Find every red skull, complete every challenge, complete all the puzzle and Challenge Tombs and receive tips for completing Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light by reading our simple to follow game guide.
Level 1 – Temple Of Light
Score Challenges
Score 100,000 Points
Score 130,000 Points
Score 160,000 Points
Reward Challenges
Collect 10 Red Skulls – Stone Arrow
Reach the exit in 6 mins or less – Headdress of Ehecatl
Jump between 7 spider pots without touching the ground – Health power-up
Disable Xototl’s fire trap in under 30 seconds – Clay Owl
Destroy all the urns – Ammo Power-up
Achievements you should be able to unlock
Breadwinner – Earn the top score objective in any level
Seeing Red – Collect all 10 red skulls in any single level
Overachiever – Complete any level specific reward challenge
Three birds one stone – Kill three enemies with one bomb
A Friend In Need – Play Co-op mode
Objective
Chase after Xolotl and return the Mirror of Smoke
Complete Walkthrough
Tip – You’ll be able to dual-wield pistols throughout this level, but a lot of the enemies you face are easier to dispatch with the spear once you unlock it. Use pistols to smash urns and the spear to kill creatures.
The adventure begins with you facing a door with two cogs that appear to be stuck either side. Free the cogs and you’ll open the door. Before you do that though head behind you and up the stairs. You can drop down to area at the side of the stone circle and collect numerous gems which gets you off to a good start in reaching the three Score Challenges that you’re set. If you want to complete these challenges then shoot every enemy and urn you come across, and destroy every breakable object. There’s more than enough points available to complete the challenge.
Head back to the door with the broken cogs. You can use ‘Y’ to drop a bomb and then “Y” to detonate it. Place a bomb in front of the left hand cog, step back out of the red circle, which represents the blast radius, and detonate. Do the same with the right hand cog and the door will open. Head up the two flight of stairs until you come to an area littered with urns. If you smash all the urns in the level you’ll complete a reward challenge and gain an ammo power-up. You’ll also pick up points from smashed urns. Watch out for the TNT crates here! Stand well back so you don’t get caught in the blast. The first red skull is in this area so pick it up. If you collect 10 red skulls you’ll complete a reward challenge. Up the next flight of the stairs and across the bridge. There’s a static object here that we’ll refer to as the arrow machine – it fires arrows and here it blocks your path. You can use bombs to blow up objects in the game world, so lay one down close to the machine, stand back and detonate. Keep moving along the stairs and across the bridge until you reach a cut scene.
“2000 years in the prison and now I shall bathe in your blood,” says Xolotl teases. This is your first bout 
of combat against Xolotl’s ogres.You’ll be given a huge spear which you can use to throw at the creatures. This is a great opportunity to complete the Reward Challenge to blow up three enemies with one bomb. Place the bomb in the central stone circle and stand in the middle to tease the ogres toward you. Blow them up when they’re all in the middle. They may not all die first time, so you might have to repeat the process. Notice, you can press ‘X’ to dodge which comes in very handy if you ever get surrounded. Only one way to go here, head up the stairs with the fiery torches either side.
You need to open the door by standing on the moveable platform just in front of it. If you want to gain some points by collecting the gems either side of the two arrow machines and pick up the second red skull, you can simply hop over them to grab them, or detonate them with a bomb. Once you move through the doorway you’ll learn the spear jump. As well as killing creatures, Lara can impale her spears into objects or walls and use them to climb and swing on to reach new areas or hard to reach objects. Aim at the wall in front of you with your right thumbstick and unleash the spear with the right trigger. You can now hop on the spear and jump to the platform above.
You’ll now see a health shrine glowing green. Whenvever you stand near to the shrines your health is replenished. Check the health metre in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, when it starts to get low you should look for med-packs or health shrines. These shrines do dry up so you can’t keep going back to them, and they do fill up your health gradually rather than in one go, so keep on your toes if there are enemies around. Notice: there are three urns in this area. Destroy them to get closer to completing the reward challenge.
