BtB 2020-7-NEST OF THE SOULS.
Level by BtB2020
Walkthrough by G&D Productions.
In this walk we’re NOT going to use the “True
compass”, meaning the red needle is always pointing the way we describe in the walkthrough,
just to avoid confusion.
Mentioned
savegames are in this Saves
Folder.
7 Secrets.
In the ice-cold pool, in front of you are 2 Revolver
ammo pickups; best leave that for now… Go to the Main Hall E and left is a push
block behind the arches, leave that too for now and turn to the right hand
wall, under those arches. Go through the passage to a pool area.
The Pools,
for the Gold Key.
An Eagle will attack, after he’s dead you can grab up
to an alcove above the lantern right of where you came in (W). Another Eagle
attacks; just stand back in a corner and shoot it. Grab up right and go to the
horizontal pole, walk across to the platform. Now you can either walk the last
part or run jump and grab the opening. Dive down straight as far as you can,
swim up to the ledge N and get out, the water is ice cold too, so don’t stay in
too long.
Run jump and grab to the alcove N and push the Buddha
icon on the wall and this will ignite all fires throughout the level. The pool
behind you will also be heated and safe. Run jump onto the right hand side of
the ledge you came from (watch out for the rotating flame) and stand jump onto
the corner of the block SE. Stand back into the corner because of the flame and
run jump to grab the block a bit left (S), careful, that rotating blade reaches
this block. So pull up in the left corner and turn left, time the blade and the
flames to hop back and run jump W to the next block. Hang on the last block and
pull up when the flame goes down (you can also stand safely at the right hand
corner), run jump landing on the left side of a sloped block and jump hard left
to get onto a balcony (savegame.0). Grab up to the crack in the pillar and
go left around two corners, wait at the next corner, look up and time the
rotating flame, ledge jump up and side flip left onto the path in the rocks,
quickly get out of the way. Follow the path to where you can jump onto the roof
(the higher part), jump along the roof to the other end and use the roofs E to
get to the opening in the S wall. Hop into the pool below.
Secret: Swim under the floor straight ahead (S) and to the right, in the right hand corner is an underwater lever. A trapdoor will open in the bottom between the statues here, go in and get Secret #1, the Lasersight.
Surface and climb out SW (or SE), using the vines on
the wall, climb up to the floor above. Leave through the wide passage S to the
Main Hall with the Arches. Go left to where we started, hop into the now warmed
up pool and get 2x Revolver ammo and
the Gold Key.
Using the
Gold Key, the Camp site.
Go to the other end of Hall (E) and come to a bridge,
left or right of the bridge you can climb down a ladder to the level below. SW
in this area is some gurung bread
(small First Aid Kit) and right of it are Light
Sticks. Then go to the NE corner and jump E into the gap in that ice
pillar. Hang out right where the vines are and ledge jump up grabbing above the
gap. Climb up a bit and back flip off to the ledge. Hop to the ledge with the
Keyhole and use the Gold key. The big gate opens behind you, but only a small
part of it. Stand back next to the keyhole and run jump with a left curve into
the opening (OR go back to the bridge and jump from there into the opening).
This water is still ice cold, so stay near the gate and hop onto the snowy bank
left. Then run jump as far as you can into the far end deep water and swim left
around the corner to a ledge where you can get out before you freeze.
Shotgun.
Hop over to the block behind you and hop into the
opening in the left wall (N). Shoot a couple of spiders in the pit before you
go down and find the ladder going down in the SE corner. Climb down and shoot
more spiders. Grab up to the boulder slope NW, run down and jump up with a
right curve to the higher floor. Go up into the opening S, this is a lower part
of the deep bridge canyon. Turn left and run jump along the wall to the block
W, then run jump to the next and left you find 2x Shotgun ammo. Jump back, run jumps with Ctrl to where you came
out, run jump to grab the corner block, turn right and jump grab the vines, go
down to a ledge and jump E into the cave. Climb down and hang out of the cave,
shimmy right along the crack to drop onto the snowy ledge, drop down and go to
the tent to get the Shotgun. Look
over the edge S to find a ledge and vines to get down to the bottom of the
canyon.
Bottom of the
Canyon, Swastika Key.
Go to the left side of the temple, jump up the left
side of the gravel mound and then jump into the opening in the wall. Watch out
for the icicles and go to a pit with a leopard, shoot it and go down to climb
up N to the floor above, pull the dead guy away and grab the Swastika Key. Get back out to the
canyon, loop left around to the shallow pool and in the rock wall left is a
ledge (near some icicle’s), climb up and follow through, shooting a leopard and
use the Swastika Key, a trapdoor* opens behind the fence.
