Keys in PS1 Doom map 30, Threshold of Pain (original) (raw)

To get the keys in PSX Doom level 30, Threshold of Pain:

There are 2 keys on this level; blue and red. To get the blue key, you first need the red one.

RED KEY

From the level's starting point, walk down the stairs and proceed west to a door in the corner of the room ahead. Go through the door into the next room, and go to the far end. Leave this room by going west down the hallway. Continue west, going past the branching passages to your left and right. The hallway eventually takes a right-angle turn to the north. Continue north, up the stairs, to the far end of the hallway. You'll come to a passage on your left that leads southwest, then south, to a wide door that automatically opens in the west wall at the top of a dark stairway. If the door closes before you get to it, you can open it again by hand.

Go through this door, and drop down into the courtyard ahead of you. This courtyard has several rectangular platforms arrayed along the ground. At the north end of the courtyard is a passage that leads west. Follow that passage as far as it goes, until you come to a small open area to the west. The red skull key sits on the ground in the west corner of this area.

BLUE KEY

When you pick up the red key, head east, back down the passage, to the large courtyard where the rectangular platforms are. To proceed to where you can get the blue key, you'll need to get up onto these platforms.

You can get onto the southeastern platform by running down off of the stairs on the south end of the courtyard. (Remember that "Run" in PSX Doom is typically enabled by holding down the Square button.) Alternatively, you can go to the southeast corner of the courtyard, where you'll find a wide rectangular hole that you can drop down into. This leads to the hallway that runs north, then southwest to the wide door at the top of a dark staircase. You can go through this door to drop down onto the platform at the east side of the courtyard.

Once you're on one of the platforms, Run across them to the small square platform at the base of the west wall of the courtyard. The wall panel behind this platform can be opened like any normal door. Go through this panel, and proceed west, to a red-keyed door ahead of you. Go through this door, up the short stairway to the edge of the platform you're on, and drop down off the platform. Make your way southwest, to a large open area. Here, a wide brown walkway runs across a corrosive red pool. Go to the southwest corner of this open area, where you'll find a skull switch at the top of a short flight of steps.

Activate this switch, and a wide doorway opens nearby, in the south wall of this open area. The door only stays open for a few seconds, then closes again. Run across the red corrosive to go through the door, to a small platform beyond. Drop down off the platform into the long, wide hallway that runs east to west.

Go to east, up the stairs, to the far end of the hallway. As you approach the east end of the hallway, the west wall opens at the opposite end of the hall. There will now be stairs visible at the west end of the hall. Go up the stairs to find a switch in the middle of the west wall. Activate the switch, and a doorway opens up in the south wall, at the top of the stairs on the east end of the hall. Step through this doorway to access the blue skull key.

When you pick up the blue key, you'll be standing on a tall platform at the end of a hallway that leads east, back into the rest of the level.

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