Strange route I took (spoilers)

[Piega]

In Southern Mexico: Land Of The Dead I was stuck. I got out but not how it was supposed to go. Therfore I think this part of the game was dissapointing for me as the way was strange. I just checked the walkthrough and the solution is different.

Also the pillar is not mentioned in the walkthrough wich Lara can push when the belt is obtained. How did you manage to leave this room? And did you use the pushed pillar?

I closed Thor again so the hammer is in front of his chest and the blue water streams for the entrance. Then I jumped to the platform again. Climbed up his arm, and this was strange as the camera go's weird here. Lara is all stuck but with crouching you can get on the arm and vault on the hammer (no checkpoint in this method). Then jumping on the pillars including the pushed one. Now climb around the room till you reach the beams. From there jump on the broken pillar. From there I was able to jump to the ledge behind the other pillar to climb out and leave the room. So no use of the rings at all.

This is the walkthrough version:

Get back on the lowest pillar and grapple the ring under the snake head. Jump off and climb up quickly : as soon as the mouth is open again, the poisonous water will start to raise again. Swing and reach the ledge under the snake head. Shimmy left and pull up on the block. Head right and locate a few ledges on the wall. Grab the first one and make your way to the right until you reach the blocks. Jump up and traverse the first beam, then the second one and drop down on the other side. Head forward and locate a small ledge on the right. Grab it and jump left. Pull up and head right, hugging the wall. Once between the two pillars, perform a wall jump to climb up the space and grab the upper ledge. Shimmy right and vault on the hammer (checkpoint).

Look up and locate the second golden ring. Launch the grapple to catch it and jump forward. Quickly climb up and swing in order to face the entrance of the room. You need to reach the ledges under the entrance platform. Swing two or three times then jump before the water is too high. Jump up to get back to the entrance and head through the tunnel.

[Ward Dragon]

I think the walkthrough version sounds like how I did it. I'm pretty sure that's the official way since there was a checkpoint when I climbed up on the hammer.

[tlr online]

There's a few routes you can take. During subsequent passes we'll add alternative routes.

Thanks for the info Piega. :wve:

[coolaideonfire]

I did it as the walk through describes, it's the only route I could see. I didn't understand why we could move the pillar? I couldn't see how that would be useful at all. :confused:

[Zebra]

I used the way described in the walkthrough. Although I did it a little differently. Here's the walkthrough version but changed so that it fits the way I took (with the changes in red):

Get back on the lowest pillar and onto the ground. You'll notice that one of the pillars will now have a blue glow when you're close to it. Press the "Interact"-button and push it forward as far as you can. Then get back up onto the lowest pillar and grapple the ring under the snake head. Jump off and climb up quickly : as soon as the mouth is open again, the poisonous water will start to raise again. Swing and reach the ledge under the snake head. Shimmy left and pull up on the block. Head right and locate a few ledges on the wall. Grab the first one and make your way to the right until you reach the blocks. Jump up and traverse the first beam, then the second one and drop down on the other side. Head forward and jump onto the block in front of the pillar on the right. From here you can reach the glowing pillar you've just moved. Jump onto it and continue your way by jumping onto the pillar to your left and onto Thor's hammer.
(checkpoint)

Look up and locate the second golden ring. Launch the grapple to catch it and jump forward. Quickly climb up and swing in order to face the entrance of the room. You need to reach the ledges under the entrance platform. Swing two or three times then jump before the water is too high. Jump up to get back to the entrance and head through the tunnel.

[tlr online]

Thanks for the info Zebra. :wve:

[Kagero]

I've been trying for the last 45 minutes to do the grapple swing from the hammer onto the ledges under the exit. I don't think I've ever been this frustrated in TR before. :(

What part of the hammer do you stand on?
What direction is the initial jump toward?
How many climbs up do you do after the initial swing?
Any direction correction needed?
How many swings before releasing?