Aspidetr Easter
Time 2011 - The Rainbow Eggs
Level by Ranpyon (a.k.a. Kya)
Walkthrough by manarch2
After the beautiful starting cutscene, in which you
can see the location of the Lasersight, Lara finds herself
in front of a waterfall. Head NW through the garden, noticing a broken tree
that requires an item, and jump into the water. Swim into the cave and pick up
the Lasersight you might have seen earlier. Now turn
and swim out, then NE and climb up the left of the two ledges with a column on
it. Turn NW and jump over the water to the ledge,
search the floor for an Ornate Key. Jump back to the column ledge and from
there to the NE ledge, left of the mansion. Climb the ladder here and use the jumpswitch to open a door elsewhere. After
dropping down dive into the water and swim around the mansion in a
counter-clockwise direction until you can climb up. Follow the meadow
until you find an opening with some plants jutting out to hide it. Run up the
stairs and first jump into the right pool to get some Revolver Ammo on the
floor, then climb out and follow the N passage, picking up some Flares. Now you
can find the door you have just opened and get into the kitchen. Lara will look
at the table, so climb on it and pick up, then read the message:
“Hi Lara, welcome! I’m not at home right now, I
went out to buy all the necessary for the barbeque. But I can’t find the keys
for your apartment, they must have fallen on a
balcony. Search for them, and make yourself at home! Amy”
Now that you know what to do, you have to explore the mansion to find the keys.
There are three closed doors in this kitchen. First, open the SW door by using
the button beside it, then enter the bedroom. Climb on
the windowsill and get another message:
“I have to change the pool lights, they don’t work anymore.”
Get back into the kitchen and this time open the opposite (N) door with the
nearby button. You will now have access to the bathroom. Jump into the little
pool and pick up the Winding Key, then get out again. Now open the W door with
the Ornate Key and get into the next room. Pick up the Diary and read the
information about the seven Rainbow Eggs in it that together give a wonderful
treasure. After picking it up the door in this room opens that lets you have
access to a balcony. If you want you can turn on some music by pushing the
button. On the balcony pick up the Small Medikit
(apple), but leave the Torches alone first. Jump up to grab a monkeyswing in the SE corner, follow it to another balcony.
Pick up the Green Key and get back to the first balcony. Now take one Torch
with you and head back inside, then to the kitchen and outside again. Go right
and light the Torch on the grill, then throw it away first. Now go further and
head right down the stairs, then again right and use the Green Key to open the
nearby door. Get in, the door closes behind you. Go right into the shower to
get another Small Medikit. Now head to the very end
of the corridor and get into another bedroom. Get on the opposite windowsill
and grab the Mechanical Turtle, which you can combine with the Winding Key. Now
go left of the bed and open the drawer of the furniture to get the Revolver,
which you can combine, too, with the Lasersight.
Now get back into the corridor and open the only left door with the nearby
button. You reach the library; a diary entry will mention you have to explore
it very thoroughly. First go right and pick up some Flares, then get to the NE
corner and climb up the shelves, then crawl into the hole and get down to pick
up Revolver Ammo. After getting out of the hole crawl
further S and notice a wall texture slightly different from the others (little
sign on it), shatter it and get into the dark chamber behind. There are three
blocks that are darker than the others; the one in the right hand corner you
don’t need, but the one near to it so push it in the gap in the row of blocks
on the E side. Climb on it and pull the left block once, then get to where it
was and pick up the Red Egg. Now get back to the library and to its SE corner.
Pick up a Piece of Paper (the apartment door opens again,
a diary entry says the words on the paper mean Niji,
“Rainbow”). Shatter the picture in this area and throw the switch to open a
trapdoor near the pool, under the gazebo. Run all the way back there, take your
Torch again and throw it into the open trapdoor, thereon climb down the ladder.
