DREAM QUEST (DEMO)

Level by Scourge05

Walkthrough by Treeble

Lara lands in front of a house in the desert and two scorpions scuttle towards you. Inside the house, on the ground floor, you can ignore the first two rooms as well as the crates as they are all empty (the closed gate is a way back). Move forward to what looks like a kitchen niche and gun down the guard to loot his body for flares.

Head upstairs. The first thing you'll notice is a door, locked by two keys, in front of another closed door. For now, head towards the left from the stairway for some more flares in a small office and then locate the bathroom on this floor. There's a huge hole in the back of the bath, so swim through and emerge on a cave-like setting in the backyard.

Go East and crawl through the opening for SECRET #1: the SHOTGUN and some ammo. Crawl back out and proceed to the opposite corner to find a hole protected by two wall mounted blades. It might be a good idea to save your game before traps such as these as they can kill you with a single swing—even at full health. The tunnel right below them combines a rolling boulder, a giant cigar cutter, and another wall-mounted blade into a single string.

The easy way to clear this is to drop the boulder first. From the flat tile before the slope, position yourself near the center at an angle from which you can touch the second tile down the slope with a roll, then immediately roll back to your original position. You should narrowly escape the boulder and, as such, have all the time in the world to deal with the cigar cutter.

Drop into the pool below and locate the cleverly hidden underwater lever on the South wall, just above the pit where the boulder can't seem to stand still. This opens one of the doors in the house, so swim through the tunnels on the opposite end to wind up back where the the empty crates were. Backup has arrived, so deal with the two guards before going for the open door upstairs.

Pull up into the opening above the crates and crawl to a room with a swinging crate. Kill the guard and collect the medipack hidden in the corner behind the crates, then shoot the barricade and crawl to the next area. This acts like a small hub for the fetch quests for the two keys we are looking for.

Go straight North, past the statues, and drop into the water pit below. Swim through the tunnel, negotiating an underwater cigar cutter along the way, only to be faced with another three protected tunnels. Your oxygen meter is still draining so time is of the essence. Quickly swim into both left and right openings to throw an underwater lever in each. These will open a gate in the middle opening, where you'll find a much needed air pocket. Throw another lever and swim around the bend to find the first ROOM KEY.

Climb out of the water through the open trapdoor and you're back at the hub. Run West, right across from your position, into another cave-like area. Go towards the red-tinted entrance for a trap sequence. Save your game and jump to the corner of the floor beneath the wall-mounted blade (landing on the very spot it can't reach), then safely clear the spike gap ahead.

Slide to an underground storage and enter the passage with the red hues to find a pitch black pit. Use the floating platform in the center to reach the alcove on the opposite side and flip the switch. Wait until you hear a door opening and backtrack to the storage room; the door you just opened is inside the crawlspace to the side.

Wade past the shallow water pit and just around the bend you'll hear a door opening. On this corner, close to the ladder, lies the second ROOM KEY. Climb the ladder up to return to the hub and run straight towards the chute on the SE corner to slide into the backyard of the house.

With both keys in your possession, it's time to finally open that door upstairs. Inside the fireplace room, kill the lonesome guard and flip the switch near the windows. Wait a second until the camera clue kicks in, then head downstairs and run along the grated windows to the newly opened bathroom. Don't rush in blindly, however, as part of the ceiling will collapse as you step on the checkered floor tiles. Once you're in the clear, drop into the hole in the back to finish the level.