TOMB RAIDER SPELL OF LUST: TOMB PORTAL

Level by DavidTR

Walkthrough by DavidTR

Colors: pickups – enemies – secrets

Staircase

Lara starts the level at the top of a huge staircase made of several identical rooms, each preceded by a white arch. Go down and kill two bats, go down and jump on the pillar and run jump from it to move forward. Go down and make a difficult jump from the white tile in the middle slightly right to reach a green tile, go down and pick up a small medipack and flares next to the skeleton. Continue to descend, trying not to fall into the pits. Kill two more bats and see that at the bottom of the staircase there’s a room with a glowing pink pillar.

Pit

Arriving at the second to last room of the staircase Lara will have to climb down the big hole which prevents her from reaching the end of the staircase. To descend, she will have to climb down the climbing walls covered with vines. Run jump, slide and grab, climb down, slide, grab and climb right until the end of the wall, then climb down all the way to the bottom, climb left to reach the wall on the left, climb left until the end of the wall and climb down to the end, slide jump and grab the opposite wall and kill the bat. Having reached the climbing wall made of stone, not vines, you can climb down and go right to reach the first pool or climb up, go left, slide down to the very bottom of the pit where you kill two small spiders and pick up flares, a small medipack and shotgun ammo. Jump grab the left wall, go left and down in the water.

Pools

From the bottom of the pit with the spiders, after you jumped in the water, go left, reach the first pool with some air, go straight and swim all the way to the bottom right, surface, turn around and jump into the alcove in the left wall. At the end of the passage dive into the first cistern, surface and proceed along the walls, cross the room and continue inside a dark and narrow passage until the second large cistern, go down and go to the right, climb on the pillar, jump grab on the wall on the right, go right and into a small passage, slide down and pick up the shotgun, go back on the pillar, run jump on the ledge on the opposite wall and left. The camera will show Lara and three passages.

Three passages puzzle (optional)

This part is optional and is for collecting the first secret. Continue in the first of the three passages and go down the stairs to the bottom, do not turn right but continue straight and at the end left crawl in the passage, go up the stairs and pull the block, go back up the stairs. Take the third passage, go left then go right twice, go up the stairs and pull the second block. Go back to the second passage, up the stair, on the right, pull the third block twice (two tiles). Go back to the third passage, this time instead of going right twice you go left and continue in the passage, take a look at the first cistern, go right, jump to avoid falling in the water, go right again, jump another hole and continue with a running jump to grab the ledge of an arch in the big room with arches. Kill the bats. Go left to the end of the arch and jump to the next arch, go to the end of it inside the alcove, grab the wall on the left and go right and down in a hole with white walls, go down the stairs on the right and down the hole on the right at the bottom of the stairs. Go down the dark passage, this is the first secret, continue down and kill the big spider. Now you can choose to proceed along the main path or cut part of the level and miss some secrets: go up the stairs in the left passage and return to the big cistern with the three passages, or if you want to cut the level, after killing the spider, slide down in the passage on the opposite wall, kill two more spiders and pick up uzi ammo, big medipack and flares. You can read the Giant cavern chapter to continue.

Small grey temple

Go down the stairs in the first passage, turn right to the bottom of the stairs with white walls, hear the classic Tomb Raider soundtrack and take a look at the tall pyramidal room with the small pool in the center, go left inside the passage in the corner of the room and reach another big room with arches, go across the room all the way and pick up flares and shotgun ammo. Go back to the entrance of the room and up some steps in the purple staircase, go straight, pass the temple which is on the left and cross some debris, turn left and go down into the dark crypt in the passage at the bottom left, take a look at the submerged skeletons at the bottom of the crypt and push the switch on the left wall to open a gate in the temple above. Go back inside the temple, pick up small medipack, shotgun ammo and uzi ammo, proceed beyond the gate and climb on the left wall, jump to the alcove above the entrance of the temple and pull the block three times, climb on it and jump grab the ledge up in the room above, kill three bats.

Rooms with stalactites

Turn left across this room with the stalactites and continue to the left corner of the room in a passage, be careful not to slide down and continue straight to another small temple with the second secret, pick up a small medipack, open the sarcophagus with shotgun, two small medipacks, and uzi ammo, kill two small spiders. You can go up the stairs that go around the temple pillars but you will not be able to go further, so go back to the room with the stalactites and continue straight in the illuminated passage, slide down into another large room with stalactites, cross it all the way and dive into the water, swim downwards and enter the blue passage hidden in the right corner, swim and surface, jump and grab the ledge on the right and shimmy left until you can climb up the ledge, go down and take a look at the enormous cavern in front of you full of gigantic stalactites and two pterodactyls which you don't need to kill, dive in. Now you can choose to continue on the main path or take a detour for the third secret. You can avoid the ropes, they are completely optional, just for fun.

