last express walkthrough
The Last Express is a first person adventure game in
which you are Robert Cath, an American doctor who is a
fugitive from justice. You are invited onto the Orient
express just before WWI by your old friend, Tyler Whitney
(that's him in the first movie.). Cath arrives late and
jumps onto the train and then the game begins. Here's
how to win.
CD 1
When you first get onto the train, take a right and go
through the door. This is the sleeping car. Move forward
and turn around to take the magazine where you will find
the passenger list (it's not vital but can serve useful
when you are looking for other people's compartments.).
You'll see a conductor (Rene) walking down the hall towrds
you. The 'speak' cursor will automatically apper so just
click on him. You'll ask him which compartment is Tyler
Whitney's. He'll mistake you for Whitney and tell you
that your compartment is number one. Simply walk down
the hall and open the door to number one.
I thinks it's obvious when I say that Tyler's dead. Look
up and wlk towrd the window. Open it up. Pick Tyler up
and turn toward the window. Click on the open window and
you will throw Tyler off the train. Turn to the right
and you will see a jacket. Take the jacket and you will
assume the identity of Tyler Whitney. Close the window.
Underneath where you got the jacket there is a box (with
nothing in it) and under it there is a yellow/purple hankercheif.
Click the 'hand' cursor on it to add it to your inventory.
Use the 'look/go up' cursor to take the suitcase down
from on top of the roof. Take the scroll. If you can read
Russian, then you can easily beat this game but you probably
can't so we'll have to find some other way to get it translated.
Walk out and go to the next sleeping car. Pass through
this sleeping car and go through the next door. You are
now in the smoking car. You can look at the clock here
or sit down. Keep going through to the next door and walk
through. This is the dining car.
If Pascal the dining attendant does not seat you, sit
down at the last table (the one without people at it).
In front of you, you will se a fat, bald German. That's
Herr Shmidt, Whitney's colleague from Germany. Click the
'speak' icon on him.
So Shmidt is having some merchandise put on the train
at Munich, eh? Hmmmm.... Anyway, talk to the dark man
sitting at the table in front of Herr Schmidt's. His name
is Alexi, a Russian anarchist and Romantic. He'll leave.
On the table after he leaves is a book. Take the book,
open it, and take the paper inside of it. He scribbled
10:40 on the paper. I won't tell you what that means for
fear of ruining the end of the game. Go walk around and
explore for awhile. Sooner or later, Rene will tell you
that his excellency, Prince Kronos, wishes to have you
come to his private car.
Kronos' car is in the very back of the train, behind
Rene's sleeping car. Knock on the door and Kronos' servant
Kahina will open the door and let you in. Kronos will
talk to you about how he is going to give you his rather
heavy breifcase when you give him something called a Firebird.
When Kronos makes you leave, walk around. Sooner or later
a man will enter your compartment. Walk in on him.
He knows you're not Tyler. When he looks down he will
see the blood on the floor and will think that you murdered
Tyler. He'll want to kill you so here's how to fight him.
Put the 'backwards arrow' cursor near his stomach area
and every time that he attempts to stab you, click and
you will dodge him. After a few times of doing this, he
will try stabbing at you in a different style so simply
click when the 'hand' cursor appears on his stomach (when
he is in mid-swing).
He'll talk to you about Tyler. He's looking for the gold.
Maybe this has some connection to the Firebird. He'll
leave abruptly. (His name is Milos and he is a Serb.)
You can start walking around and exploring again but
when the trainmaster (the short guy in the blue who walks
around and says what station the train is arriving at)
walks down the hall saying that all passengers should
return to their compartments, go to the sleeping car just
before the smoking car and go into compartment A when
the police are in the hall knocking on people's doors.
Go into the washroom and stay there until you hear the
trainmaster saying that the dining car has now reopened.
Later on, walk back to your compartmaent where the bed
is made up. There will be a 'speak' icon with a little
'Z' in it so click it on the bed so you can sleep. After
you fall asleep, you'll experience a period of darkness
and weird sounds and then you will wake up. Walk out the
door and turn around and walk back through it.
Ahhh! Tyler is on your bed. He'll pull an egg out of
his mouth and say: "Why don't you make it sing?"
Phew! Just a dream. Now you're really awake. Walk out
the door and down the hall to the next sleeping car. Knock
on the door to compartment F. This is Ana Wolffe's compartment.
She an Austrian.
Ahhh! She's got a gun! It's a good thing that Vassily
Alexandrovich has interrupted her in time. Follow her
down the hall where you will enter Alexandrovich's compartment.
You'll help him. Stay outside the door and listen to Wolffe
and Tatiana discussing "it".
