Gain Control of the ARCAM Lab

*Gain Control of the ARCAM Lab* is the fifteenth mission of Spriggan: Lunar Verse. There is a practical training session being held at the ARCAM Research Institute. The content of the training is to go to the underground vault and retrieve the secret item stored inside within the allotted time. Either Tatsuki Otsuki or Yu Ominae can be selected to partake in the training.

## Walkthrough

This level contains a time limit of seven minutes that lasts throughout the entirely of the mission. The seven minutes timer does not give much leeway for user errors and exploration, so it is advised against fighting enemies to save time, and prioritzing in completing objectives to reach the underground vault, which is the main goal. The level's layout and structure is similar to Mission #11's, Retake the ARCAM Lab, as it takes place in the same ARCAM Institute building, with the notable difference is that there are additional elevators to take leading to new areas to explore as they were previously unaccesible by the flames blocking their paths.

Upon finishing the intro cutscene where either Tatsuki Otsuki or Yu Ominae jumps off from the helicopter's ladder (Player's choice in selecting the characters before selecting and starting the mission), immediately run straight to where the helipad is located. There, head left and try to find an ARCAM armed soldier that has a similar appearance to one of the laboratory guards from Mission #1's, Escape From a Lab, where he is wearing a green Battle Dress Uniform. He contains a key to the stairwell that is locked by the door. Defeat him and take the key from his body. Afterwards, head to the locked door leading to inside the building, and use the key to unlock the door and enter a non-interactive cutscene where either Spriggans walks down to the stairwell.

The next section contains abundant disaster prevention shutters that are placed for the purpose of slowing down the Spriggans. In addition, ARCAM riflemen are guarding some of the shutters and elevators and will attack on sight. The shutters contains heavy resistance where it takes alot of attack power to take them down, The BZ-P320 with sufficient artillary shells is a recommended method for destroying the shutters as the explosion destroys them in one shot. Otherwise, constant powerful punches (Triangle) usually breaks them in a short bit.

The goal in this level's act is to get the access key from an ARCAM's agent, and use it on the safe door control device in the computer room to unlock the underground vault leading to the next act. There are four floors to explore in this act, and it starts you in the fourth one. The particular ARCAM agent holding the access key is located in the first floor. Right away, break the first shutter in front of you, and proceed the path while breaking down additional shutters blocking your way. At the end is the elevator that will take you to the third floor. If necessary, neutralize the guards guarding them, but do not waste too much time on engaging them for time saving purposes.

Once you arrive at the third floor, break the shutter ahead. You'll come across two horizontal pathways, but it does not matter much on which one you selected. Your priority should be to take either of the two elevators located at the end of the hallways that will lead you to the first floor. Do not take the elevator that is at the center of this floor yet, since it will take you to the second floor where the computer room is located.

Once you are at the first floor, break the first and second shutters that are blocking your path straight ahead. At the deadend, turn to either left or right (depending on what elevator you picked from the previous floor) and you'll see an ARCAM agent that is holding the access key. He is distinguishable from others with him holding the BZ-P320, wearing an all-black uniform with a gas mask equipped, and being noticeably larger than the majority of the enemies. Quickly neutralize him, and get ahold of the access key that he dropped. Now, your next objective is arriving to the computer room. Go back to the hallway near the elevator that you used to arrived at this floor, but this time take the one in the center to go to the second floor.

Upon arriving to that floor, head straight and pick either paths to the left or right. Ignore the elevator ahead as that leads you back to the third floor. Keep following along the paths until you come across a door containing a lamp above it that has a green color: that is the door that leads to the computer room. Enter the room and use the access key on the control device that is located somewhat on the center of the room. You'll get the notification of access confirmation, also meaning that the underground vault is opened. Your next priority is now heading to the underground vault. Retrace your steps until you arrive to the point where you neutralized the agent holding the access key. Afterwards, keep following the new path while breaking down shutters along the way. You'll eventually arrive to the elevator leading to the underground. Take it and proceed to the next act.

When the act is finally loaded, keep heading forward and you'll eventually come across the opened vault. Enter it to find the Moonlight Sword on the altar. Interact with it to trigger the cutscene where either Yu or Tatsuki attempts to exit the vault upon obtaining the sword, only for the door of the vault to suddenly closes, and a skeleton pops out from the ground near the altar. The battle with the skeleton is the last thing to worry about before sucessfully completing the level. The skeleton's movement is very slow, but it can swing its sword in a fast manner, so be wary of that. Defeat the skeleton to complete the level.

## Trivia

* This is one of the two missions to not have both the briefing and debriefing screens, with the other being SENNIN-KAI.

* If the player were to enter the underground without using the access key on the control device to unlock the underground vault, they'll have to fight either Yu or Tatsuki who are guarding the vault while waiting for the player to arrive (If Yu is selected for this mission, he'll have to fight against Tatsuki, but if its the other way around, Tatsuki will have to duel against Yu). Upon defeating their opponents, however, if they didn't complete the mission beforehand, they'll end up failing the mission since the main goal at first is the Moonlight Sword behind the underground vault. If the mission were to be replayed after completing it for the first time, the Spriggans can freely engage against each other, and defeating the adversary will cause the mission to be considered successful.

* The guard with the access key will not spawn upon replaying the same mission after the first successful completion, since the Moonlight Sword is already collected.

* If the Skeleton were to be selected for this mission, it'll have to fight against both Tatsuki and Yu simultaneously at the underground vault.