TOWER
OF FATE/THE RITUAL
by Sheevah
Walkthrough written by eRIC.
TOWER OF FATE
(The walkthrough does not mention all the enemies and the single
pickups.)
When the level begins, you are at the bottom of a very high room with 3 more
levels up.
There is a metallic tower in the middle of a pool.
FIRST LEVEL
Go in front of the window, you can see a scroll in a little room, that's
your goal. Turn back and make a long running jump to grab the tower. Climb and
pull the jump switch which opens a door. Let drop and go out of the water and
enter the opened door. In this new room, kill the ninja. Here, there are
several pushable boxes; pull one of them on the
different tile of the floor, a camera shows the opening of one of the two
metallic gates in the underwater corridor of the pool.
Under
one of the boxes, pick up the first HALF of the CARTOUCHE. Also notice a switch
in one corner, a block must be raised later
to use it. Dive in the pool and into the underwater corridor. You will be soon
in a
little room with movable blocks (a bit useless) and a floor lever.
Push the lever, a block will raise in the other
room you have already visited. Return there, you can now pull the switch in the
corner: the last door of the lower level opens. Go there,
you are now in a room where you will have to use the 2 halves of the
cartouche. Kill a dog, push a couple of blocks and open the trapdoor hidden under one of them. Go down the ladder, in front of which is
a switch that opens the second
underwater gate of the pool. There is a puzzle with movable blocks to solve
here.
Kill a ninja and a dog, pick up the second HALF
of the CARTOUCHE carried by the ninja.
Under the movable blocks you can find revolver ammo and SECRET#1 : the UZIS. Climb up the ladder and return to use the
cartouche. Kill a dog in the corridor,
notice a vase and a closed gate on the left leading to the third secret, and a
closed gate on the right. You need to find a hand of Sirius to open this gate
and pick up the scroll. When you approach, a flyby camera shows where the Hand
is, at the upper level!
UNDERWATER MAZE:
Dive again in the pool. Notice the yellow/beige debris at the entrance of the
maze, it is an important hint. There are two more of those
debris in the maze to indicate you're to swim up and find two rooms, one with a
trapdoor in the ceiling, and one with a lever that opens another trapdoor above
the first one. You also have to find a RED GEM hidden in the maze (this maze is
not that big).
In the room with the trapdoor, find the crawlspace to pick up SECRET #2:
CROSSBOW + EXPLOSIVE AMMOS. Blow out the skeleton, climb the ladder between the
two trapdoors, use the gem : You are now at the second
level.
SECOND LEVEL:
Notice the jump switch on the wall on your right, you can't reach it yet. There
is also a switch in a corner, two doors, a metallic gate and the entrance of a
corridor. Turn left, kill a flying beetle and go into the corridor, kill a dog,
the metallic gate opens when you approach. Blow out a skeleton and go to the
corner where the switch is. Save your game, the switch opens a timed door,
hurry up! Congrats you've made it!
In the new room with hieroglyphs, kill a ninja,
shoot the two vases to raise a block under the jump switch. Go out and pull the
jump switch, a camera shows the opening of the gate leading to the third
secret. You can go back for it now but that involves more backtracking or later
(see at the end of this walkthrough).
In the room with hieroglyphs there is also a switch. Pulling it opens
the last door of this second level. Hurry up, it's a timed door.
(Note : In the next room, I have encountered
what I think is a bug : an invisible block just after the timed door prevented
Lara to enter, but with perseverance to do swan jumps in diagonal, she
succeeded.)
In this room, pull the floor lever, the trapdoor of the ceiling opens
and a block is raised. Shoot the 2 vases, another
trapdoor
above the first one is opened. Jump on the raised block and climb the ladder to
arrive at the third level.
THIRD LEVEL:
In this room, find a switch in a corner. Pulling it lowers a block revealing a
new switch to pull. Do that several times,
until a flying beetle appears and a crawlspace is revealed. Crawl in and find a
new room with a floor lever. When you pull it, the last block is lowered
revealing a window. Come back to the previous room and shoot the window.
Go out on the ledges, kill a flying beetle and go right on the ledge
(beware of spikes). Make a long running jump to the next ledge and enter the
corridor. On your right is a crawlspace leading to some ammo, on your left
another crawlspace.
