Prince of Persia 2008

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The Cauldron

The Cauldron - Light Seeds

Construction Yard

Construction Yard - Light Seeds

Machinery Ground

Machinery Ground - Light Seeds

Heaven's Stair

Heaven's Stair - Light Seeds

Reservoir

Reservoir - Light Seeds

The Observatory


Level 4:
THE VALE

Sublevel 7
HEAVEN’S STAIR

 

Jump and slide down from the slope. Jump to the opposite wall and run to the vines.
Shimmy left and prepare a wall run.


To the vines on your left

 

Wall run, slide down and jump to the opposite ledge.


To the opposite ledge

 

Pull up and jump to the hanging column.


Jump to the first hanging column

 

Jump with Elika’s help to the second hanging column. Climb up and prepare a roof run past two rings to a next hanging column.


On the second column

 

Roof run past two ring to another hanging column.


Roof run to a next column

 

Roof run to a hanging column in front of a ledge.


Your next roof run to a hanging column

 

Jump backwards to the ledge with the green Power Plate.


To the ledge

 

Elika: Heaven’s Stair... No one has been inside this place for ten, maybe twenty generations. Now the Plates are lit once more.
Prince: Ready to climb to the stars?
Elika: How many times have you used that line? Let’s go.


An observatory...

 

Elika: You recognize it?
Prince: This place isn’t the beginning and the end of civilization. Well, actually it might be the end of it. Your people cut yourselves off and then stared at the stars... ?
Elika: The stars tell us the time, the seasons, guide us over the deserts and seas...
Prince: That’s a lot of use when you don’t go anywhere. You know it’s been proved by scientists that all people who stare at the stars are crazy?
Elika: Anyone who hopes for something better is crazy?
Prince: You said it, Princess, not me.

This platform is a junction. You can either go to Reservoir or continue by the green Power Plate to the Fertile ground. You want to go to the Fertile Ground first.


The path to Reservoir

 

Climb up the wall and get launched from the green Plate to a second Plate.


Jump up and wall run to a second Plate

 

From here you are running to a third Plate, and you will have to use LAS to steer and avoid obstacles.


To the third Plate

 

Continue from this Plate to the ledge from where you get access the platform with the black fire of evil.


Up to the ledge

 

The monster you’ll meet next is a really ugly thing – some kind of a balloon head on two legs. Good combos will send it to hell.


The final stroke

 

Prince: I thought these Soldiers were people Ahriman had Corrupted?
Elika: They are, But The Alchemist experimented on them. He supplied Ahriman’s Army with the machines and weapons forged from Corruption.
Prince: Next time, try warning me about destructive war machines “before” we leap into the attack?
Elika: He won’t have had time to construct much since his release. We will be spared his worst.
Prince: Maybe you didn’t get it, but hen I said tell me about the machines... I meant tell me about the machines.
Elika: The Alchemist can manipulate Corruption make it do his bidding. At the height of his power he molded it into machines, vast rolling Cities that destroyed all before them...
Prince: Okay, now I’m wishing you hadn’t told me about them.

Climb up the ledge that leads to a next green Plate.


Climb up the ledge and wall run up to the green Plate

 

Wall run from this Plate to another green Plate and steer with LAS to avoid the obstacles.


To the next green Plate avoiding obstacles by steering

 

From this Plate you can reach a ledge.


From the Plate to a ledge

 

When you look inside the room on your left you’ll see a shaft.


Look at an open shaft

 

When you proceed into this room a cut scene will show how some kind of hydraulic pole elevator is going up while the blue grated metal door is closing off the shaft.


An elevator goes up when you walk inside

 

Prince: Are you sure there’s not another way up, outside the Tower?
Elika: I can’t see any other way. We’ll have to reach those mechanisms.

This room has four green Power Plates that each will bring you up to a ledge. Start with the left Plate (from the Entrance). You’ll reach a ledge.


From the left Plate to the ledge

 

Jump to the hanging column and to the shorter hanging column on your left with Elika’s help.


Jump to the first hanging column


Jump with Elika’s help to the shorter column

 

Roof run to the ring, press red to flip up and wall run up to a higher ledge.


Roof run and use the ring go up to a higher ledge

 

Pull up. A cut scene shows how the room is getting filled up with Corrupted air.


Corrupted air is filling the room

 

Elika: That’s Corrupted air, if you breathe it...
Prince: It’ll be the last breathing you do... Well, if the only way is up then let’s go up.
Elika: We have to go down to reach the other Power Plates. After we’ve gone over there to activate this first mechanism.
Prince: Let’s just make it fast. I don’t want to end up with a lung full of Corruption.

Obviously Elika meant you have to use all four Power Plates and each time go down to do so. Turn right and wall run to the sliding ring. The sliding of the ring will cause the first wheel to retract so you can wall run further to the vertical narrow shaft by pressing red when on the ring.


