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"Serpent Yards" is the fourth level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter, the seventeenth level of Serious Sam Classics: Revolution, and the nineteenth level of Serious Sam: Xbox.
Plot[]
Sam, still in the city of Teotihuacan, must pass through the Serpent Yards to get to his main objective; the Sun Pyramid, which is where the Mayan time portal lies.
Secrets[]
- When exiting the starting building, head for the lower right corner of the area to collect an Ammo Pack.
- Opposite of #1, to discover a "suicidal plant" (Beheaded Kamikaze). Do not kill him until the secret has been registered.
- In the part where the Kleers come in, when you're in a lower-height area with a mini-pyramid in the middle, a few Major Bio-mechanoids will come bursting through the walls of where you came front. Walk up to the remains and turn left to find a secret Large Health.
- After the force field, go behind the right house to find some cannonballs.
- (Serious Sam HD only) In the building in front of the force field, on its left side is a bush. Destroy the bush or crouch past it and activate a switch. This will trigger a bouncing Beheaded Kamikaze that will bounce high in the air in the area you are (hint: his first bounce is near the exit, just look up and left from your current position). When you kill him, some sniper rifle bullets and health pills will appear.
- (Serious Sam HD only) In the yard before the Moon Pyramid, next to the structure with the statue that will shoot fireballs is a doorway with a statuette above it. Blow up the statuette to turn the doorway into a portal to a secret location. Beware of the Major Bio-mechanoid that spawns after entering the teleport.
- After you pick up the Ix Chel mask in the Moon Pyramid, head right of the entrance and approach a small head statue. It will turn into a Marsh Hopper. Let it explode on you or blow it up with a rocket to reveal an Extra Large Health. If you blow up the head but the Marsh Hopper is still alive, kill it and the secret will register.
- Go around the Moon Pyramid until you find a detonator switch behind it. Use the switch, and the pyramid will be blown up, which will spawn 2 Highlander Aludran Reptiloids.
- Back in the yard before the Moon Pyramid, after placing the Ix Chel mask on the alter, and the fireball-shooting statue is destroyed, enter the building it was on to find a secret Extra Large Armor.
- In the upper right corner of the last courtyard is a health pill, pick it up to reveal a "secret watcher" (look above to notice the secret watcher). This secret will only register if the player's health is 199 or lower, and so it should be avoided on no damage runs if the player's health is already 200. Despite this, the next secret can still be triggered if the player memorizes exactly where the "secret watcher"'s eyes will spawn.
- Shoot the "secret watcher"'s eyes to turn it into a "mighty kamikaze" (look directly above you, into the sky). Quickly take some distance though, as he has a huge explosion radius.
- In the last room, blow up the two jaguar statues above the exit of the level to reveal a secret large health.
Trivia[]
- Before the pyramid part, where the Kleers spawn, instead of going down the stairs, the player needs to take a right to the ledge, until they reach the buildings. Two Major Bio-mechanoids will spawn. After taking them out, if the player proceeds to the rightmost top corner of the village, there is a phone booth behind some houses, which the player can use to hear a conversation.
- Portions of the Moon Pyramid can be destroyed with rockets or cannonballs if the player has enough ammo.
- The sound the Ix Chel mask makes when firing a beam at the big stone head reuses the XL4-P 'Ghostbuster' Beam Gun's firing sound.