Crawl in, in the next corridor there is a closed metallic gate on your
right, a ledge between two blocks with spikes that pop up on your left, and a
movable block in front of you. Pull it twice and backtrack to the outside
ledge.
Make a running jump to the next ledge (where there is
spikes that pop up on the blocks).
Jump other the spiked block when the spikes are up.
Behind where the movable block was, there is a corridor with a switch. Pull
it and the metallic gate opens. Kill a dog in the new room and pull a switch : a camera shows the gate where the hand of Sirius
is. You need to find a second switch to open this gate.
From the ledge between the two blocks with spikes, make a long running jump and
grab the metalic tower. Climb until the top.
UPPER LEVEL:
From the top of the tower make a long running jump to the highest block of the
ledge in the South-East corner and pull the floor lever. It raises two blocks
and lowers one.
Climb the new raised block and make a long running jump to grab the
tower again. Climb until the top again.
(Note : I did not fully understand how this
puzzle works because there is a rope trapped in the new raised block, I don't
know what this rope was good for).
Never mind, make a long running jump to the second block that is raised
(the one near the ladder and the gate).
Kill a flying beetle and go to the South-West corner. Pull a switch and
the metallic door opens. Climb the ladder, pick up the HAND of SIRIUS and make
a long long dive in the pool. Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh,
splaashhhh, fun isn't it?
FIRST LEVEL:
Enter the room where you used the cartouche. Go on the left for the third
secret. The room is trapped with boulders and burning tiles. Look at the mirror
to know where the safe tiles are. Walk on the different tile (the one with the
face of the Greek emperor) and the door opens for SECRET #3: the REVOLVER.
Come back in the corridor and open the last metallic gate with the hand
of Sirius. Pick up the SCROLL, the exit door opens. Enter the blue cave, kill a
mutant, and go to the Ritual. End of the level.
THE RITUAL
The walkthrough does not mention all the enemies and secrets (the
shotgun is missing, I think it's SECRET #1).
At the end of the blue cave climb the ladder, continue and you reach an outside
area. Go down the ladder, kill a wild boar.
EXPLORING THE OUTSIDE AREA:
You see a temple, you need a golden star to open the door. Go left and left
again, you reach an area where you see a golden skull
on a pedestal. The skull is your goal but you can't pick it up yet because of
the lava. The Pedestal is surrounded by eight burners that must be lighted. They
are lighted when you will find and place 8 red gems.
Explore all this rocky outside area, you will soon find a little area
where a block must be lowered. This area is opposite the area where the skull
is. Next to it, is a bigger area with a ramp with some
spikes and a boulder trap. On the left is another ramp with another boulder trap:
here is the golden star. Climb up the first ramp until the end,
enter the crawlspace to pick up the CROWBAR.
Notice the closed golden gate. Come back and pick up the GOLDEN STAR
avoiding another boulder.
On the right of the first ramp you can climb a block and find another
area with a closed gate and a ladder. There is not much things
to do here, pick up some ammo and come back to the beginning area.
Explore farther the outside area, you will also find 2 golden gates on
the side of the temple and a blue/grey door in front of them.
FIRST RED GEM:
Use the golden star and enter the temple. Ahead : a
closed door, on each side : two blocks that must be lowered.
Shoot the right vase so that Lara can pull the floor lever. A camera shows that
the block you saw earlier in the outside area
is lowered. Go there, it is approximately in front of
where the golden skull is. Pick up the RED GEM. A camera shows the opening
of the door inside the main temple. So return there. The new room is the room
where you will place all of the eight red gems.
Place the first one, a camera shows that a burner is lighted near the pedestal
with skull. It will be the same with all 8 gems.
(It is better to not come back here each time you find a red gem to avoid a lot
of backtracking).
SECOND RED GEM:
Find also a switch at the end of this room to lower one of the two blocks in
the previous room. Enter the crawlspace and go down the ladder. You are above
an underwater lake with a shark. Dive and swim right in the North direction to
find a section with underwater tunnels. In this swimming section
, you will find three rooms, each with a hyeroglyph
symbol. One with a bird symbol (flares), one with a
"OA" symbol (pull a lever to lower the second block in the main temple),
one with a scarab symbol (pick up the RED GEM).
