but not too far, because of the
block above. Run (with the block falling behind you) to the end and jump right
or left, depending on where you are, to clear the slope of the spike pit. Two
soldiers here, best run under the cover of the left or right roofs, because
there is another one upstairs and we better take care of them one by one…
In the right
hand corner of where you came in is a passage (NE), hop up in there and grab the
Uzi clips, there are 3 more
Uzi clips in the back. In the other
corner (left of where you came in) is another passage (NW), go in and crawl to
the back to get the First Aid Kit.
Back out and in the middle of the floor are some ledges from which you can run
jump and grab one of the ladders E or W to go up to the first floor. Shoot the
soldier if you didn’t yet (check for Uzi
clips where he died) and pull a cabinet from the S wall, get into the
crawlspace for the Uzis.
Outside, Rusty Key.
Shoot one of
the windows E and get outside, shoot a mercenary. When you go N along the
building, more of them show up, just try to stay as far away as possible so they
won’t open up fire at you, but you can kill them (saves health). Some of them
leave Revolver ammo and
Uzi clips.
Go to the W
side of the open area and watch out, there’s a snowball trying to kill you. Grab
some gurung bread W
and spot a head with a green gem up NW on the high
building.
Go into the
building N, shoot another mercenary. Go up the snow NE, crawl through and get
the Revolver. Go back outside go
right around up a snow pile and grab up to the first floor, go right and shoot a
mercenary that will drop the Rusty Key.
There are more baddies up here you may have to deal with, pick up
Shotgun ammo… There’s a Gong up
there and to the W is a Crowbar door (later).
Use the Rusty Key, to the Roof for
the Cabin Key.
Drop back down
where you climbed up to this floor and go straight over to the S, right of the
house we came from is a small yellow house and on right of it is a door we can
open with that Rusty Key. Go in and grab the
Shotgun ammo, shoot some empty
crates and notice the trapdoor. Go to the
back of the room and left. Up a block and down into an alley,
there’s 2x Shotgun ammo a bit
further. The door will open, ignore that for now and grab up on the right (W),
hang right and back jump grabbing the slope behind you. Do that one more time
and you are in an opening in the wall.
Detour for a
Secret; turn around and look in the building (E), you can just spot a head with
a green Gem, shoot that, takes some precise aiming and that trapdoor opens in
the room you opened with the Rusty Key. Let’s go back now, use the slopes to get
back down, go through the door N and left through the wooden door and in the
room down into the trapdoor for
Secret #4,
a Seraph (#1). Get back into the
alley and up to the opening in the wall where you left off.
Jump over to
the roof of the temple (W) and go a bit left where you can use the snow to
almost get to the top, hop over the top and spot the crates. Go right a bit and
run jump grab to the cave entrance, hop up and left to shoot a mercenary that
will drop the Cabin Key. From the N
end you can go left and jump back to the roof, now you can use the zip-line from
the crates to get down.
The Cabin, the Mercenary’s Tablet
and a Pickaxe.
Go S, left of
the temple and left to find the cabin, up at the door and open it, do down and
right and something pulls a dead Mercenary into a hole. Grab the
Mercenary’s Tablet and a
Pickaxe. Get out of the cabin and
head N.
A Gong Stick.
At the frozen
lake go all the way left and over a collapsed roof to the edge of the canyon (E)
and a camera will show Lara on the edge of the canyon (walk slow). Get the
First Aid Kit and the Bow.
You can see a
crack below, drop and grab that and go right around to drop in a niche, jump SE
onto the roof and go into a crawlspace at the other side (S), follow down and
grab a First Aid Kit from the
trench. Then climb up to the floor (N).
Detour for a
Secret: There’s a hole in the floor with a closed trapdoor. Maybe there’s
another way to do this, but this is how I did it…
Go to the N side at
the left pillar and turn around, stand one step away from the edge and hop back
over the edge of the floor, when you passed the edge, hit Ctrl and you’ll end up
on a wooden platform below. Turn left and hop to the platform SW, then down onto
the red carpet in the corner. Go right around to get
Secret #5,
the Shankha SE. Go back around to
the red carpet, which was actually a raising block, climb on and hop to the
platform, grab up to the next (E) turn around and jump to grab the ladder up to
the floor.
Go to the SE
corner and run jump to grab that ice block on the wall of the canyon, shimmy
right around to the other side and back jump onto a ledge. Go up the vines and
run jump up into the opening in the wall. Run jump to the pole and swing across.
Left around the corner onto the block and grab the monkey bars left to go over
to the passage at the other end. Turn around and grab up to the floor above, go
into the room and grab a First Aid Kit.
Shoot the left window E and run jump to grab the rock left. Pull up and turn
around to jump and grab up to the roof, go over the ice bridge N and left into
the icy passage. Go to the end and left, jump via a block to the little temple S
and get the Gong Stick.
