BASTET TEMPLE

Level by Emanuele

Walkthrough by Treeble

As the level begins, step on the ramp on the left side and quickly back off to disarm a boulder trap, then go around to the other side of the fenced area dealing with two crocodiles that emerge from the dark crawlspace on the right side (nothing in there). Get the large medipack from the alcove next to said crawlspace and pull the pushblock near the fence in the back to reveal a switch behind it.

The switch opens a door behind your starting position; carefully walk through the spikes to claim the SAPPHIRE KEY. The keyhole is opposite that pushblock, so cross the initial area once again to use it and jump over the gap to the flat spot on the left side. As you work your way up the sandy slope, two panthers will attack. One of the spiked tiles has a cat face embossed onto it, walk on it to open a trapdoor immediately above you, then use the sandy block in the corner to pull up onto the bridge and jump through the trapdoor before it closes. Get SECRET #1, the SHOTGUN, then safety drop and go back to the previous room.

Get that push block and drag it closer to the fence so you can hop over it. Get the shells and dive into pool, pull the underwater lever at the bottom and swim to a wider chamber where two crocodiles are swimming free. Pull yourself out of water straight ahead and gun them down before getting the shells. Jump over the ledges around the perimeter of the room to an opening in the end.

Before going towards the wider room, look down the pit on the left for a break-away tile beyond a short slope. Obviously a trap, but you want to get there for a secret, so step on the tile to make it crumble and quickly jump to the slope and grab the edge. When the floor has fallen, not only a spike pit trap is revealed but also a safe passage just below your current position, let go and grab the edge below and get that large medipack for SECRET #2. Throw the switch to reshape the shaft behind you, allowing you to simply climb back up the way you came from.

As you climb back up, take a sharp left and do a running jump to the safe spot in the next chamber. A few steps further, you'll notice some vines on the wall leading down into the pit, grab those and wait a couple of seconds until the boulder has rolled its course, then climb down and go to the top of the ramp it came from and climb up that vine wall. Monkey swing over the spike pit and slide down the short slope.

Just as the slope ends, pull up into a crawlspace on the wall to your right to find a switch. Get back and drop into the water pit surrounded by death face tiles (boulders get triggered by stepping on these). It's a long swim, so you might want to save. Swim to the bottom and immediately locate a second passage in the ceiling, then head towards the end of the tunnel where you can turn right and swim around the central altar to find an underwater lever. A camera shows a door opening elsewhere but your oxygen meter is still running, so tap the Look button to cut it short and swim down the hole in the altar until you can break the surface again.

Pull out of the water and negotiate the short sequence to backflip off the pillar ladder to the opposite side, then bounce off the slope to the upper platform. Climb the ladder to the top to find that open door, and draw your weapons to kill the cat mummy that comes from the back. It's fast and it can also poison you, so watch out. When it's dead, collect the shells from the dark corner in the back, and pull up onto the tall pillar from its back side. Slide jump over the spike pit towards a switch to open that last door in the beginning, then drop through the hole past the small incline to find yourself back there, although not alone as a cat mummy shows up as well.

Through that door, run across the jade hallway filled with fences gunning down two panthers on your way, and another two when you reach a large segmented pool. Swim around the outer pool to find an underwater lever and some shells near one of the effigies, then pull over the barrier and shoot the crocodiles in the inner pool to safely swim through the underwater tunnel at the bottom where you'll find a switch to open the exit door.

Return and climb over the wall again and find an upper ledge on the outer perimeter of the room to reach a bridge-like structure over the pool. Grab the edge of the left side and shimmy past the crack, then pull up and push the block once, stand on the nearby row of blocks and pull a second block a couple of times so you can jump over the fence to the upper level of the bridge.

Head down the path to the left all the way to a pillar with three levers and shells. These levers open two doors, one of which houses a death slide and the other one, two cat mummies. You can ignore them as far as I can tell, so proceed to the spike pit on the opposite side and locate a crevice beneath the edge, drop and grab it to shimmy to the opening in the middle of the wall. You'll find shotgun shells as SECRET #3 between the wall and a fence. Jump over the fence to find yourself back in jade hallway and work your way back to the top of the bridges in the pool room.

This time, go to the right side towards a beautiful relief on the wall. Enter the room with the several mummified cats and approach the closed door in the back — one, only one, cat mummy will try to prevent you from leaving alive. Once it's dead, approach the door again and it will open, so all you have left to do now is run towards the palm tree to finish the level.