Lost City of Gold Series.
Level by Bruce Zaremba.
Walkthrough by Dutchy.
Level 1:
Memory Lane CS= crawlspace, MS= monkeyswing, UW= underwater, MP= Medpack. This is a "young Lara" level, no weapons, just dodge enemies as they
appear. There are a lot of animal enemies, but most are easy to avoid so I
won’t mention them all. The level takes you back into the Memory of Lara and shows you how the
whole Lost City of Gold adventure started Peru 1983: Go forward to a brown plateau overlooking a waterfall to the L, go to the
end of the plateau and to the R is an opening to another part of the jungle
(later), runjump to the pool under the waterfall and swim into the cave, R
and up into the L hand far corner, face N from the waterhole and see the
Sculpture on the wall on Boulder Square, in front is a dark grey
floor that will release Boulders coming through that wall, so run over and
run over the corner of that grey floor to quickly jump away. But not onto
that golden gratings as they are Spiked. Go up into the Sculpture as it is a
walkthrough wall and jump to a rope, swing over to the other side ledge (
ignore 2nd rope) and go down the ladder. Go out into a pit with a
Skeleton, keep your hand to the R hand wall at all time so you’ll stay on
the safe path along that wall and drop into the hole at the small ladder,
follow the dart alley to a lever that will open a secret passage in the
Jungle. Head back, over the ropes, swim to the waterfall and pull up to the lower
canyon where a Croc is running around, wait for him to come close and jump
straight over him to go to the far L hand corner for a MP. Then go
along the grey rock to find the place where you can climb back up to the
brown plateau with a couple of standjump grabs. Go straight into that Jungle
area and R past the big tree, get another MP there before you enter
the opened passage in W wall and come to a room where there’s a big Statue
with a waterfall. Go behind it and into the door to another area, use 3
ropes to swing over to the opposite side and grab while you jump into the
opening. Follow the cave to a wide area where you look out over the tree
tops, standjump down and go to the most NE point of this tree (first walk N
then E), runjump NE to the next tree (you will have to try a couple of times
so save) and do the same a few times to get into that dark NE corner where
you can runjump/grab the ladder on the wall. Go down and SW to a fallen tree, look behind it for a hidden tunnel in
the floor, follow up a ladder to the floor of the rope canyon, go E and drop
into another hidden tunnel. Follow to a room with a lever, that will open a
gate near the room with the statue. Go back and spot the ladder at the exit,
go up and turn around to jump/grab the stone ledge, the other one is trapped,
go up to a room where you’ll find a hole in the floor, drop down into the
pool at the statue, go to the S door and follow up to the gate you opened. One of the 4 Heads doesn’t produce any water to fill that hole you
see in the flyby, go to the w wall and find the MP, walk into the
wall behind it and throw the lever to get water pouring out of the Head,
then head over to the opposite corner to swim into that hole. Swim down to a
tunnel that brings you to a room with a lever, throw that to open the gate
on Boulder square. Head back, past the 4 Heads to the statue and R, through
the jungle, L at the tree and jump down into the lake at the waterfall, swim
R and go up to go over to that open gate, don’t step on the Golden gratings!
Go along the R hand side of the Golden gratings and the last corner tile
near the open gate is safe, turn L and sidejump over the corner of the Spike
Tile to the opening. Follow to the L in the end and a Croc shows up, quickly climb the
ladder and go up and R, then backflip to the branch behind you, get the ½
MP and jump/grab back to the ladder, go down and head S, climb the ladder
to the L and up to a ledge with a MS, which is not useable, just runjump/grab
the hidden opening under it on the opposite side and follow the passage to a
river. Look L and on the opposite side of the Canyon is a ledge sticking out
of the wall, use those ledges to go S and jump/grab to the centre ledge (you
can’t see) in the end. Open the door with the lever and climb down the
ladder behind it, follow the wide passage up to an Artifact ( A Golden
Skull) you can just get a glimpse of, an Earthquake sets Boulders
free and they are not good for your health, so roll and sprint back down the
passage and keep L a bit, then a sharp R turn at the end to get out of the
way of the Boulder and drop down into the new hole in the end to go to the
next adventure… (It’s of no use to try and outwit the Boulders by jumping in one of the
Statue alcoves, the Skull fell into a deep pit and you can’t get past the
Boulders anymore) End of part one Dutchy 18-10-2004