Darksiders Warmastered – The Twilight Cathedral
Today we’re taking on Darksiders Twilight Cathedral, begin your assault by taking out the enemies. Scout the few chests that are on either side of the entrance and activate the new Vulgrim location. Make any purchases from him you may want before heading into the Cathedral proper.
Darksiders Twilight Cathedral – Main Entrance
Once inside the Cathedral, you’ll be prompted to pick up an ornamental sword. The sword will activate a statue which unlocks a door up ahead. Go through the door for your next glimpse of Tiamat, the area’s boss before continuing on.
Exit out the right-hand side of the main hall into a courtyard with some enemies that need killin’. Clear the room to unseal one of the doors and continue on. In the next area, we learn about bomb growths and how to destroy those large red crystals. Blow up the nearby red crystal and continue on.
The path is fairly linear so follow it around until you end up on the 2nd floor of the area. Up here there is a statue that we can push off the ledge creating a hole in the floor. Before jumping down the hole continue on through the other door up here on the 2nd level for another chest. Then make your way down the hole.
Twilight Cathedral – Beholders Key
Continue to follow the path around, again it’s fairly linear so you won’t get lost. The door at the end will trigger a battle you must win before you can open the chest which gives you a key for the other locked ‘Blue’ door back in the courtyard. Head there now.
Continue on to fight a ‘mini-boss’ for access to another of the swords you’ll need to give to a statue. Take the sword back to the Cathedral’s main hall directly across from you on the other side of the hall is the statue that is waiting for this sword. Exit out to another courtyard for a short scene before using the bomb in the courtyard to stun the hanging enemy long enough for you to grab the next sword below it. Taking the sword will also trigger another confrontation with some enemies, take them out and then use the bomb growth to blow open the next red crystal nearby, follow the video if you have trouble with it.
Give your sword to the statue in this courtyard to unbar the next door and open the way. Use your shadow flight to get the 2nd level and cross the handholds to continue on to find another block that can be pushed down to the lower level. Give it a push and follow it down. Use the block to allow you to reach the nearby handholds, take the door on the right to lead you back to the main cathedral where you can use the nearby bomb growth on the hanging monster to make it drop the statue piece and put another hole in the floor for us to explore.
Twilight Cathedral – The Cross Blade
Dropdown into the hole and follow the path to eventually lead us to a new weapon, The Crossblade!
You’ll have some enemies to beat and a quick tutorial on how the cross blade works before you can move on to the next room. Use the cross blade to explode the bomb growth in the middle of the room freeing the statue, then the switch to raise it revealing a glowing panel on its chest that you’ll need to hit with the cross blade to open the next door.
Hit the next bomb growth and continue on to learn about ‘imbuing’ the cross blade with fire to activate the dormant bomb growths that are now in front of you. Use the nearby flame and then ignite the bombs to open the way to keep going.
The next-door takes us to a room with many offshoots. Each area after this has a sword you will need to solve a puzzle to collect and bring back here to the statues in the center of the room. So let’s get started!
Darksiders – Twilight Cathedral – The Three Swords
The First Sword
Begin by scaling the eastern wall with the handgrips and going inside the first challenge room. Here you’ll notice a switch that won’t work until you clear some red crystals. Use the handgrips on the wall to go down to an inert bomb growth. You want to use that bomb growth to attach to the red crystals and use the nearby torch to light it. Then head back up and use the switch.
The center platform will now rotate allowing you access to the other sides of the room. Head across to the inert bomb growth side, I used a bunch of them in a line to trigger the explosion for the red crystal. See around 34:00 in the video for a demonstration.
Head through the hole and use the switch, now we need to head to the other side of the arena and trigger a second switch. Take an inert bomb growth with you across the bridge and use the nearby torch to light it. Head through and activate the second switch. Use your Cross blade to hit both of the raised switches in the center to stop the lava and access the first sword that we need. Return to the main room and place the sword to continue.
The Second Sword
Use your shadow flight to get to the next door. Pop the bombs ahead of you with your cross blade and take the wire to the bottom of the arena for your next puzzle. From 40:00 onwards will show you the sequence to hit the switches to open the way.
Basically you’ll only ever have a clean shot at one of the switches at a time, once you’ve finished you’ll gain access to a bomb growth to destroy the red crystals and give you a couple of new switches you’ll need to hit. Activate them and make your way through the hole in the wall you can now reach, to access the second portion of ceiling rope. This will take you to a room with a sword and 2 more switches to hit to allow you to leave. Grab the sword and make your way back to the main room by hitting the remaining switches in the prior room.