LARA'S OBSESSION I: THE RED SNOW PALACE
Level by Alessandro
Abrahao
Walkthrough by Cher
Thanks to rjb for
providing hints as to the location of three additional secrets, contained in
parenthetical phrases inserted in Cher's text.
Start by picking up a
Small Medi, the Revolver, Flares, a Large Medi and some Revolver Ammo.
Make your way to the
ice ledges across the chasm North, when you get as far as the brown pillars on
the Right, Lara must jump up and onto the ledge to her left to continue down,
and curved jump Left onto the block that is too far. Continue into the
building.
Stop and pick up
another Small Medi, a Ninja fires on you, he drops some Revolver Ammo after
you’ve killed him. Climb the wall in the North East corner and make your way to
the floor lever, shooting another Ninja on the way. The camera shows a cut
scene of a lit torch on the face of the cliff overlooking the chasm and a door
opening. Before going back, go up the ladder where the Ninja was and pick up
the Uzis.
At the entrance, use
the slope to hang from and backflip across the chasm where you began. Hop back
across to the ice ledges again, the dark rocks are climbable, go down to stand
on the ledge below. Jump across to grab the brown pillar (explore this area
carefully for a secret), and then again to jump/grab the opening. In the back
right corner of the room, enter a passage, ahead is a hole to slide down, light
a flare and be ready to shoot a couple of scorpions. There are some Flares and
a Small Medi to grab, another scorpions scuttles out. In the South West corner
is a space to crawl into (look carefully for the nearby secret), and then, a
rocky cavern to climb into. Work your way up the rocky path, at the top, to the
Right crawl through into another cavern. Make your way downwards to the water
and as you wade through, into another area, 2 guards shoot from above. Make
your way upwards on the icy blocks and climb the ladder, midway up, backflip
onto a ledge and climb another ladder to the top.
Drop down into the
hole and you are back where you slid down to the scorpion area. This time jump
over the hole where you slid and follow the passage to the outside, a Ninja is
patrolling, shoot him and continue to find a set of doors. Jump onto the icy
block in the corner to pick up a Small Medi, the door will open.
There are 2 more
Ninjas waiting inside, when you’ve shot them, one drops some Uzi Clips, the
other a Shotgun Mount the stairs and go inside, look waaaayyy up, see the
ropes? Go to the right and pull the statue away from the opening, crawl through
for a Secret, 2 boxes of Shotgun Normal Ammo. As you pick up the Ammo, a Ninja
fires, kill him and grab the Shotgun he drops, go back to the main room. Go to
the left and pull the statue away from an opening, crawl through. Climb the
blocks to get to a ledge and then a ladder, part way up backflip onto a ledge.
Jump over the slope to grab the rope, turn Lara towards an opening, 2 scorpions
are waiting. Inside, work your way downwards and you end up above the big room
with the ropes.
Run/jump to catch the
1st rope, turn left and swing to the 2nd rope, turn right, swing to the 3rd
rope and into the opening ahead. Follow the passage downward to a very long
slide into an enormous pool. Notice the monkey swing on the ceiling high above
you. There are 4 doors leading out of the pool, head to the East door first,
climb down, as you approach the door, it opens, push the floor lever. Next the
West door to push the lever there. The North door next and last, the South, the
underwater door opens.
Swim into the opening
and into another room, swim around to the extreme Right corner and you can get
out of the water to see a closed door with scorpions behind. Swim back, and
Right again to another opening. Get out of the water into a dimly lit room,
there are 2 Ninjas here. After killing them, pick up some Flares, Shotgun
Normal Ammo and the Uzis. Another scorpion attacks also. Swim back out and
right again, and into one last opening. Swim around a closed gate, and straight
back into another passage bringing you to a huge water filled room where you
see 2 boulders suspended from the ceiling. Pull into an opening on the left and
walk into the door, the camera shows you some tiles on the ceiling, step on the
corresponding floor tiles to open the door and push the lever.
Swim back to the very
first opening where the door was closed and scorpions were scuttling about,
that door is now open, get ready, for this is a nest of scorpions. When you’ve
killed them all, push the floor lever. The camera shows you the boulders in the
water area, falling, you hear a door opening. Climb up the ladder on the West
wall, in this room, kill a Ninja, he drops a Large Medi, continue to end up
overlooking the room where the boulders fell.
Jump onto the slope in the now dry room, walk down and push the floor
lever in the corner to open the doors. Outside once again, slide and hang from
the slope to the Right and shimmy left until you can safely stand. Work your
way all the way back to stand on a ledge on the back wall (look around
carefully for a secret). Jump to grab a shimmy crack in a brown column, shimmy
Right to stand in a doorway.
A Ninja is waiting for you, shoot him and continue up some steps to push
a lever, enter the doorway and you are at the top of the huge pool with the
monkey swings on the ceiling. Have a good look at where they lead, some are
dead ends that will drop Lara back into the water. This may be a good
time to Save your game. Head around to the Right to stand opposite where you
started, go into the opening and face a slope. This is a boulder trap, the
boulder falls and starts rolling as you approach the doorway so be ready to
move quickly. Sprint towards the slope, sliding down and jumping left or right
as you get to the bottom, it appears as though it’s dangerous but the landing
is safe. Watch the cut scene, notice the eyepiece surrounded by fire, go to the
rear of the room, between 2 blocks there is a water hole.
Swim through and
emerge in another room, push the floor lever, creating some sort of earthquake
and opening a door, climb the ladder, backflipping onto a ledge near the top,
go through the door. Following the passage to slide back down into the room
with the Eyepiece, it’s safe now to pick it up. Go through the door opposite,
climbing up the icy hill to go outside again. Hop onto the brown block and the
run to grab the ladder. In the room at the top, a Ninja fires on Lara, kill him
and pick up the Shotgun Normal Ammo he drops. Kill another Ninja and collect
his Shotgun Normal Ammo also. Climb the shortest block and the jump to grab a
slope slide/jump to the flat block ahead, jump onto the ledge ahead, kill a
Ninja and grab his Revolver Ammo shooting another in the process. Climb yet
another block and grab the slope once again to slide and grab the ledge ahead,
shimmy Right or Left and stand to face another Ninja. Back to the Left is a
crawlspace to grab and go through, at the end, climb up and there’s a tricky
little jump grab to the left to reach a ledge with one more Ninja waiting. Grab
the Large Medi he drops and continue climbing upwards, out of this cavern. Jump
into the opening, notice the tire tracks? Slide down to the waiting jeep where
you begin to presumably drive off with half an eyepiece.