Dungeon of Darkness Demo 2 Walkthrough
Note: This demo doesn't contain many puzzles and you probably don't need
a walkthrough, but I'm writing one anyway, since I plan on doing so later on
anyway and writing it helps me stay focused on level design.
If you are stuck, however, feel free to read on. However, as is always the case
with games, solving problems is more fun if you do it yourself...
If you have something you wish to add to this walkthough, let me know. I'm
particularly interested in alternate strategies to defeat the bosses.;)
Level A
Walk right and open the chest to collect the bow, then head down. Collect the
piece of heart, then head down to collect some bombs from the chest. Head right
and place a bomb next to the spawner. Don't go through the exit yet, but
instead head up and kill the other skeleton with a bomb (you need to time it
well so that it goes off when the skeleton is close) and collect the piece of
heart and the small heart if you want. Head down. Kill any ghouls that remain,
if you wish. Enter the exit.
Level B
Exit left, then head up. Kill the zombie, then continue upward. Collect the
piece of heart and bombs from the chests, then head left. Kill the spawner
(and any creatures it has hatched) with one or two bombs. Collect the dagger,
then head slightly right and down. Kill the ghost for a key and open the
chest for a piece of heart. Go up and right and kill the armed zombie for a
potion, then use the key to open the door and exit right. Kill the skeleton if
you want, then go through the exit.
Level C
Kill the spawner, then head down and exit right. (From now on, you're going to
encounter more enemies. I won't remind you to kill all of them, except when
they carry an important item). Go down and exit left. Kill the spawner for the
club and then exit right and right again. Open the chest for a piece of heart
and exit left. Move up and collect another piece of heart. You can kill
monsters if you want, otherwise you can go through the gate.
Level D
Head up to collect the piece of heart, then exit right. Head up, pass one
door on the left and move on. Collect the shield, then move down and exit
right. Grab the potion if you need it, otherwise just head up. Kill the spawner
and pick up the key. Use it on the locked door and go left. Collect the piece
of heart, then return right. Backtrack to the second room: go down and exit
left. Move down, then left and finally up. Exit left through the gate you
passed before and move up. Exit right and go through the exit.
Level E
Move down. Kill the bats, then exit left. Kill the zombies. One of them will
drop a couple of bombs. Walk left and set a bomb beside the wall with the
cracks. Enter the newly created gate, then move up to collect the piece of
heart (go right if you want to know why you didn't want to go left from your
starting point). Go down, exit right. Move to the lower righthand corner of
the room and exit. Collect the piece of heart, then move down and exit left.
Walk through the corridor and exit left again. Enter the gate.
Level F
Kill the spawner to expose the locked door. Move up, then exit left. Move down
to collect the sword, then move up and take the upper exit. Kill the spawner
and collect the key. Exit left. Go down and exit right. Open the locked door
and move down, then exit right. Kill the spawner for a piece of heart, then
backtrack to your starting position. Move right and take the upper exit. Move
up and exit left. Move down to collect the piece of heart, then go back right
and go down. Enter the exit.
Level G
Prepare for a long walk... exit right, go up, exit left, go up and exit right.
Go down and take note of the closed door on the right. Exit left. Collect the
piece of heart, then move all the way up to get a key. Go back down and exit
right. Go up and exit right again. Go down (don't enter the exit yet) and open
the locked door with the key. Go down and stand on the switch in the floor.
Backtrack to the door that was closed (that is, go up, right, up, left and
down). Collect the key then head up to collect the piece of heart. Find your
way back to the exit and head left. Go down and open the locked door. Exit
right. Kill the ghoul for a Ring of Regeneration (watch out for the vampire
bats). Exit left, go up, exit right and enter the exit.
Level H
Head up, then exit right. Move up and open the chest for a key then head right
and exit opposite the door where you entered. Go up, then exit left and collect
another key. Exit right, move down, exit left, move down and exit right. Kill
the spawner in the upper corner of the room to make a switch appear. Stand on
the switch, then go down and exit right. Go down, then exit left. Collect the
piece of heart, then exit right, go up, exit left, continue up, then go left
and leave through the upper gate. Continue left though the gate, then head up
and exit right. Kill the spawner and exit right. Collect the piece of heart.
