Prince
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2008
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Level
3:
RUINED CITADEL
Sublevel
2:
KING’S GATE – LIGHT SEEDS
If you Resume Game from the Autosave you’ll be invited to start a conversation with Elika. Most of it is merely small talk but it means a nice relaxation to start your Light Seed hunt after that brutal battle with the Guardian.
Prince:
Will that Corrupted thing come back here?
Elika:
We’re safe. Ahriman can’t cast his shadow here now the land is healed.
Prince:
So, Princess...
?
Elika:
Will you stop calling me that?
Prince:
That’s what you are isn’t it? A Princess?
Elika:
My name is Elika.
Prince:
All right. Sorry Princess Elika.
Elika:
I didn’t catch your name.
Prince:
That’s because I didn’t give it you. What’s the furthest you’ve ever
been from here?
[NOTE:
now we still don’t know his name... ]
Elika:
You were there.
Prince:
The end of that Canyon? Where would you go
if you could?
Elika:
The ocean. What’s it like?
Prince:
Well. In the desert you feel alone. You survive the desert, but you live the
sea. I’d be careful, Princess, you see that. You might not come back. What’s
it like being a Princess?
Elika: Tiring.
Why do you wear that scarf?
Prince:
It’s lucky.
Elika:
I didn’t think you believed in that sort
of thing?
Prince:
I don’t...
But maybe it believes in me.
First
of all you already noticed this was not a room but an open courtyard. Look
around. There is the gate you came from, a hole in the wall and second closed
gate. Have a look through the opening.
The hole in the wall
You can spot numerous Light Seeds that all have to be collected. But first you need to open the gate. From here on we shall number Light Seed by “LS (number)”. LS2 is in front of the Gate and LS3 by the ring that opens the gate.
The gate with LS2 and LS3
Simply
pass a Light Seed and it will go to Elika’s Inventory with a short notice like
2/60, meaning you have 2 Light Seeds on a total of 60, the amount you need to
earn your first Power. However there are only 45 to be found in King’s Gate.
Walk
past LS2 and jump to the ring while collecting LS3. The Prince’s and Elika’s
weight will slide the ring down causing the gate to rise (you’ve done that
before at the
The gate is open now
Walk
to the end of the beam protruding from the gate while collecting LS4. Notice a
Light Seed hanging by a red Plate on top of a high alcove around a gate.
Obviously you can’t reach it... for now. Remember this Plate.
From
the ceiling of the alcove a narrow column is hanging that doesn’t reach the
floor. There is a Light Seed at its bottom. Above the gate you can spot some
vines and below there are two Light Seeds by the gate’s wall.
Standing at the end of the beam
Also look left and right from this point. Left you see another such red Plates with a Light Seed. The number of Light Seeds seems endless...
An abundance of Light Seeds left and right
Jump to the column with Elika’s help.
Jump to the column
Slide
all the way down to collect LS5 and climb up again. Jump backwards to the vines.
Jump to these vines
A hint tells you to gripfall to the floor. Apparently during a gripfall you can move left and right by using LAS. You can also do it in a safer way. First move left down the vine to collect LS6. Then move up and right until you’re hanging above the other Light Seed. Gripfall from this spot while catching LS7.
Catch LS7 with your gripfall to the floor
Turn around and take LS8 in front of you. Notice and remember a protruding narrow beam. Then turn around and left of the gate is a whole bunch of poles, beams and Light Seeds.
Follow the Seeds
Jump to the narrow beam [LS9] and to the pole [LS10]. Next jumps: to the narrow beam [LS11] and the ledge [LS12].
Jump
further from the next pole to the second [LS13] and to the green corner platform
[LS14]. Climb up to the higher ledge. You can reach the next ledge by a long
wall run with the ring.
Use the ring to wall run
Jump
to the vertical narrow shaft, slide down to a semi-circular wall with a narrow
ledge and shimmy all the way around to the next vertical narrow shaft where you
slide down [LS15].
From
this ledge you may continue left or right. Start going left first
Walk
along a short wooden ledge and jump to the lower platform. Turn around and
notice a protruding beam that allows you to return to the higher platform. For
now just follow straight and jump past two poles to a next platform.