Go back to your compartment and go to sleep. That's it
for the first day!
CD 2
You'll wake up on the second day. Go to Milos's compartment
(check your passenger list) and talk to him about Tyler's
intentions. The trainmaster will talk to Coudert (the
other conductor) about how he thinks somebody stole the
master key which opens every compartment on the train.
Go to the dining car and talk to Tatiana. AWESOME! She
says as a thanks for your kind service to her grandfather
that she will translate the scroll for you!
Go to the smoking car. Sit down and look at the table.
There's a little beetle walking around. You can try poking
at it but you won't get very far. Take your matchbox out
of your inventory. Open it and click the 'hand' cursor
on the matches inside. Click with the 'back arrow' cursor
to just hold the box. Catch the beetle with the box by
clicking it on it when it runs by.
When the little boy in the blue (Francois) is walking
in the hall, click the 'matchbox' cursor on him. You'll
negotiate a trade. He'll walk back to the compartment
he shares with his mother (FOLLOW HIM!) He'll trade you
the whistle for the matchbox.At 9:40 A.M., it is important
that you bump into Schmidt when you get to Munich.
After the merchandise is loaded onto the train, it will
be lunchtime. Schmidt will eat with Ana Wolffe. Talk to
the new passenger, Mr. Abbot (he's the one with the heavy
English accent. He'll sum up what you've done so far as
well as give you some new clues. However, don't worry
if you miss him because talking to him is not exactly
necessary but will add to the story.
Sooner or later, Schmidt and Wolffe will go into the
smoking car to drink some coffee. Sit down and Kronos
will invite Wolffe to play in a concert with him in his
private car.
Rene will later tell you that you are invited to the
concert. At 3:00, go to Kronos' compartment and you'll
see a small part of the concert. Get up and walk down
to compartment E (the one before Ana Wolffe's). Wait until
a) somebody walks down the hall or b) sombody talks to
Coudert to go in. Once in, open the window and climb out.
Climb in Ana's window and look at the jewlry box. Press
the center ruby and take the master key.
Go to the place where the game first started off and
use the key to open the door to the outside. Climb onto
the roof and walk toward the back of the train. Smash
the skylight and jump into Kronos' bedroom.
Use the 'magnifying glass' &look at the painting.
Press the small circle and it will open a small space.
Take the breifcase and walk into the hallway. Walk through
the concert and put the breifcase under the couch in your
compartment. Lock your compartment with the key.
This one is the toughest to explain. Go to compartment
1 (Vassily Alexandrovich) and go in the bathroom. See
the little cabinet under the sink? Open it. Take the large
golden egg and exit through Vassily's compartment again.
He'll say something about it "singing for you".
Walk out to the hallway. Coudert will ask you how you
got in there but you'll give him an evasive nonanswer.
Take the egg through to the dining car. See the red curtain
in the back that waiters walk in and out of? Walk through
it. You may see a cook yelling at his apprentice (depending
on what time you go in) but they will let you pass. Keep
going to the baggage car where you will see the trainmaster
writing behind a door. Open the door and he will ask you
if he can help you. You can a) wait until he leaves or
b) keep opening the door over and over again. If you do
this, he'll ask you to return to the dining car. You'll
be forced back there but then just go back and open the
door. Good. He's not there. Go through his office area
to the back of the baggage car. You'll hear the barking
of Wolffe's dog, Maxwell. Click the 'hand' cursor on the
cage once to pet him. Do it again to open the cage. Max
will run off. Put the egg into the cage.
Go into Herr Schmidt's compartment (#3) and read the
letter in his breifcase.
When the concert is over, use the key to open your compartment
and get the breifcase. When Schmidt returns to his compartment
knock on the door and show him the breifcase. Kahina will
threaten you with a gun when you come out. She wants Kronos'
gold back. She'll walk away so walk down to Kronos' car
with the breifcase and knock on the door. Kronos' will
take the gold and the hankercheif.
Now then, head down to the baggage car and go to the
second hallway in it. The baggage compartment is open
(it is usually sealed by a barred, iron door) so let yourself
in. Go to the back where there is a long wooden box. Open
it. Ana Wolffe will come in and demand your key. You'll
begin to talk about Tyler's death when Vesna (Milos' comrade)
will come in and try to kill Ana. You save Ana but now
have to fight Vesna. This is like when you fought Milos'
but easier because you do not have to click the 'hand'
cursor on her. You just dodge her. Ana will try to shoot
her but Vesna will just run off. Ana will leave when she
finds out that the train is reaching Vienna.
CD 3
You start out in the dining car for dinner. Walk around
for awhile.