Wall run to the narrow shaft

 

Slide down from the shaft and go from the stairs. Turn left and use the second green Plate to get up to the platform. Notice that the first Plate is now unlit.


Sliding down


Turn left down the stairs

 

Elika: The platform has come down.
Prince: Not all the way, we’ll have to reach all the switches.

Climb up and jump to the hanging column. Climb up. From now on you have to move fast because the Corrupted air will gradually raise and eventually you’ll be in a complete darkness. When that happens you’ll drop down – but Elika will save you and you must start over.


Climb up the wall


Jump to the column and climb up

 

Jump backwards to a narrow ledge and shimmy right.


Jump to the narrow ledge

 

Wall run to a vertical narrow shaft on your right, and prepare a further wall run.


To the narrow shaft

 

Wall run to the second narrow shaft.


To the second narrow shaft

 

Climb all the way and jump to a higher narrow ledge.


Climb up the narrow shaft


Jump up to a narrow ledge

 

Shimmy left and wall run to the ledge on your left. Notice another mechanism on your left.


Wall run to the ledge

 

Wall run to the sliding ring and press red. The wheel will retract and you will wall run further to a vertical narrow shaft.


Wall run past the sliding ring to a narrow shaft

 

Gripfall on the stairs and move up with the third Power plate to a ledge. Jump to the hanging column and jump off backwards to the narrow ledge.


Hanging on the column


Jump to the narrow ledge

 

Shimmy all the way left around the corner and hurry up jumping to the narrow ledge above before it gets completely dark.


Shimmy left and jump up to a higher narrow ledge

 

Jump backwards to a ledge.


Jump backwards and hang from a ledge

 

Pull up and wall run to a next mechanism, passing a sliding ring and ending up on a vertical narrow shaft.


Wall run to the narrow shaft

 

Gripfall on the stairs and climb the last ledge with the green Plate. From the ledge you can see two hanging columns. Jump to the longer column first.


Jump from the ledge to the first column

 

Jump backwards to the second and shorter column. The camera turns panoramic allowing you to see a grated wall with two narrow ledges, one above the other.


On the shorter column

 

Act fast before you see completely nothing: jump backwards to the first narrow ledge (a “long jump”: you’ll reach the wall and climb up to the ledge). Immediately jump up to the higher narrow ledge and jump backwards to a full ledge.


Get to the ledge before it gets completely dark

 

Pull up. You’re back above the Corrupted air. Wall run to the last mechanism passing the sliding ring. End on your vertical narrow shaft and gripfall down. The Corruption has gone: the air is clean again.


Wall run to the narrow shaft and gripfall down

 

Elika: It’s clearing.
Prince: Then let’s go to the top before The Alchemist chokes us off again...


Let’s use that platform to go up

 

Go into the open elevator. The platform has a crank.

Prince: About the mech... if we don’t keep pushing we’ll be stuck here.


Want to take a break?

 

Elika: No. I want to get to the top. Now push!

Turn the crank counter-clockwise twice. Each turn is lifting the platform higher.


Turn the crank counter-clockwise twice

 

Let off the crank by pressing red again.

Prince: Where was The Alchemist going?
Elika: We need to find the next Plate to take us higher.
Prince: How do we get to the next floor?
Elika: Let’s search for a Plate.

Jump to the hanging column and climb all the way up.


To the hanging column

 

Jump backwards to the ledge. Go outside and turn right. You’ll spot a green Plate on a wooden wall.


Jump to the ledge


Go outside and turn right

 

Jump up to the Plate.


Jump to the Plate and engage

 

Start your wall run using LAS to steer and avoid the obstacles. Next screenshots show the spots where to steer. You will reach a second Plate.


Wall run up and steer away from obstacles to reach the second Plate

 

Wall run up the ledge with a view on the Fertile Ground.


From the second Plate to the ledge

 

Jump with Elika’s help to the Fertile Ground.


Jump to the Fertile Ground with Elika’s help

 

Be welcomed by your best friend in this Level... The Alchemist:
I underestimated you.
Prince: Yeah, that happens a lot.
Alchemist: Make things easier, confirm to my low expectations and give up.

This time this Creature can change into black too. Only an attack from Elika will turn him back to normal.


Only Elika can turn The Alchemist back to normal

 

Use combos starting with yellow and red, and keep repeating with blue, red and yellow. With some luck you can even push him off the edge.


That’ll be another time you underestimated me

 

Prince: How do we get out of here?
Elika: Through that portcullis. That switch should raise it.
Prince: Well, let’s pull that switch and get out of here.

Get near the blue light beam and press yellow to let Elika become one with the beam. Then press yellow repeatedly and admire that unique spectacle:


The healing of this Land!

 

The Prince approaches Elika:


For every step we take, there’s always one more

 

Elika: And so the present becomes the past. Our actions now build the foundations for what comes next.
Prince: Depressing isn’t it?

Get an Autosave, and also make a manual Savegame.

Next Sublevel:

HEAVEN’S STAIR – LIGHT SEEDS