THE HIDDEN GARDEN SERIES
Levels by Jon Heywood
(Inchdix)
Walkthrough by Phil
Lambeth
Note: It has been
nearly four years since the Hidden Garden series was completed, and there have
been no levels released by this talented builder since then. My main purpose in
writing a detailed walkthrough for these levels at this late date (to
complement the very helpful outlines provided by Monika) is to revive interest
in the series and hopefully to entice Inchdix out of retirement.
Also, the levels are
interlocking as are the levels in Celtic Folly, and they're intended to
be played as a unit, so please note that all five levels in the series must be installed
in order for you to play.
LEVEL 1: THE
HIDDEN GARDEN
The level begins with a
lingering flyby through a jungle clearing and into a building, when Lara
suddenly comes sliding down a slope toward the sunlight where she's met by a
friendly monkey. Step forward and slide down into the clearing. Explore the
outside area a bit before moving on. First go to your right and locate the small medi-pack on the near side of the irregular
mound, then continue south and note the closed door and large metal gate in the
entrance between the pillars to your left. This and other metal gates you'll
see here serve as portals to the other levels in the series. As you make a
clockwise circuit you'll see a square hole in the ground that's blocked by a
trap door. At the south end of the clearing is a deep pit with a large
structure built into the far wall. You could go down and explore further, but
there's nothing to do there at present (and also no apparent way of getting
back up), so continue around the clearing past a couple of trees and a small
pool.
There's another square
hole in the mound on this side, also blocked by a trap door. To the north (near
the west edge of the clearing) is a smaller building with an entrance on the
east side. Enter and go down the ramp until you reach some steps with a blocked
alcove on your left. Here you'll trigger a flyby that takes you through a
lava-filled area below and stops at a trident on a pedestal that's obviously
your next goal. Continue down the stairs and wind around to your right. Walk,
don't run, to the edge and take a running jump across the gap. Hop back to grab
the edge, shimmy to your right as far as you can, safety drop to the sloped
rock in the lava below and back flip to a stable ledge. Turn around to face
east, then shoot the bat that has
probably been alerted by this time.
There's an opening SE
you could breach with a running jump. However, this was not intended by the
builder and will result in your becoming stuck with no way out. Instead, stand
on the highest point of the ridge running along the ledge you're standing on,
face slightly left of due east and take a standing jump into another opening
that's very difficult to see even with a lit torch. Turn to your left and pull
down the wall switch to open a door in the south wall outside. Go back to the
opening, put your back against the east wall and take a standing jump through
the opening and slide down to the ledge. Standing on the ridge, face slightly
left of due west and take a running jump to the sloped rock in the center of
the lava. Slide a short distance down the other side and jump off onto a ledge
along the west wall. Shoot the bat, then
turn left and walk out to the SE tip. Take a running jump SE to a ledge along
the south wall and step into the doorway you just opened.
Turn to your left and
crawl until you reach another wall switch. Pull it down to open the door to
your left. Enter, squeeze past the rubble, turn right and run up the stairs
toward the pedestal in the next room and take the TRIDENT
from it. Look in the SW corner for a small
medi-pack, the SE corner for some flares,
and the NE corner for some crossbow arrows.
When you've collected everything, exit this room and use the crawl space to
return to the south doorway. When you can stand up, turn left and go to the
wall. Jump up, grab it and climb four rungs. Back flip into the passage behind
you, turn around and run up the ramp past the open doorway (which must have
lifted when you picked up the trident).
Hop down to the floor
below, note the closed gate ahead, turn to your right and take a running jump
and grab across the gap. Pull up, run forward up the stairs (the door in the
alcove is still closed) and ramp and return to the bright outdoors. Make a
hairpin turn to the left and locate the passage in the dark NW corner. Follow
the passage down some steps until you reach an opening overhead. Turn around
and find the ladder, jump up to grab it and climb to the top of the shaft.
Don't pull up, but back flip from the top into an upper passage for SECRET #1. Turn around, vault up onto the block
and pick up the crossbow arrows, the flares and a
large medi-pack. Turn and jump back to the ladder.
