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"Valley of the Jaguar" is the second level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter, the fifteenth level of Serious Sam Classics: Revolution, and the sixteenth level of Serious Sam: Xbox.
Plot[]
Heading deeper into Palenque, Sam must now capture an artifact, a crystal skull, which may prove useful in his mission, and move on to the Mayan city of Teotihuacan.
Secrets[]
- When you get to the second area with bouncers, when you're on the final ledge, turn left, you will notice a small ledge. Jump on it to be catapulted above the ledge you were previously standing on and collect some sniper bullets. This will spawn several Scythian Witch-Harpies above and a Sirian Werebull below on the final ledge.
- As soon as you get out of the temple, turn around and look up. You will see an Invulnerability power-up on a ledge. Shoot a rocket at the ledge to bring down the power-up. Note that this secret will only register in the HD, VR, and Serious Sam Classics: Revolution versions of the game.
- When you get to the right temple, with the male jaguar, when Sam says he smells some "serious firepower", slide on the right side, on the below ledge. You'll see a differently colored part on the wall, shoot a rocket at it to reveal an XM214-A Minigun. This secret does not exist in the Palenque Demo.
- In the upper right corner of the valley, with a giant boulder on top of a mountain, there's an Extra Large Armor. Collect it, but watch out for the boulder, as it will fall once you pick it up. Shortly after, some Sirian Werebulls will spawn.
- Diagonally opposite of #4, in the lower left corner of the valley, with the Crollywood sign on the mountain, walk towards its end to register the "Crollywood movie studio" secret.
- (Serious Sam HD only) in the left temple, with the female jaguar, before entering the cave, jump down below the bridge, then jump on the beams that support the bridge until you reach a Super Armor.
- (Serious Sam HD only) before the hall with the spikes, in the left temple with the female jaguar, blast all the six jaguar heads surrounding you to enable a "secret" teleport that will take you to the other side of the hall, without having to pass the spikes. This doesn't count as a secret in all previous versions of the game.
- Still in the left temple, with the female jaguar, after passing through the hall with the spikes, there's a bouncer somewhere in the room, in the upper right corner, next to a health vial. Use it to be catapulted in the above beam of the room and collect some sniper ammo and an extra large armor (only by picking up the armor the secret will register).
- In the "middle" pyramid, with the crystal skull, enter the hut on the left to find a hidden stash of bullets.
- Still in the "middle" pyramid, with the crystal skull, go behind the hut on the right to find a secret Medium Health.
Related achievements[]
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution[]
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Trivia[]
- The final half of this level, after the player exits the starting temple and so on, is used in the Palenque Demo.
- This level has unique music in Serious Sam: Xbox, and doesn't use the same as "Sierra de Chiapas".
- In the classic version of this level, the player is always reset to 100 health and 0 armor upon starting this level after completing "Sierra de Chiapas". In the HD and VR renditions, though, the player retains their health and armor from the previous level.
- The player will be instantly crushed by the boulder if it falls on them. This is usually not possible when playing in singleplayer unless cheats are enabled and/or the player deliberately puts themselves on the boulder's path.
- The Valley of the Jaguar (especially the ceremonial plateau) resembles the large open valley in Akator (or El Dorado) in the 2008 American action-adventure film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the exception being that the valley where the interdimensional being's flying saucer was buried under is located in Brazil and not Mexico.
- Also, like in the Valley of the Jaguar, the item revolving around the plot in Akator is a crystal skull, except unlike in The Second Encounter, Indiana Jones and his team are hoping to reunite the skull with its owner (an interdimensional being) rather than looking for one.