Prince of Persia 2008

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The Cavern - Through the Tunnel

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Royal Gardens

Spire of Dreams

Coronation Hall

Royal Spire

Palace Rooms


Level 5
ROYAL PALACE

Sublevel 3
ROYAL  GARDENS

 

Walk to the end of the protruding grated beam pointing to the next section of the path in Corruption.


Continue from the grated beam

 

Jump with Elika’s help to the wall with two rings and climb up to a ledge.


Up to the ledge

 

Walk on the protruding beam and jump to a hanging column. Jump backwards and wall run. Jump off to the next hanging column.


On the next hanging column

 

Jump backwards to the wall. Wall run and jump off with Elika’s help to a large platform in front of the Fertile Ground.


A large platform

 

Elika: The Royal Gardens. I could have come here more often. I never found the time.
Prince: Life just slips you by. One minute you’re rich, the next you’re staring the end of the world in the face, or the knee... how big is Ahriman?
Elika: He makes even your ego look small.
Prince: Then we really need to stop him getting out.
Elika: Let’s use the Plate.
Prince: Those cranks down there, what are they all for?
Elika: These were from the Royal Gardens. The cranks controlled water flow to the fish ponds.
Prince: It looks like the water in those ponds has turned to Corruption. What happens to fish if they’re Corrupted?
Elika: They die.
Prince: Well, I suppose that’s not as bad as some of the things I was imagining.

Go down the stairs and wall run left to a yellow Power Plate.


Wall run left to the yellow Plate

 

The Plate will launch you between two walls. Wall run on the right wall, and jump off to the left wall. Wall run to a second yellow Plate.


Wall run


Jump off


To the second yellow Plate

 

This Plate flings you at a wall. Wall run to the third yellow Plate.


To the third yellow Plate

 

You’ll hit a room with cranks.


To the crank room

 

Prince: If these were gardens... where are all the plants?
Elika: The Corruption must have killed the few that were left. The rest... this place hasn’t been tended since my mother died. There’s a plate attached to that pillar over there. We can raise it if we fill that pond. It is a... counterweight. The cranks control sluice gates that let the water flow to those control ponds.
Prince: Any idea which one we move first?
Elika: I think we should start over there. But that’s for how we open the sluice gates... I only ever saw the plate raised once as a child and I’ve never seen the plate active.
Prince: Which crank shall we push?
Elika: Just pick one, we can figure it out.
Prince: Right and keep an eye open for any of our friends.


The plate under the yellow Power Plate

 

Go left and overlook the cranks because the cranks on your right won’t work. Like most of the puzzles in this Game it’s all trial and error without any logic involved. You must turn the cranks and allow a number of basins to fill with black Corruption. Eventually the left tank will be filled.


The cranks on the left side

 

Elika: The gate is open, but the flow must start up there.
Prince: It looks like each crank controls more than one sluice gate.
Elika: We’ll have to figure out which opens which to make a channel to the control ponds.
Prince: Yeah, great. These cranks are linked to all of the pools around them.
Elika: We’ll have to remember the changes they make.
Prince: Pity you can’t remember the order.
Elika: I was eight when I last saw them moved.
Prince: That’s still not right.
Elika: The cranks move in both directions so we can correct them … we can work this out.
Prince: Any suggestions?
Elika: You’re the world travelled adventurer who’s seen it all. I thought you might have an idea.
Prince: Terrific... You get the feeling we’re being watched?
Elika: It must be The Concubine. Let’s keep going.
Prince: Don’t you think it’s odd The Concubine’s not appeared? I mean we’ve been sitting here and she’s done nothing. Maybe she’s not that bright of a Concubine.
Elika: Maybe she didn’t think you were bright enough to solve the puzzle.
Prince: I can figure this out. I can figure this out...
Elika: Let’s try another crank.
Prince: Think, think...
Elika: Maybe if we moved another crank.
Prince: What now...
Elika: We’ll have to find a way to align the gates.
Prince: Why can’t I see what to do?
Elika: Ha, I can’t see it yet. But there has to be a solution.

Keep turning the cranks and make sure more and more basins get filled with Corruption. Suddenly you will see that the left pond is filled and that part of the puzzle solved. Now you can go to the right side. When the Corruption has flown in left and right of the plate it will rise. You can jump with Elika’s help to the raised plate.


The Corruption has raised the plate


The yellow Power Plate is within reach now

 

Wall run up, engage and the Plate will launch you to the Fertile Ground.


The Fertile Ground

 

Approach the light beam and you’ll meet The Concubine. This is a good battle though. The bitch can now turn black and blue too.


Scenes from the battle

 

Prince: Where she’s gone? Are you sure her disappearance isn’t another illusion? I can move, she must have gone. Well, then let’s heal the Ground and get out of this place. If we jump down from here we can use the Plates to get out, right? Elika?
Elika: Yes. Yes, that should be the way out.

Walk to the light beam, and let Elika merge with the Force. Press yellow repeatedly and witness the miracle:


The healing of this Land!

 

Prince: You used to spend time here?
Elika: I used to come here with my mother.
Prince:  Oh yeah? I don’t think she’d be too impressed with the way this place is now.
Elika: There were fountains all round here that watered the plants. Trees, flowers, herbs, spices, things you didn’t see anywhere else. They must have been from before, or from outside. She’d bring the children here to look after them.
Prince: Yeah... Ne-ver got in to gardening. You know. Hey, they’re just plants, we can’t get you some more. I find Farah so we can ship them in from wherever you want. Flowers, trees, you’re a Princess, you deserve it.


Yes.

 

Prince: You can make these gardens grow again.
Elika (bored): Yes.

You will now get an Autosave.


This is an Autosave

 

You can now choose between two bordering Lands: Spire of Dreams and Royal Spire. It doesn’t matter which one you take first. Flip a coin, set your destination to Spire of Dreams and ask Elika to show the way.


Next destination: Spire of Dreams


Elika’s Flare shows you the way

 

Jump down to a lower ledge. You can see the border platform from here.


Jump down to this ledge

 

Jump to two poles in a row. Jump with Elika’s help from the second pole to a wall. Wall run to your right and jump off to a narrow beam. From here you have a good view of the border platform with a black flame of evil.


To the narrow beam

 

Walk down from the hanging narrow bridge. Your next moves are a jump to the wall, wall running to the left and jumping off to a pole.


At the end of the bridge


Hanging from the pole

 

Jump to the platform and face the Soldier Of Ahriman. When this creep turns black only a red attack will end that state.


Scenes from the battle

 

Let Elika throw a Flare. The path leads into Corruption.


Elika Shows the way to Spire of Dreams

 

Save here.

 

Next Sublevel:

SPIRE OF DREAMS