

Here, another hatch can be blown open with a grenade. With the gold bar in hand, head back up the ladder, and instead of going through the hatch you initially came through, blow open the larger adjacent hatch and jump on through. If you miss the fast moving platform, immediately jump up back towards the ladder to avoid being heavily damaged (and perhaps even outright killed) by the heated devices below. To get it, you'll need to carefully use the fast-moving platform below to work your way rightward, where a pipe can be used as a platform to jump up towards the treasure. This is the third of twelve gold bars in the game. Climb down the ladder a ways, and you'll spot a Gold Bar tucked in a nook on your right. A shaft will be in front of you with a ladder scaling downward. You won't be able to continue leftward for very long.

Clip the two enemies guarding this pathway leading leftward as you run towards the door into the next area. Opt to head leftward, where we'll open up new parts of the map and acquire a new treasure.
Shadow complex map in lava factory series#
Eventually, you'll come to a crossroads where you can either continue up a series of ladders, or go leftward. Then, climb the series of ladders as you work your way higher and higher. You'll go leftward two screens via this technique, but when you reach the third screen, quickly jump upward and grab the ladder on your right before the conveyor belt winds you into another fiery mechanism that will end you quite quickly. Once you drop down through the floor where the hatch once was, you'll find yourself moving leftward automatically via some conveyor belts underneath the factory. Again, we don't recommend it, but it's an option. Another midair jump is all you need to grab the ladder hanging down there, where you can cut about half of your voyage towards finding the Foam Gun. If you time a jump during the explosion, you should be able to launch your character leftward. This is where things get interesting - a spider droid laced with explosives will creep out of a crevasse on your left and explode. Walk leftward on this platform and drop down to the lower tier. Instead, jump up to the right, double-jump, and grab on to the side of a rather obscured platform. In the center area of the room, where the three soldiers are guarding some control panels, you don't have to proceed to the left. Thus, we don't really recommend this route, but it's a cool alternative, so we'll mention it. However, do note that if you do this, you're going to miss adding plenty of territory to your map, and will have to backtrack to grab a couple of items later if you're a completionist. Now, it should be stated that you can skip a bit of the map if you want by using another technique in this initial room of the factory. Plant a grenade on top of it to blow it open, and then drop down to proceed. Only a single soldier remains on this side for you to kill, and it's the hatch he's guarding that's of real interest. At the top control area, kill three more soldiers, and then drop down to the left, again dodging the fiery machines below. You fall into that pit of despair, and you're as good as dead.

Then, carefully jump up from platform to platform, avoiding at all costs the machines below that will burn you to a crisp in no time flat. Begin by heading leftward and defeating the two rebel soldiers there. After all, they know you've been running around their complex.

Machines are running all over the place, and there are plenty of soldiers of varying types guarding the area as well. This initial room of the factory is a busy one. Thus, once you've saved, healed, and reloaded on grenades, you can venture leftward out of the save room to continue your quest. The cutscene that concluded the previous section of the walkthrough, in essence, takes place in a large save room.