Underwater temple (optional)

Swim down in the first blue alcove, take a breath in the air pocket and pick up shotgun ammo, big medipack, flares. Go back and swim across the pool, way deeper in the second hidden blue alcove, surface and slide down the cave, inside a small room, push the switch and watch the camera flying down inside the temple. Go left and down in the water, swim down inside the hole and pull four switches on the ceiling behind the pillars, some decorations on the floor and ceiling highlight them, return to the surface to breathe every two levers you pull. Swim down until you find the closed transparent bottom and proceed through some very small passages in the walls, continue swimming downwards and behind the orange pillars to resurface in the center in the room with the pedestal, surface and pick up a big medipack. Climb on the ledge floating in the center and pick up your third secret with the desert eagle (revolver). Swim back up in the enormous cavern.

Giant cavern

Swim across the cavern and surface on the left side of the landslide, jump to the right and proceed towards the clumps of grass sticking out of the ground. Climb up following the path of the mud stream and climb on the pillar, run jump and grab the ledge on the right side of the room, continue straight, you can choose to climb high and cross the whole room until you dive into the water inside a small submerged passage or throw yourself into the hole, kill two spiders and pick up uzi ammo, big medipack and flares. (If you chose to cut part of the level from the Three passages puzzle chapter, resume from here). Climb on the ledge on the right wall, slide down and swim up, be careful not to get stuck in the narrow passages. Swim right into a submerged room, slip into the left passage and surface, proceed in the narrow passage and push the switch to open a trapdoor and a gate in the submerged room, cross the gate you just opened and surface. If you want to kill the lizards you can pull the switch and go directly back to the large pyramidal room, or you can continue up the room, turn left. At the end of the path you must jump across the room with the stalactites, which you have already visited, and grab the ledge in front of you, go straight and climb up into the large vertical room.

Vertical shaft

This room has some difficult jumps. Jump on the alcove, jump grab the arch, jump grab the second arch above, jump on another alcove and jump grab left on the ledge, slide jump on the arch above, jump up on the alcove and jump grab left or right on the white pillars with statues. From here there are multiple options. Jump into the alcove on the right and continue up to the left until a large temple. You can continue reading the next chapter to collect some secrets or exit the temple from the stairs on the left wall of the temple and push the switch on the right to open the gate that connects this staircase with the room with the arches and go back up the stairs to the stairwell covered with vines.

Secret rooms (optional)

Arriving in the temple, press the switch behind one of the two blocks on the sides of the temple to light the fire and reveal the presence of a transparent suspended walkway. Climb onto the walkway, climb onto a white arch in the center, jump on a dark ledge on the side, crawl along the side of the wall and jump up on the wooden ledge above, close to the ceiling, pick up the fourth secret on the pedestal with uzi ammo and big medipack. Now you can go down the stairs on the side of the temple and push the switch to open the gate that connects this staircase with the large room with the arches or go back into the vertical shaft. Back on the last arch of the vertical shaft, jump grab the high alcove at the end of the arch, and continue left, jump up in a room with a checkered floor where there are two passages on the corners of the room. In the right corner crawl inside and go down into a secret room, don’t go in the middle, spikes will kill you, instead push the switch to deactivate the spikes and jump grab the ledge in the hole in the ceiling up in a red room, open the sarcophagus and collect the fifth secret with desert eagle (revolver) ammo, shotgun ammo and uzi ammo, kill the spiders. Go back in the room with the checkered floor and enter the passage in the back left corner, go down and crawl backward in a small secret red and black room, slide and jump in an alcove, take the sixth secret from the pedestal with a big medipack and shotgun ammo. Jump grab the ledge above slide down and jump on the ledge in the middle, jump grab the small passage, crawl back to the room with the checkered floor. Go down into the room with the walls covered with vines, go down the stairs being careful not to fall into the holes and, if you haven't already done so, push the switch to open the gate that connects this staircase with the room with the arches and go back up the stairs.

Stairwell with vines

Grab the wall with vines and climb up on the ledge, turn left and shimmy left and climb up on the ledge. If you go down and continue left, you enter a small room with a trapdoor in the center and with a gate through which you can see a room with a central pedestal and glimpse a room with a bright red light inside of a building in the distance. In the trapdoor you fall straight onto the spikes of the red and black room, instead climb onto the ledge before the room and turn right, shimmy left to the wall on the left side of the room, fall and slide and jump backward on the pillar in the center, then jump on the ledge behind. In the next dark purple room jump on the sliding wall and grab the ledge, shimmy left, go up and slide down, don’t fall down but shimmy or jump to the other side, go up and enter the maze.

The catacombs maze

To solve the labyrinth you just need to follow the direction the statues are looking. Go right and then left, pick up a small medipack and flares. Go back and go straight, to the right of where you arrived, open the sarcophagus with a big medipack, go back to the start. Go left and arrive in the central room with a broken pillar in the center and a red ceiling. Go left into the passage and continue, at the fork you can go either right or left. If you go right you get a secret. So go right into the room with the columns and turn right again, go down and continue in the dark lower passage, go straight, jump the hole with the spikes and enter a secret room, turn right and collect the seventh secret from the pedestal with a small medipack, a shotgun and shotgun ammo. Go back and go right, to the left of where you arrive, climb on the wooden wall and follow the statues, jump up into the alcove and go straight beyond the wall with the columns until you reach a small temple, collect a big medipack and shotgun ammo and go back, follow the statues. Look out onto the central room of the maze and go down on the ledges below, jump across the room, reach the wall on the left and enter the alcove, go forward and collect small medipack, shotgun ammo and flares, go back and up on the highest alcove on the opposite wall from where you came. Go straight, turn right, jump to cross the hole, go right into the low passage. Continue always following the statues and the cracks on the walls, go down into a hole and continue respecting the rule and avoiding falling into two deep holes, reach the exit of the maze in the room with the central pedestal, look down and see the pyramidal room below you. In this room there are two alcoves, one on the left, one in front, while the one on the right is empty.