You should now have seven heart containers. Backtrack to the room you started
from (ie, left, left, down, right) and exit right. Go down and exit left. Go
down and use the key on the locked door. You cannot move up because there is
a locked block in the way, but DON'T unlock it yet. Kill the spawner guarding
the right exit, then open the locked door and exit right. Open the locked
chests for a set of bombs, two sets of arrows, a potion and a key, then return
left. Use the key to open the locked block and move up. Enter the exit. You
will now fight the boss, Serpentile.
Boss: Serpentile
There are a few strategies you can try. When you shoot Serpentile, his body
will split and both halfs will continue to move on their own. The long form
he's in initially will try to move towards you systematically, but is slow.
The shorter versions behave more eratically but are faster.
You can either attack quickly to break him up in smaller framents, or you can
try to always aim for his head or tail. If you can spare them, bombs help a lot
(though that may not be apparent at first).
To defeat Serpentile, lure his longer forms toward you while dropping a trail
of bombs (don't get caught in the explosion!) to break him up in smaller
fragments. When his movements become too eratic, you will need to finish him
off with arrows. This usually only takes a few more hits though.
When he is dead, collect the heart container and head down the stairs.
Alternative way to defeat Serpentile (don't try this unless you have the Ring
of Regeneration and a lot of bombs): Stand still in the centre of the room and
allow Serpentile to coil up around you. Then, when he's all coiled up, drop
a few bombs and run away, dropping a trail of bombs behind you as you go.
This should kill him almost immediately. Collect the heart container and head
down the stairs.
Level I
You've barely caught your breath when a vampire bat hovers into view. Kill it
for a set of arrows and then kill the zombies for another set of arrows and a
potion. You can go through the exit now or explore the level. Start by going
left and opening the chest for a heartcontainer. Then return right and exit
right. There's a spawner block at the top of this room. If you still have some
bombs you may want to use them here. Take the top left exit. Kill the vampire
and open the chest for a key then return right and take the top right exit.
Kill everything that moves and then take the middle exit on the right. Exit
right again and open the chest for a heart container. Now return left twice.
Two locked doors, one key. Take the lower one and you'll find a room with two
chests and a vampire. Open the chests for a new key and a set of bombs the return
left. Now open the top room and enter. Here you'll find a switch that opens the
top left door in the previous room. Exit left and go through the top left exit.
Kill everything and bomb the left wall to open the door. Exit left and open the
chest for the crossbow: this will shoot arrows faster and with more power than
the normal bow you had before. Return right, right, lower left, lower left
and head for the exit.
Level J
If you have bombs to spare, open up the middle-left wall for a key, otherwise
just head up and exit left. Kill everything in this room and open the chest
in the top right corner for a piece of heart then take the top left exit. Kill
everything and open the chest for a key. If you bombed the wall in the first
room and collected the key there you can take the upper right exit and flip the
switch in the room, otherwise exit left. Open the locked block and collect the
bombs from the chests and open the remaining chest for a piece of heart. Exit
right and lower right. If you didn't get the key from the first room you can get
it now, otherwise just exit lower left. The door will close behind you and it
won't open again until you defeat all enemies in the room. One of these is a
Grim Reaper, which is a bit strong right now. You can kill it with bombs if you
have enough of them but otherwise just open the chest for a cat figurine and
exit lower right. Open the chest for even more bombs and go through the exit.
Level K
Level L
Level M
Level N
Boss: King Cula
And you thought normal sized vampire bats were annoying? This guy is bigger,
tougher and faster than normal vampire bats. Worse though, he will summon
normal vampires and cave bats to his aid and shoot fireballs at you.
Bombs are mostly useless but if you're skilled at placing them strategically
they do help. The best thing to do is to keep out of his way and just keep
firing arrows at him. If you run out, you can kill some of his smaller minions:
they will sometimes drop arrows for you to pickup (but sometimes they also drop
traps or poison, so beware). When he and his minions are dead collect the
heart container and head down the stairs.
Watch the ending of demo 2 ;)