Metro Last Light The Crossing starts as soon as Artyom find the Dark One on the train that’s in The Chase level.
Another mission on the surface, Chapter 23, requires Artyom to find a way on the bridge that will lead him closer to his objective.
The path is treacherous and filled with monsters, so he must be very careful.
Due to the nature of the chapter, players are advised to use the hints and tips in the following Metro: Last Light collectables guide if they want to find Artyom’s hidden Diary pages in the first playthrough.
Chapter 23 Description
A CHILD
“Of course I could not kill him. And while I am alive and my heart is beating, I will protect him. Khan says we’ll be able to use him to stop the war…
Yes, he can make miracles happen… But I don’t want to use him. His war was over when I targeted the missile at his home, his family.”
Diary Page #1
Follow your objective and you should soon arrive at a bridge. You need to go under the bridge, walking on ice. As soon as you reach the other side, the waypoint tells you to use the stairs.
Don’t do that yet. Instead, turn right and go again under the bridge, this time walking on the ground, above the water level.
Next to the farthest sustaining column/pillar is the first Metro Last Light Diary Page in The Crossing, the 31st in the game. Watch out for the ambush.
“I recall why I am immune to the Dark Ones’ influence. I am, in fact, a Chosen One – but I was not born that way. I became so the day we opened that airlock, the day I was destined to die.
I was supposed to be ripped apart by feral beasts, but the Dark One saved me. I was the first human they met. It just happened this way. And before I even had a chance to get scared, he touched me. Because that’s the way they create a link. It’s hard to do with a grown-up person, but kids…
They’re not yet hardened, their soul is still free of crust, easier to get to… I became the First.”
Diary Page #2
The second Metro Last Light The Crossing Diary Page can be collected after you fall from the train car in the water.
Thread carefully on the thin ice and go under the bridge to see a boat trapped in ice. Before getting to the boat it is advised to kill the Demon and the Shrimps. When the path is clear, get on the boat, and at the front of it you can find the Note collectible.
“That day I opened that airlock and went out to the dead surface, risking my life and lives of my friends, because I just missed my mother too much. And that Dark One saw me. He saw a lonely orphan. Alone in the whole world.
By touching my soul he… it’s as if he adopted me. Ever since that moment their presence would not inflict terror or pain on me. I was supposed to grow up and become a medium between humans and the Dark Ones, a bridge between two worlds. They were coming to the Expo to find me. To make me recall my mission…”
Once you cross the water and you reunite with the Dark One you can begin the next chapter named Bridge.
