LEGEND OF THE DRAGON

Level by StormChaser

Walkthrough by José

Colors: pickups – enemies – secrets – necessary items

The River

The level starts with Lara sliding down a waterfall and landing into the water. For an extra pickup get out of the water and look for a crawlspace in the rocks where two rats have their lair, go inside and pick up shotgun shells, uzi clips and flares. Go out and jump into the water, swim under the other waterfall and the current will take you to another open area with a third waterfall (try not drop through this hole). For a secret swim back to the UW cave you came from and search the right hand wall with protruding blocks from the ceiling to find a hole, swim a short way to find the SECRET #1: the Jade Flower.

First Dragon Mask

Back outside continue through the canyon but don’t go too far: when you find the first tree to your left a tiger will attack, shoot it and look for an opening hidden behind this first tree, climb there and explore this cave area to find uzi clips, shotgun shells, flares, three serpents to shoot and the DRAGON MASK; when you pick it up a door opens somewhere in the canyon. Go back outside and continue through the canyon until you eventually find the open door. Shoot the bad guy at the entrance and two tigers too; once in the garden shoot a serpent if you want and look for the nearby small medipack. For a secret: look for yellow grass next to the rocky wall and find the hidden crawlspace behind to get the SECRET #2: another Jade Flower.

Temple Courtyard

Advance through the wide opening, shoot a couple of serpents and pull the switch to open the next door. In the temple square run up either ramp to the building facade and note the door with the keyhole; the other white “windows” left and right, under the wall tiles with the dragon textures are not really windows, but movable blocks, push them both once to open a trapdoor at the top of a ladder. Locate the ladder you saw in the camera shot and climb it to the top, go left and look for a large medipack in a window sill on the roof. Go to the other side where the monkeys are (you don’t need to kill them, they are friendly) and from the broken railing jump to the roof with the monkeys, run to the end, drop/grab the edge of the roof and shimmy right until you can pull up, go around the corner to pick up a small medipack, uzi clips and shotgun shells. Now jump to the next roof and run to the very end to find a (timed) switch; pull it to open trapdoors in ground floor and quickly jump back and safety drop to the bottom, roll and sprint to the hole in front of the temple.

Cascade Area

Swim against the current through the UW passage and beware of the rolling boulder when you go out of the water. To get the next secret, look for a hidden opening behind the tall yellow grass to the right of the waterfall, enter to find a crawlspace leading to the SECRET #3: another Jade Flower. Go back outside and in the rocky wall behind the tree with the serpent light a flare to discover a movable block, push it once and go to its right side to push it once more revealing an opening, continue taking care of the falling rocks, shoot a couple of rats and go to their lair to pick up a large medipack.

Yellow Lava River – First Ornate Key

In the yellow lava river turn left from the entrance and jump to the top of the sloped rock, turn right and take a running jump over the lava to the other side of the waterfall, climb the block and walk through the spikes to get the ORNATE KEY (camera shot of the temple square). Back to the lava river, shoot a crow and take a running jump over the other waterfall to the opposite rocks, drop down onto the safe ledge and go through the opening in the rocks to get the SECRET #4: another Jade Flower in a high crawlspace to your right. Go back out, jump to the nearby ledge with the flares and continue jumping clockwise to the entrance. Now go all the way back to the temple square the way you came.

Inside the Temple

Shoot the bad guys and use the key to open the white door; enter and go a bit left, pull the switch to open the white door at the bottom of the wide stairs and go inside the garden, explore the central ledge to find flares and a large medipack, now go to the corner with the purple-lived tree and climb the brown flatter ledge to get access to the upper part of the garden, here go to the far corner to get the SECRET #5: another Jade Flower hidden between the grass. Go back inside the temple.

Second Ornate Key

Run up the wide stairs and in the next room shoot another bad guy, pick up his UZIS and uzi clips. Pull the wall switch to open the white door near the flowerpot with the bonsai and go down to the basement; explore this area to find the SHOTGUN and a second ORNATE KEY. Go back up and down to the bottom of the wide stairs, go left and left again to pick up shotgun shells, uzi clips and a small medipack next to the wooden bars. Now go to the nearby opening you didn’t explore yet, run down the ramp and use the key to open the door.