The First
Dharma Jewel.
Go back to the Canyon, left through the shallow water
and crawl in E under the ice wall, go left where you can stand up and follow
the passage, climb up and jump over the open trapdoor* to get the First Aid Kit.
Hop backwards into the water and swim forward and
right/left, then up near the end into an opening and climb out facing straight
ahead (E). Stand facing the traps, I did it from the right and do a run jump
through the opening, wait in there, because there’s a second rolling blade. Get
through that one too and pick up the Dharma
Jewel from the Crystal on the pedestal. Get back through the traps and swim
back to the trapdoor (savegame.1). Down into
the passage to the ice cave and crawl to the right (W) to the canyon.
Go to the pillars NW, get on the low block against the
wall and grab up to the high pillar, do a back jump and grab the vines, climb
up to the tent. Grab up to a crack in the corner pillar NE, back jump and grab
the one behind, from that jump to the corner ledges and make your way back
along the crack to the opening in the wall. Back flip onto the slope, jump and
grab the vines to go up. Jump out left to the block and grab up left to the
vines, left onto the block and jump over to the W, go left inside. Hop over the
boulder onto the slope and go up, left and up the ladder there to the spider
pit. Go up S and out, jump over the stream to the block S. Get into the
crawlspace, follow through and jump out the other end.
Go to the far end and climb up right, grab up to the
sloped block and shimmy right around the corner. Pull up and back flip onto the
ledge. Shoot the leopard and go to the back of the first room, on the ledge in
the back is a lever opening a door. Go back to the front of the room and hop up
right onto the higher floor, shoot the spiders. The open door is to the right
(S). Get through the swinging spike logs and throw the lever at the end of the
passage. A door opens in this passage.
Safety drop out onto a ledge below. We need a Torch,
so to the bridge we go.
A Torch, the
Hand Prayer wheel.
Run jump straight ahead (W), to the bridge and through
the Hall of Arches to where the level started, grab a Torch from one of the ledges in the last arch and ignite it on the
bowl (careful). Make your way back over the bridge and jump through the caves
onto the grey beam E. Go either right or left and trigger one of the boulders,
get back and out of the way. Now hop over the boulder using the corner block
and go up the slope. Into the room there and get into the structure with the
bowl, carefully ignite the bowl from the back (facing E) and a door opens
behind you, go in to get the Hand Prayer
wheel.
Take the Torch with you when you leave, down the
boulder slope, through the caves and over the bridge. Leave the Torch near the
bridge for later.
Using the
Hand Prayer wheel, Dharma Jewel II.
Go back down the boulder slope, over the bridge and climb down a ladder to the level below. Jump from the NE corner to the ice pillar and climb down the vines, shimmy right around the corner and drop onto the ledge below. Jump to the bridge on the right (SW) and to the right is the door you saw when you took the Hand Prayer wheel. Place it there and the gate opens up. Inside take a left down into the next room, go around that central tower and climb in, up the pole facing E and go as high as you can without getting hurt by the blade, turn right or left a bit so that when you back flip off you land on the corner of the floor above. Watch the blade and when it is safe, go up one more grab and back flip (savegame.2).
Walk W and jump to the rope. Turn right and swing up
to the S floor.
Near the left wall (W) is an Ancient Text:
The
Tale of 3 birds.
3
Birds were resting near a mountain (S, through the windows). The Bird looking
the mountain (N cylinder), saw a hawk coming, this bird flew to the opposite
direction to safe its life.
The
second bird flew to fight the hawk. The bird in the middle of all confusion saw
everything. It decided to fly east to ask for help.
-So, use the wheel E (red needle) to turn the big “E”
cylinder so the part faces N.
-The second is the one W for us. Turn the handle till
it faces S.
-The third “in the middle” is the one N; turn the
wheel in the S side of the room till the handle faces (east), W for us.
Now you can use the chain pulley to lower a block in
the tower with the pole (N). Jump in there and grab Dharma Jewel II from the crystal.
Jump back to the floor, loop right a bit
and look down to spot a jump lever on the side of a ledge on the tower. Hop
down onto the ledge (or use the rope to get into the tower and get there) and
the lever will raise a block behind you (SE). Climb up and walk out. Turn left
and walk along the wall, hop over a sloped part and get Secret #2, a Quartz Skull from the niche, get back inside.