The last secret (optional)

To collect the eighth secret you will have to make a detour passing through the left alcove. The alcove connects with the small room with the trapdoor, near the stairwell. Push the switch to open the gate right below it. Run jump grab the alcove on the left, with the red decorations, pull the switch, run jump and grab the alcove on the opposite wall, go straight, jump into another alcove in front, pull another switch and fall below and throw yourself down the trapdoor you just opened. Slide down in a deep cave, jump on the right in a small hole and reach a secret room, jump from the opposite side and collect from the pedestal the eighth secret with the uzi, uzi ammo and big medipack. Slide down and fall in a deep hole to the flooded room right before the giant cavern, climb back up to the stairwell with vines. Along the ascent path after passing the giant cave, you can shorten the path by passing through the pyramidal room where you will have to kill the lizards, then climb up from the third of the three passages climbing on the arches of the large room with arches and up the stairs to the stairwell with vines.

Traps

After the maze, you reached the room with the pedestal in the center, right above the pyramidal room. Climb on the vines up to the alcove in front of you. Enter in a room with double stairs, go down the stairs and push the switch to open the gates. Save. The next rooms are a succession of non-stop traps for several minutes. Fall on the trapdoor in the middle and slide down the next room. Jump to avoid falling on the spikes, and run all the way, jump, being careful to avoid the moving block, slide in the middle, jump and slide down to the foggy floor in the dark room. The spikes on the ceiling move fast. Run jump to the next foggy floor tiles to the right side of the room, jump grab the ledge of a broken pillar close to the exit of the room, shimmy around it and jump to the ledge on the exit. The floor is crumbling, grab the ledge on the left, jump to the next ledges, trying to avoid the flames, on the last ledges avoid the rolling boulders, grab the ledge above and jump on the sliding walls above the flames, jump many times to reach the next room, a fast spiky wall starts moving towards you right when you jump on the last sliding wall. Climb the wall and jump backwards on the ledge, continue on the tight pole above to reach the next ledge and slide down. Jump with fast consecutive jumps between the flames under an even faster spiky ceiling, jump on the tiles on the right side of the room, without falling into the lava pool and avoiding the flames, you can wait a few seconds and at the right time run jump to the hole at the end of the room, slide down and grab the ledge before falling in the hole and slide in a dark room with enemies. Kill all the crocodiles and snakes, pull the switch to light up the flames, pick up shotgun ammo and uzi ammo, push the switch on the other side of the room to open a trapdoor above. Jump and grab the vines hanging from the hole in the ceiling and climb up in the next room.

The big temple

Behind you there is the room with the pedestal in the center, you can reach it by pushing the switch, on the other side there is a big cave with a natural stone arch and the facade of the big temple with a bright red light inside. Pick up shotgun ammo next to the skeleton close to the entrance. Go inside the temple, run, raptors will attack you, jump on the altar, behind it there is a lever to light the flames on the ceiling and illuminate the room. At the end of the temple on the sides there are two identical rooms each with a lever which serve to open the gate to the next room with the mutants. Don’t fight, you can move on without killing the raptors and mutants, you must save ammo for the end of the level. Pull the switch behind the pillars and go down the stairs into the crypt. Swim to the end of the crypt and reach the next room with a large landslide in the center. To surface, approach the edge, surface and press swim. Cross the room and observe the closed doors, climb on the ledge in the right corner, jump back in the middle of the room along the right wall and climb onto the alcove at the end, enter the passage, be careful not to fall into the hole, and climb down to the bottom inside a small dark room. Push the switch and go back up and dive into the flooded room.

Flooding

Take a look left to see the open doors and the landslide of the large previous room slipped downwards: this movement has allowed the water from the crypt to flood all the underlying rooms. Turn right and continue swimming in the right passage, go down and watch carefully the scene: you can follow the same path of the camera, it’s not the only one but it’s the fastest. Half the level is now completely flooded with water, even the giant cave with the stalactites is flooded from top to bottom. This allows you to return to the beginning of the level and pass the hole in the staircase to climb back up into the large cavern at the bottom of the staircase and access the Portal. Once you reach the room you see at the end of the scene, jump on the ledges up to the cavern and kill all four mutants. Climb on the partially collapsed staircase and go towards the portal.

Lara does not yet know how the portal opens and what powers are hidden in this place. In the next levels of the series, she will be able to find out.

To be continued…