On the Roofs

In this new courtyard jump into the central pool and look for an UW level to pull, it opens a trapdoor just above the central blocks in the pool so go up there and climb to the upper floor. Shoot the bad guys and pick up the IRON KEY one of them drops, use the key in the nearby keyhole to open the large door but also the smaller door in the other wall. Go outside to the bridge to pick up shotgun shells and uzi clips; go back inside and climb the opening with the smaller open door. Take a long running jump to the ledge with the ladder, climb it up and for an extra pickup go straight ahead to the recess with the small medipack. Go back to the ladder and take a running jump (no grab) to the roof of the central building. To get the last secret turn left, go to the corner of the roof and jump to the next roof and to the pentagonal opening in the wall, crawl to get the SECRET #6: another Jade Flower.

Jump back to the narrow roof attached to the wall, drop/grab the edge and shimmy right until you can pull up (past the wooden bridge below) go through the opening and drop through the hole to the very bottom to get the GONG BEATER. Go back up to the roof and take a running jump to the roof of the central building. From this corner of the roof turn left and take a long running jump (no grab) to the flatter part of the roof near the corner (attached to the wall), locate the wall switch in the white wall and pull it to open a door in ground floor. If you continue exploring the next recesses you’ll find a large medipack and shotgun shells.

The Second Dragon Mask

Anyway make your way to safety drop down to ground floor. Locate the door you opened moments ago (in the side of the courtyard opposite the ladder), pick up the shotgun shells and pull the white block several times to place it outside so you can get access to the passage it was blocking and get a second DRAGON MASK. Sure that you already noted the receptacles for the masks in the central building, so jump onto the blocks in the middle of the pool and up to the upper floor to place the masks: the last door opens outside.

Third Ornate Key

Go there, enter and shoot the bad guys in the corridor, they will drop a large and small medipacks and uzi clips; continue left or right and in the next room use the gong on the small bell to open the exit door. In the next rooms you’ll need to deal with a series of rotating and moving blades; eventually you’ll drop into a hole in the floor, slide down a ramp, jump over a hole with spikes and deal with a couple of bad guys; one of them will drop flares and shotgun shells. Go around the wall and in the next room there are two small rooms left and right from the wide stairs; in one of them (the left one facing the stairs) you’ll find a new ORNATE KEY. In the wall opposite the stairs there is a white cross with a button, press it to open the door at the top of the stairs.

Moving Spiked Wall

Go up there and use the key to open the next door; shoot a couple of bad guys, pick up the flares one of them dropped and continue through the winding corridor until you reach the top of the ramp of the room with the spiked wall. Slide down the ramp and jump in last moment so you can sprint without stop to the opening in the right hand wall; go right at the junction to pick up a small medipack and flares, go to the opposite side to the final room.

Movable Blocks Puzzle

In the left side there are 5 wall switches, but I couldn’t discover the hint to know the right combination, so I had to do it by trial and error: the switches you must pull, from left to right, are the second and the fourth; the door opposite the entrance opens. Go there, climb the white (movable) blocks and the ladder to the top of the central structure, explore this higher ledges and the platforms in the corners to find 2 X shotgun shells, 2 X uzi clips and a small medipack. Now drop into one of the lateral holes (facing the door guarded by the dragons) and pull one of the white blocks once onto the patterned tile, climb up the ladder and drop into the central hole, pull the block once in front of the remaining opening and climb up the ladder, drop into the last hole and drag the block onto the other patterned tile (camera shot of the door opening above); climb up the ladder and time the fires to enter.

Final Fight

Inside, save your game before you pick up the LEGEND OF THE DRAGON SCROLL. Go outside and run all around without stop while you shoot all the enemies on the platform (if you stop you can catch the fire bolts launched by the Boss). Once the calm is restored pick up the IRON KEY the Boss dropped, safety drop to ground floor and use the key to open the next door in one of the laterals of the room, advance, shoot up to four bad guys, pick up the IRON KEY one of them dropped and use it to open the last door; advance to a landscaped area with monkeys and continue straight ahead to finish the level.

July – 5 – 2022