The Bow.
Go to that ice sheet in the floor and break it, into
the opening and loop around left into a niche for Arrows, then go down the hole in the floor, slide and keep running
left around the corner to get out of the way of a boulder, a bit further on are
some Arrows and gurung bread. Go even further and find Light Sticks.
Get back inside, up the slope and climb up to the room
with the tower. Leave N, go right to the lower bridge and hop NW onto the roof,
walk along the flat parts to a vine. For a First Aid Kit, hop around the
corner, go all the way to the end, grab the First Aid Kit and get back.
Now climb the vines to the floor above and go get some
Shotgun ammo S between the two blocks left. Get to the N side and hop between
the first blocks back flip onto the sloped block and jump onto the next, jump
with Ctrl onto the lower one and a run jump left to the next around the corner.
In an opening N is gurung bread, get
it and jump back. Run jump and grab the pole S, swing the poles and grab the
floor at the other side.
Go through, turn around and climb down
the vines to get Secret #3, a Buddha Footprint. Climb back up.
Turn around and hop over the gap, then jump up onto
the dark ledge, go left and run through that diagonal passage to come to a room
with traps. Get to the N side through the Sword traps and in the passage is a
Bird Blade trap, watch out. Just crawl underneath and then jump up right at the
slope, down and come to a moving circular blade trap.
Stand on the red carpet and side jump through when it
comes close, keep side jumping till the end of the passage (at least, that’s
how I got though). Up and down into the next room and find a jump lever on the
far wall. Go back through the circular blade (savegame.3),
underneath the bird blade and through the first Sword trap to find the opened
doors. Shoot the spiders and grab up to the pillar inside and back jump to get
onto the floor above. Right of the central structure, up in a ledge is gurung bread, behind the structure and
in front of the Buddha is a First Aid
Kit.
Inside the structure that you can access from the E
side, are the receptacles for the Cintinami stones. Looks like one is missing,
go back out straight and throw the lever (E) to open the “shortcut” door then
pick up Dharma Jewel #3 and go
through. Go to the canyon E and climb one of the ladders to the bridge level.
The Canyons,
the Cintinami Stone.
Go W to the Hall of Arches and along the right hand
wall to come to a push block. Place the 3 Dharma Jewells in their receptacles
and push the block along the wall (E) as far as it goes and jump from the block
into an opening in the left wall. Crawl in and go into the second crawlspace
left (SW), you’ll come to an area with spikes and some spiders to shoot. Walk
slowly through the gap between the traps SW (behind that big sloped pillar).
Loop around right and get the Light
Sticks. Go into the W section, find the highest part of the snow against
the W wall and backflip on it, jump again and grab the ledge. Jump and grab the
pole E and swing to jump to the floor there. Two leopards appear out of the
blue, deal with them. To the right of the structure is a vase with Shotgun
ammo, At the back get the Light Sticks.
Go along the S wall and turn right to climb up between
the central pillars, then turn left and climb up again, run jump onto the
pillar and run jump into the opening in the E wall. Climb down the ladder there
and go through a passage to slide down towards a wide staircase with Dart traps.
Make your way down the stairs avoiding the darts and
look up in the right hand side of the room to spot a jump lever. Hang from the
pointed block, back jump and grab the lever to lower a block next to the
Buddha. So, turn around and go right of the Buddha, grab up into the new
opening, drop down and follow through shooting a soldier. There are some nasty
moving blocks there, run or hop through the first, step back as far as you can
and hop diagonally onto the left corner of the higher ledge, immediately running
forward a bit…but not too far, because of the block above. Run (with the block
falling behind you) to the end and jump right or left, depending on where you
are, to clear the slope of the spike pit. Two soldiers here, best run under the
cover of the left or right roofs, because there is another one upstairs and we
better take care of them one by one…
In the right hand corner of where you came in is a passage (NE), hop up in there and grab the Uzi clips, there are 3 more Uzi clips in the back. In the other corner (left of where you came in) is another passage (NW), go in and crawl to the back to get the First Aid Kit. Back out and in the middle of the floor are some ledges from which you can run jump and grab one of the ladders E or W to go up to the first floor. Shoot the soldier if you didn’t yet (check for Uzi clips where he died) and pull a cabinet from the S wall, get into the crawlspace for the Uzis.
Outside,
Rusty Key.