Climb down and drop to
the passage below. Hop back twice to release a spike ball above you, then
sprint forward up the ramp as the spike ball tumbles down harmlessly. Turn
around and walk carefully down the ramp, as you get a fixed camera when you
near the edge. Take a running jump across the fire trap and climb the ladder to
your left. Pull up and run up the winding ramp into a new room. Note: I
experienced a strange phenomenon here where the lights went out as I was
climbing up the ladder. Lighting a flare does nothing to help. The only way to
see what you're doing is to hit the look key, but the problem is that you can't
walk or run and use the look key at the same time. If this happens to you, go
past one of the spike traps as described below, exit through the east doorway,
slide down the slope and pick up the flares
at the bottom for your trouble, hop down into the spike ball passage and repeat
your jump to the ladder. Going up the second time, I experienced normal
lighting.
As you step into the
room the far door in the east wall opens. If you step onto the depressed square
in the center of the room the door slams shuts, so pick up the shotgun ammo and go back to the west entrance to
re-open the door by stepping on the trigger. Pick up the flares in the NW corner, then time an easy run
past one of the spike traps in the far corners of the room. Pick up the small medi-pack in the SE corner and exit through
the east doorway. Jump over the slope (unless you didn't experience the
"darkness" bug and want to go down for those flares) and continue
along the passage until you reach a ledge overlooking the outside clearing.
Turn right and head west
along the ledge, and you can see the flares
on a limb to your left. Take a running jump there and claim your prize. Turn to
face the trunk of the tree and take a standing jump to the next limb ahead and
to your right. Walk out to the higher part of this limb near the end and take a
running jump east to the right-hand side of the roof. Grab, pull up and turn to
your left. Enter the opening and pull down the wall switch to open a door below
you saw earlier. Reverse roll, run to the south end of the roof and safety drop
to the ground. Have fun dealing with the welcoming ahmet,
using the only weapons at your disposal--your pistols.
When it's dead, go
between the massive pillars in the east structure and find that the door to
your left is now open. Run up the ramp into a room with a fountain and a closed
door in the east wall. You can see the second trident beyond the grate in the
north wall. Jump into the water and pull the underwater lever in the east wall
to open the door above. Pull out of the water and go up the stairs. Don't turn
right at the junction, or you'll slide down into a fire trap. Turn left instead
and approach the trident, which is now protected by a flame blower. Wait for
the flames to subside, run forward and grab the second TRIDENT, and hop back quickly before the flames
return.
Return to the fountain
room and go back outside. Now it's time to explore that area to the south. Walk
past the tree on the left side and you'll stumble down a fairly steep slope.
There's a wooden walkway down below, so hop down to it and follow it around to
the end. Hop back and grab the edge, and shimmy to your right. You'll discover
to your amazement that you can shimmy along an invisible triangle. Continue
until you're over the top of the steps, then release and sustain minimal damage
upon landing. Turn around and run toward the west end, noting the closed door
on your right. Run up the ramp into another fountain room and pick up the small
medi-pack just inside the entrance to your right. Jump into the water and swim
into the east opening for some revolver ammo.
Surface, pull out of the water and exit this room. The path to your left is
blocked by rubble, so go back to the outside area.
Locate the hanging vines
to your right, next to the steps. They obscure a passage, so go inside and pull
down the wall switch. This opens the door to the north that you saw earlier, so
reverse roll, go back outside and cross over to the open doorway. Follow the
passage up to a couple of closed doors. Turn around and activate the jump
switch high up on the wall in the SW corner to open the doors. Enter a larger
room with a shallow central pool and fountain. Turn left and go up the steps.
There's a hole in the ceiling with another jump switch. Activating it opens a
door in the north wall in the larger room. Go there and find openings to three
side rooms.
Enter the east room and
shoot the two wooden boxes for crossbow arrows
and the TORCH. In the north room is a
box containing a small medi-pack.