Follow the poles
From
this platform you can see how to reach a Light Seed on the opposite wall.
Figure out how to reach the Light Seed
Wall
run using the ring to the narrow ledge. Shimmy right and slide from the vertical
pole [LS16].
Reaching LS16
Gripfall
to the large lower platform. Explore the entire platform. There is a wooden
ledge leading to a pole and platform from where you can ring climb and grab a
Light Seed. Left is a Light Seed on the wall that is not within reach on first
sight. We’ll get back to that later.
On
the other side you can ring wall to a platform. And left past the black track on
the floor you see a purple vine that leads up. Let’s explore the vine first.
The purple vine behind the black track on the floor
Jump
to the vines, climb up and turn all the way right. Climb down and let go to the
ledge. What you see now is one of the many tunnels that connect the Lands. This
Tunnel leads to The Cauldron (in The Vale) and to the
The connecting Tunnel
The
Light Seed on the wall that was seemingly beyond reach can be collected with a
dirty trick.
The Light Seed on the wall
Wall run to the Seed. Collect LS17 and the Prince will drop down saved by Elika. But you’ll have the Light Seed in the pocket...
Wall run and take the Light Seed
Elika will save you
[NOTE:
the proper way is to wall run to the Seed and then jump off the wall to the
ledge by pressing green and LAS in between forward and left, but the
result will be most likely the same]
Now
stand on the wooden ledge and figure out how to get the Light Seed between the
two wall rings on the other side.
Can you see how to get it?
Jump
past the pole to the ledge and ring climb up to a higher ledge via the rings,
meanwhile grabbing LS18.
You’ve
been here before. Backtrack to the beam you just saw from where you can return to
the higher ledge. You came down to this ledge by a vertical narrow shaft. This
time look at the left wall. Jump to a next ledge via a narrow beam. Climb up to
a vertical narrow shaft and vault up to the ledge. Have a good look of what to
do next.
From the higher platform you can see the path
Jump
past two narrow beams to the opposite ledge while grabbing LS19 on the second
beam. On this platform you can jump to a protruding beam and vault up to a
narrow ledge. Shimmy around the corner and prepare a wall run past the Light
Seed to the narrow ledge on your right. You’ve got LS20.
Prepare a side jump
Catch the Light Seed on your wall run
Shimmy
all the way around the many corners and pull up to a wooden ledge. Doesn’t
this whole trip seem familiar to you? Yes, that was the way you entered the
Fertile Ground in the previous Sublevel and this was the spot where you had the
conversation with Elika concerning the Hunter!
Notice some Light Seeds on the gate's alcove and some broken columns hanging above the
gap.
The spot of your earlier conversation
Reach
the following ledge by the pole and the narrow beams. This is the ledge by the
gate from where you started this entire side trip.
Continue
straightforward. Jump/run up to the narrow wall.
On the narrow wall
There
are lots of Light Seeds to grab on the path in front of you, but first turn
around and notice a Light Seed by the vine on the gate’s alcove. Reach this
vine with Elika’s help, climb up and take LS21.
Turn around to get the Light Seed by the vine
Climb all the way up and press green to jump off the vines and automatically do a wall run to a pole. Turn around and jump to a T-shaped narrow beam [LS22]. This is one floor higher than the narrow wall you were just standing on.
The T-shaped narrow beam where you found LS22
Jump
to the vine and climb down. Let go to the ledge and jump/run up the narrow wall
again. Jump from two poles to a narrow beam [LS23] and to the next pole. Then
ask Elika’s help to jump to the vine.
Jump to the vine with the Light Seed
Climb
up and grab LS24. Now turn around and notice another Light seed by a pole. Jump
to it from a narrow beam and a pole and collect LS25. Turn around and jump back
to the ledge.
[NOTE:
This sequence from the lower ledge to this higher ledge can also be played in a
different way, but this is just one example. Later on you’ll be returning here
anyway]
Wall
run up to LS26 on the left wall. Jump to the pole and on to the sloping
platform. Down the slope jump to the wall and wall run past LS27. Jump off to
the wall on your right, continue the wall run and jump off to a pole.
Slide down from the slope
Jump and wall
run past LS27
Jump off to the opposite wall
Wall run
Jump off the wall to the pole
There
is a black fire of evil on the opposite ledge predicting nothing good.
