Vampyr - Pandora's Box Quest & Secret Vault Puzzle Walkthrough

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This is a walkthrough post for "Pandora's Box", a fascinating and complicated quest in Vampyr . It spans through several main missions and is connected with a subsequent brilliant puzzle that opens a secret vault which, in turn, rewards you with a cool weapon, a special collectible and an achievement. Main mission "Unnatural Selection" : after you find your way via the sewers to reach the Temple Church area but before you go to meet Aloysius Dawson, run around the perimeter of the church to locate an underground passage. At the end of this passage, an Indian fortune teller, Usher Talltree, will be sitting surrounded by curios, doing his magic. Talk to him to get one important hint for Aloysius Dawson, and also have him offer you his quest, Pandora's Box, to find his stolen notebook. If you have enough money, you can ask him to "read the cards" and every time you do this, he will give you hints on several residents. I skipped this part, since it is

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft & The Lost Artifact Playthrough

Next up in my Tomb Raider Nostalgia Playthrough Series is Tomb Raider 3, the third installment of the classics. There were quite a few innovations in this game compared the to the first and the second, the most memorable being the fact that, after the first section was completed, you could play the subsequent three adventures in any order you wanted. Like in Tomb Raider 2, a brief but fabulous bonus level would unlock if you completed the game with all secrets found.

Since these playthroughs are going to be a one-time thing - that is, I will probably won't be replaying the classic Tomb Raiders in full, any time soon at least - I am trying to cover as much stuff as possible. Random kills or pickups that have no interest or are simply in the regular path, may be left behind, but I do find all the secrets and if there is exploration involved (including pickups) in areas that are optional, I go for them as well. In this game in particular, I am referring to the legendary River Ganges level from the India section, where at some point you have to choose between two possible paths. At first, covering both paths was considered impossible, but later several players found out a way to visit them both. In my playthrough, I also do this; I cover both paths so as to explore as much of the terrain as possible. All this involves some really tricky jumping that may even put to shame many contemporary games that are considered difficult in that aspect. You can choose between paths in other levels as well, but in those cases you cannot cover both alternatives, so I will be taking the longest possible path.

This game includes one of the toughest sequences I have ever encountered in gaming - and trust me, I have played many difficult games! I am referring to the notorious kayak sequence in the Madubu Gorge stage of the South Pacific Islands section. Driving any vehicle is a tough business in the old Tomb Raider games, but the kayak is on another level. In fact it is almost literally an up-the-creek-without-a-paddle kind of level, almost because you do have a paddle but it's a royal pain in the ass anyway because even though you have a paddle, those wild rapids are definitely the devil's work. At the same time, it's a quite fascinating experience, because who can forget the impressive finale with Lara driving the kayak down that roaring whirlpool.

Tomb Raider 3 also includes one of my most cherished sections, the one that takes place in London. This section is perfection, even with today's standards. In its turn, it features one of the most difficult sequences in the whole series, the flooded / underwater section of the Lud's Gate stage. Like in the Tomb Raider 2 playthrough, in this one too I have included its Gold expansion, The Lost Artifact. Each video covers one section of the main game, and the Lost Artifact has its own separate video.

A NOTE ABOUT THE LOST ARTIFACT: this is the one of the two classic Tomb Raider games that I have played the least (along with TR1's Gold expansion) - which is weird, by the way, given how much I like most of it. Moreover, the only working version of it that I could find (that is, the only version that would even load on my Win11 PC) was an extremely buggy one that featured every single bug that has been reported so far concerning this game. For these reasons, I didn't insist much on achieving good scores, as I just wanted to record a playthrough for historical reasons mainly. Regardless, all secrets are again included, as well as almost all the pickups that are well-hidden or require taking complex routes.

Part 1 is India, the introductory section including: Jungle, Temple Ruins, The River Ganges, Caves of Kaliya.

Part 2 is Nevada: Nevada Desert, High Security Compound, Area 51.

Part 3 is the South Pacific Islands section: Coastal Village, Crash Site, Madubu Gorge, Temple of Puna.

Part 4 is London: Thames Wharf, Aldwych, Lud's Gate, City.

Part 5 is Antarctica: Antarctica, RX Tech Mines, Lost City of Tinnos, Meteorite Cavern.

Part 6 is the bonus level, All Hallows.

The last part is a longplay of The Lost Artifact.

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