Shoot one of the windows E and get outside, shoot a
mercenary. When you go N along the building, more of them show up, just try to
stay as far away as possible so they won’t open up fire at you, but you can
kill them (saves health). Some of them leave Revolver ammo and Uzi clips.
Go to the W side of the open area and watch out,
there’s a snowball trying to kill you. Grab some gurung bread W and spot a head with a
green gem up NW on the high building.
Go into the building N, shoot another mercenary. Go up
the snow NE, crawl through and get the Revolver.
Go back outside go right around up a snow pile and grab up to the first floor,
go right and shoot a mercenary that will drop the Rusty Key. There are more baddies up here you may have to deal
with, pick up Shotgun ammo… There’s
a Gong up there and to the W is a Crowbar door (later).
Use the Rusty
Key, to the Roof for the Cabin Key.
Drop back down where you climbed up to this floor and
go straight over to the S, right of the house we came from is a small yellow
house and on right of it is a door we can open with that Rusty Key. Go in and
grab the Shotgun ammo, shoot some
empty crates and notice the trapdoor. Go to
the back of the room and left. Up a block and down into an alley, there’s 2x Shotgun ammo a bit further. The door will open, ignore that for
now and grab up on the right (W), hang right and back jump grabbing the slope
behind you. Do that one more time and you are in an opening in the wall.
Detour for a Secret; turn around and look in the building (E), you can just spot a head with a green Gem, shoot that, takes some precise aiming and that trapdoor opens in the room you opened with the Rusty Key. Let’s go back now, use the slopes to get back down, go through the door N and left through the wooden door and in the room down into the trapdoor for Secret #4, a Seraph (#1). Get back into the alley and up to the opening in the wall where you left off.
Jump over to the roof of the temple (W) and go a bit left where you can use the snow to almost get to the top, hop over the top and spot the crates. Go right a bit and run jump grab to the cave entrance, hop up and left to shoot a mercenary that will drop the Cabin Key. From the N end you can go left and jump back to the roof, now you can use the zip-line from the crates to get down.
The Cabin,
the Mercenary’s Tablet and a Pickaxe.
Go S, left of the temple and left to find the cabin,
up at the door and open it, do down and right and something pulls a dead
Mercenary into a hole. Grab the Mercenary’s
Tablet and a Pickaxe. Get out of
the cabin and head N.
A Gong Stick.
At the frozen lake go all the way left and over a collapsed roof to the edge of the canyon (E) and a camera will show Lara on the edge of the canyon (walk slow). Get the First Aid Kit and the Bow.
You can see a crack below, drop and grab that and go
right around to drop in a niche, jump SE onto the roof and go into a crawlspace
at the other side (S), follow down and grab a First Aid Kit from the trench. Then climb up to the floor (N).
Detour for a Secret: There’s a hole in
the floor with a closed trapdoor. Maybe there’s another way to do this, but
this is how I did it…
Go to the N side at the left pillar and
turn around, stand one step away from the edge and hop back over the edge of
the floor, when you passed the edge, hit Ctrl and you’ll end up on a wooden
platform below. Turn left and hop to the platform SW, then down onto the red
carpet in the corner. Go right around to get Secret #5, the Shankha SE. Go back around to the red
carpet, which was actually a raising block, climb on and hop to the platform,
grab up to the next (E) turn around and jump to grab the ladder up to the floor.
Go to the SE corner and run jump to grab that ice
block on the wall of the canyon, shimmy right around to the other side and back
jump onto a ledge. Go up the vines and run jump up into the opening in the
wall. Run jump to the pole and swing across. Left around the corner onto the
block and grab the monkey bars left to go over to the passage at the other end.
Turn around and grab up to the floor above, go into the room and grab a First Aid Kit. Shoot the left window E
and run jump to grab the rock left. Pull up and turn around to jump and grab up
to the roof, go over the ice bridge N and left into the icy passage. Go to the
end and left, jump via a block to the little temple S and get the Gong Stick.
The flyby shows a shortcut back, jump back to the icy
passage N, follow to the ice bridge and once on the roof go left to the far
left corner (SW). From the high tip you can stand jump down SW into that alcove
the flyby showed you. Now run jump NW preferably landing on the steep higher
part of the roof. Go to the far NW corner and down onto the lower part so you
can grab up to the crack, go left a bit and ledge jump up to the niche, grab up
left and shimmy left to the end and jump up to the top.
Upper Floor,
Crowbar door.
