Tomb Raider Legend - Croft Manor
Items: magnetic grapple, personal light source,
binoculars
Rewards: 16 bronze, 10 silver, 1 gold
GENERAL NOTES: Lara's home
is accessed from the game's Main Menu. Before completing the
Bolivia level, only the main hall of the mansion is
accessible. None of the rewards and equipment are in place,
and none of the doors leading to other rooms (pool, library,
etc.) will open.
This level is obviously non-linear.
The only goals are exploration and reward hunting. The
rewards can be retrieved in any order; however, you do need
certain equipment (grapple, guns, light) to obtain certain
ones. So I have suggested a possible sequence here. If you
get disoriented, the PDA includes a floor plan showing
Lara's current location. Since it's unlikely you'll need
them, I have not noted the locations of the various
CHECKPOINTS throughout the level. Do remember to SAVE
REWARDS before quitting the level, though, so you won't have
to get them again next time.
MAIN HALL: At the start, look to the left to find
a bronze reward (1/16). Cross
the room to the glassed-in office where Zip is working. Use
the computer on the floor to
open the safe and get the MAGNETIC
GRAPPLE.
Cross the MAIN HALL and go upstairs and to the left. When
you reach the balcony, look to the right. Locate the
round plaque with the telltale
glint on the end wall and latch onto it with the magnetic
grapple. Pull to open a secret compartment containing
another bronze reward (2/16).
NOTE: If you've gotten the
grapple from the office downstairs, you can use it to grab
this and other bronze rewards. In some cases you'll need to
use manual aim with the grapple. Note, however, that the
grapple doesn't work on the bronze rewards in the alcoves in
the gym (below). You'll have to do some climbing to get
those.
The first door off the balcony leads to the STUDY, but
let's go get the pistols first. Follow the balcony to the
other end (above the office). Go through the door there and
follow the corridor to Lara's room.
BEDROOM: Use the two dagger-like
switches to open the
Medusa-head plaque and take the PISTOLS.
Off to one side is Lara's dressing room, where you can
change into any outfits you've unlocked so far. The
other room contains Lara's bed, behind which you'll find
another bronze reward (3/16).
Return through the corridor to the balcony above the MAIN
HALL. Head left to the library door. Enter and follow the
corridor to another door. Go through.
LIBRARY: Once inside, Lara looks to her right,
alerting you to the boarded-up alcove.
Shoot the boards and squeeze in to get a
silver reward (1/10). Push/pull
the book cart out of the alcove
and across the room. Position the cart on one of the
pressure pads on either side of
the desk where Alister is working. Pick up the
PLS on the desk. Then use the
grapple to pull down a second movable
book cart, from a high shelf above the bottom of the
stairs. Move that cart onto the other
pressure pad to open a secret
panel just to the right. (NOTE:
If the panel doesn't open, check to make sure the carts are
positioned properly to depress the pads.)
SECRET PASSAGE: Turn on the PLS and descend into
the dark passageway. Get the silver
reward (2/10) sitting in plain sight. Go around the
tall stack of boxes to find a golden
switch in the shape of a face with a protruding
tongue. Use the switch to reveal an inscribed plaque, which
reads, "Above the waters, twin sisters turn their backs one
upon the other to leave the ambages unguarded." This curious
clue is one of several leading to the level's gold reward.
At the next corner there's a stack of three wooden
crates. One contains a bronze reward
(4/16). Shoot the crate to get it. (Aiming manually using
Z/R3/right stick button makes this easier.) The passage
continues to another tongue switch,
which opens a panel leading into the BEDROOM. Open it if you
like. Then return to the LIBRARY through the secret passage.
Climb the stairs to the upper level of the library. Pick
up a bronze reward (5/16) in one
corner. Then use the dagger switch
to open a secret panel, behind
which there is another bronze reward
(6/16).
NOTE: The enticing colored
books protruding from various shelves figure in a later
puzzle. You can't do anything with them yet.
Return downstairs, exit the library and follow the
corridor back to the MAIN HALL. Go downstairs just to
the landing and then up the stairs to the other balcony. On
the end wall, just to the left as you step onto the balcony,
there's another circular plaque.
Switch to manual targeting and shoot the plaque to reveal
the silver reward (3/10)
concealed below.