THIRD RED GEM:
Swim back to the underwater lake, and find a way out in the North-West corner
to another outside area with a temple. Go left behind the temple, climb the
ladder, go down : you see a burning Hand of Sirius on
a pedestal. Continue, climb another ladder, go down and press the button : the fire on the pedestal is off. Climb the block,
slide, kill a ninja and a flying beetle. Now you can
quietly return behind the temple and pick up the HAND of SIRIUS. Come back at
the door of the temple to use this artifact : the door
opens. Enter, kill a dog, you see that there are many tiles wich
are trapped with spikes.
Walk carefully and shoot all the vases that are in this big room with the
pistols so that a block raises in a corner. For
flares, you can also go in a little adjacent room and shoot another vase but
you will have to deal with a ninja. Jump to the raised block.
Above, pull the globe onto the tile with the hieroglyph so that a change occurs
and you can pick up the RED GEM.
Return to the underwater lake and climb back to the first temple.
FOURTH RED GEM:
When you come back into the temple, crawl in the other crawlspace ahead. Climb
the ladder (a boulder will fall preventing Lara to come back this way). Up there, a pool with pillar and ledges on fire. On the
ledges, two doors on the right, one ahead and a switch on the left. Dive into
the water and pull the underwater lever at the base of the first central pillar
(this lever is not easy to spot, it's not completely
at the bottom, but just under the water level). Climb back by one of the two
ladders.
Four ropes have appeared. Use the three first ones to finally land on
the little ledge on the left where a switch is. Pull it and use the last rope
to enter into the new opened door and pick the RED GEM. Jump to the next ledge
and pull a switch : an underwater door is opened.
Dive and pull another underwater lever. Climb back again by the ladders,
use the first rope again to enter by the first door
on the right which is now opened. In the corridor, pull the switch
: a camera shows the opening of the first golden gate located at the
side of the temple. Continue and go down a ladder :
you are back at the beginning of the level in the blue cave. Return to the
outside area and find the opened gate.
FIFTH RED GEM:
You enter in a deadly room with burning tiles, spiked tiles and boulders. Make
your way carefully to the North-East corner. You will find here a switch and a
climbable wall.
Pull the switch : a camera shows the opening of the
other golden gate in the outside area. Climb up and make your way all around
the room, with jumps and some shimmying action to the North-West corner. Pick up the RED GEM. Go back outside.
SIXTH RED GEM.
Enter by the new opened gate. Notice the button behind the closed gate on the
right. Continue until a room with a globe and two windows. One is shootable. Shoot it and go down in a room with three gates
and two hieroglyphs scarab symbols on the floor.
There is different ways to solve this puzzle. Here is one way:
On the West wall, two switches. Pull the left one. That lowers a block
and raises the other at the entrance. Then pull the right switch next to it : the other block is raised. Now you can push the globe
on the two raised blocks as far as possible. Go down again and pull the right
switch of
the West wall once again. The block with the globe is lowered again so you can
push and move now the globe onto the two tiles with hieroglyph symbols. The
three gates open. (Another way to solve this puzzle is to use the switches of
the North and South walls).
In the niche of one of the opened gates: pick up the RED GEM. In the other is
SECRET #2: The GRENADE GUN. And in the last one, a switch
that opens the gate in the corridor.
Backtrack there and push the button: a camera shows the opening of the golden
gate where you have found the crowbar earlier. Go there (you know the way).
SEVENTH RED GEM:
Slide down the slope. Before going down lower, climb the ladder on your right
and find SECRET #3: BIG MEDIPACK after some monkeyswing.
Come back the same way, and this time go down. Pull
the switch to open a trapdoor and climb the ladder. Kill a dog and pick up the
RED GEM in the new room.
Behind movable blocks, you will find the blue/grey door and a switch to
open it. Come back outside and go into the temple to place all your RED GEMS.
EIGHTH RED GEM AND GOLDEN SKULL:
Placing all seven gems lowers a block in this same room, revealing the eighth
RED GEM. Place it and a camera will show a mutant coming. Go outside, kill it,
and go pick up your reward, the GOLDEN SKULL. End of the adventure.