There's also a face tile to push (which lights a burner in the anteroom) before
proceeding to the west room for some more crossbow
arrows in one of the wooden boxes. Go back to the east room,
retrieve the torch and light it on the burner. Go out to the main room and
light the burners on either side of the closed east door. When the door opens,
go inside blue]for SECRET #2 and take
the CROSSBOW from the central pedestal.
One of the vases in the corner contains more crossbow
arrows for your arsenal. (The sconces in here won't light up, so
don't bother trying.)
Go back up the stairs to
the west. Use the ladder to climb up the shaft. When you pull up and step
forward the exit door opens obligingly, and it also shuts abruptly behind you.
You're in the alcove that you saw very early in the level, so hop down to the
stairs, turn right and exit the building. Make a hairpin turn to the left,
enter the dark passage in the NW corner and follow the same route as earlier,
along the spike ball passage, up the ladder and the ramp to the spike trapped
room, and out to the ledge overlooking the clearing. This time, follow the
ledge all the way west, taking standing jumps over slopes where necessary,
until you reach the west wall. Step back a bit, face SW and take a standing
jump to the ledge around the corner. Run around the next corner to the next
short ledge and face south. Take a running jump to the roof of the small temple
and run to the other side. Take a standing jump to the nearest limb and locate
the shotgun ammo on an adjacent branch.
Take a running jump to
the nearest branch of the next tree SE, turn right and walk to the trunk. Stand
on the ridge at the highest point, turn left to face due south and jump up to
grab the higher limb above. Pull up, turn around, jump over to the next tree NW
and pick up the revolver ammo. Return to
the previous tree south and continue with a running jump to the next tree
south. Turn left, take standing jumps to get around the trunk to the east
branch, and walk out to the SE corner. Facing SE, take a running jump to the
slope in the cliff face, slide down and grab the edge. Release to drop down
onto a stable ledge. Turn to your right and jump down to the ledge SE. Take a
standing jump across the gap and run onto the roof of the structure. Pause to
pick up the shotgun ammo on the other
side, then walk over to the highest part of the west edge facing the crack in
the south wall. Take a standing jump and grab, and shimmy right along the crack
and around the corner. Release and drop down into the alcove.
Turn to face NW and take
a standing jump to the ledge around the corner. Take a standing jump forward to
the next ledge, and you find yourself tantalizingly close to the temple
entrance. Face SW and take a standing jump down to a ledge in front of a crawl
space. Crawl through, stand up and face NW. Save your game here, because the
next jump is a little tricky. Make sure you have enough head room and take a
standing jump around the corner to the next ledge. One more standing jump will
bring you to the temple entrance. Go inside and go over to the south wall.
Crawl under the grated flooring, then run along the trench and pick up the large medi-pack. Turn around and go back out.
Locate the Poseidon statues near the south wall. Affix the tridents and watch
the flyby as the area is flooded and the large gates open in the area below
(this is the portal to the next level in the series, so don't go there until
you've finished here). At the end of the flyby you hear the sound of the nearby
doors opening in the north and east walls, releasing two ahmets.
Try to kill the ahmets
from your relatively safe perch. (One may be hiding while you're gleefully
shooting the other; if so, go down and flush it out.) When the coast is clear,
go down and enter their lairs for a small medi-pack
and some crossbow arrows. Leave the
temple via the large east entrance and dive into the water below. Swim to your
left and enter the doorway you opened with the wall switch earlier. Follow the
passage into a room you visited earlier. Swim to the roof of the central
structure and pick up the large medi-pack and
shotgun ammo, then use the air pocket above. When you've caught your
breath, you'll have plenty of time to locate the hole high up in the south
wall. Swim along the narrow passage until you reach a well-lit room where
you'll find the first HORSEMAN'S GEM on
the other side of the central pillar. Use the air hole here if you need to,
then swim back out after picking up the flares.
Exit the larger room through the SW doorway and swim back to the outside area.
Surface for air and then
swim through the ivy-covered south opening. Turn left past the switch and
follow the passage up until you emerge on dry land. Pull up into the crawl
space on your left and follow the passage when you can stand up. The
inaccessible opening to your right when you reach a bend in the passage is what
you'll use to make the return trip. You'll next pass a hole on your left, where
you'll find a wall switch. If you were to go down and throw the switch, you'd
see a cut scene of an underwater door closing that you've previously opened.