Go downstairs and through the door to the right of the
fireplace. Follow the tapestry-lined corridor hallway to the
swimming pool.
SWIMMING POOL: Retrieve another
bronze reward (7/16) at the
bottom of the pool. You can use the magnetic grapple for
this if you'd rather not get wet. Then make your way along
the right wall (i.e., right when Lara's back is to the
entrance). Note the fish-shaped carved
pillars with handles. These move. Pull both of them
out from the wall. Continue around to the far left corner
and get the bronze reward (8/16)
hidden behind the two deck chairs. Continue around the
perimeter of the pool, stopping to pull out a third, taller
fish pillar. Pick up the
bronze reward (9/16) behind it
and then push the pillar as far as it will go toward the
pool.
Now notice the spears the
statues in the alcoves are holding. The ones on the other
side of the pool are already extended horizontally. Use the
magnetic grapple to extend the spears on this side.
Go to the shortest fish pillar, in the back right corner.
Climb on top of it. Turn to face the entrance and then jump
to grab the horizontal spear ahead. Swing around it and jump
to grab the molding below the curved balcony. Traverse
around to the right as far as possible and then jump
backward to land on the second fish pillar. Turn around,
move carefully toward the edge and jump to grab the next
spear. Swing around it and jump to grab the edge of the
balcony ahead. Pull up.
Retrieve the bronze reward
(10/16) on the diving board. You can use the magnetic
grapple to do this. (You may have already gotten it this way
from below.) Go to the two large
statues flanking the center alcove and turn them
inward so they face each other. This rotates the panel in
the alcove, revealing a golden tongue
switch. Use it to open one of two
grates blocking an underwater
passage in the pool.
Now turn the two statues
again to face away from each other, as instructed by the
plaque in the SECRET PASSAGE. (NOTE: You need to
have read the first plaque for this to work.) The gold
switch turns, revealing another plaque, which reads, "Within
the hall of knowledge, tomes of cerulean, topaz, viridian
and crimson in turn reveal their arcanum." Again, a clue to
the gold reward.
IMPORTANT:
A few players have reported a bug in which they obtained the
gold reward first then returned to the statues above the
swimming pool. At this point, they were unable to turn the
statues inward again in order to reveal the switch that
opens the underwater grate. I have not been able to
reproduce this bug, but just to be safe, you may want to
open the underwater grate before exploring the
library and looking for the clues to the gold reward.
ADDITION: Advis reports that installing the version
1.1 patch (only for the European version of the game) fixed
this bug. Thanks, Advis!
Turn to face the pool and then move to the left side of
the balcony. If you haven't done so already, use the
magnetic grapple to extend the spears held by the statues
along the left wall. Take a running jump to grab the first
spear. Swing around it and jump to let go. Quickly press the
Jump key twice to snag a projection high above with the
magnetic grapple. Swing back and forth several times to work
up sufficient momentum. Just as Lara swings forward as far
as she can, jump to grab the next spear. This can be tricky.
If you miss, go back to the lowest fish pillar and work your
way back around to this point again. Once Lara is hanging on
the last spear, swing around and jump to land on the second
balcony.
Pick up the BINOCULARS on the
horse statue's pedestal. (Not strictly necessary, but why
not get everything.) Locate the silver
reward (4/10) behind the statue of the fish with the
ball on its tail. Then use the magnetic grapple to pull down
the carved ball from the other
fish statue. Roll the ball onto the
concave pressure pad to lower the
large planter hanging above the
swimming pool.
Dive into the water and climb out on the right. If you
haven't already moved the tallest of the three
fish pillars to the edge of the
pool, do that now. Climb on top of it and jump to grab the
planter that you just lowered. Pull up. Attach the grapple
to the shiny spot below the small balcony with the silver
shield. Then pull on the grapple to start the planter
swinging. Detach the grapple and, when the planter swings
toward the balcony, jump over there to get the
silver reward (5/10).
Dive into the pool again. Swim to the
lever and use it to open the
second of the underwater grates. Surface, take a deep breath
and then swim down into the passage to retrieve another
silver reward (6/10). You'll
probably need to return to the pool for air before swimming
through the tunnel to the GYMNASIUM. The
grate at the other end of the
tunnel opens automatically when you swim toward it.