Jump
to the ledge and meet one of Ahriman’s Soldiers. Get him down with a couple of
Combos.
An easy fight
Prince:
How many of these things are there?
Turn around and notice a higher ledge on the right side of the pole you just jumped from. Jump up and wall run up to LS28.
Run up the wall to the Light Seed
Jump
to a sloping platform and at the end jump to the higher ledge. Pull up to the
ledge.
Slide down
Jump at the end of the slide
Jump
with Elika’s help to the next slope [LS29]. At the end of the slide jump to
the second slope. At the end of this slide jump to the banister of a ledge higher
up.
Your first slide
The second slide
A jump to the banister
Climb
over and observe the next scenery on your left.
Quite some more Light Seeds seen from here
Look
at the wall on your right. Return to the vine on the gate’s alcove along the
beams and poles you’ve been before. Use Elika’s help to jump to the third
pole though.
Drop
from the vines to the gate’s ledge and turn left. Jump to the hanging column
from the protruding beam you had to remember. Jump backwards to the green
platform.
Jump backwards to the platform
Turn right and take LS30. Jump to the hanging column with Elika’s help and climb up passing LS31. Jump backwards to the higher ledge.
Jump to the column with Elika’s help
Jump
to the hanging column around the corner and climb up to the roof. Roof run for
LS32 on your right and the Prince will jump back to the previous ledge.
Jump
back to the column and climb up again. This time turn your back towards the ring
on your left and roofrun to the ring [LS33]. Press red to extend your
roofrun and land on the opposite ledge.
Roofrun to the Light Seed by the ring
This
must look familiar again since you were here before on your way to the Fertile
Ground. Turn around the corner and wall run to the narrow wall. Jump to the next
ledge. Jump to the hanging column and climb up [LS34].
Jump to the hanging column
Jump
backwards to the next ledge and wall run along the curved wall to the vines. At
the end climb up the vines [LS35] and vault up to the Entrance of the Fertile
Ground. The door is open again now.
Up to the Fertile Ground
Return
to the end of the protruding beam of the gate and jump to the hanging column
with Elika’s help like you’ve done in the beginning. Climb to the top, turn
your back toward the ledge on the left and jump backwards with Elika’s help.
The correct position for the backward jump
JUMP!
Wall
run to pick up the Light Seed by the red Plate [LS36] and slightly past the
Plate gripfall to the vines below.
Wall run to the plate
Gripfall to the vines
Shimmy
right and wall run to your right until you are near the hanging column and jump
backwards to it. Turn your back towards the second column.
Wall run toward the column and jump off
Prepare a jump to the second column
Jump backwards to the column grabbing LS37. Notice a vine with two Light Seeds.
A tempting vine behind the Prince’s back
Jump
backwards to the vines and climb down [LS38-39].
Gripfall
down.
Our
business in the Ruined Citadel is finished now. It seems that you’ve collected
all the accessible Light Seeds for the time being. You can collect the few
remaining ones when you return with a Power of Elika.
You’ve
already guessed that the red Plates you saw are Power Plates that need to be
activated. Since you found out from the Map that each Power has its own color,
the Power needed here is Step of Ormazd,
colored red.
Open
the Map and look at your achievement. It says the Status is Healed and you’ve
got 39/45 Light Seeds.
Read your achievements on the Map
Now
select a new destination: The Vale, The
Cauldron, which is the next and nearest accessible Land. Press green
to set and / to exit the Map.
Set your new destination: The Cauldron
Press
yellow and Elika will mumble some hocus-pocus and throw a light ball in
the direction you’ll have to go.
The path to your new destination
The
flair goes in the direction of the Tunnel you just saw. Return to the Entrance
of the Tunnel right behind the purple vines, and read the continuation in Level
4: The Vale, The Cauldron.
Returning
with the Step of Ormazd
(continuation
from Level 7: Elika’s Powers, Step
of Ormazd)
You
now have the Step of Ormazd:
Look at your Map
The
Prince and Elika are beamed to the Fertile Ground. A conversation will now start
where they are digging in each other’s past. This may be interesting to
follow.
You don’t act like a Princess
Elika:
How do Princesses act?