Move up the steps to the next area and watch out for ogres dropping down from above. Prepare yourself with the spear. You should have five enemies to contend with here. A good tip here is to keep moving backwards while facing enemies. You’ll give yourself enough time to kill them without getting hurt yourself. Up the steps to next platform. Look out for two Urns at the top of the steps. You’re about to learn the grapple move. Look out for golden grapple rings and then keep your finger pressed down on ‘RB’ to launch yourself across to that position. You may have to climb up the rope while hanging to reach the desired area.
The arrow firing contraption here is an unwanted irritation, so place a bomb next to it and blow it up before gathering the gems. Use ‘RB’ to hook onto the golden grapple hoop. Jump off the platform and remember to keep your finger held down on ‘RB’ as you move up the rope to the safety of the next area, otherwise the rope just breaks. Stand on the moveable platform in front of the statue, where you’ll pick up the third red skull, and you’ll see a door open on the side where you’ve just come from. Make your way back across to that area. Note – Lara can survive jumps from big heights. Just jump down here and make your way up the steps again and through the open gateway.
Another set of steps to navigate and you’ll have to make your way across the bridge. You’re going to have to contend with a handful of creatures to get past. They’ll come to you so stand back by the bottom of the steps and pick them off one at a time. When they’re dead move forward and blow up the TNT with your spear. Make sure you’re standing back from the blast. Now up the steps and through the next doorway.
In this next section, you’re introduced to med-kits, which have a green glow around them and give your health a quick boost when you pick them up. See the glowing gold handle? Move toward it and press ‘B’ to pull it. You’ll see a number of objects throughout the game that you can interact with, including levers and rolling balls that you’ll need to move around to solve environmental puzzles. Note: When you pull a handle it opens a door, but you only have a certain amount of time to get through it before it shuts.
Through this opening and you’ll see another arrow-firing contraption. As soon as you start to move forward you’ll be attacked from the bottom of the stairs and from behind the arrow machine. The creatures will always come toward you so stand back and spear them. Blow up the arrow machine. At the bottom of the steps there is a med-kit if you need it, otherwise stand where the arrow machine originally was and fire a spear across to the other side and stick it in the wall just next to the red skull You can now jump over and land on the arrow, grab your fourth red skull and climb up to the next platform.
In this area, you’ll pick up your first artefact. Artefacts can affect your characters attributes in a number of different ways and two can be equipped at the same time to double its power. You can equip the clay arrow here in your inventory slot. There’s another arrow machine to contend with here, so blow it up with a bomb and pick up all the gems. Pull the gold handle and head through the open door up the steps. In the next room is another health shrine so stand by it and top up if you need to. In this area pick up all the gems in the room. You’ll notice there are two moveable platforms that you need to weigh down to open the next door. Climb up the ladders to the right of the shrine and blow up the arrow machine. Don’t forget to pick up your fifth red skull! As soon as you do this you’re going to be attacked by creatures. If you stick to the Eastern Wall they can only come in front of you so you should have no problem. You can place a bomb in the centre of this area and blow them up too. There are two rolling balls here which you can pick up with your ‘B’ button. You need to pick them up and place them on the two platforms below. Go through the door and up the two flights of steps.
See the pots with spiders on the lids? If you can jump between all seven without touching the ground you’ll unlock a reward challenge. It’s trial and error here. If you don’t do it first time you can have as many goes as you like. Note: the sixth red skull is sitting on top of one of the pots. Now, it’s time to learn the wall run.You do this in conjunction with using the grapple hook. Grapple onto the golden hook and take the leap across the gap. You’ll automatically run against the wall and simply have to press your jump button to time it perfectly to land safely on the other side. Okay, it’s time for your first puzzle.
If you disable Xolotl’s fire trap in under 30 seconds you’ll unlock a reward challenge! This is quite simple fi you follow this technique, but you’ll have to be quick and extremely precise. On the far side of the trap is a rolling ball. Move clockwise around the trap, grab the ball and roll it along to the platform on the North side of the trap. This will extinguish the fire on the south side allowing you to pull the handle and blow up part of the trap. Run immediately anti-clockwise to pull it. Once you’ve done that move anti-clockwise just behind the flame to grab the ball again and place it on the East platform. Now head to the West side of the trap in an anti clockwise direction to pull the lever and blow up the machine. Now go through the door. Just as you move throught the doorway on your right, is the seventh red skull.