GYMNASIUM: Whee! Lots of fun equipment to climb
on. . . and lots of shiny shields to retrieve. Of course,
you need not follow the sequence described here, but working
more or less counterclockwise around the room:
Get the bronze reward (11/16)
in the pool. That one's easy.
The shiny gold balls on some
pieces of equipment are grapple points. Use the magnetic
grapple here to change the position of
the equipment, allowing you to reach different areas.
For example, the ladder can be flush against the wall or
perpendicular to it, the bar with the C-shaped armature can
be vertical or horizontal, etc.
Use the magnetic grapple to position the
movable horizontal bar near the
door so the gold ball points away from the door. Run up the
blue wedge-shaped mat and jump to grab the nearest
horizontal bar. Swing around it and jump to grab the
vertical bar ahead. Jump to grab the movable horizontal bar.
Swing around it and jump onto the right side of the sloping
rock ahead. Before Lara slides off, jump to grab the crevice
in the stone column. Jump straight up to grab the crevice
above. Adjust Lara's left-right positioning if necessary and
jump back to grab the vertical pole hanging from the
ceiling. Rotate 180 degrees on the pole and jump to grab the
next vertical pole. Let go to fall onto the sloping rock
below. Before Lara slides off, jump to the alcove containing
the bronze reward (12/16).
Position the movable horizontal bar
near the door with the gold ball pointing away from the door
and the movable ladder is flat
against the wall, not extended. Now repeat the initial steps
in the previous sequence (i.e., wedge-shaped mat to
horizontal bar, vertical bar, movable horizontal bar, slope,
crevice in rock wall). Then, instead of climbing up the rock
wall, climb around to the right. Jump to grab the vertical
pole extending from the floor. Jump to the vertical bar
mounted on the rock attached to the wall ahead. Jump to the
right to grab the horizontal crevice in the same rock. Climb
to the right and then jump to the right to reach the movable
ladder. Climb to the top of the ladder. Jump to the left to
grab the vertical bar mounted on the wall. Jump to the left
again to the alcove with the bronze
reward (13/16). Don't drop down yet.
Drop and hang from the alcove where you just got bronze
#13 (i.e., hold Walk and step off the edge). Adjust Lara's
left-right position then let go to fall and grab the
vertical bar below. Work your way over to the movable
ladder, as in the previous sequence. Climb the ladder until
Lara is level with the lower horizontal crevice in the rock
wall to the right. Jump to grab it. Climb to the right and
jump up to grab the higher crevice. Climb then jump to the
right to grab the rock in the corner. Traverse around the
corner. Jump back to grab the horizontal pole above the
alcove. While hanging from the pole, turn around to face the
corner. Then let go to fall and grab the jutting rock in
front of the alcove. Traverse to the right and pull up into
the alcove. Take the bronze reward
(14/16). Drop to the floor.
Arrange the movable C-shaped
armature so the bar is vertical. Go to the
freestanding climbing rock nearby and grab onto the crevice.
Jump back to grab the horizontal bar. Swing around it and
jump to grab the vertical bar. Jump to grab the vertical bar
on the C-shaped frame. Climb as high as possible and then
jump to grab the vertical pole to the left. Climb up a bit
and then jump into the alcove with the
bronze reward (15/16). Take it and drop to the floor.
The silver reward (7/10) on
the shelf above the pool is fairly easy to obtain. Just take
a running jump across the water, making sure to jump close
to the edge. Lara should just be able to reach the ledge
with the shield.
Now position the movable rock wall
above the pool so it's flat against the wall. Also make sure
the movable C-shaped armature
is arranged so the bar is horizontal. Repeat the initial
steps in the sequence used to get bronze #15 (i.e.,
freestanding rock to horizontal bar, vertical bar, bar with
C-shaped frame). But instead of jumping to the vertical pole
on the left, this time swing around the bar with the
C-shaped frame and jump to grab the vertical bar mounted on
the wall ahead. Climb up a bit if necessary, then jump to
the right to grab the crevice in the rock. Traverse around
the corner to the right and then jump up to grab the higher
crevice. Again traverse around the corner to the right. Let
go to land on the slope. Before Lara can slide off, jump
back to grab the horizontal crevice on the light gray rock
to the right. Jump straight up to grab the green handholds.
