The Real St. Francis' Folly

Level by Robert Bowman (July, 2001)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie


You start standing in a small room with your back to a wall. Go east and shoot the vases in the corners for two small medipacks. Go through the tunnel in the east wall and enter a large room with a central structure. There are closed gates in the south and east walls. Go north and enter the open tunnel. The room at the end of the tunnel has a deadly floor. Use the columns to get to the floor lever at the west wall. Use the floor lever and use the columns to get back to the tunnel. Go back to the central room and go to the south wall.

Enter the open gate and dive into the water. Ignore the closed gate and swim to the bottom. Go through the south underwater tunnel. Pull up into a room and use the floor lever. Swim back and go through the now open gate and into a short underwater tunnel. Pull up onto a ledge. Climb the blocks and enter a tunnel. At the end, drop through a hole and onto a platform. Use the floor lever and safety drop to the floor. Go east through the open gate and enter the tunnel. You emerge into a room with a deep pit and many ledges. Notice the crosshatched walkway on the high ceiling.

Jump to the middle platform. Go to the south edge and drop down to catch a crevice. Shimmy to the right and onto a lower platform. Jump to a lower ledge at the east wall. The other three ledges in the other directions lead to a slope and into a fire pit. Slide down the east slope and jump to grab the back wall. Climb up into a small room with a hole in the floor. Drop into the hole and slide down a slope. Slide down another slope and jump with a left curve to stay against the left wall. At the end, jump with a left curve and onto a ledge to avoid the deadly floor at the bottom of the slope. Climb all the blocks to the very top tunnel.

Slide down a slope and jump onto a column. Run, jump, and grab a south platform. Then another run, jump, and grab to a west platform. Run off the south edge and onto a slope. Jump to a slope, jump to a slope, and then a final jump to a platform. Follow the platform and saftey drop off the north edge and drop into water. Pull up and jump to a south column. Climb down the east side to get to the floor. I did not find a way to get onto the platform with the sarcophagus. Go to the south-west and climb the darker wall section. Pull up into a tunnel and go south. Follow the tunnel and enter a room with blocks and columns.

Climb the nearest blocks and reach a high column. Run and jump to a west column. Run and jump to the west wall and grab a crevice. Shimmy to the right and pull up into an alcove. Jump to the three columns to the east and then to a south column. Turn around and jump to a north ledge. Then jump to a south ledge and follow the columns to the east until you reach a bridge. Stand in the middle of the column and stand jump to the south. Use grab and you should grab the column below the bridge and not the bridge itself. Monkey swing to the opening at the east wall. An easier route is to go over the bridge to the west end. Drop off the side, release, and grab the block below to pull up into the opening.

Enter the opening and go up four ramps and into a crawl space. Light a flare and follow the next tunnel to the end. Watch out for a deadly hole just near the end of the tunnel. Climb the blocks and enter another tunnel. Follow the ramps down and you start to slide down a slope. At the end, jump with grab to glide into another tunnel. You are in the walkway over the first pit room. If you miss the tunnel, you fall to your death. Follow the tunnel over the walkway to the end. Slide down a slope and into another tunnel. Just keep going down slopes and following tunnels to another room with a deep pit and platforms.

Run and jump north to land on the first platform. Jump west to a lower platform. Then follow the platforms to the north wall. Run and jump to the north-west and onto the second slope so that you slide down the second slope backwards. At the end, pull up, back flip, roll and grab a bridge. Do not pull up but shimmy to the left. At the third tile from the end, pull up, back flip, roll, and grab a platform. Jump north to a platform with a hole in the middle. Safety drop into the hole and land in a hole filled with water. Get out and go to the opening in the north wall.

Slide down a long slope and enter a long room. Go to the east end of the room and use the floor lever. A gate opens in the north wall at the top of the slope. Return to the entrance of the room and climb up into an opening in the south wall. Angle a jump to the south-east and grab to pull up onto another block. Keep jumping the blocks to the east and over the fire pits. Get into a north opening and monkey swing over the north-west corner of the room. Go to the north wall and release to drop onto a flat tile. Jump to the flat tiles and columns towards the east to get to the open north-east gate. Follow the tunnel to overlook another large deep room with ledges.

There is a closed door and a receptacle to the south. There is a closed gate to the east. There is a crawl space to the north. There are blocks to the south of the entrance. Go down the blocks to the ground floor. Kill eight ninjas and go to the north wall. Use the floor lever and the gate in the east wall opens. Climb the blocks back to the entrance and go east. Jump the ledges, and use grab to glide into the east tunnel. Follow the tunnel and push the statue to the end. The south tunnel seems to be a dead-end. Take the north tunnel and find another statue. Push it to the end of the tunnel and jump the corner into an east tunnel. Push two more statues and reach a T-junction with a slope to the right. Enter the junction and then jump back to avoid a rolling spike ball. Then enter the junction and go left to pick up Ba Cartouche #1.

Return to the room with the ledges and see that it is half flooded. Dive into the water and swim to the east wall. Look for some underwater columns at the wall and dive into the hole between them. Follow the tunnel to surface into a room with four vases. Shoot the four vases and return to the room. Now the room is completely flooded. Swim to the hole in the middle of the ceiling for air. Do not pull up but swim down to the north wall and into the crawl space. Swim to the end and pick up Ba Cartouche #2. Swim back out into the flooded room. If the room is only half flooded, Lara always stands up on the column and you cannot get into the crawl space.

Swim out of the crawl space and back to the hole in the ceiling. Pull up into a tunnel and go to the end for Ba Cartouche #3. You will need a flare to find it. Run back out and drop into the flooded room. Now the room is only half flooded again.

Swim to the south wall and use the first Ba Cartouche to open the first door. Enter and use the second Ba Cartouche to open the second door. Enter and use the third Ba Cartouche to open the third door. Run to the sarcophagus and the level ends.

04-sep-2006