When you stand on the movable platform through the door you’ll trigger a series of wooden platforms that you can use to get across the other side. Be quick otherwise they will disappear. All of the skulls you’ll find by just following the paths, but this is the one that most may not find. Look just to the left of the first fire-filled hanging pot on the left hand side of the door. Use the rolling ball in this area to get it. Move it just underneath the skull and climb up on it. Put a spear in the wall and use it to jump on to get it. Now move through the door.
In this next section, destroy the arrow machines with bombs on the upper and lower sections before proceeding. You can get the red skull by placing spears in the wall at various heights. Use the elevation of the stairs to help you place the spears. This is your ninth red skull. Grapple onto the hook on the platform above you and swing across. You’ll now see your first impact switch. Shoot or bomb impact switches to change objects or open doors in the game world. In this case it opens the door to the next area. Now you’ll have to use your spear to shoot it again through the open doorway in order to open the next door. Time for a cut-scene.
“An impressive specimen,” he says. “I’ll make a robe with your fine pale skin.” It’s time to tackle some of Xolotl’s larger creatures that resemble huge ogres. Notice: There are a ton of urns to smash in this section, but you’ll have plenty of time to do that after you’ve killed the beasts. A good strategy here is to move to higher ground up the stairs and keep backing away from the creatures while hurlign spears. You’ll have to face his minions too so don’t be afraid to lay down some bombs to take care of them. Note: There’s med-kits lying around if you need them. After you defeat the creature you’ll learn about Challenge Tombs. These are marked with red skulls and if completed give you rare items. The first Challenge Tomb can now be entered.
Note – Challenge Rooms are optional but they don’t take up too much of your time and you’ll gain some neat upgrades for your efforts.
Challenge Tomb 1.
Reward – Ammo Upgrade
The quickest way to do this is to fire your arrow at the impact switch across the platform to open the first gate. Now stand just to the left of the open gate without moving through just yet and shoot at the impact switch again. Move swiftly through the gate before it closes. You can now get to the other side, where you should plant a spear in the wall to get to the higher platform and grab the blue ammo upgrade. You can make your way out of the tomb by reversing the strategy you just used.
Now exit the tomb and head up the stairs and you’ll come to a stone bridge. You’re going to be attacked from either side by two huge creatures. Attack the one in front first, tackle them one at a time. There’s another challenge room straight ahead!
Challenge Tomb 2
Hit the impact switch on the other side and the gate will open. Move the rolling ball past the open gate and onto the moveable platform. You can now walk across the wooden bridge to the other side. Flick the impact switch and move the second rolling ball into the area where the first ball is lying. Flick the switch again, move across the wooden bridge and take one of the balls (leave one on the moveable platform) to the other moveable platform just to the right of the bottom of the steps. You’ll now see two wooden bridges and you can hop from one to the other to get the reward – an ammo upgrade.
As you leave the tomb you’ll learn about relics and the relic metre, which is shown in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Equipped relics improve your combat abilities. When you pick one up you can check it in the inventory screen to view its strengths. You fill the power metre by collecting gems and killiing enemies.
Head up the steps, the gate will slam shut behind you. Pull the gold lever and it will bring up wooden platforms that you can hop across over the spikes below to the other side. You need to be quick because the platforms will disappear! When you get to the other side you need to react quickly because sections of the wall will move quickly toward you and will push you into the pit of spikes if you’re not careful. You’ll pick up the final red skull before you jump up onto the first moving wall. Just climb up the first two walls and then you’ll need to embed a spear in the third moving wall and fourth jump up on it. When you reach the top you’ll see a gold handle that you can grapple onto. Move up the steps and through the gateway to complete the level.
If you’ve followed our guide you should have completed all the score and reward challenges. The toughest reward challenge is beating the level in less than 6 minutes. To do this you need to ignore a large majority of the creatures and just focus on getting from “A” to “B”. Wait until you’ve played the level at least once before attempting it and then you’ll know the pathways you need to take and the beasts that you can avoid.
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