Climb up then jump to the right to grab the horizontal
crevice in the same rock. Traverse to the right as far as
you can. Jump to the right to grab the first of two
horizontal poles extending from the wall. Swing around and
jump to grab the second horizontal pole. Swing around and
jump to grab the crevice in the corner rock formation.
Traverse to the left and drop into the alcove right on top
of the bronze reward (16/16).
Position the movable horizontal bar
near the door so the gold ball points away from the door.
Make sure both movable ladder
and movable rock wall are
extended perpendicular to their respective walls. Follow the
same initial steps used to get bronze #13 (i.e., wedge to
horizontal bar, vertical bar, movable horizontal bar,
sloping rock, etc.), until you reach the small horizontal
crevice in the rock just to the left of the movable ladder.
This time, jump to grab the extended ladder. Climb to the
top and jump to the right to the
platform suspended from tracks in the ceiling. Let
Lara's weight carry the platform forward as far as it will
go. Then jump to the next platform, where you'll find a
silver reward (8/10). Don't
drop down yet.
Continue from the platform where you found silver #8. If
you have not already grappled the
movable rock wall so it's perpendicular to the wall
of the room, do that now. Turn so the pool is on Lara's
right. Take a running jump to grab the crevice in the rock
wall ahead. Now follow the middle steps in the sequence for
bronze #16 to get from here to the crevice to the left of
the movable rock wall.
NOTE: Alternatively, to
get silver #9 starting from the floor, extend the
movable rock wall. Then follow the same beginning steps in
the process to get bronze #15 (i.e., freestanding rock,
etc., to the crevice to the right of the green handholds).
Continue with the paragraph below.
This time, instead of jumping past the movable wall, jump
back to grab the horizontal pole which now extends from it.
Still hanging from the pole, turn around to face out into
the room. Swing around the pole and jump to grab the next
horizontal pole, which hangs from the ceiling and is angled
a bit diagonally. Adjust Lara's position left to right if
necessary. Then swing around the bar and jump to grab the
next horizontal bar, which also hangs from the ceiling at a
slightly odd angle. Adjust left to right again, swing around
the bar and jump to the suspended
platform ahead. To the left is the high alcove with
the reward.
Getting to that alcove is a bit tricky. It's critical to
position Lara in the middle of the platform, squarely facing
the reward. That way she'll have room to run forward a few
steps before jumping. Attach the magnetic grapple to the
ledge below the reward and pull to bring the platform Lara
is standing on closer to the alcove. When you can't pull any
more, quickly release the grapple, run forward and jump into
the alcove. (Whew!) Take the silver
reward (9/10. To get down, drop to the horizontal bar
below, then to the bar below that, then to the floor.
GOLD REWARD: This can be done before or after
completing the gym, but you will need to have taken the
necessary steps to unlock the first two clues. The first
clue ("Above the Waters. . . ."), found in the SECRET
PASSAGE, directs you to the statues above the SWIMMING POOL.
There you'll receive the second clue ("Within the hall of
knowledge. . . ."), which sends you back to the LIBRARY and
enables the colored book puzzle.
Return to the LIBRARY and use the Interact key to press
each of the protruding colored books in the right sequence:
cerulean, topaz, viridian and crimson (i.e., blue, yellow,
green, red). Blue is just inside the library on Lara's
right. Yellow is in the upstairs office. Green is on the
upstairs landing and red is on one of the downstairs
shelves. When the correct sequence is pressed, a
secret panel opens near the red
book, revealing a silver reward
(10/10) and another plaque. This one reads, "Above the
hearth, revealed visage and countenance touched in haste
raise up the steward."
Return to the MAIN HALL. The decorative panels at the end
of each balcony have now turned to reveal
golden switches. Use the
magnetic grapple to pull down the
horizontal bars above the glassed-in office so Lara
can swing on them. Now use either of the golden switches.
Quickly jump to grab the nearest of the horizontal bars.
Swing around and jump from one bar to the next and finally
to the opposite balcony. Quickly touch the second switch.
If you do this fast enough, a cut scene plays, showing a
large statue of Athena rising
from the floor below. The switch panels also rotate again,
revealing a set of carved plaques with another clue: "The
risen Athena turns to face the sun, whose burden then
reveals the golden laurel."
Go down to the statue and
turn it so Athena faces the stairs. Step on the
pressure pad with the carved
sun to raise a pedestal holding the gold
reward (1/1). Congratulations!
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