SOUTH PACIFIC PART 4: TEMPLE OF PUNA
Kills: 9 Items: 10, plus the ORA DAGGER artifact
(or ELEMENT 115) Save/power-up crystals: 2
Secrets: 1*
*The number of kills may vary (see
the last area in the level). Be sure to find all the secrets
so you can access the bonus level at the end of the game.
Note that one of the regular pick-ups here will be the
DESERT EAGLE PISTOL if you didn't get it in a previous
level.
Objectives: Make your way through the trap-riddled
temple to take on the South Pacific boss and claim his
artifact, the Ora Dagger.
Kill 2 natives with blowguns
on the stairs to the right. Go up the steps past them.
You'll meet 2 more guys with blowguns
on the way to the top. When you get there, crawl through the
small opening.
Pick up the small medipak in
the doorway. The next room has sloped sides, a locked door,
4 buttons (to open that door)
and a row of interconnected rolling
blades. When the blades roll past toward the right,
slide down and sprint forward to the
save/power-up crystal. Keep moving, arc around to the
left and run up the slope. Position Lara at one of the seams
between the square with the button on it and an adjacent
square. Duck and you'll be safe there from the blades.
(NOTE: You can also find safe
spots to stand in the corners of the room, but I found this
method easier.)
When the blades roll away, stand up and push the first
button. Then sidestep back to the seam and duck again. The
next time the blades roll away, run over to one of the seams
near the second button. Duck, wait for the blades to roll
away again, then push the button. Duck near the seam again
if necessary. Then, when the blades roll away, follow them
down but wait on the downslope. When they turn and roll down
toward you, take a running jump over them.
(NOTE: Make sure you run straight
forward from the seam area so you jump over the blade at the
"axle.") Run up the slope and repeat the
duck-run-press maneuver for the remaining two buttons. Then
when the blades roll away, sprint down through the open
door.
Climb up into the archway. Below is a room with
3 switches. When you slide in,
the spiked ceiling begins to
descend. Quickly pull out the movable
block (the only carved one) from the left wall. That
will stop the ceiling. (Pulling all of the switches does the
same thing, but the block does it much more easily.) Now
pull the 3 switches to open the gate.
Safety-drop through the opening. Enter the next area,
pick up the small medipak and go
left to the switch. This opens
the gate at the other end of the room and arms the
boulder trap. Turn around,
sprint for the gate and cut to the right onto the
perpendicular path. Another boulder
rolls in from the left, so keep going until you reach the
archway where it's safe. You'll get a
save/power-up crystal on the way. Press Look as you
go, so you don't get disoriented by Lara's "vision" of the
rolling boulder. And watch out for the
break-away tiles. There's some kind of
freaky yellow lava below.
The next area is actually where you started. There are
3 more locals with blowguns
waiting for you—one on the left and two on the right. One of
the guys on the left drops a small
medipak when he dies. Take it and go back up the
stairs the way you went earlier.
This time the small door above the bend in the stairs is
open. To reach it, go all the way to the top of the stairs,
take a standing jump to grab the carved wall, traverse to
the left and climb into the doorway. This is the level's
ONLY SECRET. Inside you'll
find 3 sets of Desert Eagle clips,
flares and a
large medipak. (NOTE: If
you don't already have the DESERT EAGLE
PISTOL, you will get it here in place of clips.)
Safety-drop out of the opening and go back down the
stairs to the bottom. Go forward at the intersection to the
gate, which is now open. Slide down the ramp into the throne
room.
Pick up the 2 small medipaks at
the side spokes before or after the fight. When you go up
the steps at the back of the throne, it turns around and the
battle with the boss—apparently he's called
PUNA, since this is
his temple—begins.
It's possible to defeat him with pistols, but it goes
very quickly with Uzis or the Desert Eagle. You can devise
your own strategy, but here's what worked for me: Walk up
the stairs. As soon as Puna's chair begins to turn around,
start shooting and backflip and find the center of the
platform. (You don't want to fall off the edge or you'll
have to start over.) Immediately jump to the left or right,
then back to the center, to the other side, then back to the
center. Keep repeating the side flips while shooting. He
can't hit Lara with those deadly energy bolts as long as she
keeps moving.
Depending on which weapon you use, he may have time to
put up an energy shield and unleash one
or more lizards to help him. At this point, ignore
him—he won't attack Lara, and Lara's bullets can't penetrate
the shield. Instead, quickly kill the lizards and use a
medipak to antidote their poison if necessary. When the
lizards fall, go back to shooting the boss. Pretty soon, his
chair will start to vibrate. Then you'll know it's over. At
this point, you can stop shooting; soon after, he'll
explode.
Retrieve the ORA DAGGER
artifact and head for the cold place!
(NOTE: In some versions of the game, this will be the
ELEMENT 115 artifact; you'll get the ORA DAGGER in the last
Nevada level.)
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