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Showing posts with label baron samedi. Show all posts

3/10/24

"Try And Find These Four Villains..."

Live And Let Die



If the game had had more development time, would we have seen Mayday and Oddjob outside of Multiplayer?






2/7/24

Voodoo Magic...

Baron Samedi fires a pair of handguns that spew fire like Automatic weapons...




Bond must defeat the evil Voodoo Sorcerer three times in the Egyptian Temple.
After every defeat, the mystic rises from the dead, slightly more powerful than he was before...

In Bond's first encounter with Samedi, Baron Samedi is armed with a pair of pistols.

Baron Samedi actually uses three different weapons:
DD44 Dostovei
ZMG (9mm)
Moonraker Laser



When the Baron respawns, the function of his weapons change...
But the actual image model remains the same as the DD44 Dostovei.

Could be sorcery...
Probably just an oversight.



Second time round, automatic gunfire spews from the barrel of Samedi's gun...
Exact same as the ZMG (9mm) the rest of the guards are brandishing.


By the third encounter, Baron Samedi is shooting Laser beams!
Of course, it's dark and dangerous so one might never get close enough to notice.
Third encounter with Samedi, and he's armed with 2X Lasers.
His accuracy is also doubled, twice as fast, and stronger armor.





Laser Vision Correction...
Just for fun, modified the image model to the Moonraker Laser.
Live And Let Die






Admiring the Baron's fancy new weapons is a good way to wind up dead...





More game modifications, this time Baron Samedi sports a pair of Golden Guns!
Going up against him is a death wish...







2/5/24

The Game's Secret Ending...?

Bond calmly walks out of the Egyptian Temple.
Black Dinner Jacket, Golden Gun in hand.


One of the game's best level outros.
Calm & cool. Definitely not shaken.

Despite being "killed" by James Bond, the Voodoo sorcerer Baron Samedi re-appears and proceeds to laugh endlessly...
Just as he does at the end of the Bond film, Live and Let Die.




As the game's final image after completing the final bonus mission, it's rather unsettling.



By setting the controller configuration to 2.3 Domino or 2.4 Goodhead, it's possible to mess with the level-ending cutscene and produce something unexpected.

Named after Domino from Thunderball, and Dr. Holly Goodhead from Moonraker.
(Both brunettes have previously helped Bond stop an evil villain)
Eight controller settings on Bond's watch - Each named after a different girl that Bond has been with...
Time flies (when you're having fun).






Pulling the "Z" trigger on the second controller will fire a shot that hits Baron Samedi.
(Pressing a button on the first controller will exit the scene)
Baron's laugh gets interrupted by a Golden Bullet.






A bloody Baron Samedi falls towards the camera...



Another playthrough, this time he does a bit of a twirl and falls backwards.


As neat as this trick is, somehow it doesn't seem like something that was included intentionally.


Silence is Golden.


With the Baron's act being cut short, the camera just sits there indefinitely until a button is pressed on the first controller.





Quick animated graphic of the Baron's fate in the Egyptian Temple:

Death is only the beginning...




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