Red key on level 19, Deepest Reaches (original) (raw)

How to get the red key on PSX Final Doom level 19, Deepest Reaches:

Note: In the PlayStation 1 version of Final Doom, a red key appears on this level, but is not used. A player may access all accessible areas and exit this level without acquiring the red key.

Along the south edge of the map are winding, stone-walled passages with water-covered floors. Once you have the yellow key, go to the southwest quadrant of the map and head down to these watery passages.

Look for a long and narrow winding staircase that leads down and east, to a room where you'll find a green and red "eye" sculpture floating just above a candle in the middle of the floor.

Go to the northeast end of this room where you'll find a yellow-keyed door. Go through the door and follow the stairway leading down to the large rectangular room that dominates the east half of the map.

Step down to the floor of this large rectangular room, and head west, where you'll see a brown panel on the wall with a face-like switch on it. Activate this switch to open a passageway, and walk through to the small room beyond.

Activate the switch-panel on the right wall of the room to open a door on the left. Step through the door, and as you enter the next room you'll notice 3 large stone blocks in the walls that have face-like carvings on them.

Turn right, towards the face on the west wall of the room. Use your fist (or chainsaw, pistol, shotgun or chaingun) to strike the face, and it will rise up, revealing a short passage leading west, to a switch on the wall. The switch will temporarily lower a long, bench-like stone platform located against the south wall of the room that's to your left and slightly below you. Activate the switch and run south into the next room to get on that stone platform before it rises up again.

Once you're on the platform and it rises up, look for an opening in the south wall where you'll see another switch at the end of a short passage. Activate that switch, then turn and step back down off the platform.

Go a few paces northeast to step up into the square room where those 3 stone faces were. Notice that the face that used to be on the south wall of this room has risen up to reveal a doorway. Step through and walk forward a few paces. Look for an opening on your left (east), and step through to a potato-shaped room with a switch on the east wall. Activate this switch, then walk out of this room and turn right (north) and walk back out to that square room where the 3 stone faces were.

Step southwest, back down into that room where the stone bench-like platform is. Look to your left (east) for a newly-revealed switch on the wall. Behind you, on the west side of the room, is a stone pillar that's partially embedded in the wall. Activate the switch, and the pillar drops down momentarily. Get on and ride up.

Once on top of the pillar, the red key will be in front of you, in a small red niche in the west wall. Simply step into the niche to grab the key.

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