The builder explains that the only purpose for this switch is to enable you to
open this door if for some reason you didn't to so before the area was flooded.
So leave this switch alone and continue around the bend. You'll soon come to an
opening overlooking a deep lava room.
Step forward to attract
some bats, then hop back into the passage
while drawing your pistols so you can kill them in more confined quarters. Then
step forward to the edge, facing slightly left toward the sloped pillar ahead.
Take a running jump and grab the edge of the slope, pull up and slide a short
distance down the other side, jump off and grab the pillar ahead. Shift to the
right and around the corner, then climb up until Lara's hands are just below
the crack. Take a rolling back flip and grab the edge as you slide down,
release and grab the lower ledge. Climb down one rung so that Lara's feet get "set"
in midair, then shift right and around the corner. Continue to the other end of
the wide pillar, then climb up and pull up onto the ledge. More bats appear.
Walk out to the NW
corner of the ledge and face slightly left of due north. Take a running jump to
the next pillar, then turn left and take a running jump west. Run into the room
and turn left to go to the SE corner. Pick up the TORCH
and approach the flaming pedestal in the center of the room. Don't step on the
square on which the pedestal rests, or you'll be set aflame. Light the torch
and go to the back of the room to light the two burners on either side of the
pillar. Drop the torch and take a standing jump from the stairs to the east
pillar in the lava room. Turn to face SE and take a running jump to the ledge.
Walk forward to the south edge, angle slightly to the right and take a running
jump toward the south wall, curving to the right so that Lara will land on the
slope and slide down backwards. Grab the edge and release to land on a ledge at
the lava's surface.
Turn around and take a
running jump and grab over the lava to a block. Pull up, turn to your right and
enter the doorway that was opened when you lit the two burners. Hop down onto
the corner ledge and turn to your right. Save your game here. Standing slightly
right of center, place Lara's back against the wall and take a running jump to
the sloped rock ahead. Keep the jump key depressed so that Lara jumps off
without sliding and grabs the ceiling. Monkey swing to the ledge in the far corner,
release and pick up the LASER SIGHT for SECRET #3. Turn around, jump up and grab the
ceiling, monkey swing just past the apex of the sloped rock (18 swings is just
about right) and release to jump off the slope to the ledge in the SE corner.
Turn to your left, pull
up onto the block and take a running jump slightly left of due north to a ledge
in the lava beyond the cracked pillar. From there take a running jump NW and
pull up into the north alcove to locate a wall switch. Pull it down to extinguish
the flames around the gem pedestal. Turn around and jump to the sloped pillar
south. Take a running jump and grab the wide pillar ahead. Shift to your right,
climb up and pull up onto the ledge. Turn around and take a running jump NW to
the next pillar. Turn left and jump into the room with the pedestal. Take the
second HORSEMAN'S GEM and jump back to
the pillar. Turn left and take a running jump and grab to the opening in the
north wall. Pull up, follow the passage and slide down into a familiar place.
Turn left and use the
crawl space to return to the partially flooded passage. Swim back to the
flooded open area and get some air if necessary, then swim through the west
doorway and turn right just before the fountain room. The passage that was
formerly blocked by rubble is now accessible, so swim inside, surface and run
up the long winding ramp. You'll come to a closed door with a gem receptacle on
each side. Insert both of the Horseman's Gems to open the door to a small room
with five wall switches. Go ahead and throw them all. Going from right to left,
the first two give you no clue as to what you've done. The middle switch opens
a portal gate elsewhere, the fourth switch opens a nearby metal gate to give
you a shortcut out of here, and the final switch opens another portal game.
If you wish, you can
drop down through the hole in the floor and check out the room to the north,
where you'll need to find and bring back here four Golden Vraeus artifacts.