The flyby
shows a shortcut back, jump back to the icy passage N, follow to the ice bridge
and once on the roof go left to the far left corner (SW). From the high tip you
can stand jump down SW into that alcove the flyby showed you. Now run jump NW
preferably landing on the steep higher part of the roof. Go to the far NW corner
and down onto the lower part so you can grab up to the crack, go left a bit and
ledge jump up to the niche, grab up left and shimmy left to the end and jump up
to the top.
Upper Floor, Crowbar door.
Go forward and
left at the lion pillars to that building and grab up to the upper floor again.
Go right (W), more guys may show up. Go all the way to the end and open the
crowbar door. Move the first body on the left to get
Uzi clips (another soldier might
show up) and gather all the other 6 Uzi
clips scattered about the room. Another soldier (W) lies on top of
Revolver ammo.
Up at the N
wall is a big bell; back flip on the sloped block and jump again to shoot the
bell. A pillar goes down in the middle of the room and reveals a bowl. Seems we
need the Torch…?
Let’s go get the Torch…
Out of the
room and straight, go to that Gong between the blocks and hit it with the Gong
Stick, the sound will cause all the snow to fall from the roof and end up in
front of the building, making it easier to access. Go down where the opening in
the fence is. Turn right (E) and go to the canyon again, stay close to the
building if possible.
Find an
opening where you can go down to a platform above the deep canyon.. Open the
“shortcut” door with the lever and you are back at the bridge. Go and find the
Torch you dropped at the bridge OR get another burning one at where you started
this adventure. Return through the “shortcut” door and go up to the area you
came from. Go to the far end, at the pillar with the lion statue left up the
snow hill and hop onto the upper floor with the Torch. Take it into the room W
and ignite 3 bowls, the big one in the middle and the two smaller ones in the
back corners. A door opens. Leave the Torch, no need for it anymore.
Go out, to the
E and right up a slope to where the door opened, you’ll arrive on a ledge way up
in the Main Hall with the Arches. At the end of this bridge is a door but we
need an artefact to open it. Some blocks went up down and right of the ledge.
Spot the cages hanging to the E, jump along those to the ledge at the other side
and pick up that Buddha statuette (secret
hunters scroll down).
-Without the
Secret, safety drop down twice at the back side to the ground floor, take a left
and near the NE pillar is a sloped wall. Grab up and back jump to an opening for
some gurung bread. Get down, head W
and climb one of the ladders near the Torch ledges (W) and then blocks to get
back up to the bridge, go N and use the statue.
-But with the
Secret; from picking up Buddha, run jump E and grab the opening, shimmy right
and pull up to get another Seraph (#
2) as
Secret #6.
Shimmy back and
take a running jump back to where you got the statuette. Safety drop down twice,
take a left and near the NE pillar is a sloped wall. Grab up and back jump to an
opening for some gurung bread. Get
down and for the last secret; remember the Gem in the lion’s mouth? Go through
the shortcut door (S), to the left up the passage and run W along the building
to the end of the valley where the zip-line is and look up left (NW). Equip the
Revolver with the Sight and shoot that green Gem in the head. A block goes down
under the building N. Go back over the lake and go right under the building
(there’s one spot where you can go in), right again to where a block lowered.
Inside left and open the small door, go right into the room where you can use
the 2 Seraph’s to open the door. Collect
7x Grenades and a First Aid Kit.
Climb over the bales of hay to the other end of the room to get
Secret #7,
the Grenade gun and another
First Aid Kit plus
3 more Grenades. Get out; go up to
the upper floor of the building and through the door S to the bridge in the Main
Hall. Go to the N end of the ledge and use the Buddha statuette.
Two routes join again.
Go in and to
the right (stay away from the left wall and the trapdoors for now) Shoot the
Crystal on the hand and grab the
Cintamani Stone from the pedestal and shoot the yeti. Then go to the
trapdoors, hop over them if they aren’t open yet.
Use the ladder
or carefully safety drop down on a slope and drop further down, go to the gate
that will open for you and shoot 5 more Yetis.
Placing the Stone.
Go to the
bridge (E) and down one of the ladders, into the shortcut door W you opened a
while back and straight to place the Cintamani Stone. The trapdoor opens up;
just drop in and swim up W to climb out. Wraiths show up, most of them will die
under water, but some survive. Get to a green wall SE, grab up to the crack,
ledge jump up and back jump to a floor.
Bardo Thödol Books.
Two Hammer
Guys running around there; avoid them and loop left around onto a protruding
ledge to run jump into the building E, to the left and on a small table is a
Holy Scripture and the Wraiths will be drawn into that. When you survived all
that, jump back to the battle floor, deal with the Hammer Guys and get the
Bardo Thödol Books they dropped.
Drop into the pool below, get out W and place them behind the structure W. Go
into the structure and where the block lowered is a
Prayer Wheel. Take that up the green
wall SE, hop onto the higher floor E and use the Prayer Wheel on the left (S)
receptacle.
The Soul Gem.