Go forward and left at the lion pillars to that
building and grab up to the upper floor again. Go right (W), more guys may show
up. Go all the way to the end and open the crowbar door. Move the first body on
the left to get Uzi clips (another
soldier might show up) and gather all the other 6 Uzi clips scattered about the room. Another soldier (W) lies on
top of Revolver ammo.
Up at the N wall is a big bell; back flip on the
sloped block and jump again to shoot the bell. A pillar goes down in the middle
of the room and reveals a bowl. Seems we need the Torch…?
Let’s go get
the Torch…
Out of the room and straight, go to that Gong between
the blocks and hit it with the Gong Stick, the sound will cause all the snow to
fall from the roof and end up in front of the building, making it easier to
access. Go down where the opening in the fence is. Turn right (E) and go to the
canyon again, stay close to the building if possible.
Find an opening where you can go down to a platform
above the deep canyon.. Open the “shortcut” door with the lever and you are
back at the bridge. Go and find the Torch you dropped at the bridge OR get
another burning one at where you started this adventure. Return through the
“shortcut” door and go up to the area you came from. Go to the far end, at the
pillar with the lion statue left up the snow hill and hop onto the upper floor
with the Torch. Take it into the room W and ignite 3 bowls, the big one in the
middle and the two smaller ones in the back corners. A door opens. Leave the
Torch, no need for it anymore.
Go out, to the E and right up a slope to where the
door opened, you’ll arrive on a ledge way up in the Main Hall with the Arches.
At the end of this bridge is a door but we need an artefact to open it. Some
blocks went up down and right of the ledge. Spot the cages hanging to the E,
jump along those to the ledge at the other side and pick up that Buddha statuette (secret hunters scroll down).
-Without the Secret, safety drop down twice at the
back side to the ground floor, take a left and near the NE pillar is a sloped
wall. Grab up and back jump to an opening for some gurung bread. Get down, head W and climb one of the ladders near
the Torch ledges (W) and then blocks to get back up to the bridge, go N and use
the statue.
-But with the Secret; from picking up
Buddha, run jump E and grab the opening, shimmy right and pull up to get
another Seraph (# 2) as Secret #6.
Shimmy back and take a running jump back
to where you got the statuette. Safety drop down twice, take a left and near
the NE pillar is a sloped wall. Grab up and back jump to an opening for some gurung bread. Get down and for the last
secret; remember the Gem in the lion’s mouth? Go through the shortcut door (S),
to the left up the passage and run W along the building to the end of the
valley where the zip-line is and look up left (NW). Equip the Revolver with the
Sight and shoot that green Gem in the head. A block goes down under the
building N. Go back over the lake and go right under the building (there’s one
spot where you can go in), right again to where a block lowered. Inside left
and open the small door, go right into the room where you can use the 2
Seraph’s to open the door. Collect 7x
Grenades and a First Aid Kit.
Climb over the bales of hay to the other end of the room to get Secret #7, the Grenade gun and another
First Aid Kit plus 3 more Grenades. Get out; go up to the
upper floor of the building and through the door S to the bridge in the Main
Hall. Go to the N end of the ledge and use the Buddha statuette.
Two routes
join again.
Go in and to the right (stay away from the left wall
and the trapdoors for now) Shoot the Crystal on the hand and grab the Cintamani Stone from the pedestal and
shoot the yeti. Then go to the trapdoors, hop over them if they aren’t open
yet.
Use the ladder or carefully safety drop down on a
slope and drop further down, go to the gate that will open for you and shoot 5
more Yetis.
Placing the
Stone.
Go to the bridge (E) and down one of the ladders, into
the shortcut door W you opened a while back and straight to place the Cintamani
Stone. The trapdoor opens up; just drop in and swim up W to climb out. Wraiths
show up, most of them will die under water, but some survive. Get to a green
wall SE, grab up to the crack, ledge jump up and back jump to a floor.
Bardo Thödol
Books.
Two Hammer Guys running around there; avoid them and
loop left around onto a protruding ledge to run jump into the building E, to
the left and on a small table is a Holy Scripture and the Wraiths will be drawn
into that. When you survived all that, jump back to the battle floor, deal with
the Hammer Guys and get the Bardo Thödol
Books they dropped. Drop into the pool below, get out W and place them
behind the structure W. Go into the structure and where the block lowered is a Prayer Wheel. Take that up the green
wall SE, hop onto the higher floor E and use the Prayer Wheel on the left (S)
receptacle.
The Soul Gem.