Later, Tatiana will knock on the door to your compartment
(when she is standing outside the door, you can just walk
in). Open it for her and she'll tell you that Alexi is
constructing a bomb to blow up the train and kill her
grandfather.
Go into Alexi's compartment through the bathroom. You'll
need to use the key. Look up on the luggage rack and take
down the suitcase. Take the clock in there which is actually
a detonator. Mr. Abbot will come in and send you out of
the compartment. When the beds are made up, go to sleep.
You'll dream about Alexi being murdered which is actually
true.
When you wake up, head down to Vassily Alexandrovich's
comaprtment to talk to a dying Alexi. He'll tell you about
"the clock". This is another bomb that is set
to go off soon.
When you walk into Coudert's car (from Rene's) there
is a powerbox. Open it. See the cigar box?
DISARMING THE BOMB
Click on the cigar box (ONCE!!). Get the match from your
inventory and put the cursor over the pipe. Click it.
Don't open the box but turn it around until you see the
hinges. Click the 'hand' cursor on these and you will
be able to open the box.
Take the telegram from Tyler in your inventory and put
it between the moving metal things.
Sooner or later George Abbot will go to the smoking car.
Go talk to him. He'll tell you about what he does and
ask you to join the service. You'll refuse.
When you're done, you can go to Anna Wolffe's compartment.
(This is optional but it adds to the story.)
In any event, the Serbs will hijack the train at Budapest.
Now this gets exciting. Stalko will clonk you with a crowbar
and you'll find yourself in the baggage car, tied up.
To free yourself, turn in any direction then look down
followed by looking up. This will knock your matches free.
Look down and move the cursor until it turns into a hand.
Click and you will burn the ropes. Now click up and you're
free.
Click on the door. Ivo will come up with fists forward.
Oh boy.... another fight....
Wait for him to throw the first punch and dodge back.
Then quickly click the fist cursor above his head to punch
him. Keep doing this to knock his lights out.
Walk through the door and free Anna. She'll talk to you
and then run off.
Take a left and walk through the doors. You should hear
some music. Walk down through the two sleeping cars and
take and stop at the connecting part. (You can stop this
time.) Open the door and climb onto the roof. Walk toward
the locomotive. You will be stopped by Svalko.
To fight Svalko, simply wait for him to strike first
and punch him. Keep doing this until the fist icon turns
into an open palm. Click and you'll take his crowbar.
Walk a little more and you'll here the sound of a sword
being unsheathed. TURN AROUND QUICK!!!
Okay this is the hardest fight in the game. Vesna has
a sword and two basic moves. She'll swing high and low.
You have to click high or low to counteract these moves.
This took me a few times to figure out. After a little
while, Vesna will duck so DUCK!!! You'll go through a
tunnel. You'll find yourself hanging off of the train
with Vesna trying to knock you off. You'll pull her off.
(This is all done for you.) Now, go back to where you
first climbed atop the train. Go to the dining car and
unleash the passengers.
Now, go to the platform between Coudert's car and the
smoking car and look down. See that tile in the middle?
Click on it and then click on it again to let the passenger
cars loose.
Now climb back on top of the train and go to the locomotive.
Milos will pull a gun on you but Ana will sneak up and
shoot him.
She will then tell you that the train is slowing down.
NOT FOR LONG! Turn to the left and you will see a lever.
Pull it. You'll be chased by the Serbian army until you
reach a bridge which crumbles behind you.
Go back to the dining car. You can talk to Tatiana and
her grandfather but Tatiana is kind of messed up now that
Alexi's dead.
In the compartment before the baggage car is Ana. Go
in and talk to her.
When she leaves. Go to the smoking car where you will
meet KRONOS?!!!! Well, it seems that he wants the firebird.
Go get it in the baggage car. Bring it back. Hurry in
doing this because if you go to long, Kahina will kill
you.
He wants you to open it. Well, if you look at it closely,
it's actually a strangely wraught map of the world with
gems in key locations. You can figure out how to open
it by reading the firebird poem that you got from Tatiana
or you can read on.
Here's what gems to click and in what order.
1. Click on the blue gem in Austrailia.
2. Click on the blue gem in England.
3. Click on the red gem in Asia.
4. Click on the purple gem off the western coast of South
America.
5. Click on the green gem in the middle east.
Stick you're finger in the now open hole and you will
reveal the firebird. Kronos will try to get Ana to make
it sing but it won't work. He'll tell you to close it.
DON'T!!! Choose the whistle cursor from your inventory
and blow it.
ENJOY THE AWESOME END SEQUENCE! This was a really cool
game and I hope you enjoyed it!