Prince: All the money, none of the
sense, don’t know which end of a Camel eat and which end.
Elika: I know which end of a Camel
does what.
Prince: Princess, a real Princess.
Elika: What about you? How are you?
Prince: There’s not a lot to tell.
So, have you -
Elika: Aa-a, I’m not saying anything
until you share something about you. So...
why were you in the desert with a Donkey loaded with gold?
Prince: I was on my way home.
Elika: From where?
Prince: It’s not here you come from,
it’s where you’re going that matters. Your turn to tell me something.
Elika: You’ve still not said where
you got the gold.
Prince: I found it.
Elika: You found it. You’re a thief.
Prince: I’m an adventurer.
Elika: You’re a thief.
Prince: I reclaim abandoned property.
I was a few days from hare, I’d heard rumors
of a tomb. A little bit of
digging, a small amount of hiding and...
forget one Donkey, I could’ve loaded twenty, thirty...
if those Guards hadn’t turned up. Still, I got away with enough to keep life
pleasurable for at least a few more years.
Elika: You robbed the dead?
Prince: It’s a lot easier than
robbing the living. Why am I being punished? Sure, I took a little gold, but the
owner had been dead for three hundred years. It’s not like he was going to do
anything with it.
Elika: Who’s out there waiting for
you?
Prince: The world full of people.
Elika: Isn’t there one you’ve got
close to?
Prince: Trust yourself and you don’t
need to.
Elika: Trusting your own
judgment
can
get lonely.
Prince: You rely on someone else
they’ll just let you down.
Elika: You haven’t let me down.
Prince: You haven’t known me long
enough.
Elika: Tell me about your family.
Prince: Don’t have a family.
Elika: Well, you came from somewhere.
Prince: Yes, and I’ going somewhere
else.
Now
the Prince is inviting Elika to a Game. One of these childish Games where you
have to guess a word from an initial. This Game takes a long time and is totally
irrelevant to the Walkthrough so I will skip it when it starts boring.
Prince:
Want to play a Game? Come on it’ll be
fun.
Elika:
The world’s about to end and you want to
play a Game?
Prince: Might as well die happy.
Elika: What sort of a Game is this?
Prince:
Well, I see something and you have to guess what it is.
Elika:
How can I guess that? This is a stupid
Game.
It
may not be that stupid though because the Prince is always referring to things
in this world, but it is pretty boring though. When the Prince’s Game is over
we’re back in business: collecting the remaining Light Seeds here at the
King’s Gate.
Prince:
Do we need to pick up some more of these
“Light Seeds”?
Elika: They will help us.
You
first need to reach the first accessible red Power Plate and you’ve done that
before in this Sublevel.
Jump from the gate’s protruding beam to the hanging column with Elika’s help
and turn your back towards the left ledge. Jump backwards to the ledge and wall
run to the Plate.
This time press yellow to activate the Plate.
You’ll blast off to the Power plate above the gate with the Light Seed [LS61].
Wall run to the Power Plate and...
Press yellow
Blast off
Reach the gate’s Power Plate
Press yellow and get off to the opposite wall with two rings. Wall run and press red when touching a ring [LS62-63] until you reach the next Power Plate [LS64].
Catapult to the wall with the rings
Wall run to the third Power
Plate
Press
yellow to be catapulted to an opposite ledge.
Blast off to the opposite ledge
Open your Map and notice that you’ve gathered 43/45 Lights Seeds at the Kings' Gate. That means 2 are still missing.
Check your achievements on the map
Go
around from this ledge and find out that the two remaining Light Seeds are in an
alcove in a wall by the ledge in front of the double slope to the banister. Turn
right and jump up into the alcove to get them.
The forgotten two Light Seeds
Open
the Map again and you will now have all 45/45 Light Seeds.
King’s Gate has finished
Since
King’s Gate and The Cauldron are both healed and there is a
Tunnel connecting both one may wonder if this Tunnel would not be healed either?
Let’s find out and return to the vines at the Entrance of the Tunnel.
And yes, everything looks fresh again, even the vines look green.
The vines look green now
Climb
around the vines and look into the Tunnel: it is full of Light Seeds!
The Tunnel is healed as well!
Head
for The Cauldron and gather more Light Seeds!