You'll spend the next four levels collecting these, so go back to the main
room, use the ladder in the south face to climb back up to the room with the
switches, and exit through the room with the Poseidon statues. Dive into the
water outside, swim forward and enter the underwater portal gate south. Turn left,
swim through the opening and follow the passage until you run into the warp
trigger that takes you to the next level.
by
Jon Heywood/Inchdix
This is an unauthorised walkthrough by Monika Pietsch.
It has all the important pick-ups and items mentioned.
It will not contain all pick-ups, all enemies and maybe not all the secrets.
This walkthrough is meant as a guideline to get you to the end of the level,
even so there might be other ways too.
Walkthrough
You are in a garden with trees and monkeys. Collect a small medi-pack.
Enter the building on the west side. Drop down into the lava room.
First find a switch to open a door. Go there and use the other switch. Then go
over to the room with the pedestal and take the 1. Trident.
When you are back in the place with the trees go to the left side. In the
corner is a corridor. There is a Spiky Boulder Trap. Go up. There is an open
door. It closes, when you step into the middle.
Pick up the blue Shotgun-Ammo, go back and now walk along the side, pass the
Spike Trap. The slope takes you back in to the corridor before the Spikes Trap.
Jump over it and go to the outside and jump to the tree on the left, take the
flares and to the left to the white building.
Pull the switch. This opens the golden door underneath. When you get down there
is an Ahmet waiting. Go in and pull the switch in the fountain. This opens a
door. Behind the door on a pedestal is the 2. Trident. Watch it, the Trident is
guarded by emitting fire.
Go outside and to the left side where there is another area down below. Go
down. You can go to the west side and get some Shotgun-Ammo out of the
fountain. Rocks block the entrance into the building.
Now you go to the south side and enter an opening. Pull the switch. This will
open the door opposite. Enter that door. Pull a switch and this will open the
door to a room with a fountain. Use a high up switch. This opens a metal door.
Go in and shoot the wooden boxes. Push a button switch in the middle room to
light a burner. In the right one you find a Torch. Use it on the two burners
outside the other metal door.
The door will open. Inside you find the Crossbow and a Secret.
Go to the corridor on the left. Climb up and leave. You come out in the
building where you went down into the lava room. Go up the corridor on the
right. Make your way to the roof of the white temple. Jump to the tree ahead.
Collect some ammo.
1. Choice: jump over to the left tree and jump and grab a branch to go
up higher. Jump to the next tree and from there to the nearest branch in front
of the brown wall. Take a running jump to grab a slope. Make your way along the
cliff and over a tree and so on till you reach the room with the 2 Neptune.
2. Choice: climb up one branch higher. Collect blue Shotgun-Ammo. Make
your way to an opening in the wall. Jump over. Then comes a tricky jump towards
a column.
A long running jump (hop back 3 times) will do it, but be prepared to try
several times.
When you have made it, enter the room. Go and get for a large medi-pack
and red Shotgun-Ammo. Then use the 2 Tridents. Two doors will open and 2 Ahmets
will appear. Kill them. Go into their rooms and collect things.
The 2 Tridents made the waterfall start and now the place down is filled
with water.
Dive and go to the left. Get the large medi-pack and red Shotgun Ammo. Look for
the air hole. Get up and out and take the 1.Horseman’s Gem. Swim out of this
place and go the other side. You come to a lava room. Make your way to the
pedestal with the
2. Horseman’s Gem. Start towards the blue sloped block. At the pedestal room
take the Torch and light the 2 burners. This opens a door down on the left of
the room. Get down and you find the Lasersight there. Use a monkey bar to swing
over.
Then make your way over to the switch and pull it. This will stop the fire
around the 2.Horseman’s Gem.
Climb up again and take the 2.Horseman’s Gem.
Jump to the left and leave this area. When you come to the open area swim to
the door with the fountain. Now you can get pass the rocks. Walk up and you are
at a place where you use the 2 Horseman’s Gem. This opens a door with 5
switches behind it.
Pull them. 3 doors open One is the exit and others, which you can’t use just
now (one is the entrance to “Firewalk” inside the white temple and one is the
entrance to “Obsidian Heights” up a slope on the right side of the pool).
Dive into the water and swim just forward and you will enter the 2.level
“Emerald Lake”.