Light the wall torch and the door opens. Get the Yellow Egg and leave this
cellar, climbing up the ladder. Take out your Revolver and get to the pool. You
can see four pool lights in it, so shoot them and a cutscene
shows a door opening SW. Get there and follow until you are blocked by a too
small crawlspace. See the flower tile? Take your Mechanical Turtle with Key and
use it, it gets to the other flower tile and the block will be pushed away.
Pick up the Green Egg and, if you have three eggs until now, an underwater door
opens in the far NE corner of the pool. If you want take the turtle with you,
you don’t need it anymore, anyway.
Jump into the water and swim NE, then into the tunnel to get the Crowbar. Swim
back and swim and run all the way up the stairs to the mansion entrance, but
pass it following N and around the left corner. Use the Crowbar to pry the
Ladybug off the wall. Remember the broken tree in the W? Get there, it’s left
of the big waterfall and the little grotto. Place the Ladybug here and the door
inside the grotto opens. Swim there and see a little cutscene.
Afterwards jump down in the pool and turn to find a little passage under the
waterfall, get the Purple Egg here. Get out again, swim left and climb out.
Turn left and run around the pool until you can find a crevice in the E wall,
grab it and shimmy all the way left until you can climb up and use the lever
that opens the doors in the last room. Get down in the water, climb out and run
through the doors. A new diary entry says you’re in the Rainbow Palace now. Run
through the curtains and get into the main hall of the palace. There is a key
in the middle you cannot reach yet, two keyholes left, and a stairway right.
Run up the stairs and the path divides into two, but both ways lead up to the
first stage. Go around the right (or left) corner and find two pushables, place both on the tiles in front of the rainbow
texture to open a door on the lower level and flood the central hole.
Now get once again into the left passage, there is a monkeyswing
at the end so grab it and get to the jumplever, use
it to open a door on the upper level. First, get down to the lower level and
pick up the Rain Key. Get to the upper level and find the open door. Get in and
you will find a letter puzzle. You have to “spell” a word that you can find in
the notes, it’s the Japanese word for “Rainbow”. But
watch out – there are more ways to spell it, but only one works, if you jump on
the nearest N from the entrance, then jump further – always stay near the
middle, the last I is just in front of the gate platform. Get into the passage
and take the Lightblue Egg, then
leave this room taking the Flares with you. Now go to the lower area of the
main hall and enter the only open door. You arrive at a room with three pools –
jump in the left one for a Small Medikit. Thereon
jump in the right one to pull an underwater lever,
this will cause a little earthquake. Climb out and get to the nearest pillar,
look up and spot an alcove. Climb up there and take the Waterskin,
get down and fill it in the middle pool. Now get exactly to the top of the
stairs and jump up to grab the monkeyswing, get to
the middle of the wall and drop, then press Action and get into a crawlspace,
use the Waterskin at the end to fill the shell. Get
back out, a trapdoor in the pool has opened so swim in
to get the Sun Key. Get back to the main hall, head right and place both keys
in the receptacles. Run through the corridor and arrive at a room with seven
pedestals for the eggs, two are luckily there so you can place your five
others, climb up the raised block and open the door to get your reward…
THE END
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Secret locations
SECRET 1: At the beginning, run through the
waterfall for a Silver Egg.
SECRET 2: In the bedroom, open the drawer of the
furniture left of the bed to get a Bronze Egg.
SECRET 3: After having found the Yellow Egg in
the cellar, push the block in the corridor once to get a Bronze Egg.
SECRET 4: In the area in front of the palace,
where you grab the crevice (SE-most point), turn left, backflip
onto the slope and jump onto a safe ledge. Now jump over the plant to the
slope, grab the ledge and shimmy left, climb up when possible, jump to the
slope and then to the monkeyswing on the top (it
doesn’t work when getting to the ledge directly from the entrance). Get to the
other side and drop on the balcony, open the door and find a Gold Egg.
SECRET 5: In the letter puzzle room, simply run
through the wall behind the egg pedestal to get a Silver Egg.
SECRET 6: In the finish room, shatter the left
vase to get a Bronze Egg.