When you crawl into this room, the six-armed statue here comes to life and attacks. If you like, you can move up the muddy slope and climb onto the ledge with the save/power-up crystal. The statue can't reach Lara here.

However, as soon as you start shooting at the statue...

...it will react by standing still and crossing its swords over its chest to protect itself. When it does this, it is invulnerable. You'll notice blood spray when you're hitting it and hear bullets ricocheting off the swords when you're not. When this happens, you'll need to hop down off the ledge to get the statue moving so it will open its arms again.

If you prefer a cautious approach, just turn around and hop back off the ledge, as shown above. Then quickly climb back up again.

When you turn around, the statue should have started moving again and stopped protecting itself. You can then get off a few more shots. Repeat this several times and eventually you'll defeat it.

- OR -

If you'd rather go head-to-head, when you first enter the room, draw your shotgun and run forward, shooting at the statue as it transforms.

You can probably hit it several times before it raises its swords to protect itself. When it does, hop back once or twice until the statue opens its arms again. Then fire.

If it gets too close, side-flip out of its way...

...and run around behind it. It will pursue Lara but fairly slowly. As it does, it opens its arms so you can shoot it again.

As long as you don't let the statue back Lara into a corner, as shown above, you should be OK. If this does happen, keep firing and use a health pack if necessary, and you can probably still defeat it.

If you only fire when the statue's arms are open, 6 shotgun blasts will bring it down.

When it falls